家 园 Life in the future

Shopping online place orders malls

 shopping  environment  traffic  weather  recreations  alternative energy energy  crime  schools  public services Listen to the tape of the passage and choose which topics have been talked about.

Match the main idea of each part. Part 1 ( Paragraph 1) Part 2 (Paragraph 2-12) How will the students run a city in the future? What will the city What will the city of the future look like?

1. Why should we care for the environment in the future? 2. How can we deal with the running-out of the natural resources? The earth’s natural resources run out. We should use lots of recycled materials; waste fewer natural resources; rely more on alternative energy. Read the first paragraph and find out the answers.

alternative energy solar energy water power wind power 代用能源

These cars are powered by gas. Benz

Cars Garbage ships Forget smoking mall Telephones for life recreation surgery Memory competition

____ ____ ____ ____ garbage problems, the city will _______ huge spaceships _______ waste materials and send them towards the sun, __________ landfill and _______________ problems. To get rid of with preventing environmental load Garbage ships Read the rest paragraphs and fill in the blanks.

Police will arrest criminals by ________nets _____________guns. Batman Nets instead offiring

Forget smoking No smoking will be allowed ______ ____________________________. Smoking will be possible only outside cities, and outdoors. within a future city’s limits

All shopping will be done on line. mall and catalogues will have __________________to ______________ 由声音指令来订购目录。 voice commands place orders.

Telephones for life Everyone will be given a telephone number ___ _______ that will never change ____ _______ _______ they live. at birth no matter where

bowling softball concert recreation All forms of recreation, such as cinemas, bowling, softball, concerts and other, will be provided __________ by the city. free of charge

All cars will be _________ by ___________, solar energy and wind, and it will be possible to ________ the color of the cars at the flick of a switch. powered change electricity Cars

Distance surgery will become common as doctors _____________________from thousands of miles away. surgery telesurgery 远距离手术 carry out operations

holidays senior citizen disabled people people with disabilities They will be able to go anywhere in the world using high-tech cameras __________their head. attached to

space travel Traveling________ _ by ordinary citizens will be common. Each city will have its ______spaceport. in space own

Fill in the blanks with the words or phrases We learned in the text. My watch reminds me that it will be fine tomorrow, so we decide to enjoy ourselves outside. My Mom, aged 120, a _____ _______, prefers to go to the concert. My Dad, who has to stay on the wheelchair, is a man _____ _________, preferring to go to the Mars with high-tech cameras _______ ___ his head. My daughter, fond of playing bowling, wants to play it all day, since it is provided ______ ___ ______ by the city. My husband and I, who are science lovers, would like to travel __ ____. senior citizen with attached to free of in space charge disabilities

solar, online, predict, attach, run out, rely on, in the future, building materials I can’t _______ what schools will be like_________ but I know for sure that great changes will take place then. Recently I have looked up information _______, and I’d like to share some with you. First, _______________ will be quite different. Some new types, such as plastic, glass will be used. Second, the future schools will make full use of _____ energy, and the temperature inside will be fixed, for the natural resources are __________, and we will __________ alternative energy. Third, there will be no books at all. Every classroom will be ________ to the advanced net system. That’s my opinion of the future school, how about yours? predict running out rely on attached in the future online building materials solar

time tunnel 时光隧道

Imagine now it is 2050, you meet an alien on the street from outer space, please describe our life (in 2050) to him, such as the cars, the recreation, holidays, travel, garbage, shopping, space travel…. You can use the information from the text.

Hello, Mr Human. I think I am lost. Can you tell me the way to the earth? Of course. This is the earth. Great changes have taken place in the earth, and the earth isn’t the one it used to be. Can you tell me something about your life, such as your cars / holidays / travel / recreation / shopping / school / life …… OK. ……

Let’s work hard and create a bright future.

Life can be dreams Life can be great thoughts Life is mostly cheerful But sometimes sad Life can be dirty Life can even be painful But life is what you make it So try to make it more beautiful Life ( 人生 ) We cannot predict exactly how bright our future will be, But at least we have dreams And we can hope.

No matter what our future is like, what we can do now is to get well-prepared for it, because a bright future can only be created by ourselves !

Useful expressions

Write yourself an imagine your life in the future, with the beginning sentence: Dear future :

The city of the future Teaching aims: 1. Get a general idea about the city of the future 2. Form your own idea about the life in the future 3. Grasp some new words and phrases