Task 4Writing (Luyện viết)

Let’s imagine that you are living in the year 2200. Are there many changes in your life? Use the following information to write a short paragraph about your prediction of the future life.

(Hãy tưởng tượng bạn đang sống ở năm 2200. Liệu có nhiều sự thay đổi trong cuộc sống của chúng ta không? Bạn hãy sử dụng thông tin dưới đây để viêt một đoạn văn ngắn về sự tiên đoán cuộc sống tương lai của bạn.)

You could start with (Bạn có thể bắt đầu bằng): Have you ever thought of living on Mars? Welcome you to the life in 2200…  

Match sentences 1-5 in exercise 1 with rules a-c.

1. After they graduate, many students will be able to have very successful careers as singers or actors.

2. Young people can join the school from the age of fourteen.

3. They can't forget to do their homework!

4. If you study hard and have a passion for performing arts, you won't be able to resist the BRIT school.

5. People believed that girls couldn't play football as well as boys.

Work in pairs. Use the models in 1 to make similar conversations about these predictions for the future. One of you is Student A, the other is Student B. Use the expressions below to help you.

1. Student A thinks we'll use driverless buses and flying cars. Student B expresses certainty or uncertainty, and gives reasons.

2. Student B thinks Al robots will do all the household chores. Student A expresses certainty or uncertainty, and gives reasons.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheer to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 10 to 14.

In the past, technology and progress was very slow. People “invented” farming 12,000 years ago but it took 8,000 years for the idea to go around the world. Then, about 3,500 years ago, people called “potters” used round wheels to turn and make plates. But it took hundreds of years before some clever person thought, if we join two wheels together and make them bigger, we can use them to move things

In the last few centuries, things have begun to move faster. Take a 20th-century invention like the aeroplane, for example. The first acroplane flight on 17 December 1903 only lasted 12 seconds, and the plane only went 37 metres. It can't have been very exciting to watch, but that flight changed the world. Sixteen years later, the first plane flew across the Atlantic, and only fifty years after that, men walked on the moon. Technology is now changing our world faster and faster. So what will the future bring?

One of the first changes will be the materials we use. Scientists have just invented an amazing new material called graphene, and soon we will use it to do lots of things. With graphene batteries in your mobile, it will take a few seconds to charge your phone or download a thousand gigabytes of information! Today, we make most products in factories, but in the future, scientists will invent living materials. Then we won't make things like cars and furniture in factories - we will grow them!

Thirty years ago, people couldn't have imagined social media like Twitter and Facebook. Now we can't llve without them. But this is only the start. Right now, scientists are putting microchips in some disabled people's brains, to help them see, hear and communicate better. In the future, we may all use these technologies. We won't need smartphones to use social media or search the internet because the internet will be in our heads!

More people will go into space in the future, too. Space tourism has already begun, and a hundred years from now, there may be many hotels in space. One day, we may get most of our energy from space too. In 1941, the writer Isaac Asimov wrote about a solar power station in space. People laughed at his idea then, but we should have listened to him. Today, many people are trying to develop a space solar power station. After all, the sun always shines above the clouds! 

What does the writer say about the future of communication? 

A. We can't know what the most popular social media will be. 

B. Microchips will become faster

C. We won't use the internet as much. 

D. We won't need devices like smartphones

In the future, we will live in amazing new houses. Our houses will use the sun or the wind to make electricity. We won't have cookers, dishwashers or washing. We will have robots to cook our dinner and wash our clothes. We will have robots to look after our children, and to feed our cats and dogs.

We won't use computers. We will have special remote control units. We can surf Interet, send and receive e-mails and order food from the markets without getting out of bed.

We won't have TVs or CD players because we will have watches that play music, take pictures and tell time. Our cars might not use gas. They might use energy from air, water or plants.In the future the air will not be polluted. Our world will be a great place to live in

1 What will our houses use to make electricity in the future?

2 what can special remote units do?

3 how will the air be in the future ?

4 why will not we have TVs or CD player?

5 what energy might our cars use?

Complete the article below with the correct form of the verbs in brackets. Use the first conditional. In gaps 4 and 6, use a modal verb to make the prediction less certain.

Some animals, like lizards and worms, have an amazing ability to grow new body parts if they lose them. Salamanders can grow new legs and some worms can re-grow every part of their body, including their head! If scientists ¹___________ (can) discover how this happens, in theory it ²___________ (be) possible to re-grow human body parts too. Very few scientists are working on this problem now, but if governments ³___________ (start) to spend more money on research, then this dream ⁴___________ (become) a reality. Amazingly, some worms have no limit on lifespan, as they continually re-grow their bodies as they age. So if we ⁵___________ (learn) to repair human limbs and organs, it ⁶___________(be) possible to prevent us from dying. But that is a long way in the future.