LESSON 205

- What are you planning to do after you finish high school?

- What language will you start learning next semester?

- What places are you going to visit in the next five years?
FATE = refers to something inevitable,
usually negative.

DESTINY = that can be changed, usually

optimistic things.
Something will have already happened/occured/finished by some time in the future:

by...
(até...)

I will have done all my lessons by tomorrow, teacher. I promise!

She will have graduated in college before 2030.
Who will have...?
... lived abroad by 2030?
... become famous by the age of 30?
... fallen in love by next year?
... destroyed 10 boys’ hearts by 2025?
... destroyed 10 girls’ hearts by 2025?
... been arrested at least 5 times?
... moved to Acre in 2026?
... recorded a funk song by the age of 25?
... kissed 50 lips by the age of 40?
... gone bald before 40 years old?
... gotten divorced 3 times?
... become a scientist by the age of 50?
1. Do you agree with the text when it says that it would be
awesome if we could predict the future? Why?

2. What’s the difference between predicting and shaping the

future, according to
the text?

3. What do you think about this young man’s planning?

1. What are your predictions for the future?
2. Where do you expect to be 5 years from now? (professionally speaking)
3. What about 10 years from now? What kind of life do you expect to have?
4. How much time do you estimate to spend using your cell phone per day?
5. Do you always follow your instincts no matter what people say?
6. Do you believe that fortune-tellers can really predict our future/destiny/fate
or they just use some tricks?
7. Who do you think is a good candidate for the upcoming elections?
8. What team will win the upcoming World Cup (QATAR 2022)?
9. In what kind of situations are you predictable?
10. Do you always try to look forward even in hard situations?
11. What are you looking forward to doing?
12. What were your assumptions the first time you saw_____ (choose somebody
in the class)?