viernes, 14 de noviembre de 2014

Perfect and inventions






 THE PRESENT PERFECT WITH INVENTIONS


http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/1800b.shtml

PRESENT PERFECT WITH FOR AND SINCE

For + a period of time
To measure a period of time up to the present, we use the present perfect tense and not the present tense.
 I have known her for ten years.


Since + a point in time (in the past), until now
Since gives the starting point of actions, events or states. It refers to when things began.
I have known her since last summer.


LET´SPRACTICE:
ALREADY-YET

ALREAY: with affirmative statements to indicate completed actions.
Common Position: between the auxiliary (have/has) and the past participle or at the end of the sentence.
I`ve already done myhomework.
I`ve done my homework already


YET: with questions and negative sentences to indicate not completed actions.
Common position: at the end of the sentence.
Have they seen the elephant at the zoo yet?
No, they haven`t seen it yet.


LET´SPRACTICE:
  1. Complete the following sentences with "yet" or "already".



STILL AND ANYMORE
STILL. with questions and affirmative statements to indicate a continuing not completed action.
Common Position: before the main verb.
Does Carlos still work at that hospital ?
Yes, he still works there.

ANYMORE: with negative sentences to indicate that an action is not continuing..
Common Position: at the end of the negative sentences.
They used top lay soccer in the high school. Now they don´t play soccer anymore.


LET´S  PRACTICE:
  1. Choose the best answer.



PAST PERFECT TENSE
The Past Perfect expresses the idea that something occurred before another action in the past. It can also show that something happened before a specific time in the past.
Examples:
·       I did not have any money because I had lost my wallet.

LET`S PRACTICE. 
Choose the right answer.
        Put the verbs into the correct form (past perfect simple). 
        http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/past-perfect-simple/exercises

        FUTURE PERFECT TENSE
        We use the future perfect when an action will be complete at a specific time in the future.
        will have finished my project by the weekend.
        This time next year I will have graduated.

        We use the future perfect to predict the present.
        Don't bother going to see him, he'll have left.



        LET`S PRACTICE.
        1. Choose the best answer.
        1. Fill in the verbs in brackets in the Future Perfect.
         VIDEOS ABOUT WHAT WILL HAPPENED IN 2045



        KATIE:    Half past nine What do those two think they're doing?.. Thank you, ...
        Right!  .. Hello?
         HELEN:    It's me.
        KATIE:    Ahh!   I'm so glad you called: I really need some help..
        HELEN:    So do I  !   This guy´s really boring!   I need to get out of here.
        KATIE:   just leave. I would. There's no point in putting up with boring men.   They're a waste of time.
        HELEN:    But he's quite good-looking.
        KATIE   Looks aren't important, Helen. Anyway, never mind about that. Listen to our   new neighbors
        HELEN:      Oh, dear.   Have you   tried banging on the wall'
        KATIE:    Yes, I've tried that.  It didn't work.
        HELEN:   Why don't you go round and talk to them?
         KATIE:     I   might try that. Thanks
        HELEN:   And   if  that doesn't work, I'd call the police!
        KATIE:   Good idea!  I'll try speaking to them first, though.
        HELEN:   Katie! I was only joking about the police. . . Oh, great. You're back. I was just talking to my flat mate.



        WORKSHEET.


        Choose the correct answer about the conversation.

        1. The best title for the last conversation is:
        A.   Helen´s  guys                         B. Helen and Katie are friends                   
        C. Helen offers an advice

        2. The main idea about the conversation is:
        A. the new friends are speaking up then this disturbs to Katie
        B. The noise that produce  two new neighbors  into their  apartment  next to Katie´s  which disturbs Katie
        C. The neighbors are having a party in their apartment and Katie is enjoying.

        3. 
        A. Helen offers an advice to Katie.              B. Katie  is annoyed with her friend.                  C. Katie`s  neighbors  are  Helen`s friends

        4. The best advice of  Helen  to  Katie  is:
        A. to bang on the wall.
        B. to  call the police
        C. to go around and talk to her neighbors


        VIDEO ABOUT PREDICTION IN 2045


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        PRESENT SIMPLE  AND EXPRESSIONS OF FREQUENCY
        The simple Present  Tense is used to talk about habitual actions, specially when the following expressions are used: 


        ADVERBS OF FREQUENCY:

          Always, usually, often, sometimes,seldom, never.
          Adverbs of frequencies are used before the verb, except with the verb to be. They`re used  after the verb to be.
          They always play soccer.
          She is often late.
          1. Expressions of frequency:
          2. Every day, once a week/ month/year, twice a week/month/year, three times a week/month/year.
          They are used at the end of the sentence.
          W e go to the movies once a week.
          Let`s practice:
          1.    write each sentence with the adverb of frequency (in brackets) in its correct position .
          2.    Complete the text using the wors in the box.
          3.    Fin ten adverbs of frequency in the crossword.
          4.     Choose the best answer.

          test












































          Let`s practice:
          1. Write correct sentences in present continuous
          1. Click on the RIGHT sentence
          2. http://www.isabelperez.com/happy/tenses/exercises/present_cont_2.htm
          3. Mix exercises
          CONDITIONALS:    ZERO,  I,  II,   AND  III

          http://www.ompersonal.com.ar/omverbs/threeconditionals.htm
          http://www.english-area.com/paginas/condicionales.pdf

          CONDITIONAL I

          http://www.saberingles.com.ar/curso/lesson19/05.html

          CONDITIONAL I AND II


          http://www.english-area.com/paginas/First%20and%20second%20conditional.pdf



          CONDITIONAL II.

          http://www.nonstopenglish.com/lang/es/exercise.asp?exid=894
          http://www.nonstopenglish.com/lang/es/allexercises/upper_intermediate.asp
          http://www.nonstopenglish.com/lang/es/exercise.asp?exid=895



          EXERCISES WITH  CONDITIONALS ONE, TWO, THREE.

          http://www.aprenderinglesfacil.es/2008/08/ejercicios-oraciones-condicionales.html

          http://www.nonstopenglish.com/lang/es/allexercises/grammar/grammar-conditional.asp



          SONG:  IF  I  WERE A RICH MAN

          USING SECOND CONDITIONAL.
          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtGYqPiPw1Q&feature=related


          SONG: THE SOUNDS OF SILENCE

          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgbBLKet14E


           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDDlxW6kMkg

          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o_JnZg3O0M

          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkJpTPkP8BA



          DESIDERATA
          THINGS DESIRED

          En Ingles:

          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDHoflDhAOo&feature=related

          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCRzaG19wJE

           En Español:
          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZziK9nbDQI

          TEXT
          http://www.ipernity.com/blog/185317/311215

          Karaoke (Desiderata)
          http://www.redkaraoke.es/canciones/DESIDERATA/13907



          PANDILLERISMO
          http://www.buenastareas.com/ensayos/Pandillerismo-Causas-y-Origenes/23879.html

          http://www.remar.org/projuventud2.html


          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAFX5N9F8sg

          ATUENDO DE LOS PANDILLEROS
          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6frlZqRV9I

