DIDA

CTIC
UNIT
8

VISIONS OF
THE FUTURE

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SESSION LISTENING AND
1 SPEAKING

I WILL SURVIVE – GLORIA GAYNOR –

At first I was afraid; I was petrified,
Kept thinking I could never live without you by my side,
But then I spent so many nights thinking how you did me wrong,
And I grew strong, and I learned how to get along.
So you're back, from outer space
I just walked in to find you here with that sad look upon your face,
I should have changed that stupid lock,
I should have made you leave your key,
If I'd known for just one second you'd be back to bother me,
Oh and now GO! Walk out the door! Just turn around now,
'Cause you're not welcome anymore!
Weren't you the one who tried to break me with goodbyes,
D' you Think I'd crumble, you think I'd lay down and die?
No, not I, I will survive...oh as long as I know how to love,
I know I am still alive.
I got all my life to live, and I got all my love to give,
I will survive, hey hey!

It took all the strength I had not to fall apart,

Now I am trying hard to mend the pieces of my broken heart,
I spent oh so many nights just feeling sorry for myself,
I used to cry, but now I hold my head up high,
And you see me, somebody new. I am not that chained up
little person still in love with you, and so you
just felt like dropping in and just expect me to be free,
Now I am saving all my loving for someone who's loving me
Oh and now GO! Walk out the door! Just turn around now,
'Cause you're not welcome anymore!
Weren't you the one who tried to break me with goodbyes,
D' you Think I'd crumble, you think I'd lay down and die?
No, not I, I will survive,… oh as long as I know how to love,
I know I am still alive,
I got all my life to live, and I got all my love to give,
I will survive, oh yeah!

Oh and now GO! Walk out the door! Just turn around now,
'Cause you're not welcome anymore!
Weren't you the one who tried to break me with goodbyes,
D' you Think I'd crumble, you think I'd lay down and die?
No, not I, I will survive,… oh as long as I know how to love,
I know I am still alive,
I got all my life to live, and I got all my love to give,
I will survive, oh yeah!

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1. Fill the blanks with the PAST TENSE or PAST PARTICIPLE
forms of the verbs given below.  Then, listen to the song and
check your answers.

Be, can, change, die, feel, grow, know, have, keep, lay,  learn,
make, walk,  spend, take, try, use

At first I ______ afraid; I ______ petrified,

______ thinking I ______ never live without you by my side,
But then I ______ so many nights thinking how you did me wrong,
And I ______ strong, and ______ how to get along.
So you're back, from outer space
I just ______ in to find you here with that sad look upon your face,
I should have ______ that stupid lock,
I should have ______ you leave your key,
If I'd ______ for just one second you'd be back to bother me,
Oh and now GO! Walk out the door! Just turn around now,
'Cause you're not welcome anymore!
Weren't you the one who ______ to break me with goodbyes,
D' you Think I'd crumble, you think I'd lay down and die?
No, not I, I will survive...oh as long as I know how to love,
I know I am still alive.
I got all my life to live, and I got all my love to give,
I will survive, hey hey!

It ______ all the strength I ______ not to fall apart,

Now I am trying hard to mend the pieces of my broken heart,
I ______ oh so many nights just feeling sorry for myself,
I ______ to cry, but now I hold my head up high,

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 And you see me, somebody new. I am not that chained up
little person still in love with you, and so you
just ______ like dropping in and just expect me to be free,
Now I am saving all my loving for someone who's loving me
Oh and now GO! Walk out the door! Just turn around now,
'Cause you're not welcome anymore!
Weren't you the one who ______ to break me with goodbyes,
D' you Think I'd crumble, you think I'd lay down and die?
No, not I, I will survive,… oh as long as I know how to love,
I know I am still alive,
I got all my life to live, and I got all my love to give,
I will survive, oh yeah!

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2. Circle the odd word out according to sound

a. survive, alive, give, sigh

b. Should, would, thought, look
c. So, got, broke, know
d. leave, break, space, save

3. Match the words and the prepositions

1. Get a. around
2. Turn b. apart
3. Be c. along
4. Walk d. back
5. Lay e. down

6. Fall f. out

1. _____________ 4. _____________

2. _____________ 5. _____________

3. _____________ 6. _____________

FAST LEARNERS

4.  Go back to the song again and translate the sentences where
those verbs and prepositions appear

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  __________________________________
 __________________________________

SESSION READING AND

2 VOCABULARY

1. Which of these items have you got?

Webcam scanner flash drive

printer speakers Internet mobile
phone

2. Which of these adjectives can you use to describe each of the

items below?

