1、Period 5: Cultural Corner学习目标：1. 了解人们对未来世界的种种预测2. 树立跨文化交际意识3. 掌握重点句子的用法学习重点：了解人们对未来世界的种种预测学习难点：掌握重点句子的用法课前预习使用说明与学法指导：1. 树立跨文化交际意识2. 15 分钟之内完成教材助读：Glass RecyclingGlass has the least volatile pricing of all the post consumer recycling commodities. Composed of sand and potash; bottle glass is made fro
2、m readily available and inexpensive raw materials. To be competitive, recycled glass must maintain a price that competes with these abundant raw materials. Traded as flint (clear), amber (brown), emerald (green) or mixed color broken glass. The price depends on the cleanliness and color of the recyc
3、led product. Clean flint cullet (another word for broken glass) is usually the most desirable form of recycled glass scrap. Mixed color broken glass with ceramics or stones mixed in it is the least desirable grade of cullet bringing the lowest price. Most Recyclers color sort and break or crush and
4、screen bottles before selling their product. Modern, high production bottle manufacturing requires very clean and uniform feedstock. Over the past decade there has been a growth in the glass benefaction sector. These are intermediate processors that receive glass from recycling programs and run it t
5、hrough a series of steps to remove any contaminants (rocks, ceramics, metal caps, etc.) and provide a uniform feedstock to the bottle manufacturers. These preprocessor provide an excellent market for recycling programs that do not have the volume or ability to produce glass for direct mill delivery.
6、 Glass beneficiation plants use sophisticated optical sorting machines to separate the glass into the three color types. They may also x-ray the glass to detect any rocks or ceramics which are then removed. Magnets and eddy current separators are used to removed magnetic and non-magnetic metal conta
7、mination from caps and lids. The end product is a uniformly sized load of ground glass that is free of contaminants readily acceptable by bottle manufacturers. Lower grades of recycled glass that are too mixed or contaminated, may be used in concrete or in road paving material called “Glass halt“. I
8、n some areas where there is an overabundance of low grade glass it is used to cover over the rubbish in the land fill in place of sand. This is not truly recycling and it is hoped that better sorting technology will soon make this material usable for new bottles. Glass recycling saves energy because
9、 recycled glass can be processed at a lower temperature than blending new glass from raw materials. Also, recycled glass is usually closer to the bottle plants than the sources of potash, the most expensive component in glass bottles and jars. Bout 32% of energy can be saved because of its low melti
10、ng point. It is easier to manufacture new glassware from recycled glass than from raw material, which can also reduce air pollution by 20%, and water pollution by 50%. 预习自测题：1Ask Ss to read the passage individually and then decide which prediction you find most amusing.2: Blacken the predicates, und
11、erline the useful expressions and darken the connectives.3: find all the useful expressions. You may make sentences with these expressions. Useful expressions from Famous Last Wordscome true, a few of the bad predictions, make predictions, in the twentieth century, flying machine, fly from New York
12、to Pairs, a world market for, thirty years from now, wear clothes made of paper, throw away, with the first moon colonies predicted for the 1970s, in progress, requireto stay in , on the moon, on the way out, by the year 2000, have a robot, be shaped like a box, with one large eye in the top, with s
13、everal arms and hands, and long narrow pads on the side, move about, by the mid-1980s, hide a key under the doormat我的疑问：_课内探究质疑探究：1.With the first moon colonies predicted for the 1970s, work is now in progress on the types of building required for men to stay in when they are on the moon. 二十世纪七十年代第一
