3. The world will have to provide sufficient food, sanitation and___________for all people.

Talk about problems a city will have to face up to in the future.

You can use the following questions as cues:

•  What are the environmental problems?

•  What are the problems of resources?

•  What are negative effects of technology?

Useful languages:

Complete the notes:

Now you try!

Give your answer using the following cues. You should speak for 1-2 minutes.

1. In my opinion, the more populous cities are, the more problems they have.

2. Firstly, a future city will have to face up to environmental problems ...

3. Secondly, city dwellers will also have to cope with the shortage of resources ...

4. In addition, there are several problems that are related to technology ...

Now you tick!

Did you ...

- answer all the questions in the task?

- give some details to each main point?

- speak slowly and fluently with only some hesitation?

- use vocabulary wide enough to talk about the topic?

- use various sentence structures (simple, compound, complex) accurately?

- pronounce correctly (vowels, consonants, stress, intonation)?

 Let’s compare!

Finally, compare with the sample answer on page 190.

4. In the future, cars equipped with on-board computers will be able to__________and avoid traffic jams automatically.

Listen and fill in the blanks with ONE appropriate words.

7. If you want to raise rents, you have to__________the housing first.

8.  Someone is knocking at the door, ___________?

9.  A: We should eat more fruit every day.

5. If you add sugar to your tea, it___________sweet.

3. If you press this button, the computer___________on.

- Write an essay (150 -180 words) about improvements we will see in the cities in the future.

You can use the following questions as cues:

* How will transportation change?

* How will buildings change?

* How will entertainment change?

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4.  First change/ city/ future/ be/ change/ infrastructure.

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6. A: It’s important for us to have a good command of English.

10. A: My brother graduated from university with a good degree.