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What life will be like in 2116 (18th February, 2016)

The Reading / Listening - Level 3

A new report shows what life might be like in 100 years from now. It describes skyscrapers that are much taller than today's buildings, underwater 'bubble' cities, and holidays in space. The report is from Samsung's SmartThings. It asked experts on space, architecture, and city planners to give their ideas on life in 2116. They said the way we live, work and play will be totally different to how we do these things today. The experts said that 25 years ago, people could not imagine how the Internet and smartphones would change our lives. The Internet has revolutionised the way we communicate, learn and do daily things. The experts said the changes in the next century would be even more unbelievable.

Researchers questioned 2,000 adults about the predictions they thought were most likely to happen in the future. They predicted that in the future, few people will go to an office but will work from home and have virtual work meetings. People will have advanced 3D printers that will let you download a design for furniture or a food recipe and then 'print' the sofa, table or pizza at home. There will also be less need for visits to the doctor. We will all have a home health capsule that will tell us what the problem is and give us treatment. We will also be going into space for holidays and to get resources that we have used up on Earth. A prediction that was missing was whether people would still need to study English.

Try the same news story at these easier levels:

Level 0, Level 1 or Level 2

Sources

http://swns.com/news/super-skyscrapers-bubble-cities-and-origami-furniture-are-all-likely-to-be-reality-in-100-years-71333/
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/51006245.cms?
http://www.biztekmojo.com/002050/scitech-3d-printed-megastructures-food-trips-space-and-underwater-cities-possible-100-years

Make sure you try all of the online activities for this reading and listening - There are dictations, multiple choice, drag and drop activities, crosswords, hangman, flash cards, matching activities and a whole lot more. Please enjoy :-)

The 40 Lesson Activities on the PDF Handout

WARM-UPS

1. THE FUTURE: Students walk around the class and talk to other students about the future. Change partners often and share your findings.

2. CHAT: In pairs / groups, talk about these topics or words from the article. What will the article say about them? What can you say about these words and your life?

report / 100 years from now / skyscrapers / smart things / architecture / experts / predictions / office / virtual / furniture / pizza / health / holidays in space / resources

Have a chat about the topics you liked. Change topics and partners frequently.

3. PREDICTIONS: What are your predictions for the way we will live in 2116? Complete this table with your partner(s). Change partners often and share what you wrote.

	Prediction	Good or bad?	Why?
English
Food
Smartphones
Environment
World peace
Your country

4. 2116: Students A strongly believe life in the year 2116 will be better than life today in 2016; Students B strongly believe the opposite. Change partners again and talk about your conversations.

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5. BETTER: Rank these with your partner. Put the things that will be better about the year 2116 at the top. Change partners often and share your rankings.

• holidays

• food

• jobs

• education

• peace

• movies

• friendships

• pizza

6. REPORT: Spend one minute writing down all of the different words you associate with the word "report". Share your words with your partner(s) and talk about them. Together, put the words into different categories.

BEFORE READING / LISTENING

1. TRUE / FALSE: Read the headline. Guess if a-h below are true (T) or false (F).

a.	Buildings in the future will be shorter than today's buildings.	T / F
b.	Experts say people will be living in underwater cities.	T / F
c.	The report is from the tech company Apple.	T / F
d.	Experts say the changes to come by 2116 will be unbelievable.	T / F
e.	Researchers asked 20,000 people about the future.	T / F
f.	People will be able to print download and print pizzas.	T / F
g.	People won't need to go to the doctor as much as they do now.	T / F
h.	People predicted that we will still need to study English.	T / F

2. SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article.

1.	report	a.	futuristic
2.	experts	b.	completely
3.	totally	c.	transformed
4.	revolutionised	d.	finished
5.	unbelievable	e.	study
6.	questioned	f.	plan
7.	advanced	g.	specialists
8.	design	h.	medical care
9.	treatment	i.	asked
10.	used up	j.	incredible