          PASSIVE VOICE

          http://lablevel9.blogspot.com/2011/04/passive-voice_10.html
          Are these sentences in active or passive voice?http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/active_passive/active_or_passive.htm


          Turn sentences into passive voice:
           http://www.english-4u.de/passive_ex1.htm

          http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/active_passive/sentences_simple_past.htm

          http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/active_passive/sentences_simple_present.htm

          Exercises - Passive Voice


          http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/passiv.htm

          http://www.nonstopenglish.com/exercise.asp?exid=670
          http://www.nonstopenglish.com/exercise.asp?exid=921

          Active or Passive Voice


          http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/active-passive.html

           THE PASSIVE VOICE
          http://www.englishcorner.vacau.com/grammar/rules/passive.html

          LOS CURSOS DE INGLES GRATIS PREFERIDOS POR LOS HISPANOHABLANTES

          PASSIVE VOICE:
          http://www.ompersonal.com.ar/omexercise/vozpasiva/unit19.htm

           PRESENT AND PAST PASSIVE VOICE
          http://www.ompersonal.com.ar/omexercise/vozpasiva/unit20.htm

           http://www.englishcorner.vacau.com/grammar/grammar.html#pasvint

          active and passive voice 2 

          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCBH6eiSitg



          New Seven Wonders of the World





          Top 10 'inventions' that changed the world

          Scientists, from the British Science Association, have drawn up a list of the top 10 things that have changed the world.

          A panel of 20 experts from the association drew up the list of the innovations to mark National Science and Engineering Week. Here is the list in full:




          INTERACTIVE ACTIVITIES:
          Each one of  the following activities  have  instructions,  step by step in order to make anything.The students have to put in order each process firstly. Then, they write the last processes in the passive voice  using the simple present tense.

          In the following links we can find How to make anything:

          HOW TO MAKE ....
          /ks2bitesize/blogs/shell.swf" flashvars="s=english&a=instructions&h=http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/blogs/english/index.shtml" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="424" height="324"></embed>

           HOW TO PREPARE A JELLO-O

          http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Jello-Shots#Video


          HOW  TO PREPARE A SANDWICH
          http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/english/flash/instructions.swf




          PRESENT PERFECT AND SIMPLE PAST TENSE WITH SOURCES IN AULA CLICK



          PUZLES:
          OPPOSITE
          http://clic.xtec.cat/db/jclicApplet.jsp?project=http://clic.xtec.cat/projects/opposites/jclic/opposites.jclic.zip&lang=en&title=Opposites
          IRREGULAR VERBS:


          TALE:    THE LION AND THE MOUSE
          http://clic.xtec.cat/db/jclicApplet.jsp?project=http://clic.xtec.cat/projects/numbers/jclic/numbers.jclic.zip&lang=en&title=Numbers

           LEARN ENGLISH:
          Inglés para Principiantes (y los de nivel intermedio) - Ejercicios Interactivos, Pruebas (Gratis) http://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/sp/

          http://www.saberingles.com.ar/exercises/index1.html (PRINDIPIANTES)

          http://www.saberingles.com.ar/exercises/index2.html (INTERMEDIO)
          http://www.saberingles.com.ar/exercises/index3.htm  (AVANZADO)



          FLASH 8
           aulaClic. Curso de Flash 8. Índice 
           http://www.aulaclic.es/flash8/index.htm


          CUENTOS EN INGLES-----
          RISITOS DE OROS Y LOS TRES OSOS-GOLDILOCKS AND THE THREE BEARS
           CUENTO DE LA CAPERUCITA ROJA-LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD
          MANSION DEL INGLES

          CARNAVAL AROUND THE WORLD

          ACTIVITIES JCLICK
          THE RED RIDING HOOD






          MODAL VERBS

          Escribe el verbo modal adecuado en los espacios en blanco:
          EJEMPLO: "I want to play" o "You must play"



          1. I want ________ you tomorrow.
           a. to see
           b- see

          2. I can't ________ you tomorrow.
            a. to see
            b. see

          3. You must ________ hard.
            a. study
            b. to study

          4. Heather tried ________ but she was too tired.
            a.. study
            b. to study


          5. I can't ________ you.
            a. hear
            b. to hear

          6. He wants ________ what she is saying.
            a. hear
            b.  to hear

          7. I want ________ a doctor.
            a. be
            b.to be

          8. I must ________ sick - I have a fever.
            a. to be
            b.be

          9. I couldn't ________ to the movies with Fiona.
            a. go
            b. to go

          10. Alex does not know how _____.
            a. drive
           b.  to drive

          11. You shouldn't ________ so upset about this.
            a. get
            b. to get

          12. I can't ________ to you right now.
            a. to talk
           b.  talk

          13. Do you want ________ to the park tomorrow?
            a.go
            b. to go

          14. I want to, but I can't ________.
            a. go
            b. to go

          15. Would you like ________ now?
            a. to eat
            b. eat

          16. My mother wants ________ a trip to Portugal.
            a. take
            b. to take

          17. I need ________ you tomorrow.
            a. to see
            b. see

          18. That must ________ it!
            a. to be
            b. be

          19. Can you ________ him?
            a. to understand
            b understand

          20. I tried ________ to her in Japanese.
            a. to speak
            b. speak




           THE PRESENT PERFECT WITH INVENTIONS


          http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/1800b.shtml

          PRESENT PERFECT WITH FOR AND SINCE

          For + a period of time
          To measure a period of time up to the present, we use the present perfect tense and not the present tense.
           I have known her for ten years.


          Since + a point in time (in the past), until now
          Since gives the starting point of actions, events or states. It refers to when things began.
          I have known her since last summer.


          LET´SPRACTICE:
          ALREADY-YET

          ALREAY: with affirmative statements to indicate completed actions.
          Common Position: between the auxiliary (have/has) and the past participle or at the end of the sentence.
          I`ve already done myhomework.
          I`ve done my homework already


          YET: with questions and negative sentences to indicate not completed actions.
          Common position: at the end of the sentence.
          Have they seen the elephant at the zoo yet?
          No, they haven`t seen it yet.


          LET´SPRACTICE:
          1. Complete the following sentences with "yet" or "already".



          STILL AND ANYMORE
          STILL. with questions and affirmative statements to indicate a continuing not completed action.
          Common Position: before the main verb.
          Does Carlos still work at that hospital ?
          Yes, he still works there.

          ANYMORE: with negative sentences to indicate that an action is not continuing..
          Common Position: at the end of the negative sentences.
          They used top lay soccer in the high school. Now they don´t play soccer anymore.


          LET´S  PRACTICE:
          1. Choose the best answer.



          PAST PERFECT TENSE
          The Past Perfect expresses the idea that something occurred before another action in the past. It can also show that something happened before a specific time in the past.
          Examples:
          ·       I did not have any money because I had lost my wallet.

