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Summaries of 1^st  part

What will the city of  the future look like?

Summaries of 2^nd  part

how to run  a city of 50,000 people in the year 2025

Keys:  1 thing   2 some    3 the    4 preventing     5 instead      6 shopping

7 will    8 forms    9 of    10 Distance      11 space

Keys: 1-4 ABBC

Useful expressions from The City Of the  Future

look like, for sure,  make predictions, a risky business, get bigger,  in the future, care for…, run out, recycled materials, such as…, rely (more)  on, alternative energy, solar and wind power, seem certain, find out…, ask…to  think how…, run a city of 50,000 people,, in the  year 2025, get rid of…, send…towards the sun, arrest criminals by firing nets  instead of guns, forget smoking, within a future city’s limits, be done  online, voice commands, place orders, at birth, forms of recreation, free of  charge, be powered by electricity, at the flick of a switch, distance  surgery, carry out operations, with each city having its own telesurgery  outpatient clinic, senior citizens, people with disabilities, go anywhere,  using high—tech cameras, be attached to …, space travel, travel in space,  have one’s own spaceport

Making sentences with the  expressions from The City Of the Future(with the future continuous if  possible)

1.        She will  be looking like an old lady soon.

2.        No one  knows his name for sure.

3.        Making predictions is a risky business.

4.        The earth  will be getting bigger or getting  smaller in the future.

5.        I don’t  know who will be caring for me  then.

6.        The fresh  water will be running out very soon.

7.        People  will be using lots of recycled  materials, such as old paper  and old shoes.

8.        Remember, though, you can’t always rely on luck.

9.        The imperative to pursue alternative energy sources is clearly  established by two simple facts.

10.    Solar and wind power seem certain  to provide us with plenty of things about city life.

11.    In the  future we shall be finding out more  types of energy.

12.    A teacher  at a university asked me to think how to run a city of 50,000 people in the year 2025.

13.    A new way  has been found to get rid of the garbage from city life.

14.    The  wastes from the earth will be sent towards the sun.

15.    Arresting criminals by firing nets instead of  guns is possible now.

16.     He can’t forget  smoking.

17.     No cars will be allowed within a future city’s limits.

18.     Outside cities  shopping will be done online.

19.     We shall have voice commands to place  orders in 2007.

20.     For many Iraqis, the reality of life under occupation is nothing but  democracy being strangled at birth by the midwives.

21.     New  forms of recreation will be provided free  of charge.

22.     The future car will be powered by electricity.

23.     Everything will be done at the flick of a switch.

24.     Distance  surgery will become common to all.

25.     Carrying  out operations is impossible here.

26.     Each  city will have its own telesurgery outpatient clinic.

27.     Senior  citizens and people with disabilities will be going anywhere by flying car.

28.     It’s very attached to him  so it perches on his shoulder and behaves itself when he’s around.

29.    Space travel or travel in space  will be so cheap that everyone can afford it.

30.     China will have her own spaceport in 2008.

List ideas for a city of 50,000  people in the year 2025.

1.        The city will load huge spaceships with waste materials  and send them towards the sun.

2.        Nets Police will arrest criminals by firing nets instead  of guns.

3.        No smoking will be allowed within a future city’s limits.  

4.        In the future all shopping will be done online.

5.        Everyone will be given a telephone number at birth that  will never change no matter where they live.

6.        All forms of recreation, such as cinemas, bowling,  softball, concerts and others, will be provided free of charge by the city.

7.        All cars will be powered by electricity, solar energy or  wind.

8.        Distance surgery will become common.

9.        Senior citizens and people with disabilities will be able  to go anywhere in the world.

10. Traveling in space by ordinary citizens will be common.

A: What will the city of the future look like?

B: I don’t know. Actually no one knows for sure what the city of the  future will look like.

A: Could you make predictions as to what the future city will look  like?

B: No, I couldn’t.

A: Why not?

B: Making predictions is a risky business.  

A: Is there anything certain about the future?

B: Yes, one thing is certain—the cities of the future are going to get  bigger before they get smaller.

A: That is strange.

B: In the future, care for the environment will become very important.

A: Why?

B: Because earth’s natural resources will be running out.

A: And what will we be using?

B: People will be using lots of recycled materials, such as plastic,  aluminum, steel, glass, wood and paper.

A: I think we will be wasting fewer natural resources, too.

B: You are right.

A: What about the alternative energy?

