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Uni 1 COMMUNICATION IN THE
t 0 FUTURE
LESSON 5: SKILLS 1

* WARM-UP

1 Work in pairs. List as many

ways of communication as you
can.

COMMUNICATION

Example: meeting face
to face, sending letters,
chatting online, etc….

meeting face-to-face, sending letters,
sending emails, texting, chatting online,
sending voice messages, making phone
calls, making group calls, having video
calls, etc.

I. READING

* VOCABULARY

telepathy (n)
/təˈlepəθi/
thần giao cách cảm

* VOCABULARY

keep in contact (v)
/kiːp ɪn kənˈtækt/
giữ liên lạc

* VOCABULARY

thought (n)
/θɔːt/
suy nghĩ

* VOCABULARY

tiny (a)
/ˈtaɪni/
nhỏ bé

* VOCABULARY
New words

Pronunciation

Meaning

/təˈlepəθi/

thần giao cách cảm

/kiːp ɪn kənˈtækt/

giữ liên lạc

3. thought (n)

/θɔːt/

suy nghĩ

4. tiny (a)

/ˈtaɪni/

nhỏ bé

1. telepathy (n)
2. keep in contact (v)

* Checking vocab
New words
-keep in contact (v)

Meaning
giữ liên lạc

-tiny (a)

nhỏ bé

-thought (n)

suy nghĩ

-telepathy (n)

thần giao cách cảm

I. READING
2 Read an interview with two students, Minh and Tom. Then tick the
speaker of each sentence.

TELEPATHY

MC: Hi everyone. Today, I'll ask some members of the Technology Club to predict how people will
communicate in the future. Let's meet Minh and Tom.
Minh & Tom: Hi everyone.
MC: Minh and Tom, how do you and your friends keep in contact?
Minh: Well, we mostly text each other. We also send voice messages.
Tom: I often see my friends in person, but sometimes we call via the Internet.
MC: Do you think these ways of communication will still be popular in 50 years?
Tom: Not really. We'll use more advanced ways, like telepathy. We'll pass our thoughts to another
person without talking and...
MC: Hold on. I think only a very few people may have this ability.
Minh: Yes, but in the future, everyone will be able to use telepathy. We'll wear a tiny device to catch
our thoughts and send them to other people.
MC: Cool! But will there be any problems with telepathy?
Tom: Hmm, telepathy devices can “read” one's mind, so bad people might take advantage of it to
control someone else.

I. READING

2 Read an interview with two students, Minh and Tom. Then tick the
speaker of each sentence.

Who says that…?

1. he sends voice messages to friends
2. he calls his friends by using the Internet
3. everyone will be able to use telepathy in the future
4. people need a small device to send their thoughts to
others
5. bad people can make use of telepathy to harm others

Minh Tom

3 Read the interview again. Choose the correct answer A, B, or C.
1. What is the interview mainly about?
A. One way of future communication.
B. Voice chats and online calls.
C. Problems of telepathy.

2. Which way of communication below is NOT mentioned
in the interview?
A. Meeting face to face
B. Writing an email
C. Telepathy

3 Read the interview again. Choose the correct answer A, B, or C.
3. According to Tom, telepathy means ______.
A. making phone calls via the Internet
B. talking on tiny devices
C. communicating by thoughts
4. The MC says that ______.
A. telepathy is perfect
B. not all people can do telepathy
C. she disagrees with Minh's opinion

3 Read the interview again. Choose the correct answer A, B, or C.
5. What does the MC think may be a problem with telepathy?
A. People won't want to meet each other.
B. Telepathy devices can be expensive.
C. Some people won't want to talk anymore.

II. SPEAKING

4 Work in pairs. Read the following ideas about online calls. Put the ideas
in the correct column.

Advantages

a
c
e

Disadvantages

b
d
f

5

Work in groups. Choose a way of communication and discuss its
advantages and disadvantages. Then report your answers to the class.

- To start a talk about advantages and disadvantages: 
+ I think there are both advantages and disadvantages
of online calls. 
- To introduce the advantages:
+ In terms of the advantages / good points, ...
+... can be beneficial in many ways. First, ...
- To introduce the disadvantages:
+ However, ... has some drawbacks. For example, ... 

5

Work in groups. Choose a way of communication and discuss its
advantages and disadvantages. Then report your answers to the class.
* Model speech

• I think there are both advantages and disadvantages of online calls. Online
communication makes life more accessible because it can help people learn
and develop. It is also worth admitting that online communication is helpful
because it contributes to the fact that ordinary people have access to
information that they did not previously know. In addition to that, online
communication has also participated in enriching the research field.
Irrespective of the information above, it is impossible to ignore the fact that
online communication can imply some drawbacks. The possible
disadvantages include the “lack of security, Internet addiction, information
overload, and loss of social contacts”.

5

Work in groups. Choose a way of communication and discuss its
advantages and disadvantages. Then report your answers to the class.
* Model speech

I think there are both advantages and disadvantages of online calls. Internet
calls are cheap or even free. Many social networks provide free calls for people
to communicate. Online calls help us to communicate with people that are
really far away from us, for example, our relatives or our Internet friends.
Moreover, you can create group calls when you are in need of hosting a
conference or a family meeting. However, online calls also have drawbacks.
You can't make online calls unless you have Internet connection. Also, you
need a smart device to perform a call. Sometimes, you may get unwanted calls
from the person you don't know.

* CONSOLIDATION
* What have we learnt in this lesson?
 read about telepathy
 talk about future communication

* Homework
 Do exercises in the workbook.
 Prepair lesson 6 – Skills 2