Information

You travelled by air - It was a charter flight and was crowded and uncomfortable.

Your holiday lasted two weeks - You got home yesterday. You stayed in a big hotel. It was new and hadn't much character.

The hotel was near the beach - You spent all your time sunbathing and swimming.

You didn't do any sightseeing - In fact, you didn't travel at all while you were there.

You didn't eat local/traditional food - The hotel gave you 'international tourist' food.

You enjoyed a really good night life - varied and exciting.

Now - You have no money left.

Student B. You have been on holiday in Morocco or Italy. You meet student A who you know has been on holiday in Spain or France. Ask your friend about his / her holiday ‑ assuming he / she did the same sort of things as you.

e.g. You did part of the journey by boat, so ask him/her if the sea was calm.

You visited lots of interesting places, so ask student A about the places he / she visited.

Using the information below, answer A's questions about your holiday. Do not offer information until you are asked about that part of your holiday.

INFORMATION

You made the journey by boat and train - and took your bicycle.

You were away for three weeks - arrived back last week.

You camped in a small tent, which you took with you.

You stayed in a different place every night - always somewhere quiet.

You spent all your time visiting places of historical interest - your special interest in art.

You ate good country food - enjoyed the regional specialties.

You were not at all interested in any nightlife - you spent the evenings reading about the places you planned to visit.

Now you feel fit and healthy - You spent very little, so you have a lot of money left.

TASKS:

1. Prepare a conversation between the friends who have just come back from holiday in different countries. Don't forget to use High Key to express contrast.

Read

From The Lucky Generation by William Davis (1996)

Predict one change that might happen in the following areas during the next fifty years.

-Space travel; -robots and computers; -work; -education; -life expectancy; -the media; -money; -family life.

Are your predications about the future generally optimistic or pessimistic?

Read the text. How many of the predications in the text were the same as yours?

From the text find two differences:

a) between domestic life in 2050 and the present day.

b) between working life in 2050 and the present day.

c) between a child's life in 2050 and the present day.

Do you agree that people in 2050 will be 'the lucky generation'? Why? / Why not?

Its March, 2050.

Frank and Mary Smith wake up in their comfortable house overlooking the sea and switch on the bedroom computer to dive them a news update. They used to take the Times, but changed to electronic newspapers many years ago.

There is the usual stuff about space: another mission has returned from Mars and scientists have discovered a new planet. No big deal. There was great excitement back in 2027, when signals were received from Titan which indicated that there might be life on a remote moon, but efforts to make contact came to nothing and no aliens have appeared on Earth to say 'hello'. The Catholic Church has elected a black Pope. Interesting, but religion does not play a significant role in their lives. Financial news: the Euro has risen sharply in Shanghai, one of the world's leading business centres. Mary tells the computer to buy 5, 000 Euros, and there is instant confirmation that the transaction has been done. Not for the first time she wonders why Europe ever bothered to have so many different currencies.

As they watch the screen, Frank and Mary take their usual weight control pills, and order one of the household robots to make coffee. Frank disappears into the study to join a live video conference with his colleagues around the world. He is a computer programmer, working for several companies on a contract basis. This is his third career: he used to be in marketing and then television.

Mary has a quick look at the shopping channels - the usual selection of electric cars, household robots and cheap travel offers - before picking up the video phone to talk to a colleague. She also has a job, which she shares with several others. They are doing research into genetic engineering, which has become a major industry. Both she and Frank used to have an office desk in London, but in 2014 they decided to move to the seaside and work from home. Frank and Mary have one child, Louise, who also has her own workstation in the family home. She goes to school only one day a week, mainly to play with other children. Classrooms vanished in 2030 because there was no longer any need for them: interactive communications systems have made it much easier to learn at home. Louise, now thirteen, is currently studying Chinese, which has become as important as English as a world language. Louise has many Chinese friends with whom she communicates by computer.

According to medical experts, Louise will live to at least 130. She intends to work for a few decades and then devote her time to music and painting. Louise has given little thought to marriage, which she regards as an old-fashioned concept, and she is not sure whether she will ever want to have a child. She likes the idea of a serious relationship, and thinks there will probably be several during her lifetime, but why should she tie herself down to one person?

Analyse the text from the phonetic point of view:

1. Divide the text into intonation groups, determine their structure in each case.

2. Watch the Nucleus in each of them and the tone used.

3. Analyse the head in each intonation group: type, number of rhythm groups.

Practise its reading.

Recollect the theoretical points studied this year and prepare a two minute talk on one of them.

1. Intonation and its components.

2. Rhythm.

3. Speech Melody and its Components.

4. Types of Tones.

5. Types of Heads.

6. Tonal Structure of Theme-Rheme Complex.

7. Functions of Intonation.

8. Emphatic Tones.

9. Irregular Preheads.

10. Nuclear Shift.

11. Compound Tune.