UNITATEA 1:

THE FUTURE OF OUR WORLD IN THE NEXT

MILLENIUM





La sfritul acestui curs, studentul va putea:
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psihologice
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Cunotin&e privind formarea lui Future Tense Simple




Engleza pentru admitere, Banta, Andrei, Ed. Teora, Bucureti, 1995,
vol. 1;
Practise Your Tenses, Adamson, Donald, Longman, 1996;






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Pre-reading:

1.Word Web: words related to the key word FUTURE (E.g.: anticipate, forecast,
foretell, predict, prognosis,).
2.Dialogue between an optimist and a pessimist (pages 123-124, Changing Times,
Changing Tenses). Fill in the dialogue (use the right replies).


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Text The Car of the Future, (Changing Times, Changing Tenses, pages 120-121).



LANGUAGE FOCUS


New Vocabulary: to be in trouble, ask,/look for trouble, troublesome,
troublemaker/shooter, to get someone into trouble, troublous, disturbed, to fish in
troubled waters; air conditioning; gas (A.E.) vs petrol (B.E.); lights, headlight, light
vs darkness, light/dark colour (blue), light (adj.) vs heavy; foot feet (goose, tooth);
1 mile = km; to be short of, shortage; supply, to supply.

GRAMMAR FOCUS

1.Expressing comparison with: as + adj.as + noun:
(see Penny Ur, op. cit., page 57). E.g.: as thin as ice, as white as snow.
2.Expressing future time
I. The Simple Future
Use: to express:
an action we are not sure about (use of probably);
hopes, fears, threats, on-the-spot decisions, offers, promises, warnings,
predictions, comments (with expect, hope, believe, Im afraid, Im sure, I
know, I think probably);
a prediction or a future action or event which may or may not happen.
Time Expressions: tomorrow, tonight, next week/year/.., in two days, the day
after tomorrow, soon, in a week/fortnight, on the 1
st
of June, in 2003, a.s.o..
Form:
Affirmative: S + shall/will + verb .(short form: ll).
Interrogative: Shall/will + S + verb .?
Negative: S + shall/will + not + verb .(short form: shant/wont).
3. The verb take + preposition:
after = to resemble
down = to write/record
for = to mistakenly assume that sb/sth. Is sb./sth. else
For granted = to assume as a fact that does not need any confirmation
In = to receive, admit; to reduce the size of; to include/comprise
off = to remove; to depart (aeroplanes)
over = to take control/possesion of
to = to adopt as a habit/practice/hobby


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Grammar exercises (G. G#l#&eanu, op. cit., Ed. Albatros, 1980, - v. i alte edi&ii, pag.
216-228) from various grammar books or from the suggested references.





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Briefly express (in approximately 200 words) how you imagine the future of
psychology in the next millenium. (group or individual work, as best suitable).
Suggestions: machinery development and human brain, coping with physical
impairments: deafness, dumbness, blindness, mental retardness, a.s.o..




Pessimist vs optimist