English What will I do

Pedagogical Module 3 in the future?

Curricular Threads: Communication and Cultural Awareness,
Oral Communication, Reading, Writing, Language Through the Arts

Tenth Grade EGB

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Our Curiosity About the Future

Knowing what the future holds is a common curiosity
among people. Humanity has always tried to know what
will happen in the future. As a result, multiple ways
have been created to try to see the future. Some of these
methods seem simple and others seem very abstract.
However, these practices of seeing or trying to read the
future are already a type of art. They even have their own
suffix, “-mancy”. To practice divination, people often use
omens or supernatural powers. Real or unreal, divination
is rooted in many cultures and will probably continue
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forever.

• Did you know about divination methods?

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• Is there any traditional divination method in your country? Have you tried it?

• If you had the chance to see the future, what are ways it could change your life?

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 Lesson A

Communication and Cultural Awareness

Social Studies

Is it possible for people to know what is in the future? What are some methods of divination?

Divination Methods
Value: Interculturality
People have created many ways to see or predict the future. Among
Why do you think that the multiple ways of predicting the future are: xylomancy, the divination
so many different cultures by reading pieces of wood. Another form of divination is theomancy,
have developed a method or the divination by responding to the oracles or people that the gods
to know about the future? inspire. Next is scapulimancy. It consists of reading the bones of an animal.
Had you heard about these
Another way of divination to find underground water or minerals
forms of divination before?
currents is rhabdomancy. Next is pyromancy or seeing the future through
When and from who?
the reading of fire. Psephomancy is another way of reading the future
using pebbles. Lithomancy or divination using stones. The divination
made through the reading of leaves is called phyllomancy. The divination
of future that comes with the observation of the flight of birds is called
We have read about many ornithomancy. Another form of divination is the reading
ways to see the future. Can of the cooked white of eggs is known as oomancy. These and
you guess what the following many other ways to see the future have been used in the past.
methods of divination are?
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Aeromancy

Divination
Aleuromancy Complete the crossword puzzle below with words related to divination
methods.

Anthropomancy

Bibliomancy

Ceromancy

Vertical
Vocabulary 1. In this divination method someone
read pieces of wood
oracle. a female priest
who gave people wise but Horizontal 2. The art of seeing the future by
looking at rocks
often mysterious advice from 4 . (related to theomancy) a priest that was inspired
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3. Phylomancy pays attention to ...

a god, or the advice given by god and gave pieces of advice to know the future 5. It is used to see the future in
6. To find water under the ground, we use ...
pebble. a small smooth round pyromancy
7. Scapulimancy consists in reading...
stone, especially one found 7. Ornithomancy consist on looking
on a beach or in a river 8. Oomancy pays attention to ... at these animals

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 Oral Communication

What are some methods you have heard about to predict the future?

1. Did you guess the definitions of divinations correctly? Listen again

and check if you got the answers right. If you didn’t get them right, listen Audio
again and then ask your classmates for the meaning of: Listen to the person talk
about forms of divination.
a. What is the meaning of aeromancy? Take notes about what is said.

b. What does aleuromancy mean?

Based on the description
of these divination forms,
c. What is the meaning of anthropomancy? which one would you prefer
to try? Why?

d. What is the meaning of bibliomancy?

e. How does ceromancy work?

2. Choose the correct answer.

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a. Astragalomancy is the art of knowing the future by reading

Stars / Bones
Grammar Tip
b. The root of belomancy comes from the same
Greek / Latin word. Note that to talk about periods
of time past, present and future
c. To practice belomancy, people have to take a Missile / Arrow /Dart we use the preposition in.
For example: I want to know
from a container.
what will happen in the future.
d. Bibliomancy is the prediction of the future by means of looking at

Specific / Random pages of a book.

