4A COMMUNICATIVE In 20 years’ time

Discuss each prediction with your group. Decide: b if you think it will be a good thing. 1 3 There will be no retirement a if you think it will happen. 1 People will be mostly reading print books and e-readers will have declined in popularity. 4 We will have established a colony on Mars. 7 An increasing number of jobs will have been replaced by robots. 10 We will be seeing much more women’s sport on TV as it will have greatly increased in popularity. 2 The number of people learning foreign languages will have fallen because apps will translate everything simultaneously. 5 The bicycle will have replaced the car as the main form of private transport in towns and cities. 8 We will be mainly watching films with computer-animated actors who will have replaced human actors. 11 Life expectancy will have gone down in the developed world because of unhealthy eating habits. 3 There will be no retirement age. People will be working until 70 and even beyond. 6 People will have stopped using social media sites like Facebook and Twitter and returned to face-to-face communication. 9 Families will be getting smaller and the birth rate will have dropped even further. 12 It won’t be necessary for anyone to learn to drive because we’ll be using self-driving cars.