Writing: Page 21, exercise 10
8 Think of three ways in which people will be living in the future. Write about 80 words. Consider three of the following:
at home in a hospital at school at work
Suggested answer
Life in the future will never be as it is these days. Many of the aspects of our daily routine will be completely different and others will disappear in the coming future. Hospitals will have robots, which can test patients and prescribe the appropriate medicine for patients while they are at home. Moreover, robots could participate in making medical surgeries all over the world. At school, weather conditions will never be a problem anymore because students can attend the class while they are at home or even if they are at hospitals. Finally, at home, parents will be able to have an eye on their children while parents are away from home. This will make life easier.
Quotation
Read the quotation. Do you agree with it? Why/Why not?
Translate the quotation into Arabic.
Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
Hippocrates (460 BCE–370 BCE)
Suggested Answer
Students own answers
حين يعشق الطب تعشق الانسانية
The quotation means that those who love medicine also love people because they want to help to make them better or keep them well.
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Writing page 23
10 Read the sample descriptive essay on page 74 of the Activity Book. First, label the parts of the essay, using the bullet points under it. Then, highlight or underline any of the following rhetorical devices that you find:
• Sensory descriptions • Onomatopoeia • Simile • Personification
Sample descriptive essay (activity book 74)
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Worldwide transport in the future It is of course difficult to say exactly what transportation will look like in the future, because of the infrastructural changes that are happening constantly at the moment. To me, it seems that transport may well have changed a lot in one hundred years' time. Perhaps there will be no more private transport by 2115 CE. It is possible that public transport will have improved so much that no one will need their own cars. We might all be zooming around in ecologically-sound electric buses and trams that will take us to our destinations smoothly! In order to get to other countries, we will be taking airships, which will be like aeroplanes but with more facilities available. It will be possible to travel to the other side of the world in much less time because these airships will race around at a far greater velocity. Finally, modes of transport are always changing, depending on many different factors, but one thing is certain; we will still be travelling the whole world! Life is a journey, and the possibilities for travel keep growing We might even be able to experience weightlessness by travelling to space! |
Introduction: Make a general statement, then state your opinion
Body: Describe some aspects of the essay topic, dividing the material between paragraphs, depending on your focus.
Conclusion: Summarise your descriptions and relate them back to the introduction.
Answer
Onomatopoeia : zooming
Personification : will take us
Simile: be like aeroplanes
Metaphor: Life is a journey
Finally, write an extra paragraph of about 50 words.
Writing Student Book - page: 25
7 Edit the following text. There are two grammar mistakes and three spelling mistakes. Find and correct them.
| In the near future, a new 'bionic eye' will have helped people with failing eyesite to see again. A devise inside the eye picks up an image from a small camera attached to a pair of sunglasses and send it to the brian, which interprets it as vision. |
Answers:
1. will help 2. eyesight 3. device 4. sends 5. brain
8 Describe Jordan in the next century. What do you think it will look like? What will people be doing? What will life be like?
Use the rhetorical devices in exercise 10, page 23 and write 200 words.
Students' own answers
Writing
Activity Book, page 18
12 Read the predictions and tick the ones you agree with. Then rewrite the ones you disagree with, using the phrases in bold and your own predictions.
1. Before long, all prosthetics will be bionic.
Before long, .........................................................................................................
2. By the end of this decade, doctors will have discovered how to cure colds and flu.
By ................................................................................................................................
3. By the time I am fifty, the average life expectancy will be 100.
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4. In thirty years' time, scientists will have found a cure for cancer.
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5. Within fifty years, scientists will invent a device that enables blind people to see.
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6. By the end of this century, there will be no diseases left.
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Answers:
Students' own answers
13 Write an essay predicting medical advances by the year 2100 CE. Use some of the expressions from exercise 12. Write about 100 words.
Suggested answer
Nobody knows exactly what will happen by the year 2100 CE concerning medical advances. In this essay, I will try to make some predictions about medicine and medical advances in the future. By the year 2100 CE, doctors will have found a cure for many diseases such as colds, flu, and cancer. In addition to that scientists will have invented a device that enables blind people to see and deaf people to hear. By 2100 CE the average life expectancy will extend to 120. Besides diseases will be limited to two or three. I also predict that scientists will invent a device capable of predicting contagious diseases. Therefore they will be able to prevent epidemics from killing so many people like today.