Unit 3 Life In The Future

1. 方面 2. 印象；感想；印记 3. 拿起；接受；开始； 继续 4. 时常发生的；连续不 断的 5. 在前的；早先的 6. 不确切的；无把握的 7. 药片 8. 专家意见；专门知识 9. 太空舱；胶囊 10. 乘务员；服务员 11. 往 … 一侧；侧着 12. 容忍；忍受 1. aspect 2. impression 3. take up 4. constant 5. previous 6. uncertain 7. tablet 8. expertise 9. capsule 10. steward 11. sideways 12. tolerate

13. 缺乏；没有 14. 调整；调节 15. （困境后）恢复； 完全复原 16. 运输工具；四轮马 车； 客车 17. 按；压；逼迫 18. 系牢安全带 19. 看不见 20. 打扫；横扫 21. 开关；转换 22. 乐观主义的 23. 悲观主义的 24. 加速 13. lack 14. adjustment 15. be back on one’s feet 16. carriage 17. press 18. fasten one’s safety belt 19. lose sight of 20. sweep up 21. switch 22. optimistic 23. pessimistic 24. speed up

Some scientific ideas: jet lag “time lag” flashbacks a time capsule ---The feeling of tiredness when you have travelled through many time zones on an airplane. ---The feeling of tiredness if you would travel through time ---If you had “time lag”, you might also suffer flashbacks as a result of the stress caused by the journey. ---A time travel machine which would be able to carry its passengers into the future.

Q: Where do you come from? the countrysidethe cities Q: What are the houses made of?

carriage bicycle motorcycle train airplane ? space craft sedan chair car time travel Q: How do you usually go to school?Means of transportation

AD 2010 :Modern China Transport Work Finance & currency Language Environment Cars, trains, boats, airplanes, hovercraft, helicopter office; factory; construction; landscape; service banks; offices; insurance; business English; Russian; Chinese Polluted air; could be improved in the future

AD 2010 :Modern China Education Houses Communication Nursery; schools; university Flats with kitchens and bathrooms in high rise buildings; houses Post office; Internet

In One Thousand Years’ Time Transport Work Finance & currency Languages Environment No longer by air because of environment pollution; bicycles and horses will make a comeback At home using advanced, interactive computers; meetings can be conducted on the computer and people will see each other speak One global currency one global language---perhaps Chinese or English very poor; need to recycle all waste; control the use of cars…

AD 2010 :Modern China Education Houses Communication Longer than now possibly until 25 years of age so that students can learn all the new technologies Built into the ground as the surface of the earth is so hot by telephone, computer, mobiles, Morse code,ect.

Pre-reading : Think about the following two questions: 1.What are the problems human beings are facing today? 2. What problems do you think people in the future will have overcome? Which ones will still be there or even worse in AD3005? housing, population, pollution, traffic, hunger, wars, diseases, environmental problems (global warming/ greenhouse effect, acid rain, growing areas of desert, lack of enough drinking water ), etc.

Problems we are now facing deforestation Water pollution air pollution sand storm starvation drought How to solve these problems ?

While reading: What ’s the main idea of the passage? It’s mainly about Li Qiang’s future journey. What’s the main idea for each paragraph ? (Ex4 on page19)

Para 1: main idea: details: Para 2: main idea: details: Para 3: main idea: details: How I came to take a time travel journey. my prize; my excitement The journey. how I felt; the spaceship; the journey My impression of life 1000 years into the future. little oxygen; masks to provide oxygen; hovering carriage; how to drive them; a “time leg” moment

Para 4: main idea: details: Staying in Wang Ping’s home appearance of house; tree as walls; where furniture stored; ate meal; prepared for sleep

Air qualityHouses Religion Clothing Time travel Transport Towns Eating CHANGES Air qualityHouses Time travel Transport Towns Find out the changes Li has mentionedGood changes or Bad changes?

Good changesBad changes Time travel Tran- sport Houses Towns Air quality Can travel to different times as you wish After-effects of travel Can move swiftly Disorganized; difficult to find way Save living spaceShort of space Busy; look like markets Easy to get lost Own family oxygen supply Poor quality in public places

Post reading : Post reading : 1. What’s the writer’s attitude towards the future, optimistic or pessimistic? 2. How do you know?

We know that from the following sentences: 1. Confused by the new surroundings, I was hit by the lack of the fresh air. 2. Exhausted, I slid into bed and fell fast asleep. 3. Worried about the journey, I was unsettle for the first few days.

2. Worried about…, I was unsettled. 1.Confused by …, I was hit by…. 3. Exhausted, I slid into bed…. 1. …company named “Future Tours”…. 2. …some visits organized by the company. Optimistic ? Pessimistic ? Discussion

That is a large, ____ and ____ room. It had a brown floor, soft lighting and a _____ ____ which is actually trees. The ____ of the trees are used to _____ oxygen. By _____ a _____ on the computer screen, _______ such as tables and chairs ____ from under the floor as if by ______. Wang Ping told me to ____ _____ ____ some visits in the next day, and _______ a bed for me to rest. _______, I ____into the bed and fell ____ _____.bright clean greenwall leaves provide flashing switch furniture rose magic get ready for produced Exhausted slid fastasleep