Welcome to class
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Who are they?


What helps you use Internet?


What is the name of the planet where we are living on?




Vocabulary:
1. an optimist

 optimistic
2. a pessimist
 pessimistic

3. depression

4.

(adj)
≠ an optimist
(adj)

(unc.)

a terrorist

Task 1 : Matching
MATCHING B

A
1. Pessimists

A. People who always expect good things to happen.
B. A period when there’s little economic activity and many people are poor or without

2. Terrorism

jobs
C. People who always expect bad things to happen

3. Optimists

D. The use of violent action in order to achieve political aims or force a government to
act.

4. Economic
depression

E. Be destroyed or removed completely.
F. Spacecraft designed to be used for traveling between the earth and the space
station

5. Space shuttle

6. Wiped out



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3. What will life be like in the future,

according to optimists?

Life will be far better than it is today.

(We will be living in a much cleaner environment, breathing fresher air and eating
healthier foods. We will also be better looked after by a more modern medical system.
Domestic chores will no longer be a burden thanks to the inventions of labor – saving
devices.)


2. Why, according to pessimists,

will the security of the earth be threatened?

Because terrorist groups will become more powerful and more
dangerous.


4. What are the most important factors that will bring about

dramatic changes in different aspects of our lives?

of our lives. Take work, for instance. Robots will do most of the work in

factories, so they will be cleaner places for fewer people to work in them.

Offices, too, will go electronic with the result that paper will almost

Factories

Offices

Travelling by

people

space-shuttle

Car

completely disappear. More people will work from home on computers

linked to a head office. As for travel, it is likely that space – shuttle
will

will

be will be used in normal air travel
technology
to 15,
will achieving speeds of up
work

000kms/hour)

electricity,
methane gas


AFTER -READ IN G


For better or worse , it is certain that in the future some things will be very different .
“The future is in our hands . What would you like to do in the future?”

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