MODULE 1 Life in the Future 甘泉县高级中学 英 语 组 袁 媛

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? ? ? Can you imagine what the life will be in 2025?

Reading The City of the Future Self-learning words and expressions

Fast--Reading Please look through the whole passage and think about the following questions: 1.What is certain about the city of the future? 2.How many ideas of the life in 2025 are mentioned in the text? What are they? They’re going to get bigger before they get smaller. Ten. Garbage ships, batman nets, forget smoking, forget the malls, telephone for life, recreation, cars, telesurgery, holidays at home and space travel.

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

Please read the first paragraph loudly and answer the following questions: 1.Why will care for the environment be important in the future? 2.Since the natural resources run out, what will we do? Because earth’s natural resources run out. We will use lots of, waste fewer and also. recycled materials natural resourcesrely more on alternative energy

1.Where will garbage ships go? A. towards the sun B. to the moon 2.Who will batman nets catch? A. criminals B. policeman 3.Where won’t people be allowed to smoke? A. within a city’s limits B. outside cities 4.How will people go shopping? A. in the shopping mall B. online Please read the second part carefully and choose the correct answers.

Now listen to the tape. In the process of listening, try to decide whether the following sentences are true or false.

1.It is easy to make a prediction of the city in the future. 2.We will depend more on alternative energy in future. 3. People will have to smoke only outside cities and outdoors. 4. It will be impossible for ordinary citizens to travel in space in future. 5. Distance surgery will become common because each city has its own spaceport. F F F T T isn’t common telesurgery outpatient clinic

Careful-reading ＆ Discussion Read the second part again and discuss the following questions with your group members. 1.What number will people keep for life? 2.What won’t people have to pay for? 3.How will cars be different? 4.what will doctors do from a distance? 5.Where will old people go without moving? Telephone number Recreation

3.How will cars be different? They’ll be powered by electricity, solar energy or wind, and it will be possible to change the colour of cars at the flick of a switch.

4.what will doctors do from a distance? 5.Where will old people go without moving? Surgery/Operation Anywhere in the world.

Summary of the passage No one can be sure what the city of the future will. But one thing is certain—they are going to get before they get. People will care for the environment, as earth’s natural resources. People will use many recycled materials. They will also have to rely more on, such as solar and wind power. To get rid of, the city will load huge spaceship with waste materials and send them to the sun. No smoking will be allowed within a future city’s limits. All shopping will be done. All forms of recreation’ll be provided by the city. All cars will be powered by electricity, solar energy or wind. With each city having its own telesurgery outpatient clinic, doctors will do operations from. Since each city has its own spaceport, ordinary people will be able to travel. look like bigger smaller run out alternative energy garbage problem onlinefree of charge thousands of miles away in space

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 ! Theme 无论未来的生活是怎样的， 我们现在唯一可以做的就是 好好准备，因为一个美好的未来 只能由我们自己来创造！

Homework Finish activity three to five about vocabulary on page 3; Retell the passage using your own words.