3. PHRASE MATCH: (Sometimes more than one choice is possible.)

1.	what life might be like	a.	way we communicate
2.	the way we live, work and play will	b.	likely to happen
3.	people could not	c.	even more unbelievable
4.	The Internet has revolutionised the	d.	design
5.	changes in the next century would be	e.	to study English
6.	predictions they thought were most	f.	imagine how
7.	3D	g.	be totally different
8.	download a	h.	printers
9.	tell us what the problem is and give	i.	in 100 years from now
10.	people would still need	j.	us treatment

GAP FILL

A new (1) ____________ shows what life might be like in 100 years from now. It describes (2) ____________ that are much taller than today's buildings, underwater 'bubble' cities, and holidays in (3) ____________. The report is from Samsung's SmartThings. It asked experts on space, architecture, and city (4) ____________ to give their ideas on life in 2116. They said the way we live, work and play will be totally different to how we do these things (5) ____________. The experts said that 25 years ago, people could not imagine how the Internet and smartphones would change our (6) ____________. The Internet has revolutionised the way we communicate, learn and do (7) ____________ things. The experts said the changes in the next century would be even more (8) ____________.

space
today
report
daily
skyscrapers
unbelievable
planners
lives

Researchers questioned 2,000 adults about the predictions they thought were most (9) ____________ to happen in the future. They predicted that in the future, few people will go to an office but will work from home and have (10) ____________ work meetings. People will have advanced 3D printers that will let you (11) ____________ a design for furniture or a food recipe and then 'print' the sofa, table or (12) ____________ at home. There will also be less (13) ____________ for visits to the doctor. We will all have a home health capsule that will tell us what the problem is and give us (14) ____________. We will also be going into space for holidays and to get (15) ____________ that we have used up on Earth. A prediction that was (16) ____________ was whether people would still need to study English.

virtual
need
resources
likely
download
missing
treatment
pizza

LISTENING - Guess the answers. Listen to check.

1)	A new report shows what life might be like in 100 ______
	a. years from now b. years from know c. years from known d. years from not
2)	It asked experts on space, architecture, and city planners to give ______
	a. their ideas in life b. their ideas on life c. their ideas at life d. their ideas by life
3)	25 years ago, people could not imagine how the Internet and smartphones would ______
	a. changed our lives b. change your lives c. change our lives d. change our live
4)	The Internet has revolutionised the way we communicate, learn and ______
	a. does daily things b. do daily thing c. do daily things d. does daily thing
5)	The experts said the changes in the next century would be even ______
	a. more unbelievably b. more and believable c. more unbelievable d. most unbelievable
6)	Researchers questioned 2,000 adults about the predictions they thought were most ______
	a. likely to happens b. likely to happen c. likely too happen d. like to happen
7)	few people will go to an office but will work from home and have virtual ______
	a. work meetings b. work meeting c. works meetings d. works meeting
8)	download a design for furniture or a food recipe and then 'print' the sofa, table or ______
	a. pizzas at home b. pizza to home c. pizzas to home d. pizza at homes
9)	We will all have a home health capsule that will tell us what the problem is ______
	a. and give us treatments b. and give us treatment c. and gives us treatment d. and gives us treatments
10)	A prediction that was missing was whether people would still ______
	a. need to study English b. needed to study English c. needs to study English d. needy to study English

LISTENING – Listen and fill in the gaps

A new report shows what life (1) ___________________ 100 years from now. It describes skyscrapers that are much taller than today's buildings, underwater 'bubble' cities, and (2) ___________________. The report is from Samsung's SmartThings. It asked experts on space, architecture, and city planners to give their (3) ___________________ 2116. They said the way we live, work and play will be totally different (4) ___________________ these things today. The experts said that 25 years ago, people could not imagine how the Internet and smartphones would change our lives. The Internet has revolutionised the (5) ___________________, learn and do daily things. The experts said the changes in the next century (6) ___________________ unbelievable.

