Watch this video with no subtitles (don’t lie to yourself).
- According to the video, transport does not just help people get around? What else does transport do? Add two more ideas of your own.
- What is the hyperloop according to the video? Which are its advantages?
- Write a short paragraph based on the following prompts:
- How do you get to class?
- How long does it take you?
- What would make your journey more comfortable?
- When was the last time you went on a long journey?
- How comfortable was it?
- How could your experience have been improved?
- What is the most interesting form of transport you have used?
- Would you travel by hyperloop?
- What other inventions might have revolutionized people’s lives by the year 2050
- Do you think we are heading towards a brighter and cleaner future?
Submit your answers in a comment here to be published on Friday, October 5. You can check the subtitles later for good spelling.
[Thanks to www.onestopenglish.com for the link and questions H-I-J]
1: Transport also helps people to go to places more faster than if we have to go walking. Another thing that transport does it’s to avoid pollution from people who take their own cars to go to places because it takes lot of people in 1 time.
2: It’s a system of transport that can take you from a country to a country in 30 minuts and that it doesn’t pollute.
3: I usually go to school by walking and it takes me about 10 minuts. Sincerely, I would prefer to go to school by bus or by any system of transport that doesn’t take me a lot of time to arrive to my destination. The last time that I went on a long journey was 3 months ago when I was going to Morroco by plane. It was so confortable journey because of its seats and its service. My journey could be improved on the departure time because of the delay that it had. The most interesting thing of taking a plane for doing a journey is that you can arrive to the place that you are going faster than with another of the other popular transports. I would like to travel by hyperloop because it would take me less time than if I take a plane and it doesn’t going to pollute. By the year 2050 lot of inventions might revolutionized people’s lifes, for example I think there will be machines that prepare the food without we have to do anything than press a button. Finally, in my opinion I think that we are going to have a future with less pollution and more inventions that will make our lifes easier than now.
Very good, Nawal. Remember the expression “on foot”.
1 : According to the video transport don’t just help people to move around the world, also it opens up opportunities, it provides access to education and jobs and it connects businesses with customers
2 : Hyperloop is a system that can efficiently move at the speed of sound and can take you from country to country in 30 minutes. A system with zero emissions and renewable energies.
3 : I go to class walking during 5 minutes, because I live near to my school. For that reason I think my journey already it’s comfortable and I don’t need nothing.
The last time I traveled was one year ago to my village in Extremadura. It wasn’t comfortable because we went with the car during 9 hours.I think the situation can improve if we arrive to Extremadura more fast because the travel is weighty.
The best form of travel that I used was the airplane when I went to London 3 years ago.
I would like travel by hyperloop because I will be able arrive faster to places and I will not produce pollution.
By the year 2050 lot of inventions might revolutionized people’s lives, for example, machines that clean the house or cooking for all.
Finally , In my opinion I think in the future the transport will be more cleaner but we have to work hard to improve.
Very good, Nerea, but you did not add ideas of your own in 1.
1 : In the video says that the transport don’t only help people to move to any place, it connect us to different places giving us new oportunities or the chance to get to the education or to work.
2 : Hyperloop is a efficient sistem of transport that can make us travel to other only in 30 minutes at the speed of the sound. Also this way of transport is zero emission an use renovable energies.
3 : I go to the claas walking because my house is near to the school, so it only takes me 5 minutes to walk to school, and I think it can be mire confoetable if I catch my motorbike to arrive faster, but I think it’s not necessary to go with the bike because I live to close. The last time that I went on a long journey was two years ago when I traveled to Ukraine by plane, the flight was so confortable, with good service, delicious food and so confortable seats. For me de most interesting way of transport that I have used is the airplane, because for me is very confortable and the faster way to travel now.
In the case that hyperloop has been created I would use it because it is a good way to discover a lot of new contries in short time and zero emissions, so It will be the best way of transport.
By the 2050 I think all will be changed a lot, all will be done by the robots.
In my opinion the future will be more cleaner than now, but to arrive to the point of zero emissions we must to work a lot.
Very good, Arcen, but you did not add ideas of your own in 1.
