During the contextualization of this learning activity, Richard and Caroline

made a presentation about the future of food. By the end of the presentation,
Richard asked this question:

Would you change your current behavior if your grandchildren asked you to?

For this evidence, you need to, first, read a letter written by a child who lives
in the future and, then, write a response to him. Let’s begin!

Part A

Fuente: SENA

This is Cameron. He lives in the year 2050. He wrote an open letter to the
people who lived on Earth by the year 2000. He is 12 years old and he has a
few things to say about the experiences he has lived so far. Read his letter. You
will find it below.

Dear fellow citizens of the Earth in 2000,

My name is Cameron Cahill. I live in Mexico City. I’m writing this letter from the
future. I know you might be a little surprised to hear that, but a few friends and I
had the idea of writing to our ancestors. I chose to write to you, the people who
lived in Earth by 2000. I hope my words help you decide if the future is good for
you. In case it is not, you can still change it!

There are great things about the future. We have flying boards to move around.
They are very helpful for getting to school, for example. We can go very fast
and the best thing about them is that they don’t need to be charged. They use
solar energy, so my board charges by itself while I’m moving around. Actually,
none of the devices we use every day has to be charged using wires. My
grandma has told me that when she was young, she used to have a mobile
phone charger with her at all times! I don’t even have chargers because all my
devices get their energy directly from the sunlight. Dad says this is one of the
greatest advances of science. He says that using the solar technology
massively was not easy, but when it happened, our future changed.

There are some other interesting things about future, for example, we use very
funny swimsuits to go to the beach. I’ve seen some photos of people from the
past wearing nice bikinis and shorts at the beach. Our swimsuits are horrible!
We have to be all covered when we get into the sea. My biology teacher
explained to me that there is an overpopulation of jellyfish all around the world.
She says that the oceans used to be a balanced ecosystem but now, many
marine species have gone extinct. For that reason, fish like the jellyfish have
increased in numbers and it is not safe to swim without protection because if
one of these touches you can get very sick.

About the future I can also tell you about our food. We eat very healthy and
delicious dishes. For example, we have a soup made out of spirulina. Spirulina
is a super food because it has a lot of protein in it. When I was little I used to eat
spirulina in capsules but now my mom has learned to make a spirulina soup,
which I think is very tasty. I have heard that you used to eat a lot of beef and
hamburgers by 2000. I love hamburgers! I think they are great but I don’t get to
eat them very often because they are incredibly expensive!

I have told you a few things about the future. What do you think of it? Do you
like it? I enjoy things very much, actually. Just one little thing, remember that the
future is in your hands now. You can leave it the same, make it worse or make it
much better. I hope you have lots of great years ahead.

Take care,

Cameron.

Part B

Now that you have read Cameron’s letter write a response to him. Be as
creative as possible and remember, you need to include some conditional
phrases to talk about any hypothetical situations that may be relevant.
Good afternoon

Cameron

When I received the letter I imagined that everything would be positive in this letter but
unfortunately I understand that the people of 2000 are careless and that those of the year
2050 can no longer reserve the consequences or with the technology they use. I
understand your concern when writing to me. If there were currently a population of
animals, I would worry about the environmental balance.

We have several inventions with wheels, which transport easily but not like the flight
tables, I would like to use it and show them to my friends. If I had a flight table I would last
all day playing with her.

I hope you can change the situation of the sea so that you can wear beautiful balo
costumes. I will tell you how we are going to help, I will show the letter to my teachers to
talk with the parents and look for more solutions apart from collecting garbage on the
beaches.

Take care,

Since 2000.