Vocabulary
e. The prediction of the future using
Maps / Cards is cartomancy.
forecast. to say what you
expect to happen in the
f. Young women used cartomancy in the
19th / 18th century to future, often with the weather
know their future. flour. powder made from
Chiromancy is the divination method of examining water in grain, especially wheat,
used for making bread, cakes,
Basins / Hands pasta, pastry, etc.

dough. flour mixed with water

and often yeast, fat, or sugar,
What is the best divination method? so that it is ready for baking
bread
Make groups of 4 and consider all the divination methods you have
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learned until now. Select 5 and rank in order of posssibly being accurate. entrails. the intestines
Make a list of arguments explaining why you rank them in that order. and other inside organs
Share your list with your classmates and compare the rankings. Do the of an animal or person, when
groups agree or disagree? Explain. they are outside the body

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Reading

How do you think relationships and family life will be in the future? Explain

Family Life in the Future

Grammar Tip

When we want to talk about The world we live in seems completely

the future or make predictions normal, what we do seems logical and correct.
or express decisions for the However, everything that is normal in the
future taken at the moment, present was different in the past.
we use the modal: will+ verb
According to the Sociology Professor
in the base form. The negative
Pepper Schwartz, family, love and relationships
form of will is will not or won’t.
will change drastically in the future. In 90

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For example:
years, technology will have changed our lives
• I will go out with you so much that social constructions will be
on the weekend. different. Families will become androgynous. Household tasks will no longer
• He won’t win the race be one person’s job solely based on gender. That is, men will stop being
next year. 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
Value: Gender equality 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
It makes sense for partners idea of women
​​ as more responsible for a child than the father.
in a household to share
Thanks to scientific advances there will be fewer cases of children with
responsibilities. Families
physical or mental defects because they will be detected and corrected before
are having fewer children
delivery. Divorce cases will still be common. The life expectancy will be
than in past generations,
higher, and the average person will have approximately 3 marriages during
and more women are working
their life. The cost of living will rise a lot, which will make it almost impossible
as professionals now than ever.
for families to have a house for themselves. Also, raising children will be
These job changes result
very expensive. So, the state will have to provide a subsidy for education.
in changes at home as well.
Only very poor and very rich people will have more than two children.
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• Do you agree with his
predictions? Why or why
not? Would you change Select True(T) or False(F). Correct the (F) ones writing the right answer.
anything about them?
a. According to professor, family and work relationships
• Do you think that some will change completely.
of these predictions are
already true?
• Are some of these
predictions impossible? b. Relationships and family won’t be too different compared
Explain. to what we have today.

Vocabulary

household. a group of people, c. Work at home will be divided between men and women.
often a family, who live
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together

subrogation. the substitution d. The economy will make it easier to live in an independent house.
of one person or group by
another or something else

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 Oral Communication

Are you good at making plans? What types of things do you plan in advance?

The Art of Making Plans

Audio
Listen to the dialogue.

Grammar Tip

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Remember that when we want
to express possession, we use
the apostrophe ’s when the owner
Listen to the speakers talking about plans making. Answer the following is a person or an animal.
questions. The owner goes first, then,
• What is Mili’s problem? the apostrophe s and then the
possession.
• Is Mili going to work too much during the summer? For example: Mili’s plans.
• Is she happy about doing what she is going to do in the summer?
Don’t forget that if the owner’s
name ends in s we write only
• What is Luca’s piece of advice? the apostrophe.
For example: Lucas’ plans.
• According to the text, why do people cancel plans so often?

• What is the solution to the planning-canceling culture according

to the article?

PLANNING
In pairs. Student A talk about your plans for the weekend. Student B
ask questions to get more information. Exchange the roles once you
have finished.

