Here are the translations of the key words from the passage into Spanish: Aerospace Engineer: ingeniero aeroespacial automated highway: autopista automatizada battery-powered vehicles: vehículos impulsado a batería braking: frenado cushion of air: colchón de aire high-speed train: tren ultrarrapido hydroid vehicles: vehiculo hidrido land: aterrizar lane: carril magnetic levitation: levitación magnética pollutant: contaminante rockplanes: avión cohete safety: seguridad speed: velocidad steering: direccion

1. Technology and the Future
Technology is changing all forms
of transportation. Trains, cars, buses and
planes are moving people as never
before. Distances are shortening.
Experts era planning systems to
reduce congestion. This is only the
beginning….
High-speed trains
Hybrid vehicles
Electric cars
Automated highways
Intelligenttransportation
Rocketplanes….
And these are only some of the
Question:
How much will people travel in the future?
Which forms of transportation will they use?
Where will traffic be more dense?
Will new roads attract more traffic?

2. The new age of transportation
The “maglev” (magnetic levitation)
train is breaking another speed record:
560 kph along a test track near Tokyo.
Magnetic levitation uses magnet and
special motors to lift and propel trains
on a cushion of air. Maglev trains will
connect the principal cities in the
developed countries after 2017
Today, there are very few electric cars in
The streets of Japan, U.S.A and Europe.
These battery-powered vehicles have
Zero emission: they emit no pollutants.
Electric car will be common before
2010.
Also, experts are marking a car that
Converts gasoline intro hydrogen,
Carbon dioxide and water with a
Transformer. This is a fuel cell car and
People will routinely use it in
Twenty years´ time.
Thanks to technology,
Aerospace engineers can
Now develop a rocket-
Planes. This hypersonic
Vehicle can take off as
An ordinary plane,
Then it can accelerate
Intro orbit around the
Planet, and finally it
Can return through the
Atmosphere and it can
Land as a common
Aero plane. In the future,
Rocket planes will perhaps
Carry passengers and
Packages around the world

3. 1 Is the maglev train common now? Why not?
2 Where can we find electric car now?
3 Why are electric cars ecological?
4 What is a fuel cell car?
5 What do fuel cell cars convert gasoline intro?
6 How does a rocket plane operate?
Vocabulary Completewithbothwords.
a) Zero i record
b) Hypersonic d track
c) Rocket f levitation
d) Test c planes
e) Electric d dioxide
f) Magnetic b vehicles
g) Carbon e cars
h) Fuel h cell
i) Speed a emissions
Read the information on page 16 and the text again, ask
some question and get your partner to answer them.
1 What forms the transportation are moving people as never before?
Trains, cars, buses and planes
1 “Maglev”is magneticlevitation
2 battery poweredare zeroemissioncars.
3 Expert are marking car convertgasoline intro
hydrogenwaterand carbon dioxide
4 Rocket planetswill carrypassengersand
packagesaroundthe world.
5 Maglevtrains have a new speedrecord: 560
kph,alonga test track near Tokyo.

4. 2 Who are planning systems to reduce congestion?
Experts plan reduce congestion
3 What are shortening?
Distances
4 Where function is transported?
In the space
5 When to use, utilize transported?
In the 2017
6 why haled the transported use?
Electric cars
Give a title and subtitle to this text.
Read again and underline
The correct option.
1 (Japan/France) is the (hypersonic/automatic) highways.
2 Automated (lines/lanes) control the (steering/marking)
3In the automated lanes, people can (drive/relax).
4 Vehicles carry (large/small) computers.
Put these words in order.
a. These /have /lanes /automated /highways
These highways have automated lanes.
b. Drivers /can /the /lane /in /sleep /automated
In the automated lane Drivers can sleep
c. There /in /vehicles /computer /are /the
There are computer in the vehicles
There highways have one
or more automaticlanesto
control the spend,steering
and brakingof cars, trucks
and buses.Vehicles can
travel alone ortogether
undercomputer
supervision.How?There
are small computerinthe
vehiclesandalongthe
highwaystocoordinate
the trafficand to increase
efficiencyandsafety.
Whena vehicle isinthe
automatedlane,the driver
can openthe newspaper
and reador just sleep.

5. Translating
Can you find the hidden word?
The given words are in the crossword puzzle is in the Spanish!
Glossary
Aerospace Engineer: ingeniero aeroespacial lane: carril
automated highway: autopista automatizada magnetic levitation: levitación magnética
battery-powered vehicles: vehículos impulsado a batería pollutant: contaminante
braking: Frenado rockplanes: avión cohete
cushion of air: colchón de aire speed: velocidad
high-speed train: tren ultrarrapido steering: direccion
hydroid vehicles: vehiculo hidrido take off: despegar
land: aterrizar test track: riel de prueba
safety S E G U R I D A D
driver C O N D U C T O R
increase A U M E N T A R
how C O M O
computer C O M P U T A D O R A
lanes C A R R I L
vehicles V E H I C U L O S
automated A U T O M A T I Z A D O
American (usa) N O R T E A M E RI C A N O