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Module 1 Life in the Future Task: Describing your ideal house for the future INTRODUCTION Vocabulary and speaking 1. Look at the photograph and answer the questions. 1. What is it? 2. Where do you think it is? 3. Would you like to live in it? 2. Choose the building material to complete the sentences. aluminum brick concrete glass mud plastic rubber steel stone wood 1. _________is a very light mental. 2 __________is a very strong mental. 3.both ______and ______come from trees. 4.__________is light ,strong, very popular, and man-made. 5.__________are often used to build walls. 6.__________is very strong and is used in many modern buildings. 7.__________is wet earth. 8. __________is a natural hard material. 9.___________is used to make windows. 3. Work in pairs. Discuss what materials your school is made of /from? Now guess what materials the building in the photo is made of /from? READING AND VOCABULARY1. Look at the title of the passage. Tick the topics you think it will mention. Alternative energy crime schools public services shopping Environment traffic weather entertainment Now add the topics to the list. 2 Read the passage and check your ideas. The City of the Future What will the city of the future look like? No one knows for sure, and making predictions is a risky business. But one thing is certain--they are going to get bigger before they get smaller. In the future, care for the environment will become very important as earths natural resources run out. We will use lots of recycled materials, such as plastic, aluminum, steel, glass, wood and paper, and we will waste fewer natural resources. We will also have to rely more on alternative energy, such as solar and wind power. All this seems certain, but there are plenty of things about city life in the future which are not certain. To find out what young people think about the future of urb