Two interesting listening exercises to do and articles to read:
Can science fiction save the world? (ABC: How science fiction can save the world & BBC: Project Hieroglyph)
The cost of life-saving vaccines (BBC: Rocketing vaccine cost warning & Drug companies cut vaccine prices to the developing world)
Write comments about science fiction films that have found solutions to problems we have had later or about your opinion of vaccines and their prices. Is it all a masquerade? (By the way, what does 'masquerade' mean? Try to explain it in English).
And finally, here's a good way to practise INDIRECT QUESTIONS: