1. Mum's birthday is on the twenty-second of November.
2. Dad's birtday is on the eighteenth of June.
3, Grandma birthday is on the thirhtieth of November.
4, Grandpa's birthday is on the twenty-third of September.
5. My birtday is on the twentieth of January.
SWIFT, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications, is a non-profit 1making bank-owned, cooperative society. . It was set up in Brussels in 1973 and now it has more than a thousand member banks in more than fifty countries including our country. Vnesheconombank has been a member bank since 1987. SWIFT is a service organisation which processes and transmits banking transactions electronically between member banks on all the five continents. Electronic systems transfer large sums around the world quickly and effectively. In this way aternational banking is being established.
But payment procedures in international trade still rely heavily on paper-based docu¬ments. And specialists say that one day all the data of invoices, shipping docu¬ments, various recepts and other documents will be provided in computer form in stead. No paper documents will be used any longer. All the information will be sent electronically. This will certainly lead to a lot of technical problems.
<span>1. What will life be like in thirty or fifty years from now?
2. How far will technology</span><span><span> advance</span>?
3. How will its development </span><span> affect our lives?
4. People won't live in flats and houses like we have nowadays.
5. They will </span><span> build environmentally friendly (smart) houses.
6. Scientists will </span><span><span>discover </span>new cheap sources of energy.
7. This discovery will </span><span>make it possible to travel long distances not only around our planet, but also in space.
8. People </span><span>won't </span><span><span> operate </span>their computers with the help of a keyboard or a mouse.</span>
