【E32】level4 -49､50 Back to the future

Luxury 奢华 When we are talking about exercise, we usually say Rest day. A rest day is a day when we do not exercise. I have been in China for 2 days and I have only eaten salads. I have already lost 2 kg in 2 days Present tense - Lose Past tense - Lost I have been learning music since I was first able to speak. I started learning to play the flute from my father since I was 7 years old. And I have been giving concerts since I was 13 years old. So I have been performing for over 15 years. If you are having problems speaking, then please rest your voice. I hope you feel better soon! We have been studying in this group for 3 months already. Our last lesson in this group will be tomorrow night You have all improved soooooo much! I am a very proud teacher because I have such great students who have improved so much! It has been a real privilege to teach all of you. I want to hear your study plans for the future. How do you plan to practice your English in the future? Don't worry! I'm sure things will get better soon! 剑桥英语 Cambridge English Do you plan to study by yourself or do you plan to study with a teacher? We can start looking at the book now! We should use tonight and tomorrow night to learn as much more as we can! Are all of you ready to start looking at today's topic? Back to the Future This is also the name of a very famous movie 回到未来 There are 3 things discussed in Section 1. Transportation Communication Entertainment Railroad 铁路 Ocean Liner 远洋班轮 Jet Airplanes 喷气式飞机 Commercial space flights This is where people can pay to travel to outer space (外层空间) Here 'commercial' means 营利性的 Right now only people chosen by the government can travel to outer space. But maybe in the future, anybody can travel to outer space if they pay money. It will become a business. It will become commercial. There is already a company that is trying to do this business. The company is called 'Space X' It is owned by a man called Elon Musk. Elon Musk ( 伊隆·马斯克) is the man who own Tesla (特斯拉) I visited the office of Space X this summer. It was amazing. In the past there was the telephone and the postal system. Postal system 邮政 The book says that in the future, there will be: Video phones Audio letters THE FUTURE IS ALREADY HERE! We can all talk to each other using video calls on our phones. And we can send each other voice messages on our phones. This might be even better than audio letters! Past: Radio Movies Present: Television Computer games Future: 3D television Virtual Reality Games If somebody told me 5 years ago that I would be able to speak Chinese, that I would live in China and that I would teach English on my phone, I would have said that they were crazy Things change very fast nowadays These things are all happening now. We live in a very special time where things are changing so quickly. Do you agree with me that life is very exciting these days? Did you understand this conversation? Which words did you find difficult? I can't do a woman's voice very well I'll ask my wife to read the woman's lines next time Multiplex cinema 多厅电影院 Tear down 拆毁 Destroy 破坏 If we destroy a building, we can say that we tear it down. This is a picture of a building being torn down. We can also say 'demolish' 拆除 For example: They will demolish that hotel and build a school there. construction site 建筑工地 建造 construct (verb) construction (noun) parking lot 停车场 Any other words that you find difficult? Please raise your hands if you want to read the conversation! NOT many people lived here Now Drive contrast 对比 / 差异 When we talk about the past, we should use the Past tense When we talk about the present, we should use the Simple Present tense and the Present Continuous tense Is growing This is the present continuous tense Shop Drive These are in the simple present tense People shop People drive we can also say: Today, people ARE SHOPPING at supermarkets. Nowadays, people ARE DRIVING their cars instead. will be This is the future tense might = maybe will will maybe happen maybe will happen = might happen This is also the future tense are going to this is also the future tense grammar rule: be + going to + verb Do all of you remember these grammar rules? will + verb be + going to + verb these can both be used to talk about the future And now, you also know how to use the word 'might' to talk about the future Do you have any questions about these time contrasts? 1 + d Before the automobile, people didn't travel as much from city to city. automobile - this is the old way of saying 'car' Do all of you understand what you have to do here? Before there were supermarkets, people used to shop at small stores. About five hundred years ago, people played the first game of golf Maybe golf looked like this 500 years ago In most offices today, people work more than 40 hours a week. Your homework for tomorrow: Finish Part A of Section 3 Have a quick look at Section 8 I might have to attend a lecture at my university tomorrow night at 7:00 PM. But I am not sure about that yet. If there is a lecture tomorrow night, we will have the class on Friday night. If there is no lecture, we will have another 2 hour lesson tomorrow night. I will confirm with you during the day tomorrow My university has started again. It started today, so there are lots of things that they have suddenly prepared for us I hope to see you all again tomorrow night! Take care of yourselves! Sweet dreams!