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Lesson 16 - Future
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This page: Listen to a dialogue between two people talking about where they would go if they could travel through time.

Time Travel

"Time Travel"
Listening Exercise

Key Words

Below you will find a list of key vocabulary you need to know to understand the lesson. Click on each word to hear it and practice its pronunciation.

found
to start or create something, like a country or organization
nuts
crazy or strange (informal expression)
inventions
things that are created for the first time
microwave
a kitchen machine used to heat food quickly
from scratch
made from basic ingredients, not prepared before
hunger
the feeling of needing food
assemble
to put parts together
replicate
to make an exact copy of something

 

Exercise - Key Words

Read the definition and select the word that was defined.

1. a kitchen machine used to heat food quickly
   

2. to make an exact copy of something
   

3. to start or create something, like a country or organization
   

4. to put parts together
   

5. crazy or strange (informal)
   

6. the feeling of needing food
   

7. things that are created for the first time
   

8. made from basic ingredients, not prepared before
   

 

Listening Comprehension

Instructions
When they make the following statements, are they talking about the future, the present, or the past?

► Listen to the dialogue

1. I'd fly around through space like Captain Kirk.
   
   

2. I'd visit my grandchildren.
   
   

3. I'd love to talk to George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.
   
   

4. I want to see what early man was like.
   
   

5. We have all kinds of inventions for things that they probably don't think are important.
   
   

6. If you wanted a new dress you couldn't just go to the store and buy it.
   
   

7. You had to grow your own food and cook it from scratch.
   
   

8. We still have war, crime, and people still die of hunger.
   
   

9. They'll probably have replicators like on Star Trek.
   
   

 

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