what do you imagine the future to be like?

Explore future worlds with this science fiction film analysis worksheet. Practice comprehension and writing skills!

ANCESTORS is a science fiction short film. Watch it and answer the following questions. Choose the best summary for the short film: The only survivor of a colony of humans gets back to earth to find out about his ancestors. Several centuries in the future, an explorer visits his ancestral homeworld to find out what happened to all the humans on Earth. An explorer comes back to the homeland of his ancestors and is shocked when he finds one of her great-grandmother's bones. Centuries after the earth had been abandoned, a human from a colony gets back to the earth and manages to find out what happened to his ancestors. Are the following statements TRUE or FALSE. Sort them out and place them in the right box: TRUE The explorer reckons his ancestors had great values. They lost contact with earth over 5 centuries ago. Soil is highly polluted. They had thought UV radiation would be much lower. He found a man-made piece of plastic in the skeleton's stomach. On day 4 he couldn't go out because of lethal dust and wind storms. The bone leads him to the conclusion that the earth was a poisonous environment. He concludes humans themselves destroyed the paradise they lived in. FALSE On day one the explorer managed to land his space ship. The reason for their downfall is well-known. On day 3 he found his first human skeleton. The weather on earth is easy to predict. The bone belonged to a 36-year-old female. He says they had always admired their ancestors but now he knows there is nothing to learn from them. The air isn't breathable The earth is still a paradise. Find the synonyms. Match each word on the list with the sentence which has a synonym of that word. a great deal We owe our ancestors A LOT. live on Their virtues ARE STILL ALIVE in many colonies of the federation. downfall The reason for their DECLINE remains a mistery. to find out We owe them to DISCOVER what happened. lethal DEADLY winds meant I couldn't go outside today. look up to We ADMIRE our ancestors. How do you imagine our world in the future? Write 3-5 sentences using future tenses and opinion words (see Key phrases on p. 23) Think of the article "Ready for the end of the world (student's book p. 25). What do you think about the statements in exercise 6, p. 24? Do you agree with them?