Lee atentamente este entretenido artículo
acerca de cómo tu vida podría cambiar en los próximos años. Completa
luego el ejercicio de lecto-comprensión.
People used
to know more or less how their children would live. Now things are
changing so quickly that we don't even know what our own lives will be
like in a few years. What follows is not science-fiction. It's how
experts see our future.
Your
high-tech car
You're
daydreaming behind the steering wheel of your car, but that's OK. You have it on
automatic pilot, and with its high-tech computers and cameras, your car
"knows" how to get you home safely.
A
two-way refrigerator
You're
hungry, so you head for the kitchen as soon as you get home. You ordered
groceries by computer an hour ago, and you know that by now they've
arrived. Your kitchen has a two-way refrigerator, which opens to the
outside to accept deliveries. You've already paid for the food by having
the money substracted from your bank account. Nobody uses cash anymore.
A
fruit salad for you
What's
for lunch? In the old days, you used to stop off to buy a hamburger or
pizza. Now you use your diagnostic machine to find out which foods your
body needs. You find out you need more fruit or vegetables and less fat.
Your food-preparation machine makes you a delicious tropical fruit
salad.
An
in-home office
After
lunch, you go down the hall to your home office. Here you have
everything you need for doing your work. Thanks to your information
screen and your new computer, you almost never go into the office
anymore - and can even take care of your kid!!
Someone
from Brazil
The
information screen shows an urgent message from a co-worker in Brazil.
You set the screen to translate Portuguese into English. As you wait,
you think about later, when you'll have a musical show transmitted. What
show would you like to order tonight?
Your
assistant pet
And
maybe your English Setter of the best Norwegian and Swedish origin can
secretly run your home office during the weekdays. And during the weekends
he continues to keep an eye on you, your wife and kids ... even control
his own food by computer!!
AQUÍ
ESTOY !!! ESTE GLOSARIO BILINGÜE TE VA A AYUDAR... would
live: vivirían; we don't even know: ni siquiera
sabemos; will be like: cómo serán; what follows:
lo que sigue, lo que viene a continuación; science-fiction:
ciencia ficción; experts: los expertos; high-tech:
de alta tecnología, de última generación;
daydreaming:
soñando despierto; steering wheel: volante; safely:
seguro, sano y salvo; two-way: de doble acceso; to
head for: dirigirse hacia; groceries: artículos de
almacén; by now: para este momento; to the outside:
hacia afuera; deliveries: entregas a domicilio; substracted:
debitado; bank account: cuenta bancaria;
cash: efectivo; to stop off: hacer un alto, una
parada breve; to find out: para averiguar; you find
out you need: descubres que necesitas; screen:
pantalla; to take care of: cuidar de; co-worker: colaborador;
as you wait: mientras esperas; assistant pet:
mascota asistente; to run: administrar; to keep an eye
on: cuidar a, observar a.
Activity
47: Después de leer el artículo selecciona de los menúes las mejores opciones para
las AREAS o ACTIVIDADES propuestas. Verifica
luego las respuestas correctas ...
1
TRANSPORTATION
2
FOOD
3
MONEY
4
WORK
5
COMMUNICATIONS
6
ENTERTAINMENT
Activity
48: Este es un ejercicio de LECTO-COMPRENSION sobre el artículo
anterior. Debes COMBINAR el comienzo de las oraciones (primera columna)
con el FINAL (segunda columna). SELECCIONA del menú en rojo el NUMERO
del final con el cual combina cada una de ellas. Verifica luego las
respuestas correctas ...
A
In
your in-home office, you ...
1
translate
a message for you.
B
The
computer in your car ...
2
opens
to the outside to accept deliveries.
C
A
diagnostic machine can ...
3
knows
how to get you home safely.
D
An
information screen can ...
4
have
everything you need for doing your work.
E
Groceries
are ordered by computer, and a two-way refrigerator ...
5
find
out which foods your body needs.
¡FELICITACIONES!
Acabas de finalizar la
LECCION 8
del curso Intermedio. Antes de pasar a la siguiente lección, por favor asegúrate de
repasar todo lo que has aprendido aquí.
