what’s the future?
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What’s the future?. future. -ology. Futurology. Futurologist. Goals. ■ To read about some predictions and get the right titles for them. ■ To use the right tenses to talk about the future. i.e. will have done; will be ■ To make future predictions about different subjects. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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What’s the future?
future -ology
Futurology
Futurologist
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Goals
■ To read about some predictions and get the right titles for them.
■ To use the right tenses to talk about the future. i.e. will have done; will be
■To make future predictions about different subjects.
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Fast reading
• Futurology • From the Past to the Future
• The Future Business• Tomorrow’s World• A Perfect Future
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Fast reading
• Futurology • From the Past to the Future
• The Future Business• Tomorrow’s World• A Perfect Future
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Futurologists’ seminarPlan the future of
the worlda meeting or conference to
discuss a certain topic
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Futurologists’ websites
stainless starvationhandier
150 years smarter solar
Next few years By 2015 By 2025
End of the c. By 2030 Middle of the c.
click
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What tenses are used?
• In the next few years, computers will be handier.• By 2015, clothing industry will have produced ..• By 2025, no one will die of starvation …• By 2030, science will have made it possible …• By the middle of the century, computers …will
have been developed.• By the end of the century, we will have
discovered …
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Talk about their predictions in pairs
stainless starvationhandier
150 years smarter solar
Next few years By 2015 By 2025
End of the c. By 2030 Middle of the c.
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Predictions For The Year 2011 from 1931
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Predictions For The Year 2011 from 1931
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Which prediction has come true? How/ Why?
A 70-Year Life SpanWealth Will Be Distributed Equally
East Will Be on the Rise More Old People , Living Conditions Improved
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How do people make predictions?
Next few years By 2015 By 2025
End of the c. By 2030 Middle of the c.
A 70-Year Life Span Wealth Will Be Distributed Equally
East Will Be on the Rise More Old People , Living Conditions Improved
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W.J. Mayo: A 70-Year Life Span • Contagious and infectious diseases have
been largely overcome, and the average length of life of man has increased to fifty-eight years. The great causes of death in middle and later life are diseases of heart, blood vessels and kidneys, diseases of the nervous system, and cancer. The progress that is being made would suggest that within the measure of time for this forecast the average life time of civilized man would be raised to three-score and ten.
Based on facts in the past, the present situationCombined with their hope for the future
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Your turn
• When we see 20 years ahead.
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Your turn
• When we see 20 years ahead.
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Your turn
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Your predictions
• In the next few years, computers will be handier.• By 2015, clothing industry will have produced ..• By 2025, no one will die of starvation …• By 2030, science will have made it possible …• By the middle of the century, computers …will
have been developed.• By the end of the century, we will have
discovered …
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Why do we need predictions?
• Predictions are not just dreams.