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enCyber City (Future Simple)
by Victoria Kulbachna
Grammar: Future Simple
Age: teens
Level: Intermediate / Upper intermediate
Imagine you are one of the brightest young engineers and you are going to present your project 'Cyber city'.
Future Simple
Use the following words and expressions:
| Computers and phones |
Computers and phones will be totally modernized: - wireless computers / laptops, holograms that control different operations, computers with its own defense mechanisms, laptops with interactive function that will allow you to move around different parts of the city; - ultra-thin phones with voice-sensitive screen which react on your voice, almost invisible phones with keyboard that emerge like a hologram. |
| Robots and other Machines |
Robots will become a vital item that save our time and energy: - Robots teachers that replace humans; Robots Waiters; Highly qualified Robots Chefs that cook tasty dishes, using recipes; Cleaning staff Robots; Robots bodyguards; problem-solving interactive Holograms; - Programmed Machines that cook different meals, wireless coffee and tea machines, Delivery Machines. |
| Virtual reality headsets |
You won’t see any clear distinction between virtuality and reality: - computer games will become things from the past; modified VR headsets will allow you to shift from place to place in an immediate way, unmistakable design, combined with technical refinement, create an unrepeatable style / highquality, convenient display / menu, quite modern and easy-to-use. |
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Skyscrapers and bridges
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First it was bridges and skyscrapers, now, we are going to create a‘Joint Mechanism’: - a complex construction, skyscrapers will be joint by means of open bridges;there will be railways and roads for high speed self-driving buses; - each skyscraper will have an enormous number of malls, offices, cinemas, cafes and even huge aquariums; - there will be also aerial cafes with robot staff that serve flying cars. |
| Means of transportation |
This will be an era of flying cars and ‘speed monsters’: - people will be able to move, using any kind of transport; flying cars will solve the problem with traffic jams forever; flying self-driving taxis with programmed routes; - ultra high-speed trains (speed monsters) will get you anywhere; comfortable / always in time and safe / able to move through the tunnels and on the bridges. |
| Cyber Police and safety |
Police are friendly and understanding, but remember they are always for the law: - cyber police, society-oriented approach, humane and just police, with respect for law; - permission to use laser guns, laser helmets that allow to monitor the crime scenes, special bullet proofsuits, electronic handcuffs; high-speed police cars with the function of teleportation; - automated towers with beacons at the top, offices provided with modern laser security systems, access automatic systems that scan your fingerprints. |
