Prime Time 8. Coursebook plus Semester Self-checks, Schulbuch

Goals • Talk about social inequalities. • Discuss political correctness. • Speak about politics. • Improve a text. Your turn: Yesterday’s news Our world evolves so quickly that it is fun looking back at what people predicted at one point in history and check if these assumptions are still valid. a) Do some research on the internet using the words “bad predictions about the future” to find examples for outdated theories and beliefs. b) Pick your favourite quote and bring it to class. c) Explain the difference between your quotation and today’s reality to your classmates. d) Would you have preferred the assumptions to prove true or do you appreciate today’s reality? Why? 2 »Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.« Simon Newcomb, American astronomer and mathematician, 18 months before the Wright brothers started on their first flight »We don’t like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out.« Decca Recording Company when turning down the Beatles in 1962. The Beatles were rejected by another three recording companies, too. »If anything remains more or less unchanged, it will be the role of women.« David Riesman, conservative American social scientist, 1967 101 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv