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The Past and the Future
The activities below provide fun exercises for the entire class when you have extra time. They are designed to be taught with specific exercises in this unit. Click on an activity in the list below or scroll down the page.
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A hundred years later
This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 10, "What Do You Think?"
Time: 15–20 minutes. This activity practices describing future events.
- Ask students to work in pairs and to imagine that they have fallen asleep and awakened 100 years later. Write this question on the board for pairs to think about:
How will life be different 100 years from now?
- Now give students ten minutes to think of ten differences. Walk around and give help as needed.
- As a whole class activity, students share and compare their ideas.
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Time capsule
This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 13, "Reading: The global village."
Time: 15–20 minutes. This exercise practices describing the future and giving reasons.
- Explain the activity title: A time capsule is a container filled with typical objects of the present time and then buried so that it can be dug up and studied in the future.
- Divide the class into groups and ask each to choose a secretary. Explain that each group has to choose ten common, modern-day items to put into a time capsule. They should also think of a reason for choosing each item.
- Set a time limit of ten minutes for the task. Go around and give help as needed.
- Now groups take turns reporting to the class on their time capsules. Encourage them to give reasons for their choices. For a model, read the following example aloud:
The first thing in our time capsule is a copy of the Sunday newspaper. This will show the kinds of printed information that people read each week.
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