B: We will also have to rely more on alternative energy, such as solar  and wind power.

A: All this seems certain, but there are plenty of things about city  life in the future which are not certain. Anyway thank you very much!

T: To find out what you think about the future of urban life, I am  going to ask you a question: How would people  run a city of 50,000 people in the year 2025?

S 1: I have some ideas about that.

S 2: So do I. There will be garbage ships in use.

T: What are they?

S 2: To get rid of garbage problems, the city will load huge spaceships  with waste materials and send them towards the sun, preventing landfill and  environmental problems.

S 1: I think there will be a different police force then. The Batman  Nets Police will come into being. They will arrest criminals by firing nets  instead of guns.

T: A wonderful idea!

S 3: I think the health problem is worth considering.  In those days no smoking will be allowed within a future city’s limits.

S 4: I agree. My father is a heavy smoker. I imagine smoking will be  possible only outside cities, and outdoors.

S 5: The malls will be forgotten.

T: What do you mean?

S 5: In the future all shopping will be done online, and catalogues  will have voice commands to place orders.

T: What about the future telephone service?

S 6: I guess everyone will be given a telephone number at birth that  will never change no matter where they live.

S 1: Do you think it is good for one to have a life long telephone  number?

S 6: Yes, I do. A life long telephone number makes it easy for people  to call up each other.

S 3: I’d like to add some imaginations to my answer just now. I think  recreation will take varieties of forms. I mean all forms of recreation will  be there in the year 2025.

S 2: Would you give us some examples?

S 3: Yes, I would. Such forms of recreation as cinemas, bowling,  softball, concerts and others, will be popular, and will be provided free of  charge by the city.

S 7: My focus is car. I think cars will be powered by electricity,  solar energy or wind.

S 5: I like driving cars. I guess it will be possible to change the  color of cars at the flick of a switch.

S 8: I am going to be a doctor after college. In my opinion telesurgery  or distance surgery will become common by 2025.

S 7: You mean doctors carry out operations from thousands of miles  away.

S 8: Yes, I do. And each city will have its own telesurgery outpatient  clinic.

S 2: Holidays at home will be a reality.

S 4: Yes, it is quite possible. And senior citizens and people with  disabilities will be able to go anywhere in the world using high—tech cameras  attached to their head.

T: Time is almost up. I’d like to offer my prediction. I think  traveling in space by ordinary citizens will be common. Each city will have  its own spaceport.

Ss: Then we have to live long enough to see and enjoy all these future  lives.

I will be watching TV when she arrives tonight.

I will be waiting for you when your  bus arrives.

While I am working, Steve will make dinner. (NOTICE “am working”  because of “while.”)

I am going to be staying at the Madison Hotel,  if anything happens and you need to contact me.

He will be studying at the library tonight, so he will not see  Jennifer when she arrives.

NOTE: No future tenses can be used in Time Clauses therefore you must  say “While I am working... .” See the warning at the top of the page.

Tonight at 6 p.m., I am going to be eating dinner.

At midnight tonight, we will still be driving through the  desert.

Tonight at 6 p.m., I am going to eat dinner.

I am going to start eating at 6 p.m.

Tonight at 6 p.m., I am going to be eating dinner.

I am going to start earlier and I will be in the process of  eating dinner at 6 p.m. .

I am going to be studying while he is making dinner.

While Ellen is reading, Tim will be watching television.

Tonight, they will be eating dinner, discussing their plans, and  having a good time.

When I arrive at the party everybody is going to be celebrating.  Some will be dancing. Others are going to be talking. A few people will be  eating pizza and several people are going to be drinking beer. They always do  the same thing.

Li Hong will be being at my house when you arrive. Not Correct

Li Hong will be at my house when you arrive. Correct

Keys：1-5 ABABA  6-8 AAB

From Thomas

In ten years from now, do a job, definitely tell… that…,  celebrate…with…, too…to…, enjoy one’s life, worry about..

From Emma

Travel around the world, live different, go to any country, find  a job

From Ken

Study medicine, finish school, a lot of hard work, in ten years,  work in a hospital, as a doctor with my own surgeon, save lives, a useful and  interesting career

From Mary

Sure about…, go to university, get married, some time in the  next ten years, have a family, have a job, work as…, develop alternative  energy

Zhao  Yannan

I am quite sure about my future. I know that I will be studying  at a very good university in Japan.  I won’t be married in ten years. Going to university is the most important  thing for me to do. I will get married some time in the next fifteen years. I  don’t want to have a family too soon. I’d like to have a job first and enjoy  my freedom being alone.

