A changingchanging world

What will my future life be like?

Whatever will be will beWhatever will be will be

Warming Up

Discussion and fill in the chart.

hard poor

better happier

modern house

Maglev train

Maglev train

Environmentally friendlyEnvironmentally friendly

energy -savingenergy -saving

Amazing speed: 430 km∕hAmazing speed: 430 km∕h

engines

Computer system

safer fastercleaner

?

a solar energy car

Light and fast traveling

Future motorbike

The Space City

The Space House

a robotic dog

Amphibious house Space fruit

AD1005:

China

AD2005:m-odern world

AD3005:Your ideas

Trans-port

by horse or by simple vehicle such as a carriage

Houses made of wood and mud; no bathrooms

cars,trains, boats, airplanes, hovercraft, helicopter

spacecraft, time travel, personal flying cars or bikes

flats in highrise buildings with kitchens and bathrooms

comfortable, modern flats,furniture in walls and floor; supply of oxygen

AD1005:

ChinaAD2005:mod-ern world

AD3005:Your ideas

Villages many small houses round a temple and a pond

Towns streets with markets, small shops and private houses

Location of settle-ment

on the earth; on land

houses along streets with shops

many blocks of flats together; floating parks for children

large modern buildings;old historical buildings; blocks of flats

modern buildings; many parks, everything built in concrete; with green trees in houses

on the earthon the earth; in space station; under the sea;on the moon

Pre-reading 1. Make a list of the problems

human beings are facing today housing

population pollution global warming traffic hunger literacy

acid rain , growing areas

of desert, overlarge world population, lack

of enough drinking water

…

Reading:

First Impressions

1.When I first met her,she gave me the impression that she was very kind.

2.Now I am the owner of this house.Do you know who was the previous owner?

3.The doctor told me to take two tablets three times a day.

(deep feeling of sb).

(coming before in time)

(pills)

Task 1

Try to guess the meaning of new words.

4.The accident happened as the jet was about to take off.

5.A train goes more swiftly than a bus.

6.Nowadays it’s important for us to master a foreign language.

7.Though he failed again and again,he was optimistic about his life.

(airplane)

(quickly)

(be good at)

(confident) 反义词 : pessimistic

Read this passage quickly,then finish these exercises.

1 .What’s the text about?A. An e-mail written by a man who has taken up a trip to the futureB.The man have his first try to master a hovering carriage.C.The man are surprised at the Wang ping’s home.D.The preparation of the trip.

fast reading

2.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.

Careful reading

1. Why did I have the chance to travel to the year AD3005?2. What is a “ time lag”? 3. How did they travel to the year AD3005?4. Who guided my trip?5. Why did my guide give me some tables?6. Who transported us to the future?

1.Why did I have the chance to travel to the year AD3005?

2. What is a “ time lag”?

3. How did they travel to the year AD3005?

I took up the prize I won the year before.

“Time lag ” means a person gets flashbacks from his previous time period.

In a time capsule.

4.Who guided my trip?

5. Why did my guide give me some tablets?

6.Who transported us to the future?

My friend Wang Ping is my guide to the future.

The tablets could help me feel less nervous and uncertain.

Wang Ping’s parents’ company transported us to the future.

Bright,clean,green,moving walls,brown floor and soft lighting,trees inside room,movable furniture.

7.What was the air like there? In what way did people there travel?

8.What were houses like there?

The air seemed thin as if it had little oxygen left;people there travelled in a hovering carriage driven by computer.

Judge whether the following statements are true or false.

1.In the year AD 3005,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 3005 but also to the advantages and problems of life in the future.

Task 4:DiscussionDo you think Li Qiang feels comfortable in the future? What words does he use that he gives you that impression?

Task 5Have a

discussion and fill in the chart on page 19

Good changes Bad changes

Time travel

Transport

Houses

Towns

Air quality

can travel to different times as you wish

after-effects of travel

can move swiftlydisorganised;diffi-cult 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

HomeworkHomework

Finish 0ff the comprehending exercise 2 and 3 Try to retell the text in your own words