Listen again and put a check next to the correct option.

is sure of what she is going to do in summer

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Mili doesn’t know what she is going to do in summer

is not going to do anything in summer
Vocabulary
is stressed about what he is going to do in summer
Lucas knows what he is going to do in summer schedule. to arrange that
is not going to do anything summer an event or activity will
happen at a particular time
are going to have 2 weddings overschedule. to overfill the
Mili’s are going to launch a product schedule with too many
friends are having parties activities

task. piece of work to be done

his personal experience
Lucas to avoid. to stay away from
an article he read in a magazine
talks about someone or something
an article he found on the internet
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to commit. to promise or give

Planning/ was already discovered last century your loyalty, time, or money
Cancelling is going to be studied in the future to a particular principle,
culture is not real person, or plan of action

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 Oral Communication

What are your plans for the future?

Audio
Listen to the dialogue.
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Grammar Tip
1. Mark each of the following statements as True(T) or False(F) according
to what you heard. When we want to talk about the
future we can use three forms.
a. Jessy is going to travel to Europe.
• Present continuous
b. Thomas may travel to the United States. for planned activities.
They are having a show next
c. Anna and Thomas are going to a Jonas Brother’s concert. month.
• Going to for plans, intentions,
d. The Jonas Brother’s concert will be in Madrid in September. and predictions based on
evidence.
e. Thomas will probably meet Harry Styles. Billie Eilish has so many hits.
Her concert is going to be
2. In the audio, Thomas, Jessy and Anna use all the forms of future. Write awesome.
one example of each form: • Will for unplanned future,
promises and predictions with
Present Continuous no evidence.
We will have a great time
Going to at the party.
Will

What are your plans? Ask 3 classmates for their plans. Write their
answers in the table below. Be prepared to share their answers with
the class.
Vocabulary

to launch. to introduce
Question /Name something new such as
a product
What are you doing
tonight? disappointed. unhappy
because someone or
Where are you going something was not as good
on the weekend? as you hoped or expected,
or because something did not
What are you going to do happen
on vacation?
to set off. to start on a trip
When are you going
to graduate? to appeal. to interest
or attract someone
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Who will be your favorite

singer in 1 year? to bump into someone.
to meet someone you know
What will you be doing when you have not planned
in 5 years? to meet them

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 Oral Communication

What are your expectations for next year?

Transportation in the Future

Audio
Listen to the audio and select the right option. Listen to the following audio
about next year. Take notes.
a. The audio is about predictions of what would happen
Then answer the questions
Before 2020 In 2020 After 2020 in class.

b. The audio says that in 2020 there

will be cars that can drive themselves

won’t be cars that can handle alone
will already be cars that don’t need a human driver

c. The predictions said that Japan

will have a moon base for robots

will have a moon base for humans
will have a solar base for robots

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d. According to the audio, with the China railway

will sell more products to Europe

will join two worlds
is going to build the biggest railway ever
Ask your classmate which
inventions may come out
e. Due to the lack of technology to connect cars, independent cars in 10 years related to the
will be a reality following fields. Add your
own categories.
won’t be a reality
• Medicine
will need more time to come out • Vacations
• Food
• Houses

Vocabulary
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expectation. a strong belief

that something will happen
or be the case in the future

How do you imagine the future? Complete the sentences with your subsequent. coming after
own ideas. something in time; following

• In 10 years to handle. manage

(a situation or problem)
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• By 2050
set out. begin a journey
• The next generation
to delay. make (someone
• Next year or something) late or slow

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Reading

How was education in the past? How is it different now? What will it be like in the past?

What Changes Will be There in the Field

Before Reading of Education?
Brainstorm a list of elements and
tasks that are traditional in your Technology advances at giant steps. Since the creation of the internet
school. Have you ever imagined in the 60s, the world has seen unimaginable changes. Today the whole
how your school would be world is connected in real-time. There are new inventions every year that
without them? make into artifacts things that were cutting edge technology obsolete.
Some of the objects that will become obsolete in the 2020s are some
products and practices related to education. First, desks because new
education models and approaches say that communities work bettter
by sitting together or any environment that allows a more collaborative
dynamic promotes learning better than the traditional rows.
Second are the famous language labs for language learning. Future
learners will stop using monitors and desks and replace them with more
convenient devices such as phones. Nowadays we can learn languages​​
with apps on the phone. Maybe even books will be replaced by apps
in the future.
Third is the computer. The objective of education won’t be for students
to spend hours in front of a book, instead they will use elements that have
more presence in their life such as platforms, apps or programs that make
learning more meaningful and life related. Finally, in the future, teachers
who can’t use technology in their classes will become obsolete. Those who
can’t, unfortunately, will stop being attractive to educational institutions.
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1. In your notebook, answer the following questions.

