UNIT 3: FUTURE MATTERS
Technological devices in the future
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OA 12. Identificar y usar estrategias para apoyar la comprensión de los 1.
textos leídos:
Prelectura: leer con un propósito, hacer predicciones, usar
conocimientos previos.
Lectura: hacer lectura rápida y lectura focalizada, visualizar, identificar
elementos organizacionales del texto (título, subtítulo, imágenes).
Poslectura: confirmar predicciones, usar organizadores gráficos, releer,
recontar con apoyo, preguntar para confirmar información.
Observe the images and answer.
Observa las imágenes y responde.
e-Reader Action camera Smart card Computer
Smart GPS Video game Smart phone
watch console
a) Which technological devices do you
use?.............................................................
b) Do you like technological
devices?...............................................................................
c) Do you think they will change in the future? In what
ways? ........................................
2. Observe the image and read the sentence. What does it
represent? Choose A, B or C.
Observa la imagen y lee la oración. ¿Qué representa? Elige A, B o C.
Robots will replace scientists in
laboratories.
A) Present action? B) Past action? C) Future prediction?
Complete these future predictions with the corresponding
technological device.
Use exercise N° 1 to help you.
Completa estas predicciones futuras con el correspondiente dispositivo
tecnológico. Usa el ejercicio N°1 para ayudarte.
a) ....................... will recognize your face and will take
pictures in seconds.
b) ...................... will help you to find lost things.
c) ...................... will control your entire activities.
d) ...................... will answer all your questions about a
book.
e) ..................... will organize your time and your day.
SECTION 2: LET'S PRACTICE
Teen life in the future
1. Read the title of the text and look at the picture, then answer.
Lee el título del texto y mira la imagen, luego responde.
a. What do you think the topic of the text will
be?.............................................................
b. Have you imagined your life in the future? How will it be? Give two examples.
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2. Read the text.
Lee el texto.
Teen life in the future
What will life for teenagers be like in the
year 2030? For a start, computers will be
everywhere, and they’ll do everything for
us.
We won’t have alarm clocks in the future. A
picture in your bedroom will become a
computer screen and it’ll wake you up and
say hello.
You’ll walk into the kitchen and the toaster
and coffee machine will recognise your
voice and automatically make you your
breakfast. Your computer will
remind you to do your homework. You won’t need a rucksack, because all your
textbooks will be digital, and they’ll all be on one e-reader.
You’ll walk to school as usual. On the way you decide to buy a snack at a café.
You’ll use a smart card to pay for it, because nobody carries money anymore.
You won’t need a PIN number for your smart card, because a laser will scan
the iris of your eye and identify you.
In your classroom the top of your desk will become a computer screen. You’ll
touch the screen to connect to the Internet, but you won’t be able to send and
receive personal messages.
You won’t have to go to the shopping centre to buy your clothes. You’ll buy a
sweater online and it’ll be the right size because a computer will scan your
body.
Everyone will have a touch screen phone with GPS, so you’ll never get lost.
The bad news is that your parents will use the GPS to know exactly where you
are!
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3. Read the text carefully and underline the correct word.
Lee el texto cuidadosamente y subraya la palabra correcta.
A. Televisions/computers/toasters will be everywhere and they´ll do
everything for us.
B. Textbooks/computers/alarm clocks won't be in the future.
C. To make your breakfast toasters/rucksacks/books will be in the future.
D. A PIN number/laser/card/ will scan the iris of your eye identifying you.
E. At school, your desk will become a computer screen/smart card/GPS.
4. Based on the text, read the clues and solve the wordsearch. You can
find words in any directions.
Basado en el texto, lee las pistas y resuelve la sopa de letras. Puedes
encontrar palabras en cualquier dirección.
Teens life in the future Clues
We won't have them
I H W A N E R E T I Y Y W S B in the future.
U S V N L L W E G V W Q H M D
They will recognise
C W C K L A X R F S X G W A U
S X Y P H T R S P G L Y I R J your voice.
Q C P L B G E M W G Y Z H T W
Q L M O S D A U C Z Y Z V C H They will be digital.
I L O A M Q B S Y L X P H A V
Q K H Q U Z Q V X Y O J D R Q You’ll use them to
S Z V F J Z I M D B D C Z D H
F G C S R V A K S Q Y U K S Z pay.
C O F F E E M A C H I N E S U
You’ll never get lost.
B Y M W F K L D I W A X S P I
Q W M W P K B C J D Y D F U N
A Z M T W A R I Q M P E S T K
X F K D W F B M E I R D G N B
SECTION 3: LET´S CONSTRUCT AND APPLY OUR KNOWLEDGE
Future technology
1. Read the definitions, observe the image and write the concept.
Lee las definiciones, observa la imagen y escribe el concepto.
2. Choose a technological device that has evolved throughout time.
Make a timeline and write the names given at the time. Follow the
example.
Elige un dispositivo tecnológico que ha evolucionado a través del
tiempo.
Haz una línea de tiempo y escribe los nombres dados en ese tiempo.
Sigue el ejemplo.
Name of the object Printer
Your timeline
Name of the object
______________________________________________________
3. Using the same technological device from activity nº2, imagine it
in the future. Draw it and write what it will do.
Usando el mismo dispositivo tecnológico de la actividad Nº3, imagínalo
en el futuro. Dibújalo y escribe que hará.
Example:
Printer
Futuristic food printer
The futuristic printer will print food that we will
eat.
Your object: ______________________________
SECTION 4: EXTRA ACTIVITY
Life in the future
1. Think about important aspects in your present and future life and
complete the chart with images. For example: clothes, home,
games, school, food, means of transport, etc.
Piensa sobre aspectos importantes de tu vida presente y futura, y
completa la tabla con imágenes. Por ejemplo: vestuario, hogar, juegos,
colegio, comida, medios de transporte, etc.
Aspect My present My future life
life
Transport
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