14、批月球移 民的预言现在进展到为居住在月球上的人设计住宅楼的样式。2.By the year 2000, housewives will probably have a robot shaped like a box with one large eye on the top, several arms and hands, and long narrow pads on the side for moving about. 到 2000 年，家庭主妇们会拥有盒子形状的机器人，这些机器人在顶部有一只大眼，有许多胳膊和手，两侧的又长又窄的脚用来移动。with 复合结构的构成上面两句话中都出现了 W
15、ith 复合结构，这个句型具体有以下几种用法： with+宾语+名词He died with his daughter yet a school girl.他死的时候,他的女儿还是个学生. with+宾语+形容词He used to sleep with all the windows open.他过去常常开着窗子睡觉. with+宾语+副词The girl fell asleep with the light on.那位女孩睡着了,灯还亮着. with+宾语+不定式I cant go out with these clothes to wash.因为这些衣服要洗,我不能出去. with+宾语
16、+介词短语He sat near the fire with his back to the door.他坐在炉子旁,背朝着房门. with+宾语+现在分词She lives in the room with the light burning.她住在亮着灯的那个房间里. with+宾语+过去分词With everything done, she went home.做完一切事情以后,她回家了.Consolidation With winter _ on, its time to wear warm clothes.( come) The boy likes to sleep with the
17、 light _(burn) I wont be able to go on holiday with my mother _ ill. (be) I went out with the light _ off. ( turn) The murderer was brought in, with his hands _ behind his back. (tie) He lay in bed, with his eyes _( stare) at the roof. He lay in bed, with his eyes _(fix) on the roof. He lay in bed,
18、with the door _(open). He lay in bed, with the door _(close). We had our lessons, with a guest _ at the back of the classroom. (seat / sit)微写作写作素材1能源专家预言地球上有限的资源将要用光。2预言引起了很多人的注意。3我们相信科学家将最终找到可替代能源。4我们对我们未来的生活持乐观的态度。提示 黑体部分用本单元词汇表达。连句成篇 (将以上句子连成一篇 50 词左右的英语短文)_课后反思：_课后训练阅读理解。Floor sweeping, dusting,
19、 window cleaning, picking up the kids, doing the laundry, folding clothes, tidying the house: such activities are common in our life. Yet, if engineers are right, by 2020, we may not need to do them by ourselves, thanks tothe development of domestic (家庭的) robots.“We already have grass-cutting robots
20、. The public have happily accepted them working around their gardens,” says expert Gordon Wyeth of Brisbanes University of Queensland. “Now robots able to walk and balance on two legs are becoming common in laboratories, and their working ability is always rising while costs fall.”As a result, home
21、robots will be the next “must have” for buyers by 2020 when they will have become as necessary as personal computers today. They will be smart, ready to finish their tasks and will work together with humans and other smart robots.“I am sure most home robots will end up being named and treated like p
22、ets,” added Wyeth. “They will create a whole new industry.”Robots can expect to face a lot of technological competition in the home, thanks to developments in materials. At the University of New South Wales in Sydney, for example, researchers, led by Rose Amal and Michael Brungs, are developing self
23、-cleaning surfaces for use in hospitals as well as home kitchens and bathrooms. The surfaces will also be designed so that droplets (小液滴) cannot form on them.Whats more, scientists are working on materials that will not only change our homes but will change the way we dress through the creation of “
24、intelligent (智能的) clothes”. Special fabrics (纺织品), fitted with monitors, will study our health throughout the day while we sleep, work and exercise.1. The first paragraph mainly shows that _.A. what engineers have said about robots might be wrongB. robots are invented mainly to do housework for huma
25、nsC. domestic robots can do everything for humans in ten yearsD. domestic robots will play a great role in our everyday life in the future2. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 4 mean?A. People will no longer keep pets in the future.B. The home robot will be very common in every family in
26、 the future.C. Most home robots will do nothing in the future.D. Most home robots will have a name of their own.3. We know the surfaces being developed by the researchers _.A. will not get dirty easilyB. are mainly for home useC. has been used in hospitalsD. are made from common materials4. From the passage, we know the “intelligent clothes” _.A. are a little heavier than normal clothesB. can be made from any kind of fabricC. can study our health with monitors in themD. cannot be washed with water
