Кросскультурный подход. Грамматический практикум по теме «Способы выражения будущего времени» (9 класс, 3 урок по теме «Технологии») (конспект урока)
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Грамматический практикум по теме «Способы выражения будущего времени» (9 класс, 3 урок по теме «Технологии»)

(Сценарный план представлен на английском и русском языках)

“What does it matter who is Past or Future, …, for what follows will follow, tomorrow or in ten thousand years.

Ray Bradbury

Do you know who is Ray Bradbury? What other books by this writer do you know?

Ray Bradbury was an American science fiction writer, author of more than 800 literary works. The most famous:

- dystopia "Fahrenheit 451";

- the cycle of short stories "Martian Chronicles";

- autobiographical novel "Dandelion wine".

- Is Ray Bradbury’s quote formulated in the Future Tense?? What tense is it? Sure, it’s Future Simple. Let’s revise how it is formed.

Future Simple Tense

WILL + V

-Great, but there 3 more future tenses. Let’s study them.

Future Tenses

Now try to put this phrase in these tenses using time markers: This afternoon By tea this afternoon For two hours

‘Give me an ounce of fact and I will produce you a ton of theory’ (Ray Bradbury)

- In the 1950s in his books Ray Bradbury predicted 9 things that came true partially or completely. You have 5 extracts from his works on your tables. Working in pairs, retell these predictions using the studied future tenses.

Texts.

1)Ray Bradbury. The Veldt

They walked down the hall of their soundproofed Happylife Home, which had cost them thirty thousand dollars installed, this house which clothed and fed and rocked them to sleep and played and sang and was good to them. Their approach sensitized a switch somewhere and the nursery light flicked on when they came within ten feet of it. Similarly, behind them, in the halls, lights went on and off as they left them behind, with a soft automaticity.

2) Ray Bradbury. Fahrenheit 451

Montag walked from the subway with the money in his pocket (he had visited the bank which was open all night and every night with robot tellers in attendance) and as he walked with the little Seashells in his ears he was listening to the Seashell radio and remembered their morning conversation:

“It’s really fun. It’ll be even more fun when we can afford to have the fourth wall installed. How long you figure before we save up and get the fourth wall torn out and a fourth wall-TV put in? It’s only two thousand ;

“That’s one-third of my yearly ;

He felt he was one of the creatures electronically inserted between the slots of the phono-colour walls, speaking, but the speech not piercing the crystal barrier.

3) Ray Bradbury. Fahrenheit 451

…Twenty million Montags running, soon, if the cameras caught him. Then in a minute the audience will see twenty million running Montags on the screens running like an ancient like in an old vaudeville cops, robbers, chasers and the chased, hunters and hunted, he had seen it a thousand times.

4) Ray Bradbury. The Pedestrian

Sometimes he would walk for hours and miles and return only at midnight to his house. And on his way he would see the cottages and homes with their dark windows, and it was not unequal to walking through a graveyard where only the faintest glimmers of firefly light appeared in flickers behind the windows. Sudden gray phantoms seemed to manifest upon inner room walls where a curtain was still undrawn against the night, or there were whisperings and murmurs where a window in a tomb-like building was still open.

Everything went on in the tomb-like houses at night now, he thought, continuing his fancy. The tombs, ill-lit by television light, where the people sat like the dead, the gray or multi-coloured lights touching their faces, but never really touching them.

5) Ray Bradbury. The Pedestrian

He turned back on a side street, circling around toward his home. He was within a block of his destination when the lone car turned a corner quite suddenly and flashed a fierce white cone of light upon him. He stood entranced, not unlike a night moth, stunned by the illumination, and then drawn toward it…

As he passed the front window of the car he looked in. As he had expected, there was no one in the front seat, no one in the car at all.

Predictions:

• Smart Home
• ATMs (cash machines)
• Bluetooth headphones.
• LCD TVs
• Media sensationalism
• Social isolation
• Self-driving cars

-The next 2 predictions can be seen in the film based on Bradbury’s story

Predictions:

• Virtual reality
• Smart watches and mobile communication

-Soviet science fiction writers brothers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky in their works gave scientific and technical forecasts that, in their opinion, should have happened before 2000:

- Creation of a mobile self-learning cybernetic device (around 1960);

- The entry of mankind into space and the exploration of the near-Earth (1960-1990);

- Synthetic food (1963);

- Launching engines that convert and accumulate "time energy" (1980);

- Birth of the first child on Mars (1986);

- Video communication (1973)

- Creation of a landing site on Venus (1991);

- Body modification (1964).

Working in pairs, make up dialogues about what discoveries and when should have taken place in the opinion of the Strugatsky brothers and whether they have come true?

Using phrases:

I think/believe

I don’t think/believe

In my opinion.

From my point of

As far as I'm

• Science fiction writers managed to predict a lot, watch the video with interview with RB and his attitude to these predictions.

- What is his attitude. What was he trying to do? («I'm not trying to predict the future – I'm trying to prevent it. »)

- Read aloud the information about his dystopia " Fahrenheit 451" and try to ground his words.

"451 degrees Fahrenheit - this temperature is required for burning paper) described a society that refused to read at all. Moreover, the state "took care" of its citizens and organized an agency responsible for the discovery and burning of books so that this "infection" would not poison the minds of loyal citizens. Instead of literature, other hobbies were available to them. All the houses were hung with screens in which people found virtual families, entertainment, achievements.

Such people, who do not know anything about books, look like natural robots that can only exist, but do not carry a single small idea, benefit or purpose. They are devoid of emotions, they resemble a crowd of identical zombies

- That's right, science fiction writers not only predicted the future, but also warned about the problems of mindless fascination with technology:

- Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality.

Ray Bradbury

- That’s why, read fiction, it contains not only the future, warnings, but also an impulse to your own discoveries:

Science Fiction remains the architecture of our dreams, and science fiction illustration will continue to inspire our next generation of dreamers.

Ray Bradbury