Life in the Future

Learning Objectives

At the end of this module, you will be able to:

Guess what is it. Collect as many points as you can. Read the description and write your answer.

What is it?

How many points did you get?
Now that you know the answers, read the descriptions again.
What is the most surprising fact about each object? What did you already know about each object? Report to the class.

It has been around for more than 30 million years.
It is found on every continent of the world with the exception of Antarctica.
It can fly up to 24km in an hour. Its wings can beat 200 times per second or 12,000 beats per minute!
It is known for its hard work, humility and excellent sense of orientation.
Slovenia is the only European Union Member State that protected this kind of native animal.
It is the only insect in the world that makes food that people can eat. Eating this food can help you get smarter!
Some species of this animal are listed as endangered; their survival is at risk due to the use of pesticides, habitat loss, parasites and viruses.
There are three different kinds of this animal. The Queen that lays eggs, the female worker that attends to the work such as cleaning, feeding the babies, taking care of and repairing of the home, and the male to attend to the work on the outside of the home collecting water, pollen and nectar.
It feeds on pollen and nectar created from plants. Pollen is the fine powdery substance produced by seed-bearing plants. Nectar is a sweet secretion from flower blossoms.
It produces five products: honey, pollen, beeswax, royal jelly (a milky substance that is produced by the worker bees and fed to the queen bee) and propolis (a sap-like resin that is used to seal and repair the hive)

In the USA, they buy 57 of them per second.
80% of US families did not buy it or even look at it in the last year.
It took Noah Webster 36 years of his life to make the special kind of this object.
It opens doors and makes life easier and it really can make you feel good.
People who use this object are more likely to get ahead when it comes to their careers and life in general. 10-16 year-olds who like them and find pleasure spending time using them do better at school.
We use them for business, learning and also for pleasure.
Americans spend 166 minutes a day watching TV, 43 minutes socializing and only 19 minutes a day with this object.
It is available at almost every shop, library, newsagents and even petrol stations. The most often requested kinds are about drugs, witchcraft and astrology.
This object is a set of printed and illustrated sheets of paper usually fastened together to hinge at one side. A single sheet within is called a leaf and each side of a leaf is called a page. One out of every eight letters in them is the letter ‘e’.
The Encyclopaedia Britannica from 1768 provides insight into how vastly man’s priorities have shifted between the eighteenth century and today. The three volume book includes 40 pages devoted to diseases of whores and 40 pages about algebra, but no information about children.

There are 1 billion of these things currently in use on Earth.
About 165,000 of them are produced every day all over the world.
An average object of this kind has around 30,000 parts. Some of these parts are necessary for this thing to function properly and some parts are added for pleasure and good looks.
92% of all new versions of this product in Brazil operate on ethanol, which is produced from sugar cane.
It would take more than 150 years to travel to the Sun with this transportation.
If it is red colour, it is prohibited in Shanghai, China. But don’t worry too much about this. China has a law for absolutely everything. Most people have no idea what the laws are and only about 1 % are actually enforced. You are breaking five or more laws at any given moment in China.
The average American spends about 38 hours a year stuck in it and spends approximately two weeks of his life being stopped at red lights sitting in one.
53% of its owners wash it once a month. 17% of its owners never wash it.
Ferrari is probably the most know brand of this object in the world. They have long been considered one of the world's fastest and most prestigious kinds of these objects.

Become a researcher. Choose one thing and use different sources to find 5-7 surprising facts about it. Share your findings with your classmates and comment on them.

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