          LET`S PRACTICE. 
          Choose the right answer.
                Put the verbs into the correct form (past perfect simple). 
                http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/past-perfect-simple/exercises

                FUTURE PERFECT TENSE
                We use the future perfect when an action will be complete at a specific time in the future.
                will have finished my project by the weekend.
                This time next year I will have graduated.

                We use the future perfect to predict the present.
                Don't bother going to see him, he'll have left.



                LET`S PRACTICE.
                1. Choose the best answer.
                1. Fill in the verbs in brackets in the Future Perfect.
                 VIDEOS ABOUT WHAT WILL HAPPENED IN 2045



                KATIE:    Half past nine What do those two think they're doing?.. Thank you, ...
                Right!  .. Hello?
                 HELEN:    It's me.
                KATIE:    Ahh!   I'm so glad you called: I really need some help..
                HELEN:    So do I  !   This guy´s really boring!   I need to get out of here.
                KATIE:   just leave. I would. There's no point in putting up with boring men.   They're a waste of time.
                HELEN:    But he's quite good-looking.
                KATIE   Looks aren't important, Helen. Anyway, never mind about that. Listen to our   new neighbors
                HELEN:      Oh, dear.   Have you   tried banging on the wall'
                KATIE:    Yes, I've tried that.  It didn't work.
                HELEN:   Why don't you go round and talk to them?
                 KATIE:     I   might try that. Thanks
                HELEN:   And   if  that doesn't work, I'd call the police!
                KATIE:   Good idea!  I'll try speaking to them first, though.
                HELEN:   Katie! I was only joking about the police. . . Oh, great. You're back. I was just talking to my flat mate.



                WORKSHEET.


                Choose the correct answer about the conversation.

                1. The best title for the last conversation is:
                A.   Helen´s  guys                         B. Helen and Katie are friends                   
                C. Helen offers an advice

                2. The main idea about the conversation is:
                A. the new friends are speaking up then this disturbs to Katie
                B. The noise that produce  two new neighbors  into their  apartment  next to Katie´s  which disturbs Katie
                C. The neighbors are having a party in their apartment and Katie is enjoying.

                3. 
                A. Helen offers an advice to Katie.              B. Katie  is annoyed with her friend.                  C. Katie`s  neighbors  are  Helen`s friends

                4. The best advice of  Helen  to  Katie  is:
                A. to bang on the wall.
                B. to  call the police
                C. to go around and talk to her neighbors


                VIDEO ABOUT PREDICTION IN 2045


                     ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                     ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                PRESENT SIMPLE  AND EXPRESSIONS OF FREQUENCY
                The simple Present  Tense is used to talk about habitual actions, specially when the following expressions are used: 


                ADVERBS OF FREQUENCY:

                  Always, usually, often, sometimes,seldom, never.
                  Adverbs of frequencies are used before the verb, except with the verb to be. They`re used  after the verb to be.
                  They always play soccer.
                  She is often late.
                  1. Expressions of frequency:
                  2. Every day, once a week/ month/year, twice a week/month/year, three times a week/month/year.
                  They are used at the end of the sentence.
                  W e go to the movies once a week.
                  Let`s practice:
                  1.    write each sentence with the adverb of frequency (in brackets) in its correct position .
                  2.    Complete the text using the wors in the box.
                  3.    Fin ten adverbs of frequency in the crossword.
                  4.     Choose the best answer.

                  test












































                  Let`s practice:
                  1. Write correct sentences in present continuous
                  1. Click on the RIGHT sentence
                  2. http://www.isabelperez.com/happy/tenses/exercises/present_cont_2.htm
                  3. Mix exercises
                  CONDITIONALS:    ZERO,  I,  II,   AND  III

                  http://www.ompersonal.com.ar/omverbs/threeconditionals.htm
                  http://www.english-area.com/paginas/condicionales.pdf

                  CONDITIONAL I

                  http://www.saberingles.com.ar/curso/lesson19/05.html

                  CONDITIONAL I AND II


                  http://www.english-area.com/paginas/First%20and%20second%20conditional.pdf



                  CONDITIONAL II.

                  http://www.nonstopenglish.com/lang/es/exercise.asp?exid=894
                  http://www.nonstopenglish.com/lang/es/allexercises/upper_intermediate.asp
                  http://www.nonstopenglish.com/lang/es/exercise.asp?exid=895



                  EXERCISES WITH  CONDITIONALS ONE, TWO, THREE.

                  http://www.aprenderinglesfacil.es/2008/08/ejercicios-oraciones-condicionales.html

                  http://www.nonstopenglish.com/lang/es/allexercises/grammar/grammar-conditional.asp



                  SONG:  IF  I  WERE A RICH MAN

                  USING SECOND CONDITIONAL.
                  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtGYqPiPw1Q&feature=related


                  SONG: THE SOUNDS OF SILENCE

                  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgbBLKet14E


                   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDDlxW6kMkg

                  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o_JnZg3O0M

                  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkJpTPkP8BA



                  DESIDERATA
                  THINGS DESIRED

                  En Ingles:

                  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDHoflDhAOo&feature=related

                  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCRzaG19wJE

                   En Español:
                  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZziK9nbDQI

                  TEXT
                  http://www.ipernity.com/blog/185317/311215

                  Karaoke (Desiderata)
                  http://www.redkaraoke.es/canciones/DESIDERATA/13907



                  PANDILLERISMO
                  http://www.buenastareas.com/ensayos/Pandillerismo-Causas-y-Origenes/23879.html

                  http://www.remar.org/projuventud2.html


                  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAFX5N9F8sg

                  ATUENDO DE LOS PANDILLEROS
                  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6frlZqRV9I

                  PASSIVE VOICE

                  http://lablevel9.blogspot.com/2011/04/passive-voice_10.html
                  Are these sentences in active or passive voice?http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/active_passive/active_or_passive.htm


                  Turn sentences into passive voice:
                   http://www.english-4u.de/passive_ex1.htm

                  http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/active_passive/sentences_simple_past.htm

                  http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/active_passive/sentences_simple_present.htm

                  Exercises - Passive Voice


                  http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/passiv.htm

                  http://www.nonstopenglish.com/exercise.asp?exid=670
                  http://www.nonstopenglish.com/exercise.asp?exid=921

                  Active or Passive Voice


                  http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/active-passive.html

                   THE PASSIVE VOICE
                  http://www.englishcorner.vacau.com/grammar/rules/passive.html

                  LOS CURSOS DE INGLES GRATIS PREFERIDOS POR LOS HISPANOHABLANTES

                  PASSIVE VOICE:
                  http://www.ompersonal.com.ar/omexercise/vozpasiva/unit19.htm

                   PRESENT AND PAST PASSIVE VOICE
                  http://www.ompersonal.com.ar/omexercise/vozpasiva/unit20.htm

                   http://www.englishcorner.vacau.com/grammar/grammar.html#pasvint

                  active and passive voice 2 

                  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCBH6eiSitg



                  New Seven Wonders of the World





                  Top 10 'inventions' that changed the world

                  Scientists, from the British Science Association, have drawn up a list of the top 10 things that have changed the world.

