Unit3 Wariming up and Reading

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Unit

3

Life in the Future

Life in the past

Life at present

life in the future

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past

Building

Now

Education

—distance education

Communication

Today’s Food:

sandwich

hamburger

roasted duck

Raw food

Eating

Future

the Spaceship to Mars

playing tennis on Mars

Theory of Relativity, proposed by Einstein, is the theoretical foundation of time traveling.

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

The time machine can bring you to the future.

Fill in the form:

Transport

Airplanes; cars; bicycles

No longer by air because of environmental pollution; bicycles and horses will take a comeback

Warming up

Words and expressions

Work

Office; factory; construrction; landscape; service

At home using advanced, interactive computers; meetings can be conducted on the computer and people will see each other speak.

Finance and currency

Banks; offices; insurance; business

One global currency  maybe the yuan as China will be the largest global exporter

Languages

English; Russian; Chinese

One global language  perhaps Chinese or still English

Environment

Air; could be improved in cities

Very poor; need to recycle all water; control on the use for cars; no airplanes; methods to improve poor air quality. Climate of the earth being very hot is making problems over water resources.

Education

Nursery; schools; university

Longer than now possibly until 25 years of age so that students can learn all the new technologies

Houses

Flats; houses; concrete; wood

Built into the ground as the surface of the earth is so hot.

Communication

Post office; Internet

By thoughtpad, telephone, computer, mobiles, Morse code, etc.

Pre-reading

Make a list of the problems human are facing today.

Which problems do you think people will have overcome in one thousand years? Which ones do you think will still exist in AD 3008? Give our reasons.

Skim the reading passage and see whether your ideas are the same as those in 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 3008.

d. I have my first try to master a hovering carriage.

c-------a------- d - ----- b

Read the text quickly, then put the following sentences into the correct order:

Reading

1.In the year AD 3008,the air in private houses was poor quality.

2.Hovering carriages were a fast means of transport , and people could fly in them in every direction.

3.Li Qiang arrived in a busy town where he got lost.

4.This text is an introduction both to the more advanced forms of transport in AD 3008 but also to the advantages and problems of life in the future.

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Go through the first two paragraphs quickly, then answer the following questions on page 19:

Why did Li Qiang go into the future?

How did he feel when he left his own time?

Li Qiang went into the future because he had won a prize that gave him a tour.

He felt rather anxious when he left his own time but soon got it over.

The first thing he noticed was the poor quality of the air and it gave him a headache.

How did he get to the year 3008?

What did he notice first when he arrived in AD 3008?

He went by time capsule.

What else did he find that was different?

He found several things that were different:

a mask to give him enough oxygen

A hovering carriage

Having a “time lag” experience

A strange  looking house that belonged to Wang Ping’s parents

Trees that acted as walls and provided oxygen for the room

tables, chairs and a bed that were stored under the floor

Do you think Li Qiang is impressed by what he finds in the future? Why or why not?

What improvements do you think there will be to your home city or homevillage one thousand years in the future? What problems might there be?What ideas do you think were believable in this story? Why?

Which ideas do you think are too unrealistic? Why?

Think about this questions

Read the passage again, discuss which changes to life in AD3008 are good or bad and give reasons for your choices. Then please finish the chart.[全文已结束，注意以上仅为全文的文字预览，不包含图片和表格以及排版]

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