Nov 19

"2020..."

(only 1 student today!)

This question can be asked in many ways:

(1) What will you have done....................................... (future perfect tense)

• by the year 2020?
• 10 years from now? (from today?)

(2)

• What have you been doing................ (present perfect progressive tense)
• ................................done....................... (present perfect tense)
• ................................................. the past ten years?
• ................................................. since graduating from university?

We want to match the tense from the question in our answer -- this is partly a grammar test! (If you make 4 or 5 sentences in your answer, at least the first two must match the tense.)

We want to show that we think ahead, we have some plan to our future, not just living day-to-day.

We show the company that we plan to stay with the company, not jump somewhere else.

We have ambition -- we are working for better things in our life. (Job promotion, marriage and children, nicer home, etc)

We have creativity and innovation. 10 years is a long time, the world will change (think about cellphones and computers!)

I gave an example of "talking on my watch video phone to my brother, who lives on Mars." Mars is silly, of course (laugh, laugh). But think about how much smaller cellphones are today than 10 years ago. You can already do video telephone calls on G3 cellphones. So, in 10 years, why not a wristwatch video cellphone? Even no push-buttons, just say "call home".

INTERVIEW QUESTION TO PREPARE for next meeting --

Tuesday, Nov 24: "What's the best way to learn?"

NO CLASS On Thursday, Nov 26 (Campus Day)