高中英语 Unit3 Life in the future Wariming up and Reading课件2 新人教版必修5.ppt

1、,Unit,3,Life in the Future,Life in the past,Life at present,life in the future,?,past,Building,Now,Education,distance education,Communication,video telephone,Todays Food:,sandwich,hamburger,roasted duck,Raw food,Eating,Future,the Spaceship to Mars,playing tennis on Mars,Theory of Relativity, propose

2、d by Einstein, is the theoretical foundation of time traveling.,Do you want to go traveling in the future like the mechanical cat-“Duo La A Meng”?,The time machine can bring you to the future.,Fill in the form:,Transport Airplanes; cars; bicycles No longer by air because of environmental pollution;

3、bicycles and horses will take a comeback,Warming up,Words and expressions,Work Office; factory; construrction; landscape; service At home using advanced, interactive computers; meetings can be conducted on the computer and people will see each other speak.,Finance and currency Banks; offices; insura

4、nce; business One global currency maybe the yuan as China will be the largest global exporter,Languages English; Russian; Chinese One global language perhaps Chinese or still English,Environment Air; could be improved in cities Very poor; need to recycle all water; control on the use for cars; no ai

5、rplanes; methods to improve poor air quality. Climate of the earth being very hot is making problems over water resources.,Education Nursery; schools; university Longer than now possibly until 25 years of age so that students can learn all the new technologies,Houses Flats; houses; concrete; wood Bu

6、ilt into the ground as the surface of the earth is so hot.,Communication Post office; Internet By thoughtpad, telephone, computer, mobiles, Morse code, etc.,Pre-reading,Make a list of the problems human are facing today. Which problems do you think people will have overcome in one thousand years? Wh

7、ich ones do you think will still exist in AD 3008? Give our reasons. Skim the reading passage and see whether your ideas are the same as those in the text.,a. We were transported into the future by a comfortable time capsule. b. I arrived at Wang Pings home and everything in his house made me surpri

8、sed. c. I won a travel to the year AD 3008. d. I have my first try to master a hovering carriage.,c-a- d - - b,Read the text quickly, then put the following sentences into the correct order:,Reading,1.In the year AD 3008,the air in private houses was poor quality. 2.Hovering carriages were a fast me

9、ans of transport , and people could fly in them in every direction. 3.Li Qiang arrived in a busy town where he got lost. 4.This text is an introduction both to the more advanced forms of transport in AD 3008 but also to the advantages and problems of life in the future.,F,T,T,T,Go through the first

10、two paragraphs quickly, then answer the following questions on page 19:,Why did Li Qiang go into the future? How did he feel when he left his own time?,Li Qiang went into the future because he had won a prize that gave him a tour.,He felt rather anxious when he left his own time but soon got it over

11、.,The first thing he noticed was the poor quality of the air and it gave him a headache.,How did he get to the year 3008? What did he notice first when he arrived in AD 3008?,He went by time capsule.,What else did he find that was different?,He found several things that were different: a mask to giv

12、e 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,Do you think Li Qiang is impressed by what he finds

13、in the future? Why or why not? What improvements do you think there will be to your home city or homevillage one thousand years in the future? What problems might there be?What ideas do you think were believable in this story? Why? Which ideas do you think are too unrealistic? Why?,Think about this

14、questions,Read the passage again, discuss which changes to life in AD3008 are good or bad and give reasons for your choices. Then please finish the chart.,can travel to different times as you wish,after- effects of travel,can move swiftly,disorganized; difficult to find way,save living space,short o

15、f space,busy; look like markers,easy to get lost,own family oxygen supply,poor quality in public places,Write down the main idea for each paragraph in your own words. Then add the important details.,Main idea: How I came to take a time travel journey,Details: my prize; my excitement,Main idea: The j

16、ourney,Details: how I felt; the spaceship; the journey,Main idea: My impressions of life one thousand years into the future,Details: 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; t

17、rees as walls; where furniture stored; ate meal; prepared for sleep,Have a class discussion and decide whether you think the writer has an optimistic or a pessimistic view of the future. Take a few minutes to read through the passage again. Make notes to help you remember your reasons. Be prepared t

18、o join in a class discussion. Try to persuade others to agree with you.,Discussion,Speaking and Writing,In pairs try to think of some benefits and problems in the future. Talk and write about what life may be like on the earth in 1000years time. Follow these steps.,In pairs prepare 4 to 5 questions

19、about the future. Ask and answer questions using the following expressions.,These expressions may help you: Suppose that Do you imagine that ? I wonder if Is it possible that ? Is it likely /unlikely that ? Do you suppose that ?,Get together with another pair. Hold a discussion and make notes of the

20、ir answers. Organize the notes you have collected from the discussion. Choose 2 or 3 of the most important ideas and explain each of your ideas in one paragraph. Write a passage of at least 120 words,The benefits and problems of living one thousand years in the future,I think there will be more benefits than problems living in