Mister James Teaches English

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.  Cities in the future may be greener that the above images show 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 fut...

  A city is a very complicated thing. Different parts do different things. Here are some words connected to cities: suburb;  capital; metropolis; village; hamlet; settlement; port; resort; health resort; seaside resort; winter resort; mountain resort; ski resort; big city; large city; small town; densely populated city; city center; downtown; suburb; outskirts; slums; ghetto; region; district; neighborhood; borough; block; city limits; residential district; residential area (neighborhood; quarter); industrial quarter; place; location; site; locality; vicinity; environment; surroundings. When you design your city you have to consider all these parts and more. With sustainable design you have to connect the parts of the city and make sure that a solution in one part does not cause problems in another. A good example of how we can imagine a city but that does not seem so connected up in the old cartoon The Jetsons . In this cartoon a family lives in what people thought the futu...