Sharleth Espinoza

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Jueves, enero 06, 2022 FAMILY LIFE IN THE

FUTURE
1. Read the text, underline 10 verbs that you find in this and write in your notebook.

The world we live in seems completely normal, what we do seems logical and correct. However, everything that
is normal in the present was different in the past. According to the Sociology Professor Pepper Schwartz, family,
love and relationships will change drastically in the future. In 90 years, technology will have changed our lives so
much that social constructions will be different. Families will become androgynous. Household tasks will no
longer be one person’s job solely based on gender. That is, men will stop being who provide to the family or the
main breadwinner in less than a century. Men and women will both take care of the house and work to earn
money. Schwartz says that there will be many cases of subrogation. In addition to women who can’t have
children due to natural causes, women with a very good income will avoid having many pregnancies. The options
may be to have children outside of the mother’s womb. This will help eliminate the idea of women as more
responsible for a child than the father. Thanks to scientific advances there will be fewer cases of children with
physical or mental defects because they will be detected and corrected before delivery. Divorce cases will still be
common. The life expectancy will be higher, and the average person will have approximately 3 marriages during
their life. The cost of living will rise a lot, which will make it almost impossible for families to have a house for
themselves. Also, raising children will be very expensive. So, the state will have to provide a subsidy for
education. Only very poor and very rich people will have more than two children.

Select True(T) or False(F). Correct the (F) ones writing the right answer
a. According to professor, family and work relationships will change completely.
T
b. Relationships and family won’t be too different compared to what we have today.
F
They will be very different since only those very rich or very poor families are those that will be able to
have more than two children.
c. Work at home will be divided between men and women.
T
d.The economy will make it easier to live in an independent house.
F
The cost of living will increase in such a way that it will be almost impossible for the family to have their own
home.
WHAT DO YOU THINK THAT WILL HAPPEN TO YOU IN THE FUTURE?
BRAINSTORM AND WRITE SOME IDEAS ON THE LINES BELOW.

I WANT TO TRAVEL
AROUND THE WORLD

HAVE MORE
KNOWLEDGE

and have a nice family,

but all I hope is to be
happy