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Pronunciation Use the correct form of the verbs in brackets.
Mark the stress for the following words, then Will people still read books in 50 years’ time?
listen and repeat.
Scientists think that we will still read books. But
unidentifi ed ability successful capability books of the future (1. be) ______ similar to the
meaningful immobile informative unpopular books we have today? The answer is no. In the
unsuitable wireless interactive powerless future we will only need (2. buy) ______ one book.
paperless possessive impossible colourless With this one book we will be able (3. read) ______
novels, plays, and even newspapers. It might
(4. look) ______ like today’s books, but it (5. be)
Complete the words in these sentences. All ______ electronic. When we press a button, words
the words are taken from the list in . Then
listen, and check. (6. appear) ______ on the page. When we want (7. read)
______ a diff erent story, we can push the button again,
1. Oxygen is a col______ gas. and a new story (8. appear) ______ instantly.
2. Doctors said that the disease was caused by an
uni______ virus.
Rewrite the following sentences in reported
3. The technology can be used to produce int______
educational programmes. speech.
4. Animals in the zoo have lost the cap______ of 1. Lena said: “I enjoy chatting on the phone with
catching food for themselves. my friends.”
5. Most people need a mea______ relationship with 2. The teacher said: “A communication breakdown
another person. may happen due to cultural diff erences.”
6. It is imp______ to count all the stars in the 3. “What might the inhabitants of Jupiter look
Milky Way. like?” Duong said.
4. Chau said: “Will we still have traffi c jams in 30
Vocabulary years’ time?”
5. “I’ve read a book about life on other planets,”
Match each verb in column A with a phrase in
column B. Phuc told me.
A B Everyday English
1. meet - into space
Match the questions in the fi rst column with
2. make - face-to-face
their answers in the second column.
3. exchange - inventions
4. fl y - from science and technology 1. What planet is A. I don’t think that will ever
5. move - information she from? happen.
6. benefi t - round the sun
2. How do B. When people don’t speak the
Martians travel? same language.
Write the correct form of the words in
brackets to complete the passage. 3. Where will we be C. For discovering radium and
living in 2100? polonium.
I always wanted to be a great (1. science) ______. I dreamt
4. What is D. Oh, she’s from Mars.
of discovering a new drug that would save the lives of
‘netiquette’?
thousands of people. Unfortunately, I was not good at
5. Do you think E. We might be living on Mars or
(2. chemist) ______ at school and I kept making horrible
robots will Venus.
mistakes and the teacher got frustrated with me.
replace teachers?
After some time, I decided I would become an (3. invent)
6. What was Marie F. Mostly by fl ying car.
______ and design an amazing new product which would
Curie famous for?
become famous. My parents were encouraging but told me
to be a little more practical and not quite so (4. ambition) 7. Did he say that G. It’s the set of rules of proper
______. A few weeks later, I had a brilliant idea for a pen he would come? behaviour among people
using the Internet.
that would pronounce a word when you wrote it down.
But I became (5. happy) ______ when a friend told me that 8. When is there a H. Yes, he did.
it was not a new (6. invent) ______. language barrier?

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