Speculating About the Future

B2 · Upper-intermediate57 minIELTS Test PreparationLesson 8 of 8 · Outline

Aims

Goal: build extended future speculation in Part 3 - current situation, driving forces, optimistic and pessimistic scenarios, then a considered position.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: The journalist, not the fortune-teller

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: Extended Future Speculation

    Read a 260-word text about Extended Future Speculation

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Future Speculation Vocabulary

    6 items

  3. Practice7 min

    Practice: Future Speculation Expressions

    Gap-fill exercise, 5 items

  4. Practice7 min

    Practice: Improving Future Speculation

    Error-correction exercise, 4 items

  5. Dialogue10 min

    Dialogue: Extended Future Speculation Practice

    Role-play: Practice developing extended, well-reasoned speculation about future trends (3 lines)

  6. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Your speculation mission

    3 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

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