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.
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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’ seminar
Plan the future of
the world
a meeting or conference to
discuss a certain topic
Futurologists’ websites
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What tenses are used?
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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
handier
stainless
handy
starvation
stainless
★ computers
• ★ In the next few• years,
By 2015, clothing
will
industry
• ★will By
ha
Next few years
By
2015
By
2025
be handier.
produced a new material that starvatio
remains
stainless no matter what you spill
everyone
on th
150 years
smarter
solar
handy
convenient
150 yearsSpill the stain smarter
Remain stain
By 2030
•
• ★ B
★ By
• made
By 2030, science will have
it the middle of the centur
have
di
computers
that are millions
of tim
possible for us to live at least 150
years.
system
★
Middle of the c.
End 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 Span
Wealth 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 2030
By 2015
Middle of the c.
By 2025
End 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 situation
Combined 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
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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.