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Talk about Future Global Challenges - Free ESL Lesson

Talk about Future Global Challenges – Free ESL Lesson

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Talk about Future Global Challenges – Free ESL Lesson

Improve your speaking and listening skills in English with our helpful FREE printable worksheet on the topic of Future Global Challenges.

Work with a partner or small group. Print the PDF onto card, then cut out the discussion words cards and lay them face down. Mix them up, then take a card and describe the term for the others to guess.

Discuss the different future global challenges that the world faces. Which do you fear the most / least? What solutions do you propose?

Get some great ideas for using discussion words in an English class here.

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Direct download: https://purlandtraining.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/future-global-challenges-discussion-words.pdf

The full list of 40 discussion words on the topic of Future Global Challenges is:

  1. renewable energy
  2. virtual reality
  3. robot workers
  4. climate change
  5. obesity epidemic
  6. fake news
  7. nuclear war
  8. nationalism
  9. global recession
  10. rare earth metals
  11. rapid urban growth
  12. species extinction
  13. famine
  14. cloning
  15. flooding
  16. euthanasia
  17. declining birth rates
  18. rising sea levels
  19. breakdown of society
  20. religious fundamentalism
  21. water security
  22. natural disasters
  23. colonising Mars
  24. globalisation
  25. GM food
  26. Armageddon
  27. gene editing
  28. pandemic
  29. sustainable development
  30. mass migration
  31. fear
  32. deforestation
  33. peak oil
  34. gender politics
  35. artificial intelligence (AI)
  36. pollution
  37. population explosion
  38. housing crisis
  39. unemployment
  40. driverless cars

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Say, Tell, Talk, or Speak? 1

Say, Tell, Talk, or Speak? 1

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It’s grammar time! Do you know when to use say, tell, talk, or speak?

Say and tell have different uses in English:

Say, Tell, Talk, or Speak? 1

Talk and speak are physical actions. Their meanings are quite similar, with a few key differences:

Say, Tell, Talk, or Speak? 1

Complete each gap with say, tell, talk, or speak in the appropriate form:

1. Generally ________, there will be room for around a hundred guests at the wedding.
2. Look, would you just ________ me the truth about Babs, please?
3. ‘And then she told me to get lost!’ ‘What an awful thing to ________!’
4. When Janet resigned in front of the board, I was so shocked I could hardly ________!
5. Robbie ________ a joke in class, but nobody saw the funny side of it.
6. Could you ________ up, please? I’m a bit deaf.
7. I’ll give you the stuffing with the turkey for free. Now, I can’t ________ fairer than that.
8. ‘John said the company is close to collapse!’ ‘No! He’s ________ utter rubbish.’
9. It’s vital that I ________ to my doctor about the test results.
10. Peter ________ good morning to Alice when he met her in the car park.
11. Darren has really enjoyed ________ to his kids on the way home from Ireland.
12. ‘You can’t park here, mate.’ ‘OK, whatever you ________.’
13. Just stop ________ me what to do!
14. When the plane had finally landed, we got in a taxi and ________ for hours.
15. My sister was ________ to her boyfriend about her holiday.
16. I was trying to ________ them about the paintings, but they preferred the gift shop.
17. Geoff? Good. Phil here. OK. We need to ________ business.
18. OK, everyone get ready. I’m going to take the picture. ________ cheese!
19. Is it true that Ellen ________ Norwegian fluently?
20. The grass snake was as big as a python – I’m ________ you!

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Say, Tell, Talk, or Speak? 1

Taken from Big Grammar Book Intermediate Book 1 – download it FREE here!