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1. Think about the year 2030. What do you think you
ü will be able to do?
ü will be doing?
ü will have done by that time?
Write several sentences. Be sure to use the various ways of expressing future. Read out your predictions. Discuss them as a class.
2. Fill in the gaps with another, other, others. Use “the” where necessary.
a) I forgot my pencil. Do you have any ________ pencils?
b) I have four dictionaries. Two of them are electronic, but _________ are books.
c) We had to drive _________ ten miles to get to the seashore.
d) __________ day we went to the exhibition of gemstones and samples of meteorites at the university museum.
e) Kate has three rulers. One of them is white ________ are black.
f) Don’t worry, I’ll finfish writing the essay and submit it before the deadline one way or _________.
g) Where are __________ samples of minerals? Has anybody seen them?
h) I’m still hungry, can I have __________ hamburger?
3. Spot the odd one out.
| a) advances | developments | progress | benefit |
| b) foundations | origins | evolution | basis |
| c) gizmos | tools | devices | instruments |
| d) consequences | impacts | results | effect |
4. Explain the similarity and difference between these pairs.
advantages - disadvantages
breakthrough - cutting edge
optimist - pessimist
mechanism - device
5. Complete the sentences with the appropriate idiom.
a) We developed the new software through ____________.
b) I think he decided ______________ because he didn't want us to ask any questions.
c) We're talking basic common sense here - ______________. I would like to do a postgraduate course and get involved in a _____________ research.
d) I’m really glad Professor Jenkins is my scientific adviser. We’re on ______________
6. Work in teams. Hold a competition. Brainstorm as many changes that will have occurred in our life by 2050 as possible.
7. Read these sayings/statements. Comment on the one you like most.
Ø Recall Murphy's Law -- if anything can happen, it eventually will.
Ø “The future is always beginning now”. Mark Strand.
Ø “When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened.” John M. Richardson.
Ø “The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers”. Sydney J. Harris
| Each one teach one |
In pairs make up 5 gapped sentences and test your fellow students on the usage of another and other.
“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”
Aristotle
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