Cover of the textbook Speakout Advanced - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 1

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 6.1 - Future gazing for the textbook Speakout Advanced - Students' Book with authors Antonia Clare and J. J. Wilson from Pearson Education

Question

Read the text to see if you were correct.

Answer

  • buildings → most will be destroyed by 3,000
  • language → most words commonly used today will become extinct by 3,000 due to the rapid evolution of language
  • global disasters → a global disaster may well have happened by 100,000: either a super-volcano or a large climate-altering asteroid
  • monuments like the Pyramids of Giza → might still exist in 1,000,000
  • the Earth's temperature → will be higher: by 4,000, the ice in Greenland will have melted because of extreme global warming