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Unit 6  Test | Standard Total score: /50 6

Listening
1 U6:1 Listen and tick ( ) what each person is talking about. Score: /5

1 a smartphone b humanoid robot c driverless car

2 a driverless car b drone c intelligent home

3 a intelligent home b social media c smartphone

4 a social media b artificial intelligence c virtual assistant

5 a driverless car b virtual assistant c drone

6 a bricks b bamboo c clay

2 
U6:2 Listen to a talk about the future and complete the notes.  Score: /5
The first letter is given.

rtificial ntelligence   everywhere

• there will be 1 a      i       

• restaurants: 2 h            r            will take orders and cook

• 3 v             a             instead of teachers

• we will follow our friends on 4 s            m            – not meet

• our smartphones 5 w             t             for us

• fewer car accidents because of 6 d             c            

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Unit 6  Test | Standard 6

Reading
3 
Read an email from a girl in the future. For each question, circle the Score: /5
correct answer.

X - +

From: Liz
To: Jim
Subject: A great day
Hi Jim! Happy 2041! I’m emailing you from our driverless car … that’s right! No one is driving it. My dad
is telling his new smartphone who to call and what to say. My mum is uploading some photos of a
humanoid robot doing the gardening. Our drone took them! Our virtual assistant is going to find a
film we will all like and we’ll watch it in the car. It will also send a message to our intelligent home
to turn the heating on. The house has already cleaned itself and my humanoid robot will be there to
make dinner!
Social media is a lot better now. I can upload smells and tastes for my friends and they can tell me
what they think!
Speak soon,
Liz

1 What is Liz doing at the moment? 4 What will the virtual assistant do?
a driving a car a cook a meal
b sitting in a car without a driver b find a film
2 What will her dad’s smartphone do? 5 Who cleaned the house?
a speak for him a the house
b tell him what to do b the humanoid robot
3 Who took the photos Liz’s mum is uploading? 6 What is special about the social media Liz uses?
a a humanoid robot a she can share pictures of food with her friends
b a drone b she can share food she’s eating, with friends

4 Read and complete the text with the words below. You can use Score: /5
one word more than once.

artificial drones will won’t wool bricks

This week’s tech exhibition was the best experience for our school! We
will
had the chance to try many new devices and we 1     tell you all
about them!
First of all, we tried the latest 2          that can fly higher than
the ones on sale at the moment. They are also able to take better photos
and can be controlled from a longer distance.
Next, were sustainable construction materials like 3         .
So, houses 4          be bad for the environment in the future.
Another change that’s about to come are devices that will be controlled
by 5          intelligence, such as fridges, washing machines and
ovens. We 6          have to think about doing many chores, as
computers will take care of them for us!

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Unit 6  Test | Standard 6

Writing
5 Use the words in brackets to write sentences about the future. Score: /5

I think we won’t meet

1                 friends in real life. (I / think / not meet)

2                               cars. (she / think / not drive)

3                               in intelligent homes. (they / imagine / live)

4                               plastic smartphones. (he / imagine / not use)

5                               better social media. (I / believe / have)

6                               houses made of steel. (we / think / not build)

6 Look at the answers and write questions. Score: /5

What will we wear
1                in the future?

We’ll wear self-cleaning clothes in the future.

2                               in the future?

No, we won’t live on a different planet in the future.

3                               in the future?

Yes, we will. We will speak many different languages in the future.

4                               in the future?

He’ll live in a smart city in the future.

5                               in the future?

People will eat artificial meat in the future.

6                               in the future?

Yes, we will. We’ll use glass for lots of things in the future.

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Unit 6  Test | Standard 6

Speaking
7 
Look at the picture and talk about the future.  Score: /10

Life will be easier because artificial intelligence will be in our homes and in our schools.

Humanoid robots won’t drive cars because we’ll travel in driverless cars.

concrete construction materials cook do housework glass

learn foreign languages protect put things away send messages steel
sustainable take out the rubbish take us travel wool bricks work

8 
Look at the topics and ask and answer questions about how life  Score: /10
will be the same or different in the future.

What food will we eat in the future?