Researchers questioned 2,000 (7) ___________________ predictions they thought were most likely to happen in the future. They predicted that in the future, few people (8) ___________________ office but will work from home and have virtual work meetings. People will have advanced 3D printers that will let you download a design for furniture (9) ___________________ and then 'print' the sofa, table or pizza at home. There will also be less need for visits to the doctor. We will all have a home (10) ___________________ that will tell us what the problem is and give us treatment. We will also be going into space for holidays and (11) ___________________ that we have used up on Earth. A prediction that was missing was whether people (12) ___________________ to study English.

COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS

1.	Where wlll the bubble cities in the future be?
2.	What company made the report?
3.	What kind of planners gave their ideas on life in 2116?
4.	What could we not have imagined 25 years ago about the Internet?
5.	What did the experts say the changes in the next century would be?
6.	How many people did the researchers question?
7.	What kind of meetings will we have at work in the future?
8.	Who will people need to visit less in the future?
9.	Where will we be going to on holiday?
10.	What language did people not make a prediction about?

MULTIPLE CHOICE - QUIZ

1.	Where wlll the bubble cities in the future be?	6.	How many people did the researchers question?
	a) the USA b) under water c) in space d) in caves		a) 2,000 b) 12,000 c) 20,000 d) 22,000
2.	What company made the report?	7.	What kind of meetings will we have at work in the future?
	a) McDonald's b) Google c) Apple d) Samsung		a) productive meetings b) busy meetings c) virtual meetings d) never-ending meetings
3.	What kind of planners gave their ideas on life in 2116?	8.	Who will people need to visit less in the future?
	a) city planners b) daily planners c) space planners d) design planners		a) the doctor b) family c) friends d) old people
4.	What could we not have imagined 25 years ago about the Internet?	9.	Where will we be going to on holiday?
	a) cyber-bullying b) how cheap it would be c) how it would change our lives d) that it would still be here		a) space b) Russia c) Antarctica d) cyberspace
5.	What did the experts say the changes in the next century would be?	10.	What language did people not make a prediction about?
	a) small b) unbelievable c) gradual d) boring		a) Chinese b) Arabic c) Esperanto d) English

ROLE PLAY

Role A – 1616

You think the year 1616 is the best year. Tell the others three reasons why. Tell them things that aren't so good about their years. Also, tell the others which is the worst of these (and why): 1916, 2016 or 2116.

Role B – 1916

You think 1916 is the best year. Tell the others three reasons why. Tell them things that aren't so good about their years. Also, tell the others which is the worst of these (and why): 1616, 2016 or 2116.

Role C – 2016

You think 2016 is the best year. Tell the others three reasons why. Tell them things that aren't so good about their years. Also, tell the others which is the worst of these (and why): 1916, 1616 or 2116.

Role D – 2116

You think 2116 is the best year. Tell the others three reasons why. Tell them things that aren't so good about their years. Also, tell the others which is the worst of these (and why): 1916, 2016 or 1616.

AFTER READING / LISTENING

1. WORD SEARCH: Look in your dictionary / computer to find collocates, other meanings, information, synonyms … for the words 'life' and 'future'.

life

future

Share your findings with your partners.

Make questions using the words you found.
Ask your partner / group your questions.

2. ARTICLE QUESTIONS: Look back at the article and write down some questions you would like to ask the class about the text.

Share your questions with other classmates / groups.
Ask your partner / group your questions.

3. GAP FILL: In pairs / groups, compare your answers to this exercise. Check your answers. Talk about the words from the activity. Were they new, interesting, worth learning…?

4. VOCABULARY: Circle any words you do not understand. In groups, pool unknown words and use dictionaries to find their meanings.

5. TEST EACH OTHER: Look at the words below. With your partner, try to recall how they were used in the text:

shows
bubble
planners
totally
25
next

2,000
office
3D
pizza
used
study

THE FUTURE SURVEY

Write five GOOD questions about the future in the table. Do this in pairs. Each student must write the questions on his / her own paper.

When you have finished, interview other students. Write down their answers.

	STUDENT 1 _____________	STUDENT 2 _____________	STUDENT 3 _____________
Q.1.
Q.2.
Q.3.
Q.4.
Q.5.

