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THEME 10 ENGLISH 99
TELEVISION AND SOCIAL MEDIA ACTIVITY SHEETS

• Students will be able to make predictions about the future.
COMPETENCES • Students will be able to agree or disagree with others by giving their opinions.
• Students will be able to write a comment on a topic via social media.

What do you think about the following? Are they safe or unsafe on social media. Write S (for
9 12 Read the interviews and put the underlined expressions into the correct box.
safe) and U (for unsafe). Discuss your answers with your friends.

F sharing your phone number F setting a strong password
F meeting someone online F using your real name
sharing your job
F logging off when you leave STUDENTS’ OWN ANSWERS
F
F sharing your gender F contacting acquaintance
F sharing your location F shopping

Below are some predictions about the future of social media. Read the sentences below and
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tick the ones you agree.

F “Buy” buttons will become commonplace on social media.
F Social media will cross into the workplace.
STUDENTS’ OWN ANSWERS
F People will log in to social media with their ID numbers.
F Machine learning will increase efficiency.
F Social media communications will outnumber face to face communications.
F Social media platforms and tools will replace schools.
F More people will earn money on social media.
F Social media platforms will replace traditional television channels.

11 Put the words in the correct order to make meaningful predictions about the future.

1 flying cars/will/be/there/the/in/future There will be flying cars in the future.

2 travel/people/to/will/other/planets/not People will not travel to other planets.

3 will/social/very/important/media/be Social media will be very important.

4 shopping/media/on/will/social/popular/become Shopping on social media will become popular.

5 obesity/not/be/a/will/problem/big Obesity will not be a big problem.

6 online/TV/will/replace/platforms/channels Online platforms will replace TV channels.
7 there/environmental/be/big/will/problems There will be big environment problems.

8 difficult/it/natural/will/food/be/find/to It will be difficult to find natural food.

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