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111Module1 Life in the Future CULTURAL CORNERPeriod 5 CULTURAL CORNER-Famous Last WordsGoals To read last wordsProceduresStep 1: Before you readPlease go over the word list for this module, paying attention to the pronunciation of the word, the relationship between its pronunciation and its spelling.Step 2: While you readCut/ the sentences into thought groups, blacken the predicates, underline the useful expressions and darken the connectives.Step 3: After you readCopy all the useful expressions into your Expression Book. You may make sentences with these expressions. Useful expressions from Famous Last Wordscome true, a few of the bad predictions, make predictions, in the twentieth century, flying machine, fly from New York to Pairs, a world market for, thirty years from now, wear clothes made of paper, throw away, with the first moon colonies predicted for the 1970s, in progress, requireto stay in , on the moon, on the way out, by the year 2000, have a robot, be shaped like a box, with one large eye in the top, with several arms and hands, and long narrow pads on the side, move about, by the mid-1980s, hide a key under the doormatStep 4: Talking about last wordsYou are going to put the article into a dialogue in pairs. The following can be an e.g. for you.A: Not all predictions come true. B: You are correct. Many of them are wrong and some are very wrong. A: I found in a book a few of the bad predictions.B: When were then made? What time were they made for?A: They were made in the twentieth century about the twenty-first century.C: Id like to hear about some of the wrong predictions.A: Orville Wright predicted in1908 that no flying machine would ever fly from New York to Pairs in the twenty-first century.D: And Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, predicted in1943 that he thought there would be a world market for maybe five computers.C: What? We all have our own computers now!E: Changing Times Magazine, in 1957 reported that thirty years from then people would be wearing clothes made of paper which they would be able to throw away after wearing them two or three times.A: That is true. My have seen such clothes on sale in the malls now.E: In the Changes to Come, in 1962 Arnold B. Barach imagined that with the first moon colonies predicted for the 1970s, work would then in progress on the types of building required for men to stay in when they would be on the moon.B: It is a pity we have no permanent citizens on the moon. Id like to go to the moon some day.A: The spokesman for Decca Recording Co. , while rejecting the Beatles in 1962, said that “We dont like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.”E: Its funny to say that. We still like guitar music now.B: I remember it was reported in New York Times, in 1966 that “By the year 2000, housewives will probably have a robot shaped like a box with one large eye in the top, several arms and hands, and long narrow pads on the side for moving about.”D: But I read in the newspaper that Japan has turned out a house sitter robot. It is on sale now in many countries. This robot sitter can do many kinds of housework.A: Computer scientist Christopher Evans in his article The Micro Millennium, said in 1979 that by the mid-1980s no one would ever need to hide a key under the doormat again, because there wouldnt any keys.C: I hope his prediction will come true very soon. I forget to take the keys quite often. 111
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