a. Why do you think these elements will become obsolete?
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b. Do you agree that all the items in the text will disappear in the future?

c. Do you think these predictions will come true?

d. How soon do you think these predictions will take more time
to become real?

Vocabulary e. When do you think these changes will happen in your school?

step. forward movement

2. Read again and match the item with the changes it will suffer. Write
cutting edge. at the latest the number of the item next to the change it may cause.
or most advanced stage
of development; innovative a. Will be replaced by apps on the phone
Language labs
or pioneering
b. Desks
obsolete. no longer produced Students will seat on collaborative tables
or used; out of date
c. Computers
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row. a number of people

d. Teachers with Won’t be practical anymore
or things in a more or less
straight line no knowledge
of technology Will not be attractive to schools
to replace. take the place of

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Assessment
Speaking Listening
1 Interview a classmate about their predictions. Ask 2 Listen the following audio about the apps of the
them the following questions and create two of your future. Take notes on what you hear.
own. Take notes.

a. How do you think families will be in the future?

b. Do you think our lives will be very different

in 50 years? Why? How?

c. What will happen in terms of politics in the next

5-20 years?

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3 Listen again: Select the most interesting app
d. What other things do you believe will be obsolete mentioned in the audio and explain why you prefer it.
in a decade?
App

Reason 1

e. How do you think technology will change our

Reason 2
lives in the future?

4 Create your own idea for an app. What problem

will it solve? What will it do? How will it work?
Create 2 questions of your own Be prepared to present it in front of the class.

Now share what you learned about your classmate

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with the rest of the class. Do you and your classmates

have a lot in common? What is something new
you learned? Discuss the questions.

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 Assessment What will I do in the future?
Reading
What are some things you used as a kid but don’t
anymore? As with music, movies and series can be viewed
on platforms such as Netflix so DVDs and
Pay attention to verb tenses, time expressions, and Blu-Ray players will no longer be useful.
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words you don’t recognize. Write your observations. The same will happen with alarm clocks,
calculators, analog watches, payphones, landlines,
buttons on phones, reference books, checkbooks,
remote controls, car keys, travel agencies,
Things that Will Stay in the Past
textbooks and shopping malls. If technology
There are many things that at some time continues to advance as it has done until today, all
were the most modern but that little by little these artifacts will disappear in the not so distant
have been replaced to become objects and future.
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no-longer-exist-2017-11
will become only part of antique collections
and then will only be in museums, are CDs.
In the future people will stop owning or having Writing
music because everything will be on the phone Write a brief letter (90 words) to your school
2
and on music platforms like Deezer or Spotify. director. Explain what changes there will be in the
House keys will also become obsolete when people future related to schools and education and why
start using cards or codes. There are countries your school should or should not incorporate them.
where this is already a reality. Paper receipts If your school has already incorporated any of these
will become an exception as receipts will arrive changes you can express if you agree or disagree
directly in the mail after purchase. Digital cameras with this decision.
are now rare. Most people have phones that
have cameras, some almost professional. Printed
Vocabulary
magazines and newspapers will no longer be seen
in the waiting rooms, as people will have access 3 Choose 3 phrasal verbs you have seen in this unit
to more up-to-date information and from and write a definition with your own words and an
many more sources within a click. The cables example using it.
for charging phones and headphones will
become useless because we will listen to music
and charge phones wirelessly. People can stop 1
losing important jobs by losing their thumb
drives or USBs because all the information
can be stored in clouds on the network. 2
With the creation of google maps and other apps
on mobile phones that help us to see the routes
interactively, with images and traffic reports,
as well as information about places, paper maps 3
and GPS devices will be things of the past.

