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       1  Worl< in pairs. Discuss these questions.  Then compare  your  {t  lmagine you are Anna. Your boss Julian Lloyd has asl<ed
          ideas with the class.                                   you to write an announcement for a local newspaper to
          Why  are museums  important?  What can you learn from them?  advertise the new exhibition. lnclude this information:
                                                                  .  where  the exhibition is and when it opens
       ffira=s'n!ns                                               o  what the exhibition is about and whai you can see there
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       2  Look quickty at the text. What I<ind of text is it?        (choose  information  from the text)
          Choose a, b, c or d.                                    .  how much the ticl<ets  are and who can get a reduction
                                                                     (invent this information)
          a A review  of a new exhibition.
                                                                  r  what the opening times are and how people can get  more
          b A formal letter from a museum.
                                                                     information (invent  this information).
          c A publicity  leaflet about an exhibition.
          d An article about a new museum.
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       3  Match the headings (1-7)  with paragraphs A-E in the text.  5  Read the text message from Anna to her friend Libby.  What
          There are two extra headings that  you do not need.     might have happened? Discuss your ideas using could  I
          1 Artificiat intelligence                               might have, con't hove and must have,
          2 The future of entei'tainment
          3 Shopping in the 25th century                            I,JEIIT TII EFEI{]HL; PHHTT FI]R
          4 A multirnedia  experience
          5 Hatf human, half machine                                FIII]EHSTEHI  5II III{GET IT TH H]H. HEHT
          6 Homes of the future                                     TIHE, I'LL Er:l 0H t1T illrlH!  '-{
          7 Science fiction films  of the future                                                                 l

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                                                               6  (d z.zz Listen to what happened at the exhibition. Were
                                                                  any ofyour  ideas from exercise 5 correct?
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                                                     trl        7  S'd  Z.ZZ Listen again. Complete  each sentence  with

                              A new exhibition at the Museum      between one and three words.
                          of Liverpool opens  on  1  July.  It looks  1 Anna tetts Mike that she   in class.
                        at current  trends  in four different areas  2 She invites  Mike to the party on   afternoon.
                            and asks where they are heading. It   3 They  arrange to meet   the museum.
                           includes  videos, interactive  displays  4 While  Anna  is talking  to lutian,  Mike goes to the
     Computers  are
                                  and virtual reality exhibits.   5 Daisy guesses  Anna is not British  because  of her
     becoming  more and more                                      6 Anna tetts Mike  that she fett
     powerful each year. Will they                                                               when  he disappeared.
     soon be more intelligent  than people? If the  E
     answer  is yes, then howwill that change
     our relationship with computers?  Might  What will the kitchen of the future look  will watch TV or films at all. Instead,  theywill
     there be dangers  for the human  race? This  like? \Vill domestic  robots finally  become  put on a headset  and find themselves  a new
     part ofthe exhibition  explores  this question  a reality?  In this part ofthe exhibition  you  world of virtual  reality. These technologies
                                          can find out what day-to-day  life may be like  already  exist; come and try them, and get  a taste
     and other  related issues.
                                          fifry years from now. From a fridge that does  of the future. The fun has only  just  started  ...
                                          your shopping  online,  to a wardrobe that
                                          tells you what to wear,  it seems  certain that
                          ,1t*                                                   We all know about superheroes  from comic
                                          everything  around  us will soon be'smart',
                                          notjust  our phonesl                   books and science fiction films. As science
                                          m                                      advances, will some of their'superpowers'be
                                                                                 found in ordinary humans? Perhaps  -  if we are
                                          At the moment,  3D TV and films are a new  prepared to let technology  and our bodies mix.
                                          and exciting development.  But what will  In this part ofthe exhibition,  you can rry out a
                                          the next development  be) Will TV become  bionic hand and let a miad-reading  computer
                                          genuinely  interactive]  Or perhaps nobody  explore  your thoughts. You'Il be amazedl



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