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ffi Describe the pictures. They show visions of the 6 Worl< in pairs. Make three predictions about the world in
future fifty years from now. Which one do you thinl< is the fifty years' time. Use the ideas below to help you and some
most [ikely to come true? Give reasons. ofthe nouns and verbs from exercise 4.
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$:'.i6 Read the texts. ln your opinion, whose
prediction is: entertainment health space transport work
1 the most optimistic?
7 ffi Telt the class your predictions. Do they agree or
2 the scariest?
disagree?
3 the most tikety to come true?
EE VOCNEULARY BUILDER 5.2: PAGE 131 (?2.
When you're looking for specific information in a text,
reading the first sentence of a paragraph often telts you
what the whole paragraph is about.

3 Read the reading strategy. Then match paragraphs A-F with
predictions 1-8. There are two extra predictions that you
do not need.
1 We will be able to choose how [ong our own life is.
2 We will be communicating directly with search
engines as if they were peopte.
3 We witt use computers to help us talkto people
who do not speak our language.
4 We witt be able to get any new body parts we need.
5 We witt develop a new technotogy that wi[[ make
the human race extinct.
6 Some humans wi[[ have gone to [ive on another
ptanet.
We witt have made contact with tife in other parts
ofthe gataxy.
We won't be living in most of the areas we
inhabit now.
4 [tiliililIlilZ Match the verbs (1-7) and nouns (a-S) to
make phrases from the text.
1 reduce a a catastrophe
2 treat b information
3 suffer c damaged parts
4 start d discoveries
5 replace e carbon emissions
6 provide f a colony
7 make g ittnesses

5 Comptete the sentences with phrases from exercise 4.
1 When poorer countries like a flood or an
earthquake, it causes enormous destruction.
2 ls it possible to _ without drugs?
3 Using pubtic transport helps to _.
4 Today, surgeons can _ ofyour heart.
5 I asked the university to _ about their degree
courSes.
6 lt would be difficult to _ on the moon because
there's no water.
7 Every year, scientists _ about our universe.

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