Did Jules Verne predict the Moon landing?

Answer each question with 2–3 sentences.

1. Do you like to guess the future?
2. What will you probably do next year?
3. Where will you be in ten years?
4. What will be different in your daily life?
5. Will you still live in the same place?
6. What will you never do?

Read each word and the example. Then say a sentence about the future.

Choose the word that fits.

1. My is that our team will win.
2. We'll be late. Let's call.
3. I'll call you tomorrow. I promise.
4. It's to be in two places at once.
5. A can help in the kitchen.
6. The goes into space.
7. Who will a flying car?
8. A is one hundred years.

Choose the right answer, then press Check answers.

1. possible ↔
   probablydefinitelyimpossible
2. to say what will happen = to
   predictguessinvent
3. A story about the future or space is
   a centurya predictionscience fiction
4. A hundred years is a
   robotcenturyprediction
5. Certainly =
   mightprobablydefinitely
6. Maybe =
   definitelywillmight

Use these phrases to talk about the future.

• I think... will...Я думаю, що... буде...I think robots will help us at home.
• It won't...Цього не буде...It won't be easy.
• It might...Можливо, воно...It might rain tomorrow.
• Probably...Ймовірно...We'll probably live longer.
• I'm sure that...Я впевнений(а), що...I'm sure that cars will be electric.
• I don't think... will...Не думаю, що... буде...I don't think we'll live on Mars.
• Who knows?Хто знає?Will we visit Mars? Who knows?
• In the future...У майбутньому...In the future, we'll work fewer hours.

Read the text. Hover over the dotted words for help.

1. Jules Verne was a French writer.
   TrueFalse
2. He wrote his Moon novel in 1965.
   TrueFalse
3. In the book, three men fly to the Moon.
   TrueFalse
4. Verne was right about everything.
   TrueFalse
5. The text says that the Apollo capsules landed in the ocean.
   TrueFalse

1. Do you think writers can predict the future?
2. Which prediction from the past was right?
3. What do you think will be different in 2050?
4. Do you like science fiction? Why or why not?

Common mistakes: will + base verb and the place of probably. ✗ It will to rain → It will rain. ✗ He won't probably come → He probably won't come.

1. I think it
   will to bewill be
   hot.
2. People
   won'tdon't
   use cash.
3. DoWill
   robots help us?
4. It
   will mightmight
   rain tomorrow.
5. We'll
   probablyprobable
   win.
6. He
   probably won'twon't probably
   come.
7. I
   thinkam think
   it will be easy.
8. I don't think we
   won'twill
   live on Mars.

Each sentence has one mistake. Type the correct words.

1. It will to rain. →
2. People will not to use cash. →
3. He won't probably come. →
4. I think it will being hot. →
5. Do robots will help us? →
6. It might to rain. →

Answer in detail. Use will, won't, might and probably.

1. What will the world look like in 2050?
2. Will robots do our jobs?
3. What might change in your country?
4. What will we probably have in every home?
5. What do you think will happen to cities?
6. What might never change?

Three people make a prediction about 2050. Say if you agree. Whose prediction is the most likely? Whose is the most surprising?

Your teacher will time you.

1. Plan for one minute, then speak for one or two minutes.
2. Part 1: what will probably change in the next 20 years.
3. Part 2: what might change and what won't.
4. Part 3: what you want the future to look like.

1. Do you like to guess the future?
2. What will you probably do next year?
3. Where will you be in ten years?
4. Will you still live in the same place?
5. What job will you probably have?
6. What do you think will be different in your daily life?
7. What might you do at the weekend?
8. What will you never do?

1. What will your parents probably do next summer?
2. What will your friends probably do next year?
3. Who in your family likes science fiction?
4. Who in your family guesses the future well?
5. What might your best friend do soon?
6. Who will probably visit you soon?

1. Will robots take our jobs?
2. Will people live on other planets?
3. Will cities be better or worse?
4. Should we trust predictions?
5. Are science fiction writers good at predicting the future?