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’ seminar Plan the future of the world a meeting or conference to discuss a certain topic
Futurologists’ websites stainlessstarvationhandier 150 yearssmartersolar Next few yearsBy 2015By 2025 End of the c. By 2030 Middle of the c. click
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 stainlessstarvationhandier 150 yearssmartersolar Next few yearsBy 2015By 2025 End of the c. By 2030 Middle of the c.
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 yearsBy 2015By 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 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 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.