课标人教实验版高二 Module 5

Unit 3

Reading Task Reading Task

Rising to a challenge

The hotel under the sea The hotel under the sea

The restaurant under the sea

The wonder land

The future city The future city

Discuss

1. Do you think living under the sea is

possible?

2. Where are you going to live under the

sea?

3. In the undersea cities, what equipments

do you think are necessary?

1. The under city is so comfortable that

it is described as ______________.

2. The undersea city has the following

advantages:

a. _____________________________

b. __________________ c.

_______________________ d.

____________________

a silk adventure

easy contact with the land surface

more personal space

complete personal security

no housework worries

AdvantagesSpecial

equipments

How does it become

realized?

Easy contact with land

One personal or family shuttle-submarines

Always ready to take people to the surface, a special small, computerized machine to monitor each person during the trip.

AdvantagesSpecial

equipmentsHow does it

become realized?

More personal space

Get twice as much personal space as in flats on land, your house can float in the water.

AdvantagesSpecial

equipmentsHow does it

become realized?

Complete personal security

Computer sensor

Can feel the space left; only the robot cleaner will be able to move objects.

AdvantagesSpecial

equipments

How does it

become realized?

No

housework

worries

Family used

robots

Feed your details

into the computer

hard-drive; answer

your family’s

commands.

Which four parts make up the upper part of the Saturation City? The floating island includes 4 parts as followed: a hotel with many rooms for families to relax while their bodies return to normal; a large classroom with all kinds of educational aids for children of school age; a huge sports stadium; a very big hall for entertainment.

This passage is written in the style

of an advertisement to sell houses

under the sea. As people are not used

to living under the sea, the company

must encourage people to move there

by giving them some extra

advantages.

Writing Style

The aim of this task is for students to

imagine what it would be like to live

under the sea: its advantages and

disadvantages.

The name, Saturation City, comes

from science. After people have stayed

for some time under the water they

need to come up to the surface.

They are “saturated” or have stayed as long as their health will allow. At the moment it is difficult to stay for one full day under water except under special conditions. In key Largo, Florida, scientists have devised an undersea laboratory, which means that people can live and work under water for up to ten days at a time before returning to the surface.

By the year AD 3008 it will

undoubtedly be possible to stay under

water even longer.

Living underwater is similar to going

into space. Both affect the human body

badly. In space, the lack of gravity

makes a person grow taller and his/her

bones become more brittle.

Under water, the pressure pressing

down on the person is too great. So,

people living underwater have to come

back up to the surface to restore their

bodies to normal. In the reading, three

man-made islands have been provided

for this purpose for the people of

Saturation City.

People are asked to move and live under

the sea in AD 3008. It is assumed that the

population on earth has become so great

that it is impossible for them all to find a

place to live on land. Perhaps global

warming has melted the ice in the North

and South Poles and raised the sea level.

If that were the case, the land would

be needed to grow food for the

growing population.

Speaking Task on Page 60

What’s the purpose of building these

parts?These four parts provide the necessary

“home space” for families on their

regular leave so that no island is too

crowded and everyone gets a break from

underwater life.

1. Who has the right to go to the education

part?

2. When will the education part be open to

the people?

3. Where will the education part be built?

4. What kind of service will you provide?

5. What problem will you come across?

How will you solve the problem?

How to write a report?

The writing style of report

The first paragraph(why you write a report?)

Body (your own ideas on the item)

Conclusion (how you think it will help)

Structure

A sample version

The wonderful facilities in the sports

stadium of No.3 Floating Island,

Saturation City, means that the

company can offer a full programme of

sports. There are coaches for all areas

of sport so that everyone will be able to

improve their health.

All sports are offered. There are opportunities to improve skills in running and all field events, high and long jump, swimming, and throwing events. There is also a fully equipped gym for exercise and gymnastics. There are two kinds of coach: specialist ones to improve a particular skill to international level; general

ones to improve fitness and encourage healthy exercise. Both kinds of coach are available at all times for those who live in Saturation City. The fitness programme is intended to encourage personal improvement. The specialist programme is intended for competitions (which will be held once a month).

The winners in each event will have to enter the trials for the Olympic Games in AD 3008 which will take place in the Sahara Desert, North Africa. We hope that you feel that these facilities and programmes will help raise your fitness level and specialist expertise. We hope you will come and try our sports centre for yourselves.

Suppose a press conference and

exhibition is going to be held to make

the undersea city known among

people. If you work in the company,

can you design a special poster to

draw visitors’ attention so that they

will come to the press conference?

Design a poster

Come to this meeting

See the value of OUR undersea houses. Saturation City has:

•frequent shuttle-submarines to the surface •large personal space •good security for each family•no household worries: own robot

Cost:

Date:

Time:

Place:

2000 RMB each

17/8/3008

6:30 pm

Hall of the school

1. Among its many advantages we include: easy contact with the land surface, more personal space, complete personal security, and no housework worries.

在它所有的优点中包括 : 轻松与地面联系 , 更多的自由空间 , 完全的个人安全和不用担心做家务。

Language points

be/stay/get in contact with

与……保持联系 / 与……取得联系make/lose contact with

与 ( 某人 ) 取得 / 失去联系put sb. in contact with

使某人得以 ( 与…… ) 取得联系

1). We stay in contact with each other by

telephone.

我们通过电话保持联系。2). I’ve lost contact with most of my

school friends.

我已与大部分校友失去了联系。

keep in touch with

与……保持联系get in touch with

与……取得联系lose touch with

与……失去联系be in/out of touch with

与……保持 / 失去联系

2.They will be equipped with a special

small, computerized machine.

他们被安装上一个特别小的 , 由计算器控制的机器。

vt. to provide a person, group, building,

etc, with the things that are needed for a

particular kind of activity or work.

装备 , 配备 equip sb. with

be equipped with

be equipped to do

equip

equip sb./sth.

well/poorly/fully ect. equipped

The boys equipped themselves with

torches, rope and set off.

男孩子们带上火把和绳索出发了。

3. Only the robot cleaner will be able to

move objects. 只有当机器人清洁工才能够被移动。

only+ 状语从句放于句首时 , 句子用倒装语序。如：

1). Only then did they realize the importance of learning English. 只有那时 , 他们才意识到英语的重要性。

2). Only yesterday did he find that his watch was missing. 就是昨天他发现手表不见了。

3). Only by working hard did he succeed. 就是靠努力工作他才取得了成功。