Portable - flexible –
interactive – eco-friendly –
electronic – mechanical –
digital rechargeable –
manual – automatic

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 3. What other types of technology do the words in the previous
exercise describe?

 __________________________________
 __________________________________
 __________________________________

4. Choose an item above. Give a clue. Then ask your partner to

guess.

It’s portable and The camera

digital. It’s also
automatic.

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5. Read the report. Which items already exist? Which items are just
ideas?

Communication
If you think mobile phones are clever now, you will love some of the
concepts for the future. Nokia asked art and design students to design
dream phones for 2015 and beyond. These were two of the ideas:
 Scentsory – This phone uses aroma detectors so you will see, hear and
smell your caller’s environment.
 Regenerate – This phone is eco-friendly and it makes you eco-friendly
too! Regenerate analyses your daily impact on the planet. If you are
“green”, you will get free calls and text messages.

Interactive Reading
In the future, if you want to read a paper book, you will have to go to a
library. That’s because of computer books. One of the first computer
books, the Sony Reader, looks like a small hand-held computer, but the
print is the quality of a real book. And that’s just the beginning! Future
computer books will have flexible screens and can be completely
interactive.

Sky Cars
They have appeared in science-fiction films for years, but now it seems
flying cars aren’t just a fantasy. Moller International has already developed

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the first flying car, M400 Skycar, and people believe others will soon
follow. So will the sky be the road of tomorrow? We’ll have to wait and
see.

6. Complete the chart about the products in the text.

PRODUCT COMPANY TYPE OF SPECIAL BECAUSE...

PRODUCT

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FAST LEARNERS
Look at the picture above. Can you give a short
description of what car will be like in the future?

SESSION GRAMMAR AND

3 SPEAKING

1. Complete the sentences with the correct form of will.

1. Don’t go to that film. You _______ (not enjoy) it.

2. I ________ (be) at your house in ten minutes
3. ________ the rain _______ (arrive) on time?
4. Duncan _______ (love) this present
5. ________ you ______ (wait) for me?
6. It _________ (not rain) tomorrow

SLOW LEARNERS

1. Choose the correct answer.

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 1. Don’t go to that film. You will not enjoy/ will enjoyed it.
2. I will be / will was at your house in ten minutes
3. Will the rain arrive/ arrived on time?
4. Duncan will loves / will love this present
5. Will you waited / wait for me?
6. It will be not rain/ will not rain tomorrow

2. Write questions with the words below using will

a) you / travel / to / Australia / next year
b) you / do well / in / your / exams
c) Italy / win the next World Cup
d) people / live / in / space / in / your lifetime
e) the weather / get colder / in / the 22nd century

3. Read Adrian Mole’s New Year’s Resolutions.

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4. Now write your own New Year’s Resolutions using the correct form
of will. Then, exchange them with your partner

 ___________________________________
 ___________________________________

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  ___________________________________
 ___________________________________
 ___________________________________
 ___________________________________

5. Look at the pictures from the future and write the sentences with
will or won’t.

1. Grace / fly / to space

................................. 4. Jill’s brother /
................................. finish / school

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 ...............................
...............................

2. Sam’s dog / win / the 5. Alex and May /

Clever Dog contest have / two boys
................................. ...............................
................................. ...............................

3. Charlie / be / a
builder
.................................
.................................

FAST LEARNERS

Make three predictions

of what will you do in
the future

SESSION LISTENING AND

4 WRITING

1. Listen to an interview. Do you think Justin has got the right

characteristics to be on the Mars Society project?

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2. Listen again and complete the information about Justin.

NAME Justin
AGE
PHYSICAL
CONDITION
PLACE OF
BIRTH
PERSONALITY Friendly Team worker
Selfish Hard-working
Adventurous Lazy

SLOW LEARNERS

2. Listen again and complete the information about Justin.

NAME Justin / Manuel

AGE 16 / 18
PHYSICAL Tall and strong / short and weak
CONDITION

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 PLACE OF Asturias / Amsterdam
BIRTH
PERSONALITY Friendly Team worker
Selfish Hard-working
Adventurous Lazy

3. Look at the underlined mistakes below. Are they mistakes in

grammar, punctuation, spelling or word order? Correct the mistakes.

Hi David,
I’m so happy you are comeing to visit me. I’m sure we will have a
great time. My brother and I are going to collect you from the
airport, so you doesn’t have to take a taxi. The weather is cool, so
bring some clothes warm. You’ll need about £80 for the week. I’m

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going to take you to the science museum the London Eye and the
London Transport Museum. If there will be tickets available, we will
go to the Technology of the Future exhibition.
I wait can’t to sea you?
Bye for now,
Jeff

4. Imagine a British friend is coming to visit you for a weekend.

Answer his / her questions. Then write an e-mail telling him/her your
plans. Use the model in the previous exercise to help you.

a) Will you be at the airport to collect me?

b) What clothes must I bring?
c) How much money will I need?
d) What are we going to do?

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SESSION EXAM
5

READING (20 points)

1 Read the text. Then answer the questions.

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 Space Holiday

Many people say, “If there’s a chance to go into space, I’ll take it!” American
millionaire Dennis Tito always dreamed of flying into space. In 2001, his dream
came true. Sixty-year-old Tito paid twenty million dollars to fly in a Russian
space capsule with two Russian cosmonauts on an eight-day flight. He visited
the International Space Station (ISS). While he was in space, he took a lot of
photographs and listened to twenty hours of opera CDs.

For Tito this trip wasn’t really a holiday. He first had to work hard to become a
cosmonaut. But it was a dream come true. He was the world’s first space
tourist, but he won’t be the last. In the future, more and more people will take
holidays in space. Maybe it won’t be as common as a trip to London, but if
space travel becomes cheaper, it will soon be popular.

1. Which country did the first space tourist come from?

.....................................................................................................

2. How long was Tito in space?

.....................................................................................................

3. Where did his flight take him in space?

.....................................................................................................

4. What did he need to do before the flight?

.....................................................................................................

5. What will make space travel popular?

.....................................................................................................

2 Complete the sentences with the correct numbers.

1. Tito flew into space in the year .................. .

2. Tito was ................... years old when he went into space.

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3. Tito paid ................... dollars for his space holiday.

4. Tito was in the space capsule for .................. days.

5. Tito heard ................. hours of opera CDs when he was in space.

VOCABULARY (20 points)

1 Complete the sentences with the words below. There are more words than you need.

printer • mouse • monitor • folder • website • download • webcam

1. I can’t see anything on the screen of my ....................... .

2. www.amazon.com is a great ....................... .

3. ....................... a game from the Internet.

4. I’ve got a ....................... with all my songs.

5. There isn’t any paper in my ....................... .

2 Complete the phrases with the words below. There are more words than you need.

click • listen • press • scan • save • type • surf

1. ....................... to a song
2. ....................... on the mouse
3. ....................... a document on a flash drive

4. ....................... a letter on the keyboard

5. ....................... the Internet

GRAMMAR (30 points)

1 Complete the sentences with will or won’t and the verbs below.

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 love • finish • have • be • win

1. Grace ....................... this present. We must buy it for her.

2. Your dog ....................... the Clever Dog contest. He’s amazing!

3. Charlie ....................... a singer. He can’t sing.

4. My brother ....................... school in three years. He’s ten now.

5. ....................... Alex and May ....................... a big party?

2 Complete the sentences. Use will or won’t and the verbs below.

pass • not rain • get • travel • not be

1. In the future, people ............................ into space.

2. I’m sure it ............................ tomorrow.
3. When I grow up, I ............................ a pop star.
4. I’m sure I ............................ all my exams at the end of the
year.
5. I know I ............................ lots of presents for my birthday.

LISTENING (10 points)

Listen and tick (ü) the sentences true (T) or false (F).

1. Laura was at the river last week.

2. There are plastic bags in the water.
3. There are bottles in the water.
4. The teenagers want to collect the rubbish.
5. They want some help.

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WRITING (10 points)

Imagine a British friend is coming to visit you for a weekend. Write an

e-mail telling him/her your plans.

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