1、Period One Warming Up Reading,Unit 3 Life in the Future,Warming up,Future,Imagine shopping for clothes online and being able to run your hand across the screen of your computer or smartphone and feel the fabrics. 想象一下，在线购买衣物，你可以将手穿过电脑或是智能手机的屏幕去触摸面料。,Imagine having the ability to speak openly with an
2、ybody, anywhere, anytimein any language, real-time translation. 想象一下，拥有不论何时何地都能与任何人用任何语言畅所欲言的能力实时翻译。,Scientists are turning as much of our innovative imagination as possible into practical realities.科学家们正尽可能的将我们的创新想象力变成触手可及的现实。,1. How do you usually get to school? 2. What kind of vehicle will people
3、 use in the future? 3. Where would you like to live in the future? 4. What kind of housing would you like to have in the future?,Free talk,Talking about the future, what do you care about most?,population,traffic,pollution,global warming,housing,hunger,world peace,Imagine what changes will happen in
4、 the next century in housing, transport, jobs, families, communication, environment and education.,What vehicle may people use in the future?,a solar energy car,In what kind of houses may people live in the future?,on the moon,under the sea,Where may people live in the future?,How do people communic
5、ate today?,How will people communicate tomorrow?,What changes do you expect to see in our lives in one thousand years time?,What problems do you think people in the future will have to overcome in one thousand years? Which ones will still be there or even worse in AD 3,008?,Reading,First Impressions
6、,Read and find out in which paragraph you can find answers to the questions.,Fast reading,1.Who transported Li Qiang into the future?2.What will home be like in the future?3.Why did Li Qiangs head ache?,Para. 1.,Para. 3.,The last paragraph.,The passage is mainly about _. A. how Li Qiang was transpor
7、ted to the future B. how Li Qiang got to the future and his first impressions of it C. what the life was like in the future D. the introduction of the “Future Tour” company,B,a. We were transported into the future by a comfortable time capsule. b. I arrived at Wang Pings home and everything in his h
8、ouse made me surprised. c. I won a travel to the year AD 3008. d. I have my first try to master a hovering carriage.,Put the following sentences into the correct order.,c,a,b,d,Comprehending,Answer the questions. 1. Why did Li Qiang go into the future?,Because he had won a prize that gave him a tour
9、.,2. How did he feel when he left his own time?3. How did he get to the year 3008?,He felt rather anxious but soon got it over.,By time capsule.,4. What did he notice first when he arrived in AD 3008?,The first thing he noticed was the poor quality of the air and it gave him a headache.,5. What else
10、 did he find that was different?,A mask to give him enough oxygen, a hovering carriage, having a “time lag” experience, a strange-looking house that belonged to Wang Pings parents; trees that acted as walls and provided oxygen for the room, tables, chairs and a bed that were stored under the floor.,
11、Write down the main idea for each paragraph and important details.,Summary,Main idea: How I came to take a time travel journey Details: my prize; my excitement,Main idea: The journey Details: how I felt; the spaceship; the journey,Main idea: My expressions of life 1,000 years into the future,Details
12、: little oxygen; masks to provide oxygen; hovering carriage; how to drive them; a “time lag” moment,Main idea: Staying in Wang Pings home,Details: appearance of house; trees as walls; where furniture stored; ate meal; prepared for sleep,Discussion,Does the writer have an optimistic or a pessimistic
13、view of the future? Give your reasons. What is your view of the future and why do you think so?,Group Work,Suppose you were Li Qiang and now you were in the future, and your mother is in the actual life. Make a phone call to your mother, trying your best to imagine what will happen in the future and to describe what happens clearly.,1. Review the reading passage and find out the difficult language points to you. 2. Finish Exercises 13 on Page 20.,Homework,
