Unit 1 Writing about life in the future

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Unit1 The future

Writing about life in the future

Vocabulary Vocabulary for the future

conference  realistic(现实的)		the developing world	a huge market	demonstration(示范；证明；示威游行)
teleconferencing technology(电话会议技术)		effective
Buying new teleconferencing equipment isn't realistic. We don't have the money right now.

Our market share in Europe and North America is good. Now we need to sell more in the developing world.

Can you demonstrate how the new software works?

Soon, all businesses will communicate by teleconference . No more plane trips!

China is one of our most important markets .

Teleconferencing technology allows us to have very effective meetings.

Quantifiers 'more,' 'less' and 'fewer'

Use more with a noun to talk about an increase in the amount or degree of something.

In the future, more people will work from home.

We'll do more business with Africa.	

Use fewer with plural, countable nouns to talk about a decrease in the number of something. Countable nouns are nouns that we can use with numbers.
For example, we can say one hour or two hours. Countable nouns have plural forms, like cats and houses.

People will work fewer hours.
In the future, fewer people will travel on business.

Use less with an uncountable noun to talk about a decrease in the amount of something. Uncountable nouns are nouns that are not used with numbers.
For example, we do not count gasoline. Liquids and abstract nouns, like work, are usually uncountable.

Soon, we'll use less gasoline.

We have less work this year.

Grammar Quantifiers 'more','less' and 'fewer'

a very different idea of the future

Many people are pessimistic

all of the speakers

For them,the future's incredible

The speakers talked about....

Expressions Talking about people's views

Reading Reading about life in the future

Final Task Writing about the future

I'm generally very optimistic about the future.
I believe that gasoline will be gone by the year 2100.
I think that's completely realistic.We will use the sun and wind for electricity,
And most cars will be electric cars.
A scientist at Sunlight Motors demonstrated an electric car 
that can go almost 250 kilometers between charges.
Many people are buying electric car now.
I think that pollution will decrease a lot over the next 10 or 20 years.
Life will be good in the futrue.