The Future
A B2 discussion-writing worksheet with eight prompts about the future. Students develop opinions with reasons, examples or personal experience, then compare their work with page 2 model responses.
What’s in the worksheet?
- 8 discussion-writing prompts about the future
- Reasons, examples and personal experience
- Developed B2 model responses on page 2
Write eight developed B2 responses about personal plans, a country's future, inventions, films and imagined time travel. The focus is expressing predictions with appropriate certainty.
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A simple way to teach it
Before the lesson
Review plan versus prediction and will, might and would. No knowledge of a particular film is required; a learner can explain that they do not have a suitable example.
- Develop a personal long-term plan and distinguish it from a prediction about wider changes.
- Write about a desired invention or a fictional future, explaining its appeal or possible consequences.
- Compare with page 2's models and revise a prediction so the reason and level of certainty are clear.
Support and extension
Support with I expect... because... and It might.... Extend by comparing an optimistic prediction with a possible limitation. The time-machine and national-change models are discussion examples, not scientific proof or current forecasts; personal worries may remain general.
Suggested approach. Adjust the pace and number of questions to suit your class.