I’m completing this self-evaluation based on what I learned in the module.

Self-evaluation I check the box that most applies to me

I do it very I do it I can I can’t do it
Topics well somewhat well improve without help
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I can make predictions using will and won’t .

I can talk about future changes in education using going to and will.
I can express my future plans/ my career election/ study plans using
three forms of future (present continuous/going to/ will).

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 Let's Review

Vocabulary
1 How many of these vocabulary words do you
remember? A

Divination - Household - Subrogation - Pebble - Forecast

- Fortuneteller - Turn out - Clairvoyant - Schedule - Task B
- Reminder - To launch - Disappointed - To release -
Cutting edge
A
Choose three vocabulary words from the list above
and define them in your own words.
B

1 A

2
Reading
3 Can you summarize the advances in education
and family structure in the readings on pages
4 and 12? Write 5 changes in the future from each
page.
3

2
Grammar
Work in pairs and create a 2-3 minute dialog 3
2
dialogue about changes in the future. Use the three
4
forms of the future: present continuous, going to
and will. 5

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Reading

Describe what you think the world will be like in 2050. Write down you predictions.

The World in 2050

Before Reading

• Do you believe there are going Scientists already know for sure what will
to be a lot of climate changes happen in the future. Industries will continue
in the future? If so which? to cause many changes.
• Do you think they can be One important change in the future will
reduced? How? be the temperature. Scientists say that by 2050
• What other changes might the planet will have a temperature increase
happen? of 3 to 4º C. It seems like nothing, but it will
have enormous effects on ecosystems. Fr
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• Write your ideas in your
notebook. By 2050, the sea level will be 25 centimeters higher.
With higher temperatures, the defrosting process in Antarctica will become
twice as fast. The glaciers are going to melt. This will result in an increase
in the sea level. Another consequence will be the floods. The likelihood
of flooding in coastal towns will rise more than nine times. The economic
Value: Human beings losses will be greater than 50 billion dollars.
and the environment
The growth of the Himalayas will be another change. In 2050 the highest
What can you do to take care mountain range is going to be 165 millimeters higher due to the movement
of the environment in order of the Indian plate below it. The nearby towns are worried about the
to prevent the greenhouse possibility of earthquakes in the area.
effect and other possible
natural disasters? Everyone Eating fruits, and vegetables is going to be difficult. There won’t be
can help with small actions. enough crops to meet world demand. There will be serious consequences
for species such as birds. Scientists say that in 2050, 99% of seabirds will have
Start a list of what you can do eaten plastics.
to help. Compare your predictions about the future with the experts’ predictions.
Were your guesses similar?

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Answer the following el-mundo-en-el-2050-el-futuro-a-ciencia-cierta/
questions.

1. Were your own predictions Match the highlighted words in the text above with the image.
of the future right? How?
2. Is there a way to prevent
the events mentioned
in the text?
3. What is the solution to
these problems?
4. Why is the Paris
Agreement incorrect?

Vocabulary

to defrost. If frozen food

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defrosts, or if you defrost it,

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it becomes warmer and no

longer frozen

twice. two times

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 Writing

Where will the soccer world championship take place after Qatar 2022?

World Cup 2030

Grammar Tip
As the World Cup location for the 2030 World Cup has already been Modal verbs are special verbs.
chosen on June 13, 2018, no country in Central and North America will be To make negations, we write
able to host the cup in 2026, according to FIFA rules. However, it is not yet the subject + the modal + not +
known who the host country or countries of the 2030 World Cup will be. verb in the base form.
So far, there are two nominations, the joint Uruguay-Argentina-Chile- For example: The matches cannot
Paraguay candidacy, and the individual Moroccan candidacy. be in the morning or evening
because of the heat.

