THE FUTURE
What’s the date today?
Monday, August
th
9 2021
Something strange happened!
• We are now in the 1980s, we have
traveled to the past!
Let’s take a look into this era
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
Now, let’s make a window
into the future
• Some people knew we came from the future
and they want to know what’s life like in the
year 2021.
These are the predictions
one of us makes for the
year 2021 and they aren’t
good at all
Predictions about the year 2021
• Governments will control people’s actions.
• Freedom of speech will almost disappear.
• People won’t interact to other people because a
group of people together might think for themselves.
• Most young people will consider social networks as
the only source of information.
Predictions about the year 2021
• People will kill their babies deliberately and it will be
a law.
• Some “scientists” will be considered as gods.
• Some people will sell their liberty for “safety”.
• Universities won’t have students in their campuses.
To talk about the future we can use will / won’t
Look at this examples.
I eat coffee and bread for breakfast every day.
• I will eat a sandwich for breakfast tomorrow.
• I won’t drink coffee tomorrow morning.
To talk about the future we can use will / won’t
I pay a rent because I don’t have a house now.
• I will have my own house in ten years.
I studied a master degree already.
• I probably will study a doctor's degree in the future.
To talk about the future we can use will / won’t
I don’t speak English very much now.
• I will register in a course next month.
This is my last level of English.
• I won’t have English classes next semester.
To consider
• Won’t = Will not
Research activity
• You continue traveling back in time, now you are in
the 20s and you want to tell people in that era what
will happen in the 40s. Visit the following web page,
look at the video presented first, if you wish, read the
information in the site and make predictions with the
information given.
• Use ten events to make your predictions.
https://www.thoughtco.com/1940s-timeline-1779951
Look at this example
• I’m in the 50s and I will predict some events from the
80s.
This is an event in the 80s
This is my prediction for the people
in the 50s
• In 1983 U.S troops will invade
the island of Grenada to counter
the Marxist government.
Presenting your information
• You and three more classmates will show the
classroom your predictions through a power point
presentation.
• The format will be like this.
Now let’s go back to our time