1、Unit 3Life in the future,高二人教新课标版必修五,Reading,1. Make a list of the problems human being are facing today. 2. Which problems do you think people will have overcome in one thousand? Which ones do you think will still exist in AD 3008?,Pre-reading,Help,water pollution,Global warming,poor sanitation公共卫生
2、,starvation,air pollution,Deforestation滥砍滥伐,desertification沙漠化,overpopulation,What will life be like in one thousand years time?,a time machine,ReadingFirst Impressions,1. Whats the text about?A. An e-mail written by a man whohas taken up a trip to the futureB. The man has his first try tomaster a h
3、overing carriage.C. The man is surprised at the Wang pings home.D. The preparation of the trip.,Task 1,Read the text and choose the best answer.,A,2. The correct order is _.a. we were transported into thefuture by a time capsule.b. I arrived at Wang Pings homeand was surprised at everything.c. I won
4、 a travel to AD 3008.d. I have my first try to master ahovering carriage.A. a, b, d, c B. b, a, c, dC. c, a, d, b D. d, b, c, a,C,3. Li Qiang was unsettled for the first few days because he _.A. was uncertain about what mighthappen during the future tourB. became so excited whenever hethought of the
5、 future tourC. couldnt wait to make the future tourD. hadnt decided whether to take therisk of experiencing the future tour.,A,4. Which of the following is NOT true?A. Li Qiang got a headache because of lack of fresh air.B. It took Li Qiang only a short time to arrive in the future.C. It seemed very
6、 difficult for Li Qiangto learn to drive a hovering carriage.D. There was more oxygen insideWang Pings home than outside.,C,Why did I have the chance to travel to the year AD 3008?2.What is a “time lag”?,I won the prize to travel to the year AD 3008 the year before.,“Time lag ” means a person gets f
7、lashbacks from his previous time period.,Task 2,Read the text and answer these questions.,3. How did they travel to the year AD 3008?,In a time capsule.,My friend Wang Ping is my guide to the future.,4. Who guided my trip?,5. Why did my guide give me sometablets?6. Who transported us to the future?,
8、The tablets could help me feel less nervous and uncertain.,Wang Pings parents company transported us to the future.,7. What was the air like there? In what8. What were houses like there?,The air seemed thin as if it had little oxygen left;people there travelled in a hovering carriage driven by compu
9、ter.,large, bright, clean; have green, moving walls and brown floor and soft lighting, trees inside room, movable furniture.,way did people there travel?,1. During his journey he suffered from “jet lag”. 2. Wang Ping was his friend as well as his guide. 3. The writer gave Wang Ping some green tablet
10、s, which helped a lot.,T,T,F,Task 3,True or false,4. Wang Ping owns a company named “Future Tours”. 5. Before the trip, we had a calming drink which made us sleepy. 6. I lost sight of Wang Ping because there were too many carriages.,F,T,T,7. In the year AD 3008, the air in privatehouses was poor qua
11、lity. 8. Hovering carriages were a fast meansof transport, and people could fly inthem in every direction.,F,T,Now try to find out what happened to Li Qiang before, during and after the journey.,Task 4,worried,unsettled,time lag,time capsule,Confused,lack,ached,showed,green,brown,soft,Exhausted,fell
12、,asleep,1) Why did Li Qiang go into the future?,Li Qiang went into the future because he had won a prize that gave him a tour.,Comprehending1 In pairs answer these questions.,2)How did he feel when he left his owntime?3)How did he get to the year 3008?,He felt rather anxious when he left his own tim
13、e but soon got it over.,He went by time capsule.,4)What did he notice first when hearrived in AD 3008?,The first thing he noticed was the poor quality of the air and it gave him a headache.,5)What else did he find that was different?,He found several things that was different:a mask to give him enou
14、gh oxygen. a hovering carriage having a “time lag” experience . a strange looking house thatbelongs to Wang Pings parents,trees that acted as walls andprovided oxygen for the room. tables, chairs and a bed that were stored under the floor.,some good and bad changes to life in AD 3008. In pairs, disc
15、uss which changes are good or bad and give reasons for your choices. Then write down your ideas in the chart. There is no right or wrong answer.,2 The reading passage describes,can travel to different times as you wish,after-effects of travel,can move swiftly,disorganised; difficult to find way,Time
16、 travel,save living space,short of space,busy;look like markets,easy to get lost,own family oxygen supply,poor quality in public places,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 rem
17、ember your reasons. Be prepared to join in a class discussion. Try to persuade others to agree with you.,3 Have a class discussion and decide,I think the writer has an optimistic view of the future. He was very excited when he traveled to the year AD 3008 and couldnt believe it was true. From this,
18、we can see he is eager to go to the future. Though he was hit by the lack of fresh air, the problem was immediately solved by putting on a mask.,And he tells us the transport in the future is convenient. When he Arrived Wang Pings home, he found there were many trees after the wall moved, and these
19、trees provided the house with much-needed oxygen. Finally he described the automatic equipment in Wang Pings house. All the above has shown his view of the future.,Paragraph 1- main idea:details: Paragraph 2 - main idea: details:,How I came to take a time travel journey.,The journey.,paragraph in yo
20、ur own words. Then add the important details.,my prize; my excitement,how I felt; the spaceship; the journey,4 Write down the main idea for each,Paragraph 3:- main idea:details:,My impressions of life one thousand years into the future.,little oxygen; masks to provide oxygen; hovering carriage; how to drive them; a “time lag” moment,Paragraph 4:- main idea: details:,Staying in Wang Pings home,appearance of house; trees as walls; where furniture stored; ate meal; prepared for sleep,Homework,Try to retell the text in your own words.,
