Ten Years from Now

Exercise 1. Speaking
Interview one of your classmates about how he or she and things will be like ten
years from now.
1. What kind of person do you intend to be financially, socially and politically?
2. What kind of job will you be doing?
3. How much money will you be able to save?
4. What kind of person do you intend to marry?
5. How many children do you intend to have?
6. How do you intend to raise them?
7. What kind of house do you wish to live in?
8. What kind of car do you wish to own?
9. What kind of contribution do you intend to make to your locality, community and
country?
10. What kind of Ethiopia do you envisage to see socially, economically, politically
and militarily?
11. Do you think Ethiopia will be a peaceful and stable country?
12. Who do you think will be leading Ethiopia?
13. What changes will take place in Africa in general?
14. Will Africa still be expecting foreign aid?
15. Technologically, what do you envisage to see globally and locally?
16. In the field of engineering, what do you think will happen?
17. In the field of automotive, what new inventions do you wish to see?
18. Will the world be terrorism free?
19. Will the world be corruption free?
20. Will the global environment be hospitable to humans?
21. Will there be WWIII?
22. In general, will the world be a safer place to live in?

Exercise 2. Writing
Use the information you have obtained using the interview to write a paragraph
or two on how your classmate and things will be like ten years from now. Begin
your description with:

I have interviewed one of my classmates about what he/she and things will be like ten
years from now. To this end, I asked him/her 22 questions and here is a summary of
what he/she thinks.