ESL WORKSHEET - Predicting the Future

LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH TEACHERS

PREDICTING THE FUTURE

LinguaHouse
Sep. 18, 2023

Level: Pre-Intermediate (A2-B1)
Type of English: English for Teenagers
Tags: Science and Technology; The Universe and Space; Prediction and Speculation; Future; 13-15 Years Old; Vocabulary and Grammar; Video Talk
Publication date: 09/18/2023

The theme of the lesson is the future. The students predict their own future and then the future of the world. They get familiar with vocabulary related to the topic, and then they watch a video in which young children share their predictions for the future of the world. In the last part of the lesson, they carry out a survey and report on the results. They practice the use of the future simple for predictions throughout the whole lesson (by I. Rybak).

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AUDIO TRANSCRIPTS

ONE
I will have a car.
I’ll have a car.
She will be an astronaut.
She’ll be an astronaut.
They will live in Argentina.
They’ll live in Argentina.

TWO
1. I’ll take photos.
2. We have time.
3. You’ll live in a house.
4. They’ll do the chores.

THREE
We will live in houses controlled by computers.
We will send objects to distant places in a very short time. We will cut down a lot of trees.
The weather will change.
There won’t be enough water.
We will visit other planets. We will live on other planets.

FOUR
In the year 2075, I will be 63 years old, but I will be healthy and fit. I will be about 6 feet tall, and I will weigh 165 pounds. My hair will be gray. I will be married. I will be an engineer, and I will build smart houses all over the world. I will live on the beach in a beautiful smart house. I will fly an electric car to work. My husband will be an astronaut. He will write books about his life on Mars. He will also train young astronauts.

VIDEO TRANSCRIPT

Child 1: What do you think the world’s going to be like in 50 years?
Child 2: Maybe in 50 years we’ll visit the whole solar system.
Child 3: Probably, like, some people will live in Mars.
Child 4: I think the world would be, like, there’ll be more robots that will help you with your everyday life, and maybe at home you just put your shopping down, and then your robots put it away and cook dinner for you.
Child 5: I think there’s going to be such things as smart houses, and in the smart house on the outside it’ll look like an ordinary house and if you are inside, it’s completely different to what you think it’s going to look like.
Child 6: They’ll be starting to, like, teleport things around the place, but not humans, yet.
Child 7: In 50 years the world will have a water shortage so houses will require to have a water feature to help animals that live in the sea survive.
Child 8: Because of deforestation, and how badly people are treating the earth, I think how... there’ll be no more forests, a lot more climate change.
Child 9: In 50 years, if there was a football pitch on a boat, and you wanted to get tickets for it, you could just put your finger up and call them up and say, hello.
Child 10: I think we’ll discover many more planets, and we might, like, say in the future, if it gets too hot or something, we could inhabit those planets.
Child 11: I think that the world in 50 years will be half bad, and half happy.
Child 12: Because our technology is getting a lot better, we’ll probably have a much easier way to talk to each other. We could maybe have, like, specialized glasses, or, like, a really special watch.
Child 13: Well, there’s no real way of telling what the future will be like, so whatever it is like, it will be very different from what life is now, but I guess humans are very adaptable.

Adapted from: https://www.linguahouse.com/esl-lesson-plans/english-for-teenagers/predicting-the-future. Accessed on September 26, 2023. © 2008–2023 LinguaHouse.com. All rights reserved.