The World Ahead

Short Overview of the Lesson:

• Explore key global trends shaping 2026 in politics, technology, and society.
• Analyse a magazine cover and discuss forecasts for 2026 using critical thinking.
• Build and clarify high-level vocabulary related to geopolitics, economics, and global uncertainty.
• Practise new language through gap-fills, error correction, and contextualised sentence work.
• Debate future scenarios in pairs and groups, using structured opinion language and real examples.
• Engage with the Economist article to identify major global themes and concerns.
• Develop fluency through discussion tasks on AI, climate change, conflict, and economic risk.
• Strengthen confidence with creative extensions, prediction tasks, and optional review activities.