Brave "New" Technologies

New technologies have revolutionized the way we live. In many ways, our lives have improved, but... maybe we should be carefult, don't we?

A Future in Our Hands

Our world keeps changing. Can you imagine how life was 100 years ago? May inventions have changed our lifes in a way that we sometimes cannot imagine. Watch the following video...

Which are the top ten inventions that changed the world? Have a look to see if the video mentions your ideas.

Back in the 80's, some people imagined the furture as a place where cars would fly...
Have you ever heard of the film Back to the Future? Investigate it's wiki! It depicted life in... 2015! They got some things right.... curious? Read this  CNN article and watch the videos.

"He was never in time for his classes... He wasn't in time for his dinner... Then one day... he wasn't in his time at all."17-year-old Marty McFly got home early last night. 30 years early."
—Tagline for the film  Back to the Future.

And we keep talking about films... or shall I say TV series and even novels? Many have imagined our future with not very positive views.... Distopias are the opposite to Utopias: an imaginary world were life is not as we would wish... 

Some examples of distopian stories are The Divergent Series, The Hunger Games, The Handmaid's Tale, Blade Runner, 1984 and it's "Big Brother", The War of the Worlds (featured in The Simpsons), Black Mirror... Do you know them? Let's investigate a little! You'll share your information with the class. 

One of the most prolific distopian authors was Isaac Asimov, and the film adaptation of I, Robot offers a lot to talk about (here). 

But... how is life going to be in the future? Click here to see the homes of the future, and here to listen about innovations in Great Britain. 

In order to speak about the future, sometimes we use Time Clauses. Revise their form and use with this slide, and then do these interactive activities (and some more on this link).

Future time clauses de Michael Lord

You may also want to revise future tenses, including future continuous and future perfect. Activities on this link, and slide next. 

Future perfect and continuous de Ana Mena

Revision of tenses

Play the following game in order to revise all the tenses we have been working with. In the same webpage there are plenty of games to revise and learn vocabulary and grammar. Have a look!!!!

Why don't you listen to the following song? It's really beautiful! We are the world.

Talking about the future - revision on Unit 3

Revise the theory with the following presentation:



And if you feel you need more practice, why don't you do these activities?

Activity 1: some examples.
Activity 2: use.
Activity 3: more detail about use.
Activity 4: "Will" or "Going to" 1
Activity 5: "Will" or "Going to" 2
Activity 6: "Will", "Going to" or Present Continuous? 1
Activity 7: "Will", "Going to" or Present Continuous? 2
Speaking activitiy: "going to" for predictions. What's going to happen?


And here you have a really funny song which uses the futures:



To hear a really nice one with a fill in the gaps activity, click this link.


And still one more, but this one is a bit sad...




As you know, you can also revise the vocabulary and the listening activities we've done in class here.