In pairs choose and discuss 5 of the following statements/questions. Make notes of your opinions. When finished with your discussion, choose the 2 you are most confident about write 2 mini-essays. Make proper English sentences and make sure you give your statement and follow-up with arguments and examples. In short; write 2 short stories. Be prepared to read them out loud to a partner and/or the class.
1. Social media has helped solve and create problems in countries all over the world. (How?)
2. Social media, texting, cell phones, and the Internet make the world biggerr! (Or smaller, how?)
3. When does it become morally wrong to genetically engineer your child?
4. What are new ways people can use technology to change the world?
5. Does the Internet need controls or censorship? If so, what kind?
6. To what extent is the development of new technologies having a negative effect?
7. Technology will change our lives in twenty years? (How?)
8. People should get identity chips implanted under their skin. (Why, what for)
9. Since it is now possible to sequence human genes to find out about possible future health risks, is that something everyone should have done? What are the advantages or disadvantages?
10. If people have genetic testing, who has the right to that information? Should healthcare companies and employers have access to that information?
11. If parents have genetic information about their children, when and how should they share it with the child?
12. What sort of genetic information should parents seek about their children and how might this influence raising that child?
13. Would having cars that drive themselves be a good or bad idea?
14. How might travel in the future be different?