What’s your impression?

His hands are ________

Life in the future is ______

How do you come to school?

bicycle

motorcyclecar

on foot

bus

How will students come to school in 3000?

What Changes will happen in one thousand years’ time? Transport Work Finance and currency Languages Environment Education Houses communication

First Impressions

Li Qiang took a time travel journey to 3008.

Tick out the Changes mentioned

ClothingClothingAir qualityAir quality

WeatherWeather HousesHouses

TransportTransport

languagelanguage

a. We were transported into the future by a comforta

ble 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(盘旋 )carriag

e.

Put the statements in correct order

c--a--d--b

1. ________________________________

2. ________________________________ (para2) 3. ________________________________ (para3-4)

Feelings before the journey

Journey to the future world

Life in the future

(para1)

Why did Li Qiang have the chance?

What is “time lag”?

How did my guide help me get over “time lag”? How did I go to the future?

He won this prize last year.

This is similar to the “jet lag” you get from flying, but it seems you keep getting flashbacks from your previous time period.

Green tablets.

I was transported safely into the future in a time capsule.

Shanghai

9:00

24:00

New York

20:00

11:00

15 hours

Departing

Arriving

jet lag

tablets

capsule 胶囊 capsule 太空舱

Li Qiang’s feelings before the journey

___uncertain

___worried

___doubtful

___unsettled

___nervous

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If you were Liqiang, would you be so nervous? Why?

Retell

Inside the capsule:

climbed in through a small ______

_________seats

a ___

drink

began swinging _______gently

the journey was

________

1000 years in the future

outside the capsule

opening

comfortablecalming

completed

_____ called us to the capsule

Stewardess

felt _____ and ____ eyes

sleepy closed

sideways

lay ______ and dreaming

relaxed

?What would he find?

1. Why did Liqiang think the new surroundings were difficult to tolerate?

2. How did Wang Ping help to solve this problem?

The air seemed thin, as though….Hit by the lack of fresh air, his head ached.

Wang Ping gave a mask to me and hurried me through to a small room nearby for a rest.

What might have caused this problem?

Air qualityAir quality

Did Li Qiang adjust to the new situation?

3. What is a hovering carriage? How to use it?

The carriage ______ by computer can float above the ground. After ________ a hovering carriage, first _____ the safety belt. If you want to move, ____ or _____ down in your seat.

4.What is the “large market”?

The area was still my __________.

collectingdriven

fastenbend press

TransportTransport

hometown

What’s your impression of the transport in 3008? (more than one answer)

A. swift

B. disorder

C. hard to adjust to

D. easy to master

A: By bending or pressing down in your seat, you can move swiftly.B: I lost sight of… ...carriages flying by in all directions He was swept up into…D: Soon I could fly as fast as him.

green wall

brown floor soft lighting

Wall (trees) leaves

flash a switch on a computer screen

a table and chairs rose from under the floor

Future house

HousesHousesFirst impression of the roomstrange-looking What is amazing about the room?

large, bright clean

produce a bed from the floor

If you were Li Qiang, having seen such amazing room, what would you do?

What did Li Qiang do? Why?

He had a brief meal and a hot bath. Then he slid into bed and fell fast asleep.Because he was so exhausted.

What ’s the main idea of the passage?

A. Li Qiang’s future journey.

B. Changes happened in transport.

C. Difficult to get used to the future

D. Poor environment in the future

Air quality

Transport

Houses

the air seemed thinhad little oxygen lefthit by a lack of fresh air...

float above the groundmove swiftlytoo many carriages

strange-looking large, bright clean roomas if by magic…

At first, my new surroundings were difficult to tolerate.

What’s Li Qiang’s attitude towards the future?A. Pessimistic B. Optimistic

1. Read the passage fluently;

2. Finish up Ex. 1-3 on Page 20-21;

3. Design your own invention, trying to use the new words and phrases.

Homework

In the future, my house can hover in the air and fly everywhere I want to go.

Now try to review what happened to

Li Qiang before, during and after th

e journey.

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)

_____ by the ____ of fresh air and his head ______.

nervous unsettled

time lag

time capsule

Hit lackached

After the

journey (1)

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 ______.

showed

green brown

soft

Exhausted

fell asleep