                  A panel of 20 experts from the association drew up the list of the innovations to mark National Science and Engineering Week. Here is the list in full:




                  INTERACTIVE ACTIVITIES:
                  Each one of  the following activities  have  instructions,  step by step in order to make anything.The students have to put in order each process firstly. Then, they write the last processes in the passive voice  using the simple present tense.

                  In the following links we can find How to make anything:

                  HOW TO MAKE ....
                  /ks2bitesize/blogs/shell.swf" flashvars="s=english&a=instructions&h=http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/blogs/english/index.shtml" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="424" height="324"></embed>

                   HOW TO PREPARE A JELLO-O

                  http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Jello-Shots#Video


                  HOW  TO PREPARE A SANDWICH
                  http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/english/flash/instructions.swf




                  PRESENT PERFECT AND SIMPLE PAST TENSE WITH SOURCES IN AULA CLICK



                  PUZLES:
                  OPPOSITE
                  http://clic.xtec.cat/db/jclicApplet.jsp?project=http://clic.xtec.cat/projects/opposites/jclic/opposites.jclic.zip&lang=en&title=Opposites
                  IRREGULAR VERBS:


                  TALE:    THE LION AND THE MOUSE
                  http://clic.xtec.cat/db/jclicApplet.jsp?project=http://clic.xtec.cat/projects/numbers/jclic/numbers.jclic.zip&lang=en&title=Numbers

                   LEARN ENGLISH:
                  Inglés para Principiantes (y los de nivel intermedio) - Ejercicios Interactivos, Pruebas (Gratis) http://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/sp/

                  http://www.saberingles.com.ar/exercises/index1.html (PRINDIPIANTES)

                  http://www.saberingles.com.ar/exercises/index2.html (INTERMEDIO)
                  http://www.saberingles.com.ar/exercises/index3.htm  (AVANZADO)


                  MODAL VERBS

                  Escribe el verbo modal adecuado en los espacios en blanco:
                  EJEMPLO: "I want to play" o "You must play"



                  1. I want ________ you tomorrow.
                   a. to see
                   b- see

                  2. I can't ________ you tomorrow.
                    a. to see
                    b. see

                  3. You must ________ hard.
                    a. study
                    b. to study

                  4. Heather tried ________ but she was too tired.
                    a.. study
                    b. to study


                  5. I can't ________ you.
                    a. hear
                    b. to hear

                  6. He wants ________ what she is saying.
                    a. hear
                    b.  to hear

                  7. I want ________ a doctor.
                    a. be
                    b.to be

                  8. I must ________ sick - I have a fever.
                    a. to be
                    b.be

                  9. I couldn't ________ to the movies with Fiona.
                    a. go
                    b. to go

                  10. Alex does not know how _____.
                    a. drive
                   b.  to drive

                  11. You shouldn't ________ so upset about this.
                    a. get
                    b. to get

                  12. I can't ________ to you right now.
                    a. to talk
                   b.  talk

                  13. Do you want ________ to the park tomorrow?
                    a.go
                    b. to go

                  14. I want to, but I can't ________.
                    a. go
                    b. to go

                  15. Would you like ________ now?
                    a. to eat
                    b. eat

                  16. My mother wants ________ a trip to Portugal.
                    a. take
                    b. to take

                  17. I need ________ you tomorrow.
                    a. to see
                    b. see

                  18. That must ________ it!
                    a. to be
                    b. be

                  19. Can you ________ him?
                    a. to understand
                    b understand

                  20. I tried ________ to her in Japanese.
                    a. to speak
                    b. speak




                   THE PRESENT PERFECT WITH INVENTIONS


                  http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/1800b.shtml

                  PRESENT PERFECT WITH FOR AND SINCE

                  For + a period of time
                  To measure a period of time up to the present, we use the present perfect tense and not the present tense.
                   I have known her for ten years.


                  Since + a point in time (in the past), until now
                  Since gives the starting point of actions, events or states. It refers to when things began.
                  I have known her since last summer.


                  LET´SPRACTICE:
                  ALREADY-YET

                  ALREAY: with affirmative statements to indicate completed actions.
                  Common Position: between the auxiliary (have/has) and the past participle or at the end of the sentence.
                  I`ve already done myhomework.
                  I`ve done my homework already


                  YET: with questions and negative sentences to indicate not completed actions.
                  Common position: at the end of the sentence.
                  Have they seen the elephant at the zoo yet?
                  No, they haven`t seen it yet.


                  LET´SPRACTICE:
                  1. Complete the following sentences with "yet" or "already".



                  STILL AND ANYMORE
                  STILL. with questions and affirmative statements to indicate a continuing not completed action.
                  Common Position: before the main verb.
                  Does Carlos still work at that hospital ?
                  Yes, he still works there.

                  ANYMORE: with negative sentences to indicate that an action is not continuing..
                  Common Position: at the end of the negative sentences.
                  They used top lay soccer in the high school. Now they don´t play soccer anymore.


                  LET´S  PRACTICE:
                  1. Choose the best answer.



                  PAST PERFECT TENSE
                  The Past Perfect expresses the idea that something occurred before another action in the past. It can also show that something happened before a specific time in the past.
                  Examples:
                  ·       I did not have any money because I had lost my wallet.

                  LET`S PRACTICE. 
                  Choose the right answer.
                        Put the verbs into the correct form (past perfect simple). 
                        http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/past-perfect-simple/exercises

                        FUTURE PERFECT TENSE
                        We use the future perfect when an action will be complete at a specific time in the future.
                        will have finished my project by the weekend.
                        This time next year I will have graduated.

                        We use the future perfect to predict the present.
                        Don't bother going to see him, he'll have left.



                        LET`S PRACTICE.
                        1. Choose the best answer.
                        1. Fill in the verbs in brackets in the Future Perfect.
                         VIDEOS ABOUT WHAT WILL HAPPENED IN 2045



                        KATIE:    Half past nine What do those two think they're doing?.. Thank you, ...
                        Right!  .. Hello?
                         HELEN:    It's me.
                        KATIE:    Ahh!   I'm so glad you called: I really need some help..
                        HELEN:    So do I  !   This guy´s really boring!   I need to get out of here.
                        KATIE:   just leave. I would. There's no point in putting up with boring men.   They're a waste of time.
                        HELEN:    But he's quite good-looking.
                        KATIE   Looks aren't important, Helen. Anyway, never mind about that. Listen to our   new neighbors
                        HELEN:      Oh, dear.   Have you   tried banging on the wall'
                        KATIE:    Yes, I've tried that.  It didn't work.
                        HELEN:   Why don't you go round and talk to them?
                         KATIE:     I   might try that. Thanks
                        HELEN:   And   if  that doesn't work, I'd call the police!
                        KATIE:   Good idea!  I'll try speaking to them first, though.
                        HELEN:   Katie! I was only joking about the police. . . Oh, great. You're back. I was just talking to my flat mate.



                        WORKSHEET.


