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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
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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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