LISTENING COMPREHENSION TASK

Listen to three people talking about the future and complete the chart.

Positive or negative opinion What do they say about the future?

He says that he finds it quite scary that movies
like Blade Runner could become reality with
SPEAKER 1 Negative riots, people will live in dilapidated buildings,
they will be afraid to leave because of
insecurity, oil supplies will have run out, global
warming and climate change.
He says that he is reading one of his science
fiction books and everything will happen in the
future Within thousands of years there will be
living beings similar to humans, there will be
SPEAKER 2 Negative very sustainable races, they live for at least 300
years and then they choose to live in a state
different where there is no poverty but in itself
does not see a long-term future for the human
race because if the planet survives, it will have
annihilated each other.
He says that we will enter a new phase of our
culture, our existence, we must adapt to new
SPEAKER 3 Positive changes, think about new changes and in terms
of threats, he says that we have to deal with
them in some way.

Do they have a positive or negative view of what life for human beings might be like?

Positive, because I think that in the future technology will be something impressive, science
will expand and everything will change, I also have in mind that diseases worse than COVID-19
will come, problems such as climate change and insecurity but it is learning to live differently
and enjoying every experience.