                        Choose the correct answer about the conversation.

                        1. The best title for the last conversation is:
                        A.   Helen´s  guys                         B. Helen and Katie are friends                   
                        C. Helen offers an advice

                        2. The main idea about the conversation is:
                        A. the new friends are speaking up then this disturbs to Katie
                        B. The noise that produce  two new neighbors  into their  apartment  next to Katie´s  which disturbs Katie
                        C. The neighbors are having a party in their apartment and Katie is enjoying.

                        3. 
                        A. Helen offers an advice to Katie.              B. Katie  is annoyed with her friend.                  C. Katie`s  neighbors  are  Helen`s friends

                        4. The best advice of  Helen  to  Katie  is:
                        A. to bang on the wall.
                        B. to  call the police
                        C. to go around and talk to her neighbors


                        VIDEO ABOUT PREDICTION IN 2045


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                        PRESENT SIMPLE  AND EXPRESSIONS OF FREQUENCY
                        The simple Present  Tense is used to talk about habitual actions, specially when the following expressions are used: 


                        ADVERBS OF FREQUENCY:

                          Always, usually, often, sometimes,seldom, never.
                          Adverbs of frequencies are used before the verb, except with the verb to be. They`re used  after the verb to be.
                          They always play soccer.
                          She is often late.
                          1. Expressions of frequency:
                          2. Every day, once a week/ month/year, twice a week/month/year, three times a week/month/year.
                          They are used at the end of the sentence.
                          W e go to the movies once a week.
                          Let`s practice:
                          1.    write each sentence with the adverb of frequency (in brackets) in its correct position .
                          2.    Complete the text using the wors in the box.
                          3.    Fin ten adverbs of frequency in the crossword.
                          4.     Choose the best answer.

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                          Let`s practice:
                          1. Write correct sentences in present continuous
                          1. Click on the RIGHT sentence
                          2. http://www.isabelperez.com/happy/tenses/exercises/present_cont_2.htm
                          3. Mix exercises
                          CONDITIONALS:    ZERO,  I,  II,   AND  III

                          http://www.ompersonal.com.ar/omverbs/threeconditionals.htm
                          http://www.english-area.com/paginas/condicionales.pdf

                          CONDITIONAL I

                          http://www.saberingles.com.ar/curso/lesson19/05.html

                          CONDITIONAL I AND II


                          http://www.english-area.com/paginas/First%20and%20second%20conditional.pdf



                          CONDITIONAL II.

                          http://www.nonstopenglish.com/lang/es/exercise.asp?exid=894
                          http://www.nonstopenglish.com/lang/es/allexercises/upper_intermediate.asp
                          http://www.nonstopenglish.com/lang/es/exercise.asp?exid=895



                          EXERCISES WITH  CONDITIONALS ONE, TWO, THREE.

                          http://www.aprenderinglesfacil.es/2008/08/ejercicios-oraciones-condicionales.html

                          http://www.nonstopenglish.com/lang/es/allexercises/grammar/grammar-conditional.asp



                          SONG:  IF  I  WERE A RICH MAN

                          USING SECOND CONDITIONAL.
                          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtGYqPiPw1Q&feature=related


                          SONG: THE SOUNDS OF SILENCE

                          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgbBLKet14E


                           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDDlxW6kMkg

                          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o_JnZg3O0M

                          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkJpTPkP8BA



                          DESIDERATA
                          THINGS DESIRED

                          En Ingles:

                          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDHoflDhAOo&feature=related

                          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCRzaG19wJE

                           En Español:
                          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZziK9nbDQI

                          TEXT
                          http://www.ipernity.com/blog/185317/311215

                          Karaoke (Desiderata)
                          http://www.redkaraoke.es/canciones/DESIDERATA/13907



                          PANDILLERISMO
                          http://www.buenastareas.com/ensayos/Pandillerismo-Causas-y-Origenes/23879.html

                          http://www.remar.org/projuventud2.html


                          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAFX5N9F8sg

                          ATUENDO DE LOS PANDILLEROS
                          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6frlZqRV9I

                          PASSIVE VOICE

                          http://lablevel9.blogspot.com/2011/04/passive-voice_10.html
                          Are these sentences in active or passive voice?http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/active_passive/active_or_passive.htm


                          Turn sentences into passive voice:
                           http://www.english-4u.de/passive_ex1.htm

                          http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/active_passive/sentences_simple_past.htm

                          http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/active_passive/sentences_simple_present.htm

                          Exercises - Passive Voice


                          http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/passiv.htm

                          http://www.nonstopenglish.com/exercise.asp?exid=670
                          http://www.nonstopenglish.com/exercise.asp?exid=921

                          Active or Passive Voice


                          http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/active-passive.html

                           THE PASSIVE VOICE
                          http://www.englishcorner.vacau.com/grammar/rules/passive.html

                          LOS CURSOS DE INGLES GRATIS PREFERIDOS POR LOS HISPANOHABLANTES

                          PASSIVE VOICE:
                          http://www.ompersonal.com.ar/omexercise/vozpasiva/unit19.htm

                           PRESENT AND PAST PASSIVE VOICE
                          http://www.ompersonal.com.ar/omexercise/vozpasiva/unit20.htm

                           http://www.englishcorner.vacau.com/grammar/grammar.html#pasvint

                          active and passive voice 2 

                          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCBH6eiSitg



                          New Seven Wonders of the World





                          Top 10 'inventions' that changed the world

                          Scientists, from the British Science Association, have drawn up a list of the top 10 things that have changed the world.

                          A panel of 20 experts from the association drew up the list of the innovations to mark National Science and Engineering Week. Here is the list in full:




                          INTERACTIVE ACTIVITIES:
                          Each one of  the following activities  have  instructions,  step by step in order to make anything.The students have to put in order each process firstly. Then, they write the last processes in the passive voice  using the simple present tense.

                          In the following links we can find How to make anything:

                          HOW TO MAKE ....
                          /ks2bitesize/blogs/shell.swf" flashvars="s=english&a=instructions&h=http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/blogs/english/index.shtml" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="424" height="324"></embed>

                           HOW TO PREPARE A JELLO-O

                          http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Jello-Shots#Video


                          HOW  TO PREPARE A SANDWICH
                          http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/english/flash/instructions.swf




                          PRESENT PERFECT AND SIMPLE PAST TENSE WITH SOURCES IN AULA CLICK



                          PUZLES:
                          OPPOSITE
                          http://clic.xtec.cat/db/jclicApplet.jsp?project=http://clic.xtec.cat/projects/opposites/jclic/opposites.jclic.zip&lang=en&title=Opposites
                          IRREGULAR VERBS:


                          TALE:    THE LION AND THE MOUSE
                          http://clic.xtec.cat/db/jclicApplet.jsp?project=http://clic.xtec.cat/projects/numbers/jclic/numbers.jclic.zip&lang=en&title=Numbers

                           LEARN ENGLISH:
                          Inglés para Principiantes (y los de nivel intermedio) - Ejercicios Interactivos, Pruebas (Gratis) http://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/sp/

