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Reading Task

Predictions That Came True

Is it really possible to predict the future? Some people say that they can foresee future events. but do we believe them?

In the past, there were people who made predictions based on their own observations and intuition Then, many years later, those predictions came true

In 1987,the movie cniie Roger Ebert said "We will have high detinition, wide-screen televisions. videocassette tapes wil be obsolete."How many of you now have Widescreen TVs at home?

In 1968, Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick collaborated on the novel and movie 2001:A.Space Odyssey Inone scene in the movie, we see two astronauts teading Lhe news on something that looks like a

tabletl Even more surprising. Clarke named the device the"Newspad."Does that name sound familiar?

John Elfreth Watkins Jr. was curator of the Smithsonian Institute. In 1900, he wrote an article called What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years."He said"Man will see around the word Persons and things of all kinds will be brought within focus of cameras.. thousands of miles at a span."Thiat's right. Mr. Watkins predicted the existence of something similar to a famous photo sharing social network-over one hundred years ago!

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Read the article and match the people below to their predictions.Write the answers in your notebook.

. Roger Ebert

Arthur C. Clarke

John Elfreth Watkins Jr.

a very famous photo-sharing social network

widescreen televisions electronic tablets

Z Make predictions about the following sentences and talk to your partners about them:

In one year.

.In ten years.

C. In one hundred years.

3.Share your ideas with the class. Vote for the following:

the most realistic prediction

the most optimistic prediction

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Contexto

Antes de leer el texto puede discutir con los estudiantes casos en los que alguien haya predicho la invención de un objeto o avance tecnológico que usamos hoy en día: Are there predictions regarding technology that have become true? There are cases such as Julio Verne, who wrote about man's landing on the moon almost 100 years before it actually happened. Also, Nikola Tesla, who predicted the invention of Wi-Fi 90 years earlier it was invented (1909 vs. 1999). And the writer Ray Bradbury described something very similar to headphones in 1968.

Preguntas de profundización

Con el propósito de guiar a sus estudiantes en la organización de ideas,formule preguntas como:

• What's the main idea of what you just heard/read?

How would you organize what you wrote/said so it can be easily understood? What would you put first? How would you continue?What would you put at the end?

• Are there any ideas you didn't consider?

Did you repeat some ideas?

•Are there any ideas you would eliminate?

Ambientes de aprendizaje

Una actividad diaria que potencia el logro de un ambiente de aprendizaje ideal es la asamblea. Esta instancia suele emplearse como actividad de inicio de la jornada en la que se trabajan distintos aspectos: desde recordar los nombres de todos y comprobar si alguien no ha asistido, hasta tomar acuerdos sobre la organización de las actividades del dia. Para llevar a cabo la asamblea, se requiere que invite a sus estudiantes a sentarse en círculo: Gather in a circle at the center of the classroom.

Discuta lo siguiente con sus estudiantes:

• Do you have any suggestions regarding the development of the classes?

• Do you feel comfortable?

Solucionario

Reading Task

1. a. Roger Ebert - widescreen televisions

b. Arthur C. Clarke - electronic tablets

c. John Elfreth Watkins Jr. - photo sharing social network

2. Respuesta variable.

3. Respuesta variable.

Texto del estudiante

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