• Which country do you think will be the official headquarters and

why? Do you have another proposal for the place where the 2030
soccer World Cup should be held? Which and why?

• According to the place you choose as host in 2030, make predictions

about how that tournament will take place. What will be the
advantages? What will be the biggest obstacles? In your notebook
write an article of 90 words. Do not forget to use the forms of the
future: will and going to.

Technology in Sports
Sports are a field that does not get rid of technological advances.
Nowadays it is possible to know exactly if a ball fell outside or inside the
tennis court, it does not matter if anybody managed to see it, because
the machines can show with precision where the ball has fallen. Another
sport that has seen impressive changes is soccer. For example, adding the
famous VAR can be very positive, but it takes away a lot of fun. Another
aspect that has changed a lot since the origin of some sports is the uniform.
More dynamic garments are made today to help players to perform in the
best way.

Answer the questions and write your predictions in 7 sentences.

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2. What will the uniforms, the instruments of the team be like?

3. Do you think the requirements will change for athletes in the future?
Vocabulary
4. Do you think there will still be referees, or will they become obsolete?

1
to host. to provide the space
and other things necessary
2 for a special event

headquarter. the place from

3
where an organization is
4 controlled
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proposal. a suggestion for

5
a plan
6 get rid of. to throw something
7
away

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 Lesson D

Communication and Cultural Awareness

What are some of the college degrees/careers many students want to study? Will they be useful in the future?

What to Study in University

World Fact
1. Make a list of the degree programs you will apply for in the future
Why is it Important and explain why you want to pursue each of them.
to Study Hard at School?
1
It may seem as a matter
of numbers. One point more, 2
one point less, what is the 3
difference? However, school
and especially school grades
will have a great influence Most demanded university careers
on your life in the future. Education opens many doors. Choosing
The average of high school a career is a fundamental decision, but not simple.
grades, plus the final exam There are people who know what they want to
score will allow you to access be, but most don’t. Most people finish high school
a university, if you decide and still don’t know what to study. According to
to study in a university a trend in recent years, these are the careers most
in Ecuador. There are some students applied for nationwide. Are these careers
other options in other among your options? The first is nursing, followed by

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countries like loans medicine, dentistry, business administration, architecture, law, civil
or scholarships. However, engineering, social communication, economics, clinical psychology,
grades are also an important environmental engineering, accounting and auditing, nursing degree,
aspect they consider commercial engineering, industrial engineering, veterinary medicine,
for admissions. mechanical engineering, agronomic engineering and social work.
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There is no minimum grade to get into in public institutions.
The score needed is proportional to the demand for seats for each career.
So, the more students throughout who want to study these careers,
the higher the score must be.
Compare it to a marathon. Anyone can participate in a marathon
without training. However, they will not reach the goal or be even close
to winning. A student may apply with a 400-point mark for medicine,
but will not be in the quota because there will be so many students
who reach a higher score than that. For this reason, it is important
to get good scores on the final exams if you wish to follow any university
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nationwide. extending
or reaching throughout
a whole nation
2. Why are grades important?
among. being a member
or members of (a larger set)
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3. Do any of the careers on the list belong to your list of possible careers?
quota. a fixed minimum
or maximum number of a
particular group of people
allowed to do something

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 Oral Communication

What are you going to study in university?

University Decisions
1. Listen to the audio about what to do during the last year of class
and answer the questions. Audio
Listen to the dialogue.
a. What is the situation of each girl?

b. What is the warning Dannya gives Kathy about small universities?

c. What is study the plan of Dannya?

Listen again and correct the following statements about university

career application.

• Danna knows that she wants to study medicine.

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• Kathy has got a clue of what she is going to study next at university.

