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Cambridge Proficiency in English (CPE) Speaking Part Three on the future

A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS

Students make and ask each other future questions about past C2 Proficiency speaking topics using real exam question stems.

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Cambridge Proficiency in English (CPE) Speaking Part Three on the future
Take turns asking discussion questions about the future of these things.
 advertising
 authority/ power
 awards
 books/ reading
 boredom
 cars
 celebrity/ celebrities
 centralisation – decentralisation
 (capital) cities/ urbanisation – villages/ depopulation
 climate/ weather
 community/ society
 consumption (of…)/ consumerism
 cooperation
 criticism
 dependence on technology/ on…
 dieting
 education
 efficiency
 employment opportunities
 English
 enjoyment of…
 the environment
 expectations for…
 family/ family life
 fashion
 food (food safety, preparing food, etc)
 free time
 health (healthy eating, diseases, alternative medicine, etc)
 holidays (bank holidays, etc)
 humour
 importance of personal contacts/ of money/ of…
 international understanding
 investment in…
 language learning/ languages/ dialects
 life expectancies
 long-term…
 media
 neighbourhoods
 online…
 pay
 peer pressure
 possessions
 pressure (on…/ from…)
 pride in…

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 public places
 public transport
 (scientific) research
 respect for authority/ for…
 rest and recreation
 retirement
 sales of…
 self-centredness
 shopping
 (traditional/ practical/…) skills (related to…)
 smoking
 social responsibility
 sponsorship
 standards of…/ …standards
 strictness
 tastes in…
 technology (in the home/ in…)
 unpredictability
 vegetarianism
 work
 workspaces
 zoos

Take turns making questions from the question stems below.

Ask about any questions below which you couldn’t make or couldn’t answer.

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 Are people in your country worried about …?
 Do you think (all) … will disappear in the future?
 Do you think … will become (more) … (in the future)?
 Do you think … will get better or worse in your country?
 Do you think it would be a good idea for… to…?
 Do you think it would be okay for … to…?
 Do you think it’s possible (for…) to…?
 Do you think that … has/ have a big future?
 Do you think that … will become more frequent in the future?
 Do you think that … will change?
 Do you think that it would be better to… or…?
 Do you think that the government will have to…?
 Do you think there is a danger that… will…?
 Do you think… will… in the future?
 Do… need to… (to…)?
 How can… be encouraged to…?
 How can… be helped to…?
 How could… change…?
 How do you see … developing in the future?
 How do you think … will change?
 How does … change as we get older?
 How easy or difficult is it to predict … in your country?
 How optimistic are you about…?
 How would… benefit from…?
 In what ways would … benefit society?
 (In a global world) should… be allowed/ encouraged/ made to…?
 Should we attempt to change …?
 Some people say that … will not be so common in the future. Do you agree?
 To what extent can we change…?
 To what extent is/ are … disappearing?
 What are the greatest threats to…?
 What are your predictions for … in the next few years?
 What can be done to stop…, do you think?
 What changes would you like to see to…?
 What could be the consequences of …?
 What could be the effects of people …?
 What do you think … will be like in 50 years’ time?
 What is the biggest …problem facing your country, do you think?
 What problems will we face because…?
 What would be the advantages of…?
 Which … do you think will be important in the future?
 Would it be better (for…) to... or…?
 Would it be easier (for…) to… or…?
 Would our lives be better or worse with/ without…?
 Would the world be a better place…?
 Would there be any negative effects if…?

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