                          http://www.saberingles.com.ar/exercises/index1.html (PRINDIPIANTES)

                          http://www.saberingles.com.ar/exercises/index2.html (INTERMEDIO)
                          http://www.saberingles.com.ar/exercises/index3.htm  (AVANZADO)



                          FLASH 8
                           aulaClic. Curso de Flash 8. Índice 
                           http://www.aulaclic.es/flash8/index.htm


                          CUENTOS EN INGLES-----
                          RISITOS DE OROS Y LOS TRES OSOS-GOLDILOCKS AND THE THREE BEARS
                           CUENTO DE LA CAPERUCITA ROJA-LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD
                          MANSION DEL INGLES

                          CARNAVAL AROUND THE WORLD

                          ACTIVITIES JCLICK
                          THE RED RIDING HOOD







                          FLASH 8
                           aulaClic. Curso de Flash 8. Índice 
                           http://www.aulaclic.es/flash8/index.htm


                          CUENTOS EN INGLES-----
                          RISITOS DE OROS Y LOS TRES OSOS-GOLDILOCKS AND THE THREE BEARS
                           CUENTO DE LA CAPERUCITA ROJA-LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD
                          MANSION DEL INGLES

                          CARNAVAL AROUND THE WORLD

                          ACTIVITIES JCLICK
                          THE RED RIDING HOOD







                          Basic times

                          Simple PresentPresent Progressive/Continuous
                          repeated actionsactions happening at the moment of speaking or around the moment of speaking
                          fixed arrangements, scheduled events (e.g. timetable)fixed plan in the near future
                          sequence of actions in the present (first - then, after that)temporary actions
                          instructionstrends
                          things in generalrepeated actions which are irritating to the speaker (with always, constantly, forever)
                          after special verbs

                          2) Signal words

                          Simple PresentPresent Progressive/Continuous
                          always, often, usually, sometimes, seldom, never, every day, every week, every year, on Mondaysnow, at the moment, Look!, Listen!

                          3) Form

                          Simple PresentPresent Progressive/Continuous
                          infinitive
                          3rd person singular (he, she, it) infinitive + -s
                          to be (amareis) + infinitive + -ing

                          4) Examples

                          Simple PresentPresent Progressive/Continuous
                          4-1 Affirmative sentences
                          play football.am playing football.
                          You play football.You are playing football.
                          He playfootball.He is playing football.

                          Simple PresentPresent Progressive/Continuous
                          4-2 Negative sentences
                          do not play football.am not playing football.
                          You do not play football.You are not playing football.
                          He does not play football.He is not playing football.

                          Simple PresentPresent Progressive/Continuous
                          4-3 Questions
                          Do I play football?Am I playing football?
                          Do you play football?Are you playing football?
                          Does he play football?Is he playing football?

                          5) Spelling

                          Simple PresentPresent Progressive/Continuous
                          watches (-es after sibilant)sitting (double consonant after short vowel)
                          goes (-es after -o)writing (leave out one -e at the end)
                          hurries (-y to -ie after consonant)lying (change -ie to -y)

                          Quantifiers

                          much, many, a little, a few

                          a lot of/lots of
                          Countable/uncountable nouns

                          much or many

                          much: uncountable nouns (milk, marmalade, money, time etc.)
                          many: countable nouns (bottles of milk, jars of marmalade, dollars, minutes etc.)
                          Examples:
                          How much money have you got?
                          How many dollars have you got?
                          In informal English these questions are often answered with a lot of/lots of. There is no much difference between the two phrases.

                          a little or a few

                          a little: non countable nouns (milk, marmalade, money, time etc.)
                          a few
                          : countable nouns (bottles of milk, jars of marmalade, dollars, minutes etc.)
                          Examples:
                          He has a little money left.
                          He has a few dollars left.


                          much, many, a little, a few

                          a lot of/lots of
                          Countable/uncountable nouns

                              much or many

                          much: uncountable nouns (milk, marmalade, money, time etc.)
                          many: countable nouns (bottles of milk, jars of marmalade, dollars, minutes etc.)
                          Examples:
                          How much money have you got?
                          How many dollars have you got?
                          In informal English these questions are often answered with a lot of/lots of. There is no much difference between the two phrases.

                          a little or a few

                          a little: non countable nouns (milk, marmalade, money, time etc.)
                          a few
                          : countable nouns (bottles of milk, jars of marmalade, dollars, minutes etc.)
                          Examples:
                          He has a little money left.
                          He has a few dollars left.

                          lunes, 29 de abril de 2013

                          Socialización Decimo

                          FUTURE PERFECT: PREDICTIONS FOR THE YEARS 2030 - 2045 AND SO ON ...


                          Earth 2030 – healthier, safer, more enjoyable
                          By Dick Pelletier
                                      What will life be like in 2030? Those who ponder such things, futurists and other visionaries, suggest exciting and sometimes fantastic possibilities. As we begin our trek into the world of tomorrow, predictions of things to come rush towards us at breathtaking speeds.
                                      Experts predict that between now and 2020, we will see more science and technology advances than we experienced during the entire 20th century – and from 2020 to 2100, developments will outpace the last 20,000 years of human progress.
                                      Nobody knows for sure what will happen in the future, but by projecting present-day knowledge, we can make plausible guesses. Hollywood creates fantastic futures, but they always talk about worlds gone mad, or make it sound so negative that none of us would ever want to live there.
                                      But from research that’s underway today, and scientific projections of things to come, we can piece together a probable future world, and what life might be like living in that world. Readers are invited to track me down in 25 years and tell me whether I was right or wrong.
                          People
                                      World population has climbed to 9.3 billion, and most people look forward to a life expectancy of 200 years or more. Advanced nanotech has eliminated world hunger in 2030 and could, experts say, provide a comfortable life on Earth for up to 100 billion people in the future.
                                      A 2004 Scientific American magazine article projection that one in five Americans would be senior citizens by 2030, proved far too conservative. Biotech breakthroughs have provided tremendous improvements in health care, which has slashed death rates far beyond what most pundits had predicted; and during this same time, public apathy towards creating children simply to "continue the family line” has resulted in fewer births. Nearly half the US population is over 65 in 2030.
                          The world death rate has decreased annually from 55 million in 2004 to 35 million in 2020, to 5 million in 2030. Accidents are the leading cause of death in 2030, and forward-thinkers believe that by 2040 or before, all unwanted deaths will be eliminated; providing an indefinite lifespan for everyone.
                                      Most senior citizens opt for genetic rejuvenation, which provides stronger internal organs, bones and muscles; and a more resilient, youthful looking skin. Those who have undergone this procedure do not consider themselves old – they have the look and feel of a 20-something. Seniors, with their vast memories, strong minds, and youthful bodies, are envied and respected everywhere. China has revered their older population for centuries – now, the rest of the world is following suit.
                                      Earth is safer and more enjoyable in 2030 than it was during the turbulent ‘teens and early 20s. Mind-expanding sciences eventually gained the upper hand on terror threats bringing peace to nearly all the world.
                                      The U.S., China, and European Union have maintained a united bond over the last 10 years, which has spurred freedom and growth in most of the world’s under-developed regions.
                          Energy
                                      Most of the world’s energy will soon come from fusion reactors. Industrial development of this inexhaustible energy is in full swing everywhere. However, in 2030, driverless cars still operate with electric motors powered by hydrogen fuel cells that last for the life of the vehicle.
                          Weaponry
                                      Non-lethal arsenals make up most world defense systems. These nanotech humanitarian weapons do not injure or kill; they use special procedures that temporarily disrupt the enemy’s thoughts – taking away all desires to fight. However, most countries will soon be manning their war machines with robots – removing humans completely from risks of war.


