1. Life in the future

2. Past, Present, Future

3. Changes from ancient times to modern society
Housing
Clothing
Education
Eating
Communication
Transportation ……

4. housing in the past
low ,old, shabby , untidy, smelly…

5. Housing at present
modernized, comfortable…

6. Clothing (past)
grey, dull, clumsy, …

7. Clothing at present
Fashionable, colorful, comfortable, …

8. Education in the past:
Shabby classroom, badly equipped,…

9. education at present
Multi-media
Language lab

10. Eating (past)
unsavory, unhealthy, lack of nutrition…

11. Eating at present
tasty,nutritious,organic......

12. Communication (past):
Inefficient, inconvenient

13. Communication(present):
video telephone

14. Transportation in the past
cart
Slow, tiring, inconvenient, dangerous, …
sedan chair

15. transpotation at present
Maglev train
Fast, enjoyable, safer, …
Bullet train

16. Make a list of the problems human beings are facing today.
We benefit a lot from the new society, but there are still many problems in the world
Make a list of the problems human beings are facing today.

17. Deforestation 滥砍滥伐 poor sanitation公共卫生 air pollution starvation
desertification沙漠化
water pollution
Global warming

18. bright?
Can they be solved?
Future

19. What will our future life be like?

20. life in the future
a robotic dog
a solar energy car

21. A bed car
A car which can sail on the water

22. A city on the water

23. Oh, my God! I am
cloned

40. Do you want to go traveling in the future like the mechanical cat---“Duo La A Meng”?

41. First Impressions

42. Skimming The passage is mainly about .
how Li Qiang was transported to the future.
how Li Qiang got to the future and his first impression of it.
what the life was like in the future.
the introduction of the “ Future Tours” company.

43. after the journey (future life)
Main idea
before the journey
1. ________________________________
(para1)
2. ________________________________
(para2)
3. ________________________________
(para 3- 4)
during the journey
after the journey (future life)

44. Before the journey 1. Why did Li Qiang go into the future?
2. How did he feel when he left his own time?
3. How did he get to the year 3008?
4.What is “time lag”?
Because he had won a prize that gave him a tour.
He felt worried/ unsettled/nervous / uncertain.
He went by time capsule.
It means a person keeps getting flashbacks
from his previous time.

45. __________ through the______
during the journey
Inside the capsule:
calming
__________ through the______
climb in
comfortable
a _____
drink
_________seats
opening
What?
outside
the capsule
the capsule began ____________________as we lay______
swinging gently
sideways
1000 years later
the journey
________
relaxed
completed

46. Try to find out the changes Li Qiang has mentioned in the passage .
future life
Try to find out the changes Li Qiang has mentioned in the passage .

47.    find out the changes mentioned by LiQiang in the passage
Transport
Education
Food
Houses
Communication
Clothing
Environment (air, water…) …  
future life

48. air transport houses thin little oxygen a lack of fresh air
hovering carriage
driven by computer
float above…
move swiftly by…
transport
strange-looking
wall, floor, lighting
a table and chairs
…from under the floor
houses

49. Further understanding
What do you think Li Qiang will tell his parents in his next ?
Maybe something new he sees and experiences in this new world during the following days.

50. summary

51. Before the journey During the journey (1) During the journey(2)
unsettled /
uncertain
Before the journey
Li felt _______ and ________ at first, as a result he suffered
from _______.
During the journey (1)
Li was transported safely into the future in a ___________.
During the journey(2)
It is difficult to __________ the new surroundings. Li was hit by the ____ of fresh air and his head ______.
nervous
time lag
time capsule
tolerate
lack
ached

52. After the journey (1)
We collected a __________ carriage and _________ above the ground.
Arriving home Li was ______ into a large bright, clean room with a _____ wall, a _____ floor and _______ lighting.
After the journey (2)
_________, he slid into bed and ______ fast ______.
hovering
floated
showed
green
brown
soft
Exhausted
asleep
fell

53. Yesterday is a history
Tomorrow is a mystery
Today is a gift
So we call it present

54. Everybody wishes a bright future. Be
sure to seize the present. Make the
best of today, and you’ll succeed
tomorrow .
With the development of science and technology, some of our wildest dreams could come true in the future.

55. Learn from yesterday,
live for today,
and hope for tomorrow.

56. Arrange the order according to the
text.
A.we were transported into the future
by a comfortable time capsule.
B.I arrived at Wang Ping’s home and
everything in his house made me
surprised.
C.I won a travel to the year AD
3005.
D.I have my first try to master a
hovering carriage.
C, A, D, B

57. Discussion
What’s the writer’s attitude towards the future, optimistic or pessimistic? How do you know?
pessimistic
optimistic

58. We know that from the following sentences:
Pessimistic
We know that from the following sentences:
1. Worried about the journey, I was unsettled for the first few days.
2. My new surroundings were to difficult to tolerate. I was hit by the lack of the fresh air.
3. Exhausted, I slid into bed and fell fast asleep.