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COMING SOON THEME 4

● A majority of your income will come from products and services that do not even exist today.
● I believe, our children will do the jobs that do not exist today.
● I guess, people will completely turn to smart technologies and this will help cope with global warming.
● I imagine that factories without human workers will produce much more.
● Apparently, cars of the future will have less harmful emissions and they will all be eco-friendly.
● Jobs that are related to information technologies will be more popular.
● The role of the teacher will change.
● Robot teachers will be more active.
● Cloud technologies will be in the center of life.
● People will have more time to spend together as robots will do most of the work.
● There won’t be any environmental problems in the future.
● Self driven cars will help us a lot in everyday life.
● Organic farmers will make a fortune.
As the saying goes ”future is female”, we can hardly come up with correct predictions for most of the
time. However, there are those making plans, at least, for the predictable part of the imaginary world.
● Luxembourg is going to introduce automatic money transfer as a safety measure.
● Some EU countries are going to focus on teaching 21 century skills rather than knowledge based
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content.
● Some municipalities are going to invest more in new forms of transportation.
● Some governments are going to ban GMO (genetically modified organism) foods.
Do you have your personal plans for the imaginary future?

D. The text gives examples of predictions and plans for the future. Now, share your
predictions and plans orally with your friends. Cover as many fields as possible. Try to
include predictions and plans for education, jobs, technology, environment,
transportation, social life, etc.

E. Now, in the light of the sentences you’ve heard from your classmates and your own
predictions, describe the imaginary future in your mind in a detailed way in a paragraph.
The questions below may be of help.

1. What will everyday life be like?
2. Will schools be the same as those today?
3. How will smart technologies impact life?
4. What (kind of) jobs will become more popular?
5. How will people socialize?
6. What kind of advances are likely to take place in medicine, media, education, travel?
7. What forms of energy will be used most?
8. Will robot doctors become a reality?

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