宣汉县第二中学 张建涛

Life in the Future Reading and Vocabulary

Brainstom What will life in the future look like?

clinic disability mall online outdoors recreation run out solar surgery urban Word Study

Pre-reading Look at the title of the passage. Tick the topics you think it will mention alternative energy public services crime environment entertainment traffic weather shopping schools

Read the text carefully and complete the following chart. Garbage ships The city will with waste materials and send them towards the sun. Holidays at home People will be able to go anywhere in the world using RecreationAll forms of recreation will be provided by the city. CarsAll cars will use, and it will be possible to change the colour of cars ResourcesWe’ll use lots of and also have to How the students would run a city in the year 2025 load huge spaceships free of charge solar energy, electricity alternative energyrely on recycled materials hi-tech cameras attached to their head

Detailed understanding Read the text carefully again and choose the best answers. 1 No one knows for sure what the city of the future will look like because a. making predictions is very dangerous b. it is very hard to make predictions c. making predictions is of no use d. it is no good making predictions b

2. Distance surgery will be common because a. doctors can carry out operations from thousands of miles b. doctors will be more skilled and more experienced c. each city will have its own tele-surgery outpatient clinic d. each city will have its own spaceport c

What will the city of the future be like? Batman Nets : nets instead of guns Forget the malls : online voice command Telephones for life: birth never change Space travel : ordinary people common spaceport Tele-surgery : distance outpatient clinic Listen to the tape Forget smoking : allowed outside cities outdoors

1 not a wise thing to do 2 use up 3 remove 4 old people 5 tied to sth a risky business get rid of senior citizens attached to run out Find some phrases in the text meaning these things

Which prediction 1 is the most useful? 2 will come true first? 3 do you agree best? Discuss the questions

Don’t forget your homework: 1.Remember the new words and useful expressions 2.Preview Listening and Vocabulary

Goodbye!

a robotic dog a solar energy car Cars in the future

Garbage ships

shopping mall Forget the malls online shopping

Space travel