                          Biotech
                                      2010 to 2020 was heralded as the "golden age of biotech”. Stem cell and other gene therapies made replacement organs affordable to nearly everyone. Most people now live in a healthy body immune from disease and aging, with a life expectancy of 200 years or more.
                          Nanotech
                              2020 to 2035 is considered the "golden age of nanotech”, and it has taken center stage throughout the world in 2030.
                           Nano-replicators have been perfected over the last five years, and are beginning to appear on kitchen counters everywhere. These "miracle” machines provide food, clothing, and appliances for families at little or no cost. Replicators are affecting world commerce unlike anything ever before in history. Old economics based on scarcity and prices have mostly disappeared. This has transformed the workplace – eliminating most human labor – while raising living standards around the world.
                          Most inventors provide replicators free, and charge a small fee for software that gives the machine its building instructions. Receiving food and household items at little or no cost has dramatically cut living costs. Workers spend less time on the job because they need less money to live on. This results in more time for fun and recreation with family and friends.
                          Software costs represent the largest family expense in 2030. To replicate a new car, TV, food, or other items desired, software is ordered via the Internet which instructs replicators to build the item(s) using raw materials such as dirt, air, and seawater.
                          Also, recently developed nanobots – tiny cell-repair mechanisms that roam throughout the human body to locate and correct health problems before they start – are beginning to appear. Nanotech is revolutionizing manufacturing, health care, travel, energy, food supply, and warfare – it’s no wonder people refer to this amazing technology as "the most hyped science of all time”.
                          Beyond 2030
                          The Singularity: Researchers anxiously await the arrival of the singularity, a point in time expected around the mid-2030s, when many believe that computer/robots will surpass humans in intelligence. As silicon creations reach this critical level and learn to duplicate themselves; they will add more brainpower to each succeeding generation they construct. This will cause an explosion of information, unlike anything the world has ever seen. Experts predict these super-intelligent robots will maintain a strong bond with their creators and share this newly-gained information with humans through human-machine interfaces.
                           Mind Uploading: By 2035, advanced quantum computing has enabled researchers to unravel the mysteries of our 100 billion neurons and the trails each neuron leaves when it communicates with approximately 10,000 other neurons. Memories, personality, and feelings – non-physical elements that describe a human being – can now be scanned and uploaded into a robot, or newly-cloned human body, enabling life to continue indefinitely. Although few people want to live forever, most believe the choice of life, or death should be theirs – not left to some accident.
                          Restoring the Cryogenically-Suspended: Advanced nanotech and neuronal research have enabled resuscitation of cryonic patients whose brains have been neuro-preserved. This new life-sparking procedure captures complete past memories and personality traits and processes them for upload into a new body with an enormous increase in brain power. By 2039, many formerly deceased "cryonics” have experienced happy reunions with loved ones and descendants. Restored patients undergo extensive counseling that helps them adjust to 2030s Earth life. Scientists feel confident that procedures to revive all cryonic-preserved patients will soon be developed.
                          Are we alone? Humans have never accepted the idea that only Earth harbors life. Most experts believe that humanoid-type life, with sense organs like ours, has probably developed in other places and times – although skin type, facial arrangement, number of digits etc. could differ from ours.
                          The question of whether alien planets have intelligent beings on them is still unanswered in 2030. Experts even disagree that intelligence of human quality is the normal culmination of evolution. But the proposed "worm-hole” project – which will enable instant information exchange to vast distances in space – is expected to get underway sometime between 2040 and 2050. People are hopeful that alien life forms will be discovered sometime during the last half of this century.

                          Will this future happen?
                          British Telecom’s Ian Pearson suggests that advances in genetics and nanotech expected by 2030 will be sufficient for us to make a realistic stab at ending death.
                          Clearly the road to this mind-boggling future winds around unknown, possibly even dangerous turns. But strong commerce and government support is driving this optimistic vision forward – and it promises to unfold in our lifetime. Get ready to enjoy!
                          This article appeared in various print publications and on-line blogs. Comments always welcome

                          11 predictions for the year 2030

                          The website I Look Forward To has released a list of 11 predictions for the year 2030. Bear in mind that these are predictions from optimistic futurists, who believe in things like singularities and living forever.
                          Nevertheless such predictions always make for interesting reading. And to spark a discussion, after the list, I’ve picked the three predictions I think will definitely happen, and the three that definitely won’t. I invite you to do the same.
                          1. By 2030, learning a second language will no longer be necessary thanks to machine translation.
                          2. By 2030, thousands, perhaps millions, of people will have a life expectancy of 150 years.
                          3. By 2030, only 2 percent of the world’s population will live in extreme poverty.
                          4. By 2030, the best food will be grown in skyscrapers.
                          5. By 2030, driverless cars will be commonplace.
                          6. By 2030, 18 cities will have more than 20 million inhabitants, and New York City will be the 16th largest city in the world.
                          7. By 2030, automated flying drones will transport humans.
                          8. By 2030, space tourism will be common, and 40,000 humans will be working in orbit.
                          9. By 2030, most film actors will be out of work due to competition from cheap computer animated actors.
                          10. By 2030, China will have 250 cities with more than one million inhabitants.
                          11. By 2030, a large number of people will have robot lovers.
                          THREE   THAT   WILL   HAPPEN:
                          Driverless cars: I definitely see this happening soon, at the very least on highways. It just makes too much sense from a safety and traffic management standpoint.

                          18 cities with 20 million people: A no brainer. Urban growth in developing countries is staggering.
                          No second language: This — a computer that fits in your ear or perhaps even directly interfaces with your brain — is going to happen fairly soon. Look at the evolution of smart phones. The iPhone 24 is going to kick some serious butt.
                          THREE   THAT   WON’T    HAPPEN:
                          Space tourism: While I agree that there will probably be a viable space tourism market by 2030, I have a very hard time seeing 40,000 humans working in orbit, let alone 400. The costs of access to space during the last couple of decades have increased, not fallen, and given our current budget mess I’m disinclined to think the federal government is going to give commercial space a significant nudge any time soon. Hope I’m wrong.
                          World poverty: It will take extraordinary technological and political changes to raise the 1.5 billion around the world from extreme poverty (they live on $1.25 a day, or less), and 20 years isn’t enough.
                          Automated drones: Forget the technological hurdles to this one, I’m thinking security issues make it highly unlikely that we see hordes of automated, flying drones traversing the skies above our cities any time soon.


