字幕表 動画を再生する 英語字幕をプリント Hello, everybody! This is Jack and Kate from tofluency.com and we are back with a conversation about the future so we're going to talk about the future we're going to look at some predictions as well, discuss those different topics and if it's your first time here then hit subscribe! We release one of these conversations about once a week and it's a great way for you to practice your listening and to learn new words and phrases and I'll list those words and phrases in the description. So, Kate and Emma, welcome! Thank you! Are you optimistic for the future. So, I would probably say that I am, well, you know me. Yeah. I'm kind of a pessimist yes. I try not to be but I can usually see what could go wrong and I worry about things sometimes but I think overall actually when I think about the future in a big way, I'm pretty optimistic about it. Yeah. What about you? I I think I'm an optimist. Sometimes, it's difficult when you read the news when you just read some articles and they talk about all the bad things that could happen, you start panic you start to worry about the future - things like energy and transportation and food all kind of resources as well like drinking water yeah - in in the developed world and it's just... sometimes you can feel really down about it but on the other hand yeah I'm of the opinion that you can shape your own future within reason especially if you live in a place like America. Yeah, definitely. There are great opportunities. I feel like right now it is it is harder to be optimistic about the future especially in our country just because the things that have really given me so many opportunities like public education and i went to a public school for elementary school and for college you know our are in danger right now really in terms of getting funding and that's that's kind of a strange thing to consider and hopefully you know we have a baby here she'll be able to have the same opportunities and the same future and resources that that we've been able to have. Yeah, I think having children really makes you think more about the future it makes you think about what's going to happen and what you can do as well to build a better future because I know when we were in our twenties, we were just traveling living in the moment all the time, we didn't really think about the future that much - we didn't think about saving for the future no - saving for retirement - no - that still seems like a strange concept to consider - it does, yeah, I've definitely started thinking about that recently. Yes. But what are your hopes for the future? What you want to get out of what's going to come? Do you mean personally? Yeah, personally. So, I think that personally I would like to just be able to learn more like I want I want to learn more languages i want to learn my entire life and so I don't know that would mean going back to school in a former way or just continuing to learn little things and more about the things that I like to do, like, I enjoy cooking and I would like to be a better Baker and to learn about that and I would love to learn more languages and be able to travel and get to practice them That's great, yeah. How about you? well, just to go - just to talk about learning and I really got this like thirst for learning - desire to learn stuff - after University. Yes! I think that's pretty common. me too! it wasn't that I wasn't learning at university but I like, you know, academics and academia can be kind of a bubble like you're in it and it just seems like you're going to classes, you're taking tests, but you don't really get the big picture and then once you get outside of that and you see the big picture you go: wait! I wish i could just dive back in and you know learn these things because they're not trying to like play the system to get a degree really thinking about you know what you want to know yeah definitely and I think you know we're going to talk about some predictions for the future one of them is education. What is education going to be like? Is it all going to be online? is it going to be formal in universities - it's going to be interesting to see what happens but yeah my hopes for the future and... it's really great that you brought that up you know just to continue learning - a a lot of what we focus on right now is our children and what their future's gonna be, but I think for me just to keep growing - to keep feeling enthusiastic about my goals and you know and what I want to achieve and just to have that energy to want to improve in all areas yeah, absolutely, because, you know, I think it's a great [baby speaking] she's telling us about her goals too.I think I would also like to - I know that we've talked about this in other episodes but I want to keep traveling too. I want to... I want to want to spend at least another year of our life living outside of the United States and England and I'd love to take you know at least a trip every year where we're going somewhere new too. definitely definitely. So, yeah, travel continue learning and then where do you see yourself in 10 years that's a really good question well obviously I'm going to have a new world famous novel published yes naturally and probably my own cooking show just so you know put it out there and and I don't know maybe I'll also be a world-famous artist so right so, small goals. Small goals. step-by-step, but you've wanted to write a novel for a long time. Do you see yourself writing one in the next ten years? I think so yeah it's hard to imagine me doing anything big and ambitious right now and just because it's every day and every night you know just taking care of Thomas and Emma - our kids - and right now Miss Emma the baby is getting teeth and so she's awake at night so it's hard to really imagine doing something so ambitious but i think that i think i do want to get there - yeah, once things settle down a little bit and you can throw yourself into it yeah absolutely and they say that having kids is the longest shortest time of your life so while we're talking about time in the future I feel like time has been going so much faster in general since Emma and Thomas came into our lives like every year every month every week even just flies by but then there are some hours that are incredibly long - yeah really really long really long hours, especially when we're sick. Oh, yeah, which we've also talked about I'll leave a link to that conversation in the description if you're watching on YouTube and should we talk about these predictions? Yes! I want to hear what the predictions are. I'm pretty excited about this. You seem very excited. Very excited! because there was an article i came across which talks about I think it was like 15 reasons to be optimistic for the future ok I'm an optimistic person, I feel like we should look at it from a more optimistic angle yes, and I've just written down