3.2 Tomorrow's world

• Engels
• MBO
• Studiejaar 1

Today

HW check

TED talk: how technology changes our sense of right and wrong

Exercise 2A: What is said in the article about:

• vertical farming?
•  brain implants?
• a 3D printer?
• translating machines?
• Nano monitors?

answers 2B: 

1: translate

2: bodies

3: copies

4: brain

5: climate

2C1: Which ideas in the article do you like?

2: Which ideas don't you like, why not?

3. Which ideas do you agree will probably come true?

3A

1. in the near future

2. in only a year or two

3. in the short term

4. in the long term

5. in perhaps ten or twenty years' time

6. in the next thirty years

3B

1,2 and 3 mean soon

4, 5 and 6 mean in a long time

2, 5 and 6 name a future date and time period

4A: Are the predictions certain or possible? 

1. We may be able to communicate in any language we choose. 

May = possible 

2: In only a year or two the headset could come to the market

1. Certain
2. Possible

3: This is likely to save millions of lives

1. Certain
2. Possible

4: Climate change is going to seriously affect traditional farming

1. Certain
2. Possible

5: Tower blocks and skyscrapers will have gardens

1. Certain
2. Possible

4B: Rules

1. We use will + infinitive without to to make predictions about the future
2. We use to be going to  + infinitive without to to make predictions when there is present evidence
3. We use may or might + infinitive without to to say something is possible but not certain. 
4. We use likely + infinitive with to to say something will probably happen

5A: 

1. will design

2. going to become

3. are going to disappear

4. could be built

5. are likely

6. won't know

7. may become

8. could replace

9. might reduce

10. might not be

We are going to watch a video about right and wrong

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Which things that were considered "right" or "normal" in the past are considered "wrong" today? (examples from the video or your own examples)

Which things that are considered "right" or "normal" today might be considered as "wrong" 20 years from now?
(try to use the grammar from exercise 4B in your answer)

Next week's homework

Do language bank 3.2 exercise A + B

(p. 132-133 of your book)

How well do you understand will, be going to, may and might, could and be likely to talk about future predictions?

I understand it and I'm able to apply it

I understand it but I still have difficulty applying it

I 'm starting to get it but i still have some work to do

I don't understand it at all