1: Transport help us to go more faster than walking on running of one place to another.
2: It is the new kind of transport for the future to go more faster and economic than a plane. And it will get the energy with the solar panels and the wind turbines, so is enviormentally friendly.
3:I go to class walking during 15 minutes, the travel is enought confortable for me. My journey was 3years ago to go to Andalucia with a plane and it don’t too long, 1:30 hours only. The most interesting kind of transport was the airplane.
I would to travel by hyperloop only to no contaminate and go to far countries.
In the future we’ll get a lot of new invention that improve the world and protect the enviorment.
To sum up, the future looks amazing and clear, but for that we need to change things now to get a better world.
Very good, Gerard, but in 1 you don’t answer with what is said on the video.
1; To get on, to open up opportunities, to provide acces to education and jobs, it connects busissnes with costumers, it provides freedom and you contaminate less than getting the car.
2; Hiperloop is a new tipe of transport that can reach the speed of sound, and uses enviormetally friendly energy with 0 emissions
3; I get to class in 5 minutes walking. The last long journey was to Castilla y León and it was quite confortable, but if I had a pillow, it would have been more confortable. The most interesting one is the plane and of course that I want to travel by Hiperloop.
I think that in 2050 all the inventions from SpaceX will be amazing and useful.
Yes but nowadays we anren’t thinking enough about that.
Very good, Oriol, but 3 could be longer…
1. The video tells us about transporrt to be a way for new opportunities, education and jobs. Also, that new transport gives us hope and motivation about our future.
2. The hyperloop is a system of high speed trasport. A sistem that can take you from a country to another in thirty minutes, it’s environmentally friendly and uses a hundred percent of electric power.
3. I go to school walking for aronud ten minutes. In my case, I don’t need to go to school by car or bus. I think that my short trip is comfortable and I think that it’s healthier for me and the environment. My last journey was going to Romania by car. It was not really confortable. It took three days to arrive. I think my experience have been already improved by going to the hotel every night and take a shower.
Until now, the most interesting transport I have used is the plane. It’s fast and somehow intens.
Obviously, I would definitely try the hyperloop because it’s a new experience.
In my opinion, 2050 well be the year of auto-improving the humans by new medicine tecnologys and do life easier by drons that transport us thinks.
If we steal go like we are going these days, with politicians that steal our money and with a lot of differences between nations, we won’t get the future that everyone wants.
I am sure that the tecnology will change, but first, we need to change ourselves.
Very good, Rares, but check 1.
1) Transport also helps you to get to your job, to school and also provides an efficient way to connect business with customers. It can also help you to meet with someone special or important for you or to visit new places.
2) Hyperloop is a transport system that can travel as fast as sound, it can transport you from country to country in 30 minutes and also that system does not produce any kind of emissions.
3) I get to school in 5 minutes by waking and my journey would be more comfortable if my bed had wheels. My last long journey was at the beginning of this summer. I had to take a flight so maybe bigger seats in the plane would had made the difference. The most interesting transport I had ever taken was the Shinkansen, a high speed train. I would travel by hyperloop if is a 100% safe. I think that drones and 3D printers would be common in the future and if the pollution of our environment never stops our future will be very dark.
Very good, Álvaro, but in 1 you also had to answer what is said on the video.
1: Transport opens opportunities to us, and it provides acces to education and jobs. With the transport we can travel to many diferents places, and it connect the world.
2: The hyperloop is the system of transport of the future. It works with renewable enery, and it can travels at the speed of the sound.
3: I go to class walking and that takes me 10 minuts. I like the journey to the school, because I go talking with me friends, so I don’t want to change nothing.
The last time that I went on a journey was this summer when I went to Norway. It was so comfortable to be a plane, but with more space in the seat I had felt more comfortable.
The most interesting form of transport that I have used is the plane.
Of course I want to prove the hyerloop, to feel how is a travel at the speed of the sound. In 2050 the live of the people will be so diferent than now because the technology and the machines will do a lot of work instead od us.
Finally I think that in the future the world will be in better condicitions because we will have innovations that will make the world better.
Very good, Héctor, but in 1 you also had to add ideas of your own.