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               THEME                                                  COMING SOON




                3    A. Discuss the positive and negative effects of cyber games and jot down some notes.


                     B. Watch the video and take notes about positive and negative effects of cyber games.
                        Then, compare your notes with the notes based on the listening. Video 4.1

                                     Positive Effects                           Negative Effects










                     C. You will watch the same video again with some parts undubbed. These undubbed parts
                        are for you to participate in the debate by using the statements below orally. Video 4.2



                       1.  Do you mean they are useful?
                       2.  I can’t quite understand what you say.
                       3.  You hit the nail on the head.
                       4.  Some children try to move and act like superheroes and heroines and get seriously injured.
                       5.  That doesn’t seem to be a problem.
                       6.  I don’t see any point in playing such a game.



                4    A. The length of the lines in the below diagram shows the progress human beings made.
                        How would you interpret the speed of change according to the diagram?

                                               The progress human beings made

                               1900                                                          1980
                               1980                                                          1990
                               1990                                                          1995

                               1995                                                          1998


                     B. To what extent can we predict the future? Discuss with friends.

                     C. Read the passage and discuss the predictions and plans.



                       Predicting the future has always been one of the top issues for human beings but it is getting even more
                       difficult because today’s changes are exponential, which makes them almost impossible to follow. In other
                       words, if we are at 4 today, the next step is normally 5 but changes occur so fast that it is not 5 but 8.
                       Therefore, if you predict something about the future depending on today’s data, you are most likely to be
                       mistaken. Only 20 years ago many people opened CD/DVD rental centers as they believed this would
                       earn them a lot. But it took this business about 15 years to become extinct. “In the car industry, it used to
                       take 5 years for the next car and it cut down to 2 years and now it’s 17 months for the next edition of the
                       car to come out. Everything is getting shorter and shorter.” says futurist Gerd Leanhard and adds “The
                       world is speeding up like an express train.” Therefore, the future is, to an extent, predictable but more of
                       an imaginary world. Here are some predictions by some futurists. They agree on some points while there
                       are points where they disagree.





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