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.

Fast reading

• Futurology • From the Past to the Future

• The Future Business• Tomorrow’s World• A Perfect Future

Fast reading

• Futurology • From the Past to the Future

• The Future Business• Tomorrow’s World• A Perfect Future

Futurologists’ seminarPlan the future of

the worlda meeting or conference to

discuss a certain topic

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.

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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 …

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.

Predictions For The Year 2011 from 1931

Predictions For The Year 2011 from 1931

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

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

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

Your turn

• When we see 20 years ahead.

Your turn

• When we see 20 years ahead.

Your turn

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 …

Why do we need predictions?

• Predictions are not just dreams.