three. And one of them might not be a positive one and we might go into a bit of a conversation ok - but firstly and this is for 2020 ok so not that far away no well when I read it when it said 2020 I thought: oh, wow that's really far in the future but then I realized it's not it's really not - it's three years from now - the first one self driving and flying cars okay so are we gonna talk about whether we think that there is going to be true or not? yeah okay and and what you think about them too if you think it's positive thing. If it's a positive thing. this is tough. Do you want me to start? Yes because I think self-driving cars that whole concept is going to be incredible yeah and I know a lot of people when they talk about it they say oh my i want to be able to drive i'm not one of those people yeah I want to be able to just get in a car and it just goes wherever you want it to go. Yeah. I think one of the most amazing things that people don't think about is that is going to solve the parking problem oh yeah. Because you don't have to get in the same car it's going to be like uber but basically just a self-driving car. So you wouldn't have your own car? No. So, everyone would have... well, I think people would have their own cars uh-huh - but I think this idea of of there being a fleet of cars that service a certain city or an area and when you push a button, it picks you up - this hurts my brain! - and it drives you somewhere - straight to the door yeah - just like Uber, but then it just goes and gets the next person so I'm wondering because having a car and driving places is a really big part of American culture exactly - and I feel like we you know you are from the UK and we've lived other places and driving just hasn't been that big deal you - like in Spain - we didn't even have a car in Spain Yeah, in Spain from our experience anyway, a lot of people relied on public transport yeah - we certainly did. think though that people would take convenience the convenience and cost. It's going to be cheaper- how's it gonna be cheaper? because it's like you're sharing cars. uh-huh and also a lot of these cars are going to be - this is another prediction - but electric uh-huh solar panels you know yeah solar powered - you think by 2020? I think self-driving cars could just explode any moment ok I'm not literally. No - that's really funny. yeah not, no. No. Otherwise people won't drive them. But what I mean by that is that they will become really popular at any moment - I think it could just happen like that really quickly one day and now, you talked about the self-driving and i agree with you I think that that there will be more and more of that - that they'll just be safer and more common but to be honest the whole flying car business even though this was something that we dreamed about and when you see any science fiction movie like the Fifth Element there are cars flying all over a cityscape I just don't see flying cars as being that necessary or that safe well cool is one cool i mean definitely cool convenient as well if they can fly let's say 500 miles where you don't have to deal with roads and traffic well isn't that just like an airplane. Well, I know but the idea is that you are in your own car and then you fly and then you drive. Kind of like your own airplane? Well, then when you land, you can still drive. Kind of like an airplane? Okay... how many airplanes do you see going down downtown Asheville? Fair enough. But then you still need places to land these airplanes and airplanes can be very dangerous especially the little ones. I'm gonna go ahead and say as a pessimist I don't really see a future for for driving or flying cars. For flying cars. I think it's one of those things that people talk about and one of the number one things that people talk about when predicting the future but practically you know there's a lot to work out there. I feel with self-driving cars it's going to happen it's going to happen yeah but flying cars within you know the next to you three to take 5-10 years - flying cars seem a long way off. So, flying cars seem like they're a ways off, I mean that's that is what people do dream about with the future at least we did when we were little having jet packs that would just zoom you around personally and flying cars but but honestly i think that the logistics of it would be harder than okay well I feel like we did not really well - the last one yeah and we could talk about this for hours but talking about bio fuels renewable energy competing with fossil fuels and there's one thing I wanted to talk about well with TESLA where and how what's the.. it's like they've got the solar panel roofing the tiles get which can power the entire house - by 2020 they're saying biofuels and solar energy etc might compete with fossil fuels i think that that's definitely a prediction that I would agree with because it just seems to be clearly the way to go in the future yeah you know that it will cost less over the long term using renewable resources will be better for everyone better for us to just the quality of the air that we breathe and the environment yes so I think that's kind of a no-brainer yeah like I didn't I knew that there are a lot of countries that are doing a really great job already with renewable resources and I think that we're gonna get there yeah there's a big barrier against it isn't there? There's like a... what's a good word to use resistance resistance against it by powerful people to try and stop this from happening but it just seems like it's going that way more and more yeah it's it seems like it's inevitable yeah definitely but I mean but again that's something that that seems really uncertain right now just with the political climate in our country yeah can do this yeah I'm but then i guess it once it becomes financially viable - yes - and a cheap option for people then that's what it really does change absolutely and it doesn't need that boost from the government, it doesn't need subsidizing - it can just go ahead yeah on its own accord. absolutely yeah - well, we've reached that time - already? - the best time of the whole conversation yes Katie asks the question - off the cuff - off the cuff! - so what is your question today? My question is: are you optimistic or pessimistic about the future? And what kind of predictions do you have about your life and about the world? yeah in 2020 and beyond. I like that yeah so predictions and if you're optimistic or pessimistic again if you are watching this on youtube then please like and share this video - it will help us reach more learners like you and if you're listening to the podcast as well go to tofluency.com/future and you can get some lesson notes from this lesson so thanks again for watching or listening we'll see you in the next conversation thank you, bye. Bye Bye!
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