I will be working as  a futurist after graduation. I want to develop alternative ways of life for  the future people.

Li Xiaohe

I like to study international laws after I finish my high  school. I know that to be an international lawyer means a lot of hard work.  But in ten years working as an international lawyer will be a very good job.  It will be better than working in a hospital as a doctor.  With your own surgeon you save lives in  your neighborhood. But working as an international lawyer you are able to  save a country from being involved into a terrible war. It will be a useful  and interesting career!

Zhao Yuanming

I think I will be traveling around the world in ten years from  now.  I like to see people who are  living different from us in China.  I will be working as a travel guide so that I can go to any country I like  to. I will study hard to find such a job.

Wang Li

In ten years from now I will do a good-paying job. I don’t know  what it will be at present. But I can definitely tell you that it will get me  lots of money. Being rich I can travel to any places, including the moon. I  will than celebrate my wedding with my parents on the moon! Now I am too busy  to think of my future ten years from now. I have to do my schoolwork and my  homework. I have no time to enjoy my life now. I work hard so that I will  have nothing to worry about ten years in the future.

Useful expressions from Famous Last Words

come true, a few of  the bad predictions, make predictions, in the twentieth century, flying  machine, fly from New York to Pairs, a world market for…, thirty years from  now, wear clothes made of paper, throw away, with the first moon colonies  predicted for thes,  in progress, require…to stay in …, on the moon, on the way out, by the year  2000, have a robot, be shaped like a box, with one large eye in the top, with  several arms and hands, and long narrow pads on the side,  move about,  by the mids, hide a key under  the doormat

A: Not all  predictions come true.

B: You are correct.  Many of them are wrong and some are very wrong.

A: I found in a book  a few of the bad predictions.

B: When were then  made? What time were they made for?

A: They were made in  the twentieth century about the twenty-first century.

C: I’d like to hear  about some of the wrong predictions.

A: Orville Wright  predicted in1908 that no flying machine would ever fly from New York to Pairs in the twenty-first  century.

D: And Thomas Watson,  chairman of IBM, predicted in1943 that he thought there would be a world  market for maybe five computers.

C: What? We all have  our own computers now!

E: Changing Times  Magazine, in 1957 reported that thirty years from then people would be  wearing clothes made of paper which they would be able to throw away after  wearing them two or three times.

A: That is true. My  have seen such clothes on sale in the malls now.

E: In the Changes to  Come, in 1962 Arnold B. Barach imagined that with the first moon colonies  predicted for thes,  work would then in progress on the types of building required for men to stay  in when they would be on the moon.

B: It is a pity we  have no permanent citizens on the moon. I’d like to go to the moon some day.

A: The spokesman for Decca Recording Co. ,  while rejecting the Beatles in 1962, said that “We don’t like their sound,  and guitar music is on the way out.”

E: It’s funny to say  that. We still like guitar music now.

B: I remember it was  reported in New York Times, in 1966 that “By the year 2000, housewives will  probably have a robot shaped like a box with one large eye in the top,  several arms and hands, and long narrow pads on the side  for moving about.”

D: But I read in the  newspaper that Japan  has turned out a house sitter robot. It is on sale now in many countries.  This robot sitter can do many kinds of housework.

A: Computer  scientist Christopher Evans in his article The Micro Millennium, said in 1979  that by the mids no  one would ever need to hide a key under the doormat again, because there  wouldn’t any keys.

C: I hope his  prediction will come true very soon. I forget to take the keys quite often.

 My  Ideal House

by Giulia Ampollini

My ideal house is in New York at the top floor of the tallest skyscraper. It has glass  walls so I can always see the landscape and the sea. In the hall there are 5  housemaids and a swimming pool with a little boat. In front of the hall there  are the kitchen and the dining –room. In the dining –room there are a table  under a tree and an aquarium under the table. In the sitting-room there are 4  sofas, a television, a hammock and a small meadow with flowers. In my bedroom  there are a golden bed, a television, a computer, a telephone, a sofa, three  wardrobes and photoelectric cells to turn on the light. In front of my  bedroom there is my bathroom with a big Yacuzzi. On the balcony there are the  helicopter and a volleyball court. There are a library, a dance –hall and a  dark room.