Now that you know how to use modal verbs for speculation and deduction, it’s time you do an activity about them. What do you think that will happen in the future? What shall we see in 20 or 50 year’s time? Have you got any ideas?
Please leave an answer in the comments where you state three of your predictions using different modal verbs and structures. If you still need help with these verbs, just check this article where you have some explanations and online activities. You can also use the infograph below for more ideas, if you click on it, you will be redirected to the BBC web page, where it was originally published.
English in Guía 
Hi classmates =)
My predictions are the following:
1. Books are bound to disappear because of the improvement of netbooks, ipads…
2. Patients definitely won’t receive any prescription written on paper. We will have an application on our phones.
3. Students are likely to study at home because of the increase on university taxes.
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In coming months, we are likely to develop our english skills to such a level that we’ll be able to work or study abroad as successfully as we are here.
During the next five years, electric cars will probably become as usual as gasoline or diesel engines.
The next thirty years are sure to be the most hopeful and thrilling in our recent history, we all will presumably witness one of the biggest changes in the world for centuries.
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I think in 20 or 50 years’ time people’s life expectancy is bound to increase considerably. Besides, it is likely that scientists will invent new technologies which enable people to locate in different parts of the world and not just see how those places are, but feel their weather (cold and hot, for example). And, to finish, I think that in 20 or 50 years’ time people probably won’t need any keys to get to their homes. They will be able to do it simply with their fingerprint.
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These are my predictions:
·By 2016 people are likely to touch one another through their phones, so virtual contact will be more straight than now.
·In five years time computers are bound to have a sense of smell, so technology will definitely advance in a huge way.
·In two years time people are sure to take lessons at home by a screen and sit exams by online methods.
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First of all, I frankly believe that in 20 year’s time from our currents day the balance of our economic system will definitely be the same in one sense.
In the end, it all comes down to money, and whether we are not going to be provided by overseas countries or unless we find some resources so as to grew as a country, it might take more than 20 year’s tome to get rid of this miasma.
As fas as economy is concerned, our government is the only one we must blame to. The shouldn’t have based our current system in one single point, which was bound to be a failure in a no longer future. For that reason, we are sure to pay for the mistakes that others should have never ever done.
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These are my predictioins:
In 20 years time, air transport might be too expensive due to environmental taxes.
We will probably suffer climate change consequences.
Politicians are bound to disappear and a wises council is likely to replace them.
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Yesterday, we had the opportunity to talk to Doctor BOO, wellknown all over the world for his predictions . As we all know 2013 is the beginning of a new step for the human kind. Here are the two predictions he accepted to reveal to our reporter:
– At this time next year Spain will definitely get out of the crisis and the unemployment rate is bound to decrease.
– In 30 years it is likely that everybody is going to spend part of the holidays in another planet. We definitely won’t waste time in airports since we will all have private space shuttles at home.
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– In a near future cancer cure is likely be discovered.
– In less than 30 years we wiil definitely be facing problems related with the increasement of greenhouse effect.
– We might be able to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a few minutes.
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Hi classmates,
I think is very likely that robots will do all the housework, so we´ll spend our time in other activities.
We ´ll probably work without going out of home, with our computers or with a remote control.
Finally, politicians and company directors will definitely achieve some agreements to reduce the emission of polluting substances.
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I’m afraid there’s two sci-fi films that come to my mind to answer these question:
– There might be a war between human beings and robots, as happens in “Terminator”.
– Scientifics will definitely discover the gene of eternal youth, but that probably won’t be a solution to real problems. On the contrary, it’s likely to cause another kind of inequalities, as “In Time” tells.
– If we, as a developed society, continue existing in 100 years time, we should have improved our ability to keep us safe from the threatens we are causing nowadays. But I can’t remember any film that talks about that!
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Sorry, I’ve just remembered a film as an example of my third prediction!, “Star Trek”! 🙂
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Tere Jiménez
Hello classmates ,this are my predictions for next years:
– Our transport will probably be very different than now, because we must spend less fossil fuel and we shoud have transports that work with green energy.
– In 20 years from now, I’m bound to improve the economic situation in our country, as the current situation can’t prolong too many time.
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Hi dear mates,
my predictions about this artifitial world are:
*People will probably spend their time in front of a screem with no friends, only unknown people by interest.
*in 5 years, the Spanish economy is bound to improve and it’s likely to find new job opportunities.
*It’s likely that we will have to pay for everything even to shit. Money moves the world. What a pitty! We are forgetting about feelings.
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These are my predictions:
– In fifty years inhabitants of big cities may be growing vegetables and fruits in farm buildings.
– There will probably be a global government and therefore frontiers between countries definitely won’t exist.
– In the future hunger and poverty are likely to be something of the past.
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I’m a bit late, but here are my predictions:
– In the next 20 years technologies in communication and transport will continue changing our lives.
-Climate change will probably stop due to the use of new kind of energy, like sun power.
-In less than 50 years the situation of poor countries might improve with the help of the powerful ones.
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