Life in 2116

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?

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8 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?

Good job always writing your answers. This is a great way for you to improve your skills.

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how can change the dirigents mentality to get put the focus in the important things, don´t only think at the power?

One question I’d like to ask an expert from the future is how we can change the dirigents our mentality to acquire too much power, but instead to get put the our focus in on the important things, and don´t not only think at the about power?.

Continue practicing your writing to improve more.

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.

Good going with your writing practice. Keep it up!

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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.

I think people will not still won’t need to study English in 2116 anymore. It will be something good because it will be better for our brains, but it will not be necessary because technological devices will translate online everything for us in any languages online.

The more you practice, the better and better your skills get. Go for it then.

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.

Your efforts practicing your writing will eventually pay off. Just continue with it!

Please note the better words and phrase you can use in this sentence:

All jobs that I been have in my life been a relation about internet and technology.

All jobs that I’ve had in my life have always been related to the internet and technology.

Keep on it!

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.

You’re getting better! Keep going with your writing practice to attain further improvement. Go for it!

Here is a sentence you can write a bit better:

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.

But I think it would be bad because of the fact that automating some jobs will eliminate certain works and some jobs would be lacking of human touch.

Happy writing!

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