After the Pandemic. Will Life Change?

After the Pandemic. Will Life Change?

I Lead in. Answer the questions.

a)    What has changed the most because of the pandemic: family life, working life, education?

b)    How have these parts of life changed?

c)    Do you think that after the pandemic people will get back to the old way of life? Why or why not?

II Watch the video and underline the topics it mentions.

family life; hospitals; health problems; shopping; politics; offices; going to work;

school; pollution

III What do people in the UK think about life after the pandemic? Guess the correct numbers in the sentences. Watch the video and check your answers.

27 %; 3%; 40%; 15 %; 33%; 39%; 37%; 59 %; 49%; 47%

a)    _________of people think life will be much the same as it was before the pandemic.

b)    _________of people said life will be significantly different.

c)    _________of people think they'll go back to shopping in stores.

d)    _________ of people will continue shopping online.

e)    _________of people said they'd return to commuting back to the workplace.

f)     _________ of people said that they'd continue working from home.

g)    _________ people said that lockdown brought them closer to their partner. 

h)    _______ of people think that climate change is the most serious problem in the world.

i)      _________ of people think that preventing future pandemics is a priority in the world.

j)     _________of people chose terrorism as the most serious problem.

Glossary: commuting= travelling between home and place of work.

IV Watch the video and choose the correct option to complete the sentences.

You can’t always see the exchange/changes/changed that coronavirus is making to the fashion/path/way we will be living our lives. At first see/glance/look everything might seem normal, but what even is normal anymore since you believe there will ever be a overturn/return/turning to life as it was pre-pandemic. A new poll/ questioned /fall for Sky News by YouGov found only 27 % of people think life will be much the same as it was before. Well, far more, 59 %, said it will be significantly differed/different/difference.

Glossary: YouGov = a global public opinion and data company. 

                  poll = a study in which people are asked for their opinions.     

V Do you think people will return to the way of life they had before the pandemic? Look at the answers British people gave to this question. Watch the video and choose the words to complete the answers. 

1)  The fact that there is this kind of a disruptive environment has given us time to ____ and adapt.

      A think                  B sing                  C feel sad

2)          I don’t think we’re going to go back to a ____ that looks the same.

        A work                 B   ways                     C world

3)          People may be more caring towards ______.

        A stray animals     B society                      C strangers

4)          I think that there will be _____ alertness.

         A shopping    B shaping                    C baking

Glossary: disruptive = causing disorder and interruption in activates.

                  alertness = the state of being attentive.

VI How will life change for shops after the pandemic?  Watch the video and mark the sentences as True (T) or False (F). Correct the false statements.

1.    Europe’s busiest shopping street is facing a crisis.

2.    Future is bright and optimistic for the high street shops.

3.    Most people will continue shopping online. 

4.    The man will rush to the stores as soon as they open.  

5.    The man will continue shopping online for some time.

6.    The woman will buy clothes in stores.  

7.    The woman will buy her groceries online.   

VI What are the positive aspects of pandemic for individuals and society? Watch the video. Put the sentences from the talk in order.  

A.   People have started to see how nature is reacting to us not being around.

B.   Breathing in pure air is popular.

C.   Simple things are pleasurable and they matter: relationships and enjoying this amazing weather.

D.   Lockdown has meant a lot less of this, pollutants of all forms.

E.    I got closer to my family, I appreciate my friends, I appreciate simple things.

F.    People have started to appreciate the outside spaces a lot more.

VII OVER TO YOU.

A)  Were there any polls asking people’s thoughts about the pandemic in your country? Are the results different from the answers British people gave? Can you find any article, statistics, and news giving people’s thoughts about life after the pandemic in your country?  

B)   Discuss the questions:

1.           What do people in your country think about life after the pandemic? Will life go back to normal? What is normal now?

2.           How will life change for shops after the pandemic? Where will people buy clothes and food after the pandemic?

3.           What are the positive aspects of pandemic for individuals and society?

4.           What will the most important problems be for countries and individuals after the pandemic?