English for Life Sciences 2

Week 4 Speculating: What if insects disappeared?

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Grammar for speculating:

B1 e-book: Second conditional
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Speculating: A world without insects
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Prompts for speculating
Work in pairs. Each one of you will read one prompt and speculate briefly on the topic.
Assignment for Week 5

Find a topic that can be speculated on. Prepare a 2-minute oral summary for your classmates. Make sure you include at least 5 examples of speculative language. 
Work on your fluency before you come to the lesson next week to promote understanding:

- make sure you know how to pronounce words you struggle with
- say your summary a couple of times out loud
- record yourself: how does it sound? Are there frequent pauses? Are some words unintelligible?
If so, you need to rehearse more to improve pronunciation and fluency.

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