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Unit 2
Using Language
Make predictions about future changes
Look into the future
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Guessing Game
Please guess their jobs.
Lead-in
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Activity 1 Match the words with the pictures
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___ automation
___ nanobots
___ global warming
___ artificial intelligence(AI)
___ cloning
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What do these pictures show? Match the words with pictures.
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(Group Work)Find out the words about technology in the table below and then we will have a vocabulary competition.
Activity 2 Find out the words about future technology
global warming, automation, population, nanobots, cloning, artificial intelligence(AI), Internet, smart homes, integrated sensors, virtual reality(VR), driveless cars, weather-tracking computer, computer, smart toilets, advanced appliances, spaceship.
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Words Compitition
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automation, nanobots, cloning, computer, artificial intelligence(AI), Internet, smart homes, integrated sensors, virtual reality(VR), driveless cars, weather-tracking computer, smart toilets, advanced appliances, spaceship.
Words about technology
How do you think these technologies might develop in the future?
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Activity 3 Listen to a radio interview and fill in the blank.
Host
Dr Han
Vincent Black
1. According to the radio host, what problem/challenge such computers will bring? What is the solution to it?
2. Why did Vincent Black say“cities floating on water are part of the world’s future”?
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occupation
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technology
development in the future
1. Computers will be ________ than us in the future.
2. People will also be __________ _________ to think like humans.
3. We’ll also be ________ _______________ to help people internally such as putting some nanobots inside our bodies to increase our _____.
According to the radio host, what problem/challenge such computers will bring?
People should be worried that computers would be dangerous.
Solution:We’ll be programming them to not think in ways that may harm humans.
The interview of Dr Han
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