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(5) early indications of the whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden before he was (6)captured. Researcher Kalev Leetar said the study could now help analysts (7) spot future trouble in potential hotspots around the world. Business strategists already do a similar thing to (8) advise their clients. ||  || //captured////recent////sources////advise////spot////input////data////early// || (15) focused on one place. Leetar likened his predictions to weather forecasting, saying: “It’s never perfect, but we do better than (16) random guessing." ||  || //emotionsX////incredibleX////k////eyX////randomX////importance////focusedX////viewX////track// || Good things bad things ||   ||   ||   ||
 * 1. GAP FILL: ** Put the words into the gaps in the text.
 * Researchers say they can use news stories to help predict the future. Scientists from the University of Illinois in the USA (1) input over 100 million news articles into a supercomputer for analysis. The stories went back as far as 1945 and came from many (2) sources, including the BBC and New York Times. The (3) data showed how much unrest and discontent there was in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya before their (4) recent revolutions. The computer also saw
 * Leetar explained the (9) importance of news to look into the future: “News gives you (10) incredible information about people places, and organizations. It also tells you about the relationships between them, about how people (11) view each other,” he said. Leetar used terabytes of data to look at three (12) key areas. One looked at the tone of the journalists’ writing. It used 1,500 different (13) emotions to build an assessment of a country’s stability. Secondly, it examined geocoding to (14) track references to people’s movement. A third technique was network analysis to show how much news channels
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 * 2. Listen and check your answers. ||  ||   ||
 * **3. THE FUTURE:** What are your predictions? Complete this table and share what you wrote with your partner(s). Change and share again.
 * **3. THE FUTURE:** What are your predictions? Complete this table and share what you wrote with your partner(s). Change and share again.
 * This year for you: I'll go to England / I'll have more age. ||  ||   ||
 * Your country: Won't have crysis/ Will be better. ||  ||   ||
 * Sport: I will practise lots of sports/ I will learn to play different sports. ||  ||   ||
 * Inventions: Somebody will invent the peace and the love/ Somebody will invent new arms. ||  ||   ||
 * The world: Will be in peace/Will end. ||  ||   ||
 * Your old age: I will be more inteligent/I will be an ancian. ||  ||   ||

4. Talk to your friend and complete the predictions.

By the year 2020 we will both have 25 years. In ten years' time we will both be working. By this time next week I will have english class and my friend will have english class too. This time tomorrow I will be at home and my friend at high-school musical.

WRITING:

From: alba@rules.com

To: susan@thebest.com

Subject: The SLR is near!

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Hi Susan,

How are you? I’m really happy because this month I’ll get the money I need to buy the SLR camera I told you. It’s rather expensive; hopefully my mum is going to help me to pay for it.

The camera is amazing! I’ll record some of my brother’s football matches and I’ll show you them. We’ll meet soon and I’ll practise doing a photograph session on the beach. It’ll be great. I’m going to do a photograph course to learn more quickly to use it. In a few moths I’ll take perfect photos both day and night. I'm going to become in a professional.

I hope you to write me soon.

Love,

Alba.