Unit5 : Science and Technology

Topic: Changes in life

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vocabulary

prediction

exaggerate

alternative sources

solar energy

electricity

consumption

structure

Use the future progressive to talk about something you will be doing at certain time in the future.

The future progressive is formed with

+ + +s will be present participle

Future progressive

Example

subject

will be

present participle

By this time next week, I will be lying in the sun on the beautiful beach in Cozumel.

Future perfect

Use the future perfect to say what something will have already happened before a certain time in the future.

The future perfect is formed with

+ + +s will have past participle

Example

Come and pick me up at 10 o’clock. The game will have ended by then.

subject will have past participle

conversation

Reporter : Professor, in the nineteen seventies, scientists predicted that the world's oil reserves would have all been use up by the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Prof. K : Those prediction were highly exaggerated.However, in a hundred years' time at the present rate of consumption,we will have use all the available oil resource.Therefore, we need to find clean renewable fuel, especially for automobiles.

Reporter : What other fuels are being developed?

Prof. K : We are working on alternative sources of energy such as biodiesel, solar energy, electricity, and hydrogen.

Reporter : What will we be filling our car tanks with in twenty years' time?

Prof K : According to the U.S. National Engineering Academy, by 2024, half of all vehicles will be running on part electricity and part of gasoline.They also predict that by 2038, all the new cars produced in the U.S. will use hydrogen.

Reporter : That's a big change in relatively short period of time?

Prof. K : Yes, science nowadays advances very quickly,and changes in technology that affect people's every day lives can occur very fast.I wouldn't be surprised if most of us will be driving hydrogen-powered cars in the near future.