I think we’ll … Will we …?

entertainment factories food foreign language schools houses sleep transport travel

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Unit 6 | Standard someone instead of actually ‘meeting’ them. We
will not be able to live without our smartphones,
Listening and they’ll be so smart, they’ll do all the thinking
for us. One good thing will be driverless cars, as
1 U6:1 Listen and tick (✔) what each person is talking
there will be fewer car accidents.
about.
1 B: Many changes will happen in the future. First
Answers: 2 humanoid robots 3 virtual assistants
of all, we will all live in much smarter homes.
4 social media 5 will think 6 driverless cars
We won’t have to use phones anymore. We will
be able to communicate without them! And we
will all have people who are not real to help us. Reading
They will do all the housework for us!
3 Read an email from a girl in the future. For each
2 G: The best invention will be a vehicle that can
question, circle the correct answer.
take you anywhere you want by just pressing
some buttons before it starts. Humans wouldn’t
Answers: 2 a 3 b 4 b 5 a 6 b
have to do anything else. Just sit back and enjoy
the journey! That would be cool!
4 Read and complete the text with the words below.
3 M: Technology has changed our lives in so many
You can use one word more than once.
ways, and so fast! I remember we used to call
people on landlines and the other person had to
Answers: 2 drones 3 wool bricks 4 won’t
be at home so we could talk. Now, you can talk
5 artificial 6 won’t
to someone wherever you are. And there are so
many other things these devices can do. Send
emails, take pictures, find information … they’re Writing
really intelligent!
4 W: In the past, I met up with my friends all the time, 5 Use the words in brackets to write sentences about
the future.
especially before the internet. You couldn’t chat
online, you had to meet to talk. Now there’s so
Answers: 2 She thinks we won’t drive
much going on and people have so many online
3 They imagine we’ll live
friends. They post photos, upload comments
4 He imagines we won’t use
and talk without ever meeting in real life. It was
5 I believe we’ll have
a lot simpler in the old days.
6 We think we won’t build
5 M: I saw a man using one and it sounded like a
huge insect. Although there were cars passing
by, I could still hear it flying in the distance. I’m 6 Look at the answers and write questions.
not sure what it actually did, but I think it took
pictures of the area. Answers: 2 Will we live on a different planet
6 W: At the moment, our houses are very inefficient. 3 Will we speak (many) different languages
In the future, materials like this fast-growing, 4 Where will he live
strong, sustainable type of plant will make 5 What will people eat
houses cheaper to build and more energy 6 Will we use glass (for lots of things)
efficient. I can’t wait to live in one of these!
Speaking
Answers: 2 a 3 c 4 a 5 c 6 b
Teaching notes
2 U6:2 Listen to a talk about the future and complete Award one point per item for accuracy and one point
the notes. The first letter is given. for ability to communicate well.
M: Thank you all for coming. Now, let us think about
our future and how our lives will change. It is Activity 7 asks pupils to produce the vocabulary
almost certain that artificial intelligence will be items from this unit in positive and negative
everywhere. We’ll have humanoid robots taking statements with the future simple of verbs.
our orders in restaurants and humanoid robots
will cook the food. Teachers will probably not exist Ask pupils to look at the prompts and the picture
anymore … at least not humans! Do we want and name the technology they can see. Encourage
virtual assistants to teach future generations? them to make predictions about how we’ll use
Getting together with friends will take place online, the technology in the future. Put pupils in pairs.
as it does now on social media, where we ‘follow’

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Then have them take turns to form positive and A: Virtual assistants will help us to learn languages,
negative statements, using the future simple. but we’ll need teachers, too. B: Humanoid robots will
take out the rubbish because people won’t want to
Make sure they are using the correct form and adding do this.
as much detail as they can to their statements.
Encourage them to give reasons for their answers. 8 Look at the topics and ask and answer questions
They should make five statements each. about how life will be the same or different in the
future.
Activity 8 asks pupils to produce questions with
and without a wh- question word, using the future Example answers: A: Will we have public transport
simple. Ask pupils to look at the topics of discussion in big cities? B: No, we won’t. I believe we’ll be able to
and to imagine how life will be the same or different move within cities by teleporting!
in relation to these topics. Have them take turns to
ask and answer in pairs. Make sure they are forming B: What will houses be made of in the future? A: I
questions correctly and are answering in detail. Each think houses will be made of sustainable materials,
pupil should ask or answer five questions. for example bamboo and wool bricks. I think we’ll
still use glass in the windows.
7 Look at the picture and talk about the future.

Example answers: A: We’ll use drones to protect

cities. B: We won’t use social media very much
because there will be better ways to communicate.

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