Grammar Tip
• Kathy’s first university degree option is tourism.
Remember that different modal
verbs have different functions.
Must expresses obligation
2. Match the picture with the career. Write the career under the picture. or prohibition. For example:
You must be careful. “May” “can”
Nursing - Economics - Engineering - Medicine - Clinical and “could” express possibility;
psychology - Architecture - Electricity - Fashion designer For example: You may pass
the exam if you study hard. “Can”
and “Could” express ability or
skill but “can” is less formal. For
example: With a good score, you
can get a place at the university.

Vocabulary
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clue. a sign or some

information that helps you
to find the answer
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to a problem, question,
or mystery

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Reading
History

Will technology take over the world?

Technology and Jobs in the Future

Before Reading
Over the years, the needs of people change, and companies need
• Do you know anything about to meet those needs. In the future, today’s needs will probably be obsolete.
artificial intelligence? Let’s look at what threatens the employment of humanity in the future.
• Do you believe machines will Many jobs that are done manually will disappear because machines
replace people somehow? will do those jobs faster. Instead of having 100 employees, one single person
• What can we do to prevent will be paid to maintain a machine that does the work of the employees.
an unfavorable situation for Artificial intelligence is taking its first steps and many people, such as drivers
humans against technology? or receptionists, fear being replaced by a machine already. Machines with
artificial intelligence can carry out the tasks of a dermatologist, lawyer,
sports reporters, and even software developers better than humans do.
Global meetings have been held and it is on the agenda of governments,
scientists, and economists to discuss how to prevent an unfavorable
scenario. A change in education is seen as a possible solution to this
problem. Only educated people can be employable and attractive
to companies. Technology would be just the tool to access more and better
education that allows people to change the labor market.
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Value: Gender equality

It makes sense for partners

in a household to share 1. In your own words, explain why the future may present an unfavorable
responsibilities. Families situation for humans.
are having fewer children
than in past generations,
and more women are working
as professionals now than ever.
These job changes result in 2. What does take over mean in “Technology may take over humans’ jobs?
changes at home as well.

Think of another consequence 3. Do people all over the world see technology as a serious problem?
of artificial intelligence
replacing humans in different
fields of human’s lives.
How can humans prevent it?
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Write a letter to the president

4. What is a possible solution to this problem and why? Can you think
to explain why this is or is not
of any other solutions?
a concern for you and what
we should do to support
or prevent this situation.

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 Oral Communication

Where will you travel your next vacations?

1. Listen to the audio and match the phrasal verb with the meaning. Write
the number of the phrasal verb next to its meaning. Compare your Audio
answers with your classmates. Listen to the dialogue.
to go and fetch someone from a place
a. Set out and take them somewhere else

b. Check in to increase speed Choose 4 of the phrasal verbs

you heard in the dialogue.
when a plane arrives on an airport In pairs write your own
c. Pick up 2 minutes dialogue in your
to climb on board notebook where the characters
d. Get in use the phrasal verbs.
Be prepared to present it .
to register at a hotel when a plane
e. Look around arrives on an airport

f. Speed up to start a journey

to leave to go somewhere for a break

g. Get away or holiday

h. Get on to explore what is near you, in your

area

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2. Answer the following questions:

a. Why does the family go to the travel agency?

Grammar Tip

Remember that “will” and “going

b. What does the assistant do to determine where they will travel? to” are used to make predictions.
“Going to” is also for already
made plans and will for more
c. Does Maui fit with all the family’s requirements? Explain. spontaneous decisions. “Will” is
also used to make promises.
For example:
d. Do they know how much the trip will cost? Why? I promise this will be fantastic!

e. What does the assistant promise the kid? Vocabulary

to tan. to become brown

f. What will they be able to see when they climb at Haleakala or browner after exposure
National Park? to the sun

hairpin turn. a sharp U-shaped

curve in a road

astonishing. extremely
surprising or impressive;
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amazing

view. a sight or prospect,

typically of attractive natural
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Assessment
Writing
1 Your friends that live abroad are going to visit you
for the first time and you are going to plan their
vacations. Write a letter (80-90 words) and explain
what they will do during their trip here. Use will
and going to and phrasal verbs.