                          As technology accelerates, space travel is expected to become as prevalent and easy as people expected it to be by now. In the 1930s, some people expected humans would have accomplished intergalactic travel by the year 2006. While that was not the case, it is expected that by 2035 it will be possible for astronauts to travel extremely far distances to visit other planets without aging.
                          If teleportation has not yet been accomplished at this point, humans will enter into a state of hibernation for long journeys. The body's metabolism will be slowed to prevent aging on trips that last several decades. The astronauts or travelers will sleep the entire trip while being connected to drips that will provide them with nutrients and vitamins necessary to live.

                          2045 or Beyond - The Singularity
                          The Singularity is a phrase that describes a time at which the simultaneous acceleration of nanotechnology, robotics and genetics change our environment beyond the ability of humans to comprehend or predict. At this point, new realities will prevail and there will be a new norm. Scientists, including National Technology Medal winner Ray Kurzweil (author of "The Singularity is Near") say economic, social and political structures will completely change - possibly overnight. Vernor Vinge, a scientist and teacher, says The Singularity could arrive as instantly as an earthquake and completely change all terrain as we know it.
                          "When greater-than-human intelligence drives progress," Vinge writes, "that progress will be much more rapid." This accelerating loop of self-improving intelligence could cause a large jump in progress in a very brief period of time - this is being called a "hard takeoff" by people interested in this theory of development.
                          Kurzweil sees a more gradual acceleration - a "soft takeoff" - one in which humans work to also extend their intellectual capacity to keep up with artificially intelligent entities. Still, he predicts that The Singularity could come as soon as 2045.
                          The Singularity presents the idea that biological life may eventually be replaced by self-engineering, self-replicating intelligences. Some people posit the extreme, "grey goo" scenario, in which nanotechnology - not the sleek, humanoid robots seen in popular films, but a mass of gunk - displaces humans. Some researchers say that matter could be engineered to embody vast computational capacities - that entire planets or stars may be converted to what is sometimes called "computronium," a form of matter that is an intelligence.


                          2040 to 2045 - Space Elevator/Moon Base
                          Planning has already begun for a carbon nanotube cable to run from one or more floating ocean platforms to one or more satellites, connecting Earth to space. Cargo and passengers will be sent up and down the cable as on a really, really tall elevator. The orbiting station to which each cable connects can be used as a launching area for further space exploration, a space-based observation post and a facility for accomplishing experiments and manufacturing efforts that are best completed in zero gravity. A village on the moon will also be established.
                          The following are excerpted from the British Telecom Technology Timeline (information was compiled f by Ian Neild and Ian Pearson from worldwide sci-tech reports in 2005):
                          • AI entity sets up higher-level prize for advanced intelligence
                          • Learning superseded by transparent interface to smart computer
                          • Robots physically and mentally superior to humans
                          • Emulation of bio life form inside the computer using protein emulation
                          • Living genetically engineered teddy bear
                          • Production, storage, and use of antimatter
                          • Space factories for commercial production
                          • First war without any casualties from friendly fire
                          • Robots outnumber soldiers on battlefield
                          • Smart bacteria used as military threat to mankind
                          • Attacks based on facilitating natural disasters
                          • Smart-bacteria weapons
                          • Gated cities for civilized people
                          • Use of solar wind deflectors to set fire to cities
                          • Nanotech-based virus communicable between machines and people, sent over net
                          • Asteroid diversion used as weapon
                          • Moon base the size of small village
                          • Insect-sized robots banned in gardens due to effects on wildlife
                          • Robotic delivery for internal mail
                          • Robotic exercise companion
                          • More robots than people in developed countries
                          • Android gladiators
                          • Genetic modification used to make organic robots
                          • i-Robot-style robots with polymer muscles and strong AI
                          • Emotion transmission and conversion (feel love or anger)
                          • Digital image overlays enhance relationships
                          • Global voting is held on some issues
                          • Network-based telepathy begins to take place online
                          • Language teaching decline due to machine translation services
                          • Learning superseded by transparent interface to smart computers
                          • 95 percent of people in advanced nations are computer literate
                          • VR extensively used in retirement homes
                          • Restricted capability home genetic engineering kits
                          • Experience recording allows retention of complete set of sensations
                          • "Running man"-style entertainment shows using androids
                          • Widespread use of sensors in the countryside
                          • Artificial precipitation induction & control
                          • Global environmental-management corporations
                          • Electronic memory enhancement
                          • Many new forms of plants and animals from genetic engineering
                          • Nanobots in toothpaste attack plaque
                          • Fully functioning artificial eyes
                          • Electronic brain implants
                          • Genetic, chemical, and physiological bases of human behavior understood
                          • First Bionic Olympics
                          • e-babies, genetic conception
                          • DNA compression used to create optimal organisms
                          • Virus crosses over from machine to human
                          • Synthetic immune system
                          • Artificial peripheral nerves
                          • Sims game using real genetics

                          1. China & North Korea will be free from the communist rules so will be smaller states like Vietnam, Laos, etc.
                          2. China will be more accommodating to the needs of other nations to fulfill her role as a leader in the world theater.
                          3. Pakistan will be a terror free state. A union of South East countries of Indian subcontinent in likes of European Union will be formed.
                          4. European Union shall be more united, cohesive to counter the weights of China-India.
                          5. USA will be one among equals but her dominance will be reduced.
                          6. There will be several world currencies instead of one i.e. US $
                          7. African Nations will be awakened. More dictators will be in power. Enormous wealth of African nations will bring China-India-European countries and USA to their doorsteps.
                          8. Equality and freedom of women shall be established in Muslim countries.
                          9. Stem cell therapies will replace most surgeries as unnecessary.
                          10. Technology will be developed to read human and animal thoughts rendering smartphones of today as museum items.
                          11. Water will be a more precious commodity than oil. De-salinization of ocean waters will be an absolute must for all countries.
                          12. People across globe will be using micro- gardening to grow their own food.
                          13. Processed food will be a fact of the history.
                          14. Current education system from primary to college shall fail on its own burden. Instead world knowledge hubs shall be developed worldwide as distribution system to all who need them. Parents will be teachers in new systems. College education shall be through technology via world knowledge hubs.
                          15. Current marriage system shall survive but on a need basis only.
                          16. Visa system to travel shall be abolished but passports shall survive.
                          17. Travel across globe shall be much faster, cheaper and comfortable. Commuting around the world would be more common.
                          18. Many office chores will be taken over by robots.
                          19. Corporations shall be required to have board members from consumer groups and public at large.
                          20. Influence of the lobbyists shall be minimized with credible election reforms and the public financings of election candidates. (This is on my wish list)
                          21. I will be a dead person so you will not have to beat me up for not being correct on any of the above prophesies. Now its your turn to add your prophesies below.
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