Prepared by Hızırbey Secondary School
Yasemin SARPDAĞ and her students.
READING TIME
The world in 2050
Read the texts and do the exercises
Samuel, 27
I think a lot of things will change in 2050. India will overtake
China as the first largest economy in the world, but the
country will have many problems with its demographics. The
world will also have a lot of problems with the pollution and
the climate changing. We will need to find other resources,
because there will be more than nine billion people on Earth
in 2050. We will also need to build spaceships to travel to the
Moon and to Mars, because we will have to take resources
from these places.
Lea, 25
Our world won’t be the same in 2050. We will improve
our technology and everybody will be able to speak at
least five languages. People will live longer and we
won’t have health problems, because we will improve
our knowledge on medicine. We will also live in peace
and the different countries won’t have nuclear weapons
anymore. We will also have a single world government
as we already have the IMF (International Monetary
Fund). I think 2050 will be a great year for mankind!
Steven, 29
I hope that the world countries will be able to overcome the
different issues in 2050. We will live in peace and won’t have
any wars anymore. We will be able to explore the space and to
find other habitable planets. We will perhaps find other
intelligent Beings on other planets in 2050.