4A COMMUNICATIVE  In 20 years’ time

  Discuss each prediction with your group. Decide:

a if you think it will happen.
b if you think it will be a good thing.

1  eople will be mostly reading

P 2  he number of people
T 3  here will be no retirement
T
print books and e-readers will learning foreign languages age. People will be working
have declined in popularity. will have fallen because apps until 70 and even beyond.
will translate everything
simultaneously.

4 
We will have established a 5  he bicycle will have replaced
T 6  eople will have stopped
P
colony on Mars. the car as the main form of using social media sites like
private transport in towns Facebook and Twitter and
and cities. returned to face-to-face
communication.

7 
An increasing number of jobs 8  e will be mainly watching
W 9  amilies will be getting smaller
F
will have been replaced by films with computer-animated and the birth rate will have
robots. actors who will have replaced dropped even further.
human actors.

10 We will be seeing much more 11 

Life expectancy will have 12 It won’t be necessary for
women’s sport on TV as it gone down in the developed anyone to learn to drive
will have greatly increased world because of unhealthy because we’ll be using
in popularity. eating habits. self-driving cars.

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