Introduction

Ideal 1

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Ideal 2

3 Match the word and the meaning

Ideal 3
a. Nourish d. Food supplements

Conclusion
b. Womb e. Undergo

c. Life expectancy f. Preventive

Reading
2 Read the following excerpt. What does it tell you the uterus
about power and evolution? Crime and prisons?
Pharmaceutics? Write down your ideas in your
notebook. experience or be subjected to something

provide with the food or other substances

Health in the future necessary for growth, health, and good
In the future people will be able to live longer. condition
Science will understand better how the body
works. For example, they will already know designed to keep something undesirable from
how the brain works, or how to nourish occurring
ourselves to live in a healthier way. By the
22nd century, people will probably live many a preparation that is intended to supply
hundreds of years. Medicine will not only cure a nutrient
more effectively but will also be preventive
before birth. Babies in the womb will already the average period that a person may expect
undergo health corrections, even the DNA to live
will be altered to cure or correct any error.
With the increase in life expectancy, experts
hope that living conditions will also improve 4 Circle the main idea of the text?
and that jobs won’t affect natural resources,
because there will be the food supplements.
In the future people will live longer
Another prediction is that people will not carry
money or cards anymore. The fingerprint will
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be the only needed signal of identity. These DNA will be modified to make people healthier
and more changes will change humans’ lives
drastically. Medicine in the future will treat and
prevent illnesses

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 Assessment What will I do in the future?
Listening Speaking

1 Listen to the following audio about the weather 3 Wall-e is a Disney pixar movie that shows a
forecast and determine if each of the following futuristic world. In an important scene Wall-e gives
statements are True(T), False(F), or Not her an old shoe with a plant. Draw the scene and
Mentioned(NM) in the audio. explain the emotion of Eva in the scene and why it
is important.
a. The average temperature
of the country is 7 centigrade.

b. The weather forecast is about

the weather until Friday.

c. The weather forecast is about

the south, north and east
of the country.

d. There will be a lot of sun Do you consider this film realistic? Do you think it
in the south. is a good movie or not? Explain. Who do you think
was the target audience for this movie?
e. There will be many clouds
on Tuesday in the north.
Grammar / Vocabulary

Speaking 4 What other movies, books or songs depict the future

and the differences? Write 2 sentences mentioning
2 Complete the phrases with the correct number. the song or movie and what changes there will be
a. Today, Saturday, March th. according to it.

b. The average temperature is centigrade. Example: According to Futurama, we will travel to space
very fast.
c. Let’s look ahead, your day forecast.

d. In the east of the country, the temperature will

be around centigrade. 1
e. On Tuesday there will be a high of
centigrade in the evening after a cold morning
with a low of centigrade.

f. On Monday it will be partly cloudy with

2
% of humidity, the temperature will feel like
centigrade.

I’m completing this self-evaluation based on what I learned in the module.

Self-evaluation I check the box that most applies to me

I do it very well I do it somewhat I can I can’t do it
Topics well improve without help

I can make predictions about sports using will, going to

and vocabulary related to sports.
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I can explain the future effects of climate change and

environmental damages using future structures.
I can describe technology advances and changes in the
future using will and going to.

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 Project 2
My Plans For the Future
How will your life be in 10 years?
Grammar Tip
Write your study plan or life plan for the next 10 years.
Remember to use the correct
future tense “will” or “going
to” and the modal verbs
to express possibility.

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• What are you going to do for sure?

• Have you already planned anything?

• What are the possibilities you have if you go for this path?

• Why do you want to study?

• What can you do as a professional in that field?

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Now that you are an expert about future and how to express it.

1. Prepare a survey to know what your classmates’ top 5 preferred

education careers are.
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2. Groups. Ask your group members what they will study and why
and then rank the careers.
3. Create a chart to see the results.
4. Make a collage showing the conclusions.

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