Module 1 Life in the Future Task: Describing your ideal house for the futureINTRODUCTION Vocabulary and speaking1. Look at the photograph and answer the questions. 1. What is it? 2. Where do you think it is? 3. Would you like to live in it?2. Choose the building material to complete the sentences. aluminum brick concrete glass mud plastic rubber steel stone wood 1. _is a very light mental. 2 _is a very strong mental. 3.both _and _come from trees. 4._is light ,strong, very popular, and man-made. 5._are often used to build walls. 6._is very strong and is used in many modern buildings. 7._is wet earth. 8. _is a natural hard material. 9._is used to make windows.3. Work in pairs. Discuss what materials your school is made of /from? Now guess what materials the building in the photo is made of /from?READING AND VOCABULARY1. Look at the title of the passage. Tick the topics you think it will mention.Alternative energy crime schools public services shoppingEnvironment traffic weather entertainment Now add the topics to the list.2 Read the passage and check your ideas.The City of the FutureWhat will the city of the future look like? No one knows for sure, and making predictions is a risky business. But one thing is certain-they are going to get bigger before they get smaller. In the future, care for the environment will become very important as earths natural resources run out. We will use lots of recycled materials, such as plastic, aluminum, steel, glass, wood and paper, and we will waste fewer natural resources. We will also have to rely more on alternative energy, such as solar and wind power. All this seems certain, but there are plenty of things about city life in the future which are not certain. To find out what young people think about the future of urban life, a teacher at a university in Texas in the United States asked his students to think how they would run a city of 50,000 people in the year 2025.Here are some of the ideas they had:Garbage ships 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.Batman Nets Police will arrest criminals by firing nets instead of guns.Forget smoking No smoking will be allowed within a future citys limits. Smoking will be possible only outside cities, and outdoors.Forget the malls In the future all shopping be done online, and catalogues will have voice commands to place orders.Telephones for life Everyone will be given telephone number at birth that will never change no matter where they live.Recreation All forms of recreation, such as cinemas, bowling, softball, concerts and others, will be provided free of charge by the city.Cars All cars will be powered by electricity, solar energy or wind, and it will be possible to change the colour of cars at the flick of a switch.Telesurgery Distance surgery will become common as doctors carry out operations from thousands of miles away, with each city having its own telesurgery outpatient clinic.Holidays at home Senior citizens and people with disabilities will be able to go anywhere in the world using high-tech cameras attached to their head.Space travel Travelling in space by ordinary citizens will be common. Each city will have its own spaceport.3. Match the words and phrases from the text with their meanings. clinic disability mall net online outdoors recreation run out solar surgery urbanv1. a problem which prevents you from doing something _2. not in a building _3. from the sun _4. free time activities, such as sport and entertainment _5. you can use this to catch a lot of fish at the same time _6. through the internet _7. A place where you can get medical treatment _8. to do with town or city life _ 9. a shopping center_10.to use up or finish completely _11. medical treatment in which the doctor cuts open your body _4. Match the words and phrases in the box A with those in the box B.Aarrest carry out load recycle rely on waste (V) B Alternative energy criminals huge spaceshipMaterial natural resource operationNow check with the passage.5.Find the words and phrases in the text which