6 Future Predictions

Apuntes

**• Future Predictions: Understanding Will / Won't** A. Read the two paragraphs. Look at the underlined words. What do they express? "I think a lot of things **will** change in 2050. China **will** overtake the USA as the largest economy in the world, but the country **will** still have some problems regarding demographics and access to the internet. The world **will** also have many problems with pollution and climate change. We **won’t** have enough resources because there **will** be more than nine billion people. We **will** need to build better spaceships to explore the universe since we **will** need to take resources from out there. Life **won’t** be that easy." Mark "Our world definitely **won’t** be the same in 2050. We **will** have better technology in our hands, and everybody **will** be able to communicate with everyone. Education **will** be free, and everybody **will** be able to speak at least four languages. People **will** live longer, and we **won’t** have many health problems because knowledge on medicine **will** broaden. We **will** live peacefully since countries around the world **won’t** have nuclear weapons. I think 2050 **will** be great!" **Will / ...