Now return to your original partner and share and talk about what you found out. Change partners often.

Make mini-presentations to other groups on your findings.

THE FUTURE DISCUSSION

STUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student B)

1)	What did you think when you read the headline?
2)	What springs to mind when you hear the word 'future'?
3)	What do you think about what you read?
4)	Do you think the future will be good?
5)	What do you think your future will be like?
6)	What do you think of really tall skyscrapers?
7)	What do you think of the idea of underwater cities?
8)	Would you prefer to live in the future or in today's world?
9)	What bad things do you think might be in the future?
10)	What has the Internet changed for you?

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STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student A)

11)	Did you like reading this article?
12)	What are your predictions for the future?
13)	Do you think everything we see in science fiction movies will come true?
14)	What do you know about 3D printers?
15)	What do you think of the idea of printing and eating a 3D pizza?
16)	What do you think of the idea of home health capsules?
17)	What are the good and bad things about holidays in space?
18)	What will life be like in 1,000 years from now?
19)	Will people still need to study English in the year 2116?
20)	What questions would you like to ask an expert on the future?

DISCUSSION (Write your own questions)

STUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student B)
1.	________________________________________________________
2.	________________________________________________________
3.	________________________________________________________
4.	________________________________________________________
5.	________________________________________________________
6.	________________________________________________________

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STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student A)
1.	________________________________________________________
2.	________________________________________________________
3.	________________________________________________________
4.	________________________________________________________
5.	________________________________________________________
6.	________________________________________________________

LANGUAGE - CLOZE

A new report shows what life might be (1) ______ in 100 years from now. It describes skyscrapers that are much (2) ______ than today's buildings, underwater 'bubble' cities, and holidays in space. The report is from Samsung's SmartThings. It asked experts (3) ______ space, architecture, and city planners to give their ideas on life in 2116. They said the way we live, work and play will be (4) ______ different to how we do these things today. The experts said that 25 years ago, people could not imagine (5) ______ the Internet and smartphones would change our lives. The Internet has revolutionised the way we communicate, learn and do daily things. The experts said the changes in the next century would be even (6) ______ unbelievable.

Researchers questioned 2,000 adults about the predictions they thought were most (7) ______ to happen in the future. They predicted that in the future, few people will go to an office but will work from home and have (8) ______ work meetings. People will have advanced 3D printers that will (9) ______ you download a design for furniture or a food recipe and then 'print' the sofa, table or pizza at home. There will also be less (10) ______ for visits to the doctor. We will all have a home health capsule that will tell us what the problem is and give (11) ______ treatment. We will also be going into space for holidays and to get resources that we have used (12) ______ on Earth. A prediction that was missing was whether people would still need to study English.

Put the correct words from the table below in the above article.

1.	(a)	likely	(b)	like	(c)	liked	(d)	liking
2.	(a)	tall	(b)	taller	(c)	tallest	(d)	tally
3.	(a)	by	(b)	at	(c)	to	(d)	on
4.	(a)	total	(b)	totally	(c)	totality	(d)	totals
5.	(a)	what	(b)	which	(c)	who	(d)	how
6.	(a)	much	(b)	many	(c)	more	(d)	most
7.	(a)	likely	(b)	like	(c)	liking	(d)	liked
8.	(a)	virtually	(b)	virtue	(c)	virtual	(d)	vitality
9.	(a)	certain	(b)	permit	(c)	allow	(d)	let
10.	(a)	need	(b)	go	(c)	do	(d)	have
11.	(a)	us	(b)	them	(c)	they	(d)	we
12.	(a)	up	(b)	in	(c)	by	(d)	of

SPELLING

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PUT THE TEXT BACK TOGETHER

Number these lines in the correct order.

