Unit 3

Life in the future

高二人教新课标版必修五

Reading

Make a list of the problems human being

are facing today.

Discussion:

Housing Population Pollution Global warming Traffic Hunger Literacy…

acid rain, growing areas of desert, overlarge world population, lack of enough drinking water …

water pollution

poor sanitation公共卫生air pollutionDeforestation滥砍滥伐Desertification 沙漠

化starvation• Global warming

poverty

war

violence

Other

issues

overpopulation

Traffic jam

Help

What will life be like in one thousand years’ time?

Li Qiang

a boy who was given a chance to travel to the year AD3008 as a prize.

He is now writing to his parents about his exciting and unforgettable tour…

Reading

First Impressions

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

A

Paragraph 1- main idea:

details: Paragraph 2 - main idea: details:

How I came to take a time travel journey.

The journey.my prize; my excitement

how I felt; the spaceship; the journey

Write down the main idea for each paragraph.

Paragraph 3:- main idea:

details:

My impressions of life one thousand years into the future.

little oxygen; masks to provide oxygen; hovering carriage; how to drive them; a “time lag” moment

Paragraph 4:- main idea:

details:

Staying in Wang Ping’s home

appearance of house; trees as walls; where furniture stored; ate meal; prepared for sleep

Divide the passage into three parts

Before the journey (par.1)

During the journey (par. 2-3)

After the journey (par.4)

Before the journey

When ① ② Who

③

What ④

Why

How⑤

⑥Where

Li Qiang Wang Ping

Sep. 15, 2005 AD 3005

green tablets

take up the prize won last year

“time lag”

Li QiangCapsule

During the journeyInside the capsule:

through the opening

①

comfortable seats

a calming drink

lay relaxed

rose slowly from ground

Complete the journey

1000 years later

? outside the capsule

Outside the capsule:②

Confused by the new surroundings, I was hit by the lack of fresh air.

1. Hovering carriage:

2. “A large market”:

“How”float above

bend and press down

“What”fly by in all directions

lost sight of 3. A high building:

swept up

a “time lag” flashback

mask

After the journeyArriving home, he showed me into a large bright, clean room.

Exhausted, I slid into bed and fell fast asleep.

green wall

brown floor soft lighting

trees--leaves

a switch on computer screen

tables + chairs

Description

Visiting Wang Ping’s Home

That is a large, _____ and ____ room. It had a brown floor, soft lighting and a _____ ____ which is actually trees. The _____ of the trees are used to _______ oxygen. By ______ a ______ on the computer screen, ________ such as tables and chairs ____ from under the floor as if by ______. Wang Ping’s mother told me to ____ _____ ____ some visits in the next day, and _________ a bed for me to rest. ________, I ____ into the bed and fell ____

_____.

bright cleangreen wall

leavesprovide flashing switch

furniturerose

magic

get ready forproduced

Exhausted slid fast asleep

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.

Put the statements into correct order.

C A D B

The seats in the capsule are very comfortable.

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

I took up the prize I won the year before.

3. How did I feel when I was in the capsule?

2. What is a “time lag”?

1. Why did I have the chance to travel to the year AD 3008?

Read and answer.

seats in the capsule

time capsule

new surroundings

lack of fresh air/the air is thin

a hovering carriage

You can drive it swiftly by bending and pressing down on the driving stick strongly.

people fly by in all directions

Read fourth paragraph quickly, then

answer the following questions:

2. What was the green wall made

of ? What’s the purpose of

building this kind of green wall?

1. What did Wang Ping’s house look like?

large, bright and clean

The wall was made of trees.

Because their leaves provided the room with much-needed oxygen.

Now try to find out what happened

to Li Qiang before, during and after

the journey.

Detail Reading

Before the journey

Li felt _______ and ________ Li felt _______ and ________ at first, as a result he at first, as a result he suffered suffered from _______.from _______.

During the journey (1)

Li was transported safely into Li was transported safely into the future in a ___the future in a ____________._______.

During the journey(2)

_________by the new _________by the new surroundings, Li was hit by surroundings, Li was hit by the ____ of fresh air and his the ____ of fresh air and his head ______.head ______.

nervous unsettled

time lag

time capsule

Confused

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

Have 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 swiftlydisorganized;difficult to find way

save living space short of space

busy; look like markets

easy to get lost

own family oxygen supply

poor quality in public places

1. During his journey he suffered from

“jet lag”.

2. Wang Ping was his friend as well as

his guide.

3. The writer gave Wang Ping some

green tablets, which helped a lot.

T

T

F

True or false

4. Wang Ping owns a company named

“Future Tours”.

5. Before the trip, we had a calming

drink which made us sleepy.

6. I lost sight of Wang Ping because

there were too many carriages.

F

T

T

7. In the year AD 3008, the air in private

houses was poor quality.

8. Hovering carriages were a fast means

of transport, and people could fly in

them in every direction.

F

T