What do you think cities will be like in the future? In this video you can see some ideas about how we might be living in the future. But people have been trying to imagine how the future will look for a long time. This is what people though we would be living like now in 1900 an artist in France tried to imagine what life would be like in the year 2000. This is the results:
What do you think is a problem we have today that could be solved in the future by a machine?
You assignment for today is to draw and/or describe that machine.
Flight is a major theme in future predictions. Getting off the ground in controlled flight is a sign of the present age. But we ahve only had powered flight (as opposed to balloons, gliders etc.) since 1903. Not very long really in the scale of human history.
What will powered flight look like in the future? Maybe using jetpacks?
How will our houses look in the future. In most science fiction the buildings are high tech, and probably very expensive to build. They use lots of resources and probably don't last very long. But today we are already making houses that are high tech but simple and long lasting, as well as being cheap. We print them.
How do you print a house? Take a look at this:
What other things do you think will change in the future?
How to Train Your Dragon is the first book in the series of 12, following Hiccup as he captures a dragon as a rite of passage and attempts to train him so that he will not be exiled from Berk, as is its tradition. The Vikings live on Berk Island. The main character, Hiccup, is the son of a Viking chief who lives on Berk Island. The dragon has constantly invaded this island, which is why battles never stop. Hiccup is hated in the village because he is weak-willed and weak-minded. Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third is a smallish Viking with a longish name. Hiccup's father is chief of the Hairy Hooligan tribe which means Hiccup is the Hope and the Heir to the Hairy Hooligan throne - but most of the time Hiccup feels like a very ordinary boy, finding it hard to be a Hero. In the first How to Train Your Dragon book Hiccup must lead ten novices in their initiation into the Hairy Hooligan Tribe. They have to train their dragons or be BANISHED from the tribe FOR EVER! But wh...
Rik Mayall was an explosion of kinetic energy which manifested itself in a unique style of comedy that alienated those who feared life and delighted everyone else. Roald Dahl, meanwhile, was a writer of children's books who managed to conjure up worlds which were highly relatable yet, at the same time, coloured fantastically with surreal and grotesque narratives. And, in January 1986, these two worlds collided when Mayall delivered a one man performance of Roald Dahl's 1981 novel George's Marvellous Medicine for BBC1's Jackanory.
We are moving on now in the Gymnasium Modersmål course to writing, but that always of course includes reading. Here is a list of just a very few of the major authors and poets from the four eras of modern literature we discussed in the first three lectures. Feel free to browse through the list and choose any one you find interesting. We can do more work on them in the second half of this term. Romantic Era William Blake (Blake was the artist, writer and poet that ushered in romanticism) George Gordon, Lord Byron (a long biography and then some of his poetry) Samuel Taylor Coleridge (a long biography and then some of his writing) Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley William Wordsworth John Keats Walter Scott Jane Austen (Not a Romantic writer, but a phenomenon that cannot be ignored. Austen is enigma that is actually difficult to place in literary history as she invented a genre and her work remains very popular today). ...
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