Focus on Words

2. Research scientists will find cures for most of the word’s diseases in the next 50
years. We will all live longer and, by the year 2020, there will be more than one
billion people over 60 years. How will this change our society and how will we pay
for the elderly?
3. The 21st century will be the century of the Internet for the business, education,
shopping and even to make friends.
4. In the US and the UK, prisons are almost full and crime is increasing every day.
Soon there won’t be enough room for them. Space stations may be the answer.
5. Learning a foreign language may soon be a thing of the past. There will be new
developments in automatic translation machines.
6. A hundred years ago many scientists said that space travel was impossible. Now
they say they will never be able to travel in time. Super string theory suggests they
might be wrong.
7. American military scientists are developing new laser technology that may change
the world forever. Laser guns on military satellites will unstoppable and the future
for the smaller countries of the world is extremely frightening.
LISTENING
Listen to the text “Technology: good or bad?” and say which are the three
advantages and disadvantages of mobile phones named by the author?
<strong>Focus</strong> on Phonetics
Mark the stresses in the following words. Find the odd words out.
a. device, damage, destroy
b. activate, communicate, graduate
c. improve, insert, inner
d. mobile, combine, connect
e. attach, access, agree
<strong>Focus</strong> on Function
Organizing ideas
a. sequencing: firstly ...
b. contrast: in spite of ...
c. examples: for instance ...
d. endings: to conclude, to sum up ...
Read the sentences and organise them into a text. Show that these
changes are likely to happen.
1. Nearly all researches agree that wireless technology will have developed.
2. Scientists will have invented earrings which take our pulses and glasses on which
we watch videos.
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