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3 What Will They Think of Next? 1 Listen and Discuss 1. What things that we take for granted today did people. not have 100 years ago? 2. Name a discovery or development that you think people will have (or use) 100 years from now. رابط الدرس الرقمي www.ien.edu.sa In 1900, a popular American magazine, called Ladies' Home Journal, published an article called "What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years," making predictions about what life would be like in the year 2001. Read and discuss the predictions. Kwik People People will be taller by one to two inches. This increase in height will be a result of better health, due to improvements in medicine, sanitation, and diet. The average life expectancy will have risen from the current age of 35 to the age of 50. Language There will be no C, X, or Q in the English alphabet as these letters will have been determined to be unnecessary. Spelling by sound will have been adopted. English will have become a language of condensed words. English will also be more extensively spoken than any other language. Russian will rank second. Transportation Cars will be cheaper than horses are today. Automobiles will have been substituted for every horse vehicle now known. A one- pound motor in one of these vehicles will do the work of a pair of horses or more. There will be air-ships, but they will not successfully compete with cars and ships for passenger or freight traffic. They will be used mainly by the military. Traffic There will be no traffic on the streets of large cities. All traffic, including subways, cars, and buses will be either below ground or high above. ground. "Moving-sidewalk" stairways will connect them to the street level. The vehicles on the busy underground and overhead. streets will have cushioned wheels. Therefore, there will be almost no noise in cities. وزارة التعليم Ministry 34ucation 2024-1446 MG_03_COMBO_TEXT_2024.indb 34 30/4/24 3:04 AM

وزارة التعليم Ministry of Education 2024-1446 Kwik + Media Photographs will be telegraphed from any distance. If there is an important event happening halfway around the world, photographs of the event will be published in newspapers an hour later. Deliveries When people make purchases from stores, their purchases will be delivered by tubes, connected from the store to houses. These tubes will also collect, deliver, and transport mail over distances, perhaps for hundreds of miles. Communication Wireless telephone circuits will span the world. A person in New York will easily be able to call someone in China. Quick Check ✓ A. Vocabulary. Match each word to its definition. 1. 2. - 2 3 4 5 6 a. extend across b. shortened 3. 4. circuits condensed determined extensively rank 6. span c. covering a wide range or area d. position in an ordered group e. paths for electrical currents f. decided B. Comprehension. Answer the questions. 1. What was the average life expectancy in 1900? 2. What predictions did the author make about the English language? Have they come true? 3. What do you think the author was referring to when he used the term air-ships? 4. Choose a prediction and give an example of how it has come true. 5. Which prediction do you think is the least likely to ever come true? Why? 2 Pair Work Work with a partner to make predictions about the year 2100. Create one prediction for each of the categories in the article. Discuss your predictions with the class. MG_03_COMBO_TEXT_2024.indb 35 35 30/4/24 3:04 AM