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Practice 5  YOUR FUTURE STARTS TODAY


                                       Ludic and literary environment
                 SOCIAL LANGUAGE PRACTICE: Compose constructive forecasts about others.


                                                     Adapted by Claire Fortier




               How the universe will end, and could anything survive?

                   on’t be alarmed, but the earth is done for, just      aging
                                                                          Glossary on
               Dnot any time soon. In approximately 6 billion             page 85
               years, our planet will likely be destroyed when the
               aging Sun swells into a red giant and consumes our world.

               There are nine planets in the solar system, the earth is just
               one of them. There are hundreds of billions of stars in the
               galaxy, the sun is just one of them. And, there are hundreds
               of billions of galaxies in the universe. What will happen to it
               all? How will it end?

               Scientists have many different
               theories about how it will happen.
               There is still no firm answer on
               whether the universe will end
               in a definite  specific wa , or
               will slowly disappear. Physicists
               suggest that there are various
               options for how the universe
               could cease to exist. They also
               offer a few clues on how we might
               be able to survive it, maybe.                            pleasant
                                                                        (adj.):
                                                                        agradable
               Thermodynamics, the study of heat, gives us our first clue
               as to how the universe might end. This branch of physics
               is like seeing a person on the street wearing a sandwich
               board saying: “HEAT DEATH IS NEAR”. It is, in fact, the end
               of all differences in heat. That doesn’t sound so bad, right?
               Unfortunately, heat death is far less pleasant than being


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