( )	meetings. People will have advanced 3D printers that will let you download a design for furniture or a food
( )	today. The experts said that 25 years ago, people could not imagine how the Internet and smartphones would
( )	change our lives. The Internet has revolutionised the way we communicate, learn and do daily
( )	taller than today's buildings, underwater 'bubble' cities, and holidays in space. The report is from
( )	recipe and then 'print' the sofa, table or pizza at home. There will also be less need for visits to the
( )	things. The experts said the changes in the next century would be even more unbelievable.
( )	Samsung's SmartThings. It asked experts on space, architecture, and city planners to give their ideas on life in
( )	future. They predicted that in the future, few people will go to an office but will work from home and have virtual work
( 1 )	A new report shows what life might be like in 100 years from now. It describes skyscrapers that are much
( )	doctor. We will all have a home health capsule that will tell us what the problem is and give
( )	up on Earth. A prediction that was missing was whether people would still need to study English.
( )	Researchers questioned 2,000 adults about the predictions they thought were most likely to happen in the
( )	us treatment. We will also be going into space for holidays and to get resources that we have used
( )	2116. They said the way we live, work and play will be totally different to how we do these things

PUT THE WORDS IN THE RIGHT ORDER

1.	100 be what new years like life report in might shows A .
2.	today's describes are than It that taller skyscrapers much .
3.	today different we things Totally how these to do .
4.	we has communicate revolutionised the The way Internet .
5.	next be The the would more in century even changes .
6.	were to The thought likely they most happen predictions .
7.	work office go Few from but to people home will an will .
8.	less be also will There doctor the to visits for need .
9.	what the problem is and give us treatment Tell us .
10.	study would English still need Whether to people .

CIRCLE THE CORRECT WORD (20 PAIRS)

A new report shows what life might be liked / like in 100 years from now. It describes skyscrapers that / than are much taller than today's buildings, underwater 'bubble' cities, and holidays on / in space. The report is from Samsung's SmartThings. It asked experts / expats on space, architecture, and city planners to give / giving their ideas on life in 2116. They said the way we live, work and play will be totally / total different to how we do these things today. The experts said that 25 years ago, people could not imagination / imagine how the Internet and smartphones would change / chance our lives. The Internet has revolutionised the wait / way we communicate, learn and do daily things. The experts said the changes in the next century would be even more / most unbelievable.

Researchers questioned 2,000 adults around / about the predictions they thought were most likely / liking to happen in the future. They predicted that in the future, few people will go to an office but will work from / in home and have virtual work meetings / meeting. People will have advanced 3D printers that will let you / your download a design for furniture or a food recipe and then 'print' the sofa, table or pizza at home. There will also be less / few need for visits to the doctor. We will all have a home health capsule that will tell we / us what the problem is and give us treating / treatment. We will also be going into space for holidays and to get resources that we have used up in / on Earth. A prediction that was missing was whether / weather people would still need to study English.

Talk about the connection between each pair of words in italics, and why the correct word is correct.

INSERT THE VOWELS (a, e, i, o, u)

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PUNCTUATE THE TEXT AND ADD CAPITALS

a new report shows what life might be like in 100 years from now it describes skyscrapers that are much taller than today's buildings underwater 'bubble' cities and holidays in space the report is from samsung's smartthings it asked experts on space architecture and city planners to give their ideas on life in 2116 they said the way we live work and play will be totally different to how we do these things today the experts said that 25 years ago people could not imagine how the internet and smartphones would change our lives the internet has revolutionised the way we communicate learn and do daily things the experts said the changes in the next century would be even more unbelievable

researchers questioned 2000 adults about the predictions they thought were most likely to happen in the future they predicted that in the future few people will go to an office but will work from home and have virtual work meetings people will have advanced 3d printers that will let you download a design for furniture or a food recipe and then 'print' the sofa table or pizza at home there will also be less need for visits to the doctor we will all have a home health capsule that will tell us what the problem is and give us treatment we will also be going into space for holidays and to get resources that we have used up on earth a prediction that was missing was whether people would still need to study english

