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FUTURE BODIES QQQQ

A long time ago, people were very different from the way we
CHANGING are now. For example, if you find a really old house somewhere,
you’ll see that the doors are usually much lower than they are
today. Why? Because hundreds of years ago, people were shorter.
Over time, the human body changes to adapt to a new way of life.
Can we expect the human body to change in the future? For sure.
And the main reason is that we have more and more technology,
and it is changing how we live.
What kind of changes can we expect? Well, no one can be
100 percent sure, but here are some possibilities.

Now, what about the mouth? It’ll
Let s start with the example above.
get smaller, perhaps, because
Humans are now ten centimetres
technological improvements will
taller than 150 years ago. So, in
mean that we don’t need to talk so
the future, people will probably be
much - and also because our teeth
even ta er. Most of us now have
will get smaller (so mouths don’t
much better food than people in the
need to be so big to keep them in).
past - and so we grow more.

Here’s a good one - it’s very
We II get weaker in more than one
possible that people will have four
way. The most important way is that
toes, not five. The little toe really
our muscles will not be as strong as
isn’t needed anymore (people who
now because we won’t do a lot of
lose them don’t miss them), so it
physical work.
will probably disappear sometime in
the future.
We are already using our feet less,
and our hands more (think about
And last but not least - people
computers and tablets and so on.)
won’t have as much hair on their
So we can expect that our legs will
bodies as now, as we don’t need it
get shorter and our feet smaller,
to keep ourselves warm anymore.
and at the same time, our fingers
will get longer. And our fingers
and our eyes will both get better
because they’ll have to do more
work together.
Will all these things happen? And if so, when?
These are questions that no one can answer for sure.

Exercise and health

7 Read the sentences. Give each one a number from 8 SPEAKING Work in small groups.
1 to 5 (1 = doesn't give a lot of importance to health, Talk about health and exercise.
5 = gives a lot of importance to health).
1 Together, decide the number that the

1 | | You should do regular exercise to make sure your group is going to give to each of the
muscles are strong. sentences in Exercise 7.

2 | | It's OK to spend a lot of time sitting in front of the television. 2 Together, decide on and write another
3 I I A wonderful thing to do is go for long walks in the fresh air. sentence that shows how the group feels
4 | |Using a computer and writing text messages gives your hands about health and exercise.

and arms exercise. 3 Compare your ideas with other groups.
5 | | You don't have to do sport to be healthy and keep fit.

6 | | It's a good idea to do a lot of simple exercise (for example, use
the stairs and don't take the lift).