That's English! - Module 7 - Unit 9: Science Fiction

Let's talk about the future and imagine how many posibilities there will be in 20 years time or so. As we do in every lesson, let's start with the general questions to discuss with your partner:

• In what ways will life be different by the end of the 21st century? Pay attention to different aspects such as transport, communication, city life, medicine and health, education and so on.
• Do you think life exists on other planets? What would that life be like? Should we reserch on that to check if we are alone in the universe or is it a waste of money and time? Should we keep on such search?
• What changes will you see in Spain in 50 years time? Take into account social, economical and physical changes, especially in everyday life.
• Do you think technology will help us in the future or will it be a drawback for humans? Give reasons and/or examples for your answer.

Activity 1

Discuss with your partner about your future in  10 years time about the following topics:

       Family     Work/studies     Travelling     A flat/a house     Where you'll be living

Try to use all the future tenses with sentences such as: In 3 years time I'll have finished my degree at university and I'll be looking for a good job in a big company. I'll try to find a new house and by the end of 2019 I'll be living on my own.

Activity 2

What are your feelings about the future? Are you hopeful or scared about future? Talk about the dangers and the advantages of using technolgy. What will change in our future?. Make predictions using WILL and then we'll compare your feelings and your predictions with the rest of the class.

Activity 3

This is a listening comprehension exercise about homes in the future: click here. What's your opinion? Would you  like to live in such houses? Do you prefer your current house? Why/ Why not?

Activity 4

This is a link with cards to speak about future. You'll see different forms and tenses to express future. Work with your partner with these cards and pay attention to the tense you use each time. Click here

Activity 5
Imagine you are a fortune teller. Predict or guess what is going to happen to your mate in a short term, in 5 years time, in 10 years time... To help you with your task, you can use this video.

FUTURE TENSES
About grammar, this unit deals with future tenses. This is a video to see how to use present simple, continuous, going to and will; it's quite simple but it's useful to start with..  If you need more practise here are you some useful links: this is a good exercise or you can do this one with all the tenses. This one is quite long and you also have this link to grammar explanation or this one here.

That's English!: unit 3

This unit es about Life in Future. Here you have a summary about the use of future tenses. 

• FUTURE TENSES:

• I’m having dinner with Kim --- arrangements, for sure; connected to Spanish present tense; the present simple is also used for future but only when it's something fixed like the train leaves at 7 pm
• I’m going to have dinner with Kim --- plans, intention, quite sure predictions

I want to have dinner with Kim

• I’ll have dinner with Kim --- a possibility, predictions, sudden decisions
  
  
  If you want to work with these tenses you can use these exercises: 
  
  
  exercise 1 exercise 2 exercise 3 exercise 4 
  
  
  
  
  Here you have a link with a lot of materials; click here 

  
  

  To finish with, here you have two songs we saw in class about future:

  
  

  When I'm 64 by The Beatles and Everybody wanna live your life by Mika