PUT A SLASH ( / ) WHERE THE SPACES ARE

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heirideasonlifein2116.Theysaidthewaywelive,workandplaywillbetot
allydifferenttohowwedothesethingstoday.Theexpertssaidthat25yea
rsago,peoplecouldnotimaginehowtheInternetandsmartphoneswoul
dchangeourlives.TheInternethasrevolutionisedthewaywecommuni
cate,learnanddodailythings.Theexpertssaidthechangesinthenextce
nturywouldbeevenmoreunbelievable.Researchersquestioned2,000
adultsaboutthepredictionstheythoughtweremostlikelytohappeninth
efuture.Theypredictedthatinthefuture,fewpeoplewillgotoanofficebu
twillworkfromhomeandhavevirtualworkmeetings.Peoplewillhavead
vanced3Dprintersthatwillletyoudownloadadesignforfurnitureorafoo
drecipeandthen'print'thesofa,tableorpizzaathome.Therewillalsobel
essneedforvisitstothedoctor.Wewillallhaveahomehealthcapsulethat
willtelluswhattheproblemisandgiveustreatment.Wewillalsobegoingi
ntospaceforholidaysandtogetresourcesthatwehaveuseduponEarth.
Apredictionthatwasmissingwaswhetherpeoplewouldstillneedtostud
yEnglish.

FREE WRITING

Write about the future for 10 minutes. Comment on your partner’s paper.

_____________________________________________________________________________

ACADEMIC WRITING

The year 2116 will be better than the year 2016. Discuss.

_____________________________________________________________________________

HOMEWORK

1. VOCABULARY EXTENSION: Choose several of the words from the text. Use a dictionary or Google’s search field (or another search engine) to build up more associations / collocations of each word.

2. INTERNET: Search the Internet and find out more about what the future will be like. Share what you discover with your partner(s) in the next lesson.

3. THE FUTURE: Make a poster about the future. Show your work to your classmates in the next lesson. Did you all have similar things?

4. 2116: Write a magazine article about the year 2116. Include imaginary interviews with people who think life will be better then, and with people who think life is better now.

Read what you wrote to your classmates in the next lesson. Write down any new words and expressions you hear from your partner(s).

5. WHAT HAPPENED NEXT? Write a newspaper article about the next stage in this news story. Read what you wrote to your classmates in the next lesson. Give each other feedback on your articles.

6. LETTER: Write a letter to an expert on the future. Ask him/her three questions about the future. Give him/her three of your ideas on what will be best about it. Read your letter to your partner(s) in your next lesson. Your partner(s) will answer your questions.

A Few Additional Activities for Students

Ask your students what they have read, seen or heard about this news in their own language. Students are likely to / may have have encountered this news in their L1 and therefore bring a background knowledge to the classroom.

Get students to role play different characters from this news story.

Ask students to keep track of this news and revisit it to discuss in your next class.

Ask students to male predictions of how this news might develop in the next few days or weeks, and then revisit and discuss in a future class.

Ask students to write a follow-up story to this news.

Students role play a journalist and someone who witnessed or was a part of this news. Perhaps they could make a video of the interview.

Ask students to keep a news journal in English and add this story to their thoughts.

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ANSWERS

TRUE / FALSE (p.4)

a

F

b

T

c

F

d

T

e

F

f

T

g

T

h

F

SYNONYM MATCH (p.4)

1.	report	a.	study
2.	experts	b.	specialists
3.	totally	c.	completely
4.	revolutionised	d.	transformed
5.	unbelievable	e.	incredible
6.	questioned	f.	asked
7.	advanced	g.	futuristic
8.	design	h.	plan
9.	treatment	i.	medical care
10.	used up	j.	finished

COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS (p.8)

1.	Under water
2.	Samsung
3.	City planners
4.	How it would change our lives
5.	Unbelievable
6.	2,000
7.	Virtual meetings
8.	The doctor
9.	Space
10.	English

MULTIPLE CHOICE - QUIZ (p.9)

1.

b

2.

d

3.

a

4.

c

5.

b

6.

a

7.

c

8.

a

9.

a

10.

d

ALL OTHER EXERCISES

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