B1 – Intermediate
Nothing is certain when it comes to the future. Is the future a scary or an exciting thought for you? Wouldn’t it be nice to have a quick glance at what the future looks like?
Read on this news item on experts’ predictions for 2116.
http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1602/160218-the-future.html
Discussion Questions:
1. How has the Internet changed your life?
2. Do you think the future will be good or bad? Explain.
3. Will people still need to study English in 2116? Why or why not?
4. What questions would you like to ask an expert from the future?
10 replies on “Life in 2116”
1. How has the Internet changed your life?
Mi life changed a lot, before i did drive my car 300 kms every day, now i´m working in my house befere 15 years
2. Do you think the future will be good or bad? Explain.
The people living at the north to the world have many things that the people living at the south would like to have. Therfore, is necesary to equilibrate the balance
3. Will people still need to study English in 2116? Why or why not?
It´s probably no. We have tools in our mobile phone that help us to communicate whith other people in other languages. But, por example, if tomorrow the internet around the world is donw? Will be important to speak english to comunicate us.
4. What questions would you like to ask an expert on the future?
how can change the dirigents mentality to get put the focus in the important things, don´t only think at the power?
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1. How has the Internet changed your life? It has changed my life in many different areas, the way I study, work and comunicate, for example.
2. Do you think the future will be good or bad? Explain. I think the future will be good and very different, everything will be more technologic, comunication will be faster, people around the world will be more conected, some profession and works will disapear and new ones will be creares. Education and medical services will change.
3. Will people still need to study English in 2116? Why or why not? I think in the future people will not need to study english because there will be technological devices to traslate texts and voices in any language you want comunicated.
4. What questions would you like to ask an expert from the future? How can we be prepared for the future? What are the main changes could we expected in the future? Which will be the main challenge we hace to face in the future?
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1. How has the Internet changed your life?
Internet has changed my life doing easier a lot of daily actions, like bank transactions, online meetings, watching ideas for repairing devices, …
2. Do you think the future will be good or bad?
Sincerely I don’t know but I think the future will be good in one sense but bad in another one, for example, we will have a more comfortable life with better services in general but in another way we suffer the climate change if we don’t do anything to avoid it.
3. Will people still need to study English in 2116?
I think people will not still need to study English in 2116, it will be something good because it will be better for our mind, but it will not be necessary because technological devices will translate online for us in any language.
4. What questions would you like to ask an expert on the future?
I would like to ask them if they really think it will be possible to travel to millions kilometers away.
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1- A lot. All jobs that I been have in my life been a relation about internet and technology.
2- I hope very good but I don’t belive more different that now. But the capsule of health is a very good idea.
3- It’s possible… I think that English and Chinese will be a language of the future for the humanitie.
4- I prefer not knows nothing about the future… I want live every day and enjoy without influencies.
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1. How has the Internet changed your life?
I think the Internet has changed my life for the better. For example, when I was studying at the university, I could go with the tablet or with the computer and not be loaded with books because we had the books on the internet. And also currently the internet allows me to work from home.
2. Do you think the future will be good or bad?
I think the future will be good for some things and bad for others. For example, it will be good to innovate technologies, to automate working methods and even to improve in medicine.
But I think it will be bad for the fact that automating some jobs will eliminate jobs and lack the human touch in some jobs.
3. Will people still need to study English in 2116?
I want to think that in 200 everyone will know how to speak English and they will teach future generations.
4. What questions would you like to ask an expert on the future?
I would ask him if science will improve, if a cure will be found for all diseases, and if my work will still be necessary.
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