Task 1 Discussion Look through the pictures and

Task 1: Discussion • Look through the pictures and discuss with your partner what changes you expect to see in our life at present and in one thousand years′ time.

horse or simple vehicle such as a carriage Transport spaceships, High-speed electric multiple units personal flying cars

What kind of vehicle will we use in the future? a solar energy car

Communication

House flats in high buildings made mudhouses along the street small houses with many shops modern flats, floating

Shopping On line shopping

If you can have a time travel, do you want to go to the future or to the past? Why?

Task 3 Make a list of the problems human begins are facing today. Ø Housing Ø Population Ø Pollution Ø Global warming (greenhouse effect) Ø Traffic Ø Hunger Make a prediction about the future

Li Qiang A boy who was given a chance to travel to the year AD 3008 as a prize. He is now writing to his parents about his exciting and unforgettable tour…

Task 4 Skimming 1 What is the text mainly about ? e- mail written by a boy who It is an has taken up a trip to the future

2 Use the following sentences to tell me the main idea according to the time when it happens. We were transported into the future by a comfortable time capsule. I arrived at Wang. Ping′s home and everythingin his house made me surprise I want a travel to the year AD 3008. I have my first try to master a hovering carriage

Task 5 Listen to the tape and find out the main ideas and details for each paragraph Paragraph 1 - main idea: How I came to take a time travel journey. details: my prize; my excitement Paragraph 2 - main idea: The journey. details: how I left; the spaceship; the journey

Paragraph 3 - main idea: My impressions of life one thousand years into the future details: little oxygen; marks to provide oxygen; hovering carriage; how to drive them; a “time lag” moment

Paragraph 4 - main idea: Staying in Wang Ping’s home details: appearance of house; trees as walls; where furniture stored; are meal; prepared for sleep

Task 6 Go through paragraphs quickly, then answer the following questions: 1. Why did I have the chance to travel to the year AD 3008? I took up the prize I won the year before. 2. What is a “time lag”? “Time lag’’ means a person gets flashbacks from his/her previous (先前的) time period.

3. How did I feel when I was in the capsule? The seats in the capsule are very comfortable. 4. Who guides my trip? My friend Wang Ping is my guide to the future.

5. Why did my guide give me some tablets? The tablets could help me feel less nervous and uncertain. 6. Who transported us to the future? Wang Ping’s parents’ company transported us to the future.

Please go through the third paragraph, then try to answer the following questions: 1. How did I feel as soon as I was transported to the future? I was hit by a lack of fresh air. 2. How did Wang Ping solve this problem? Wang Ping gave a mask to me and hurried me through to a small room nearby to have a rest.

3. What do you think has caused this kind of problem? Now we are causing more and more pollution to the nature, and this will cause serious problems to the life in the future. This may be the cause of the lack of fresh air in the future.

Task 7 Read the text carefully and then fill in the blanks about the details of Li Qiang’s future tour. the time capsule In __________: comfortable and we slept ◆ The seats were ______ after a calming drink. ◆ The capsule began swinging gently sideways as we lay relaxed and dreaming.

In the hovering carriage: ◆It is driven by computer. ◆By bending or ____down in our seats, you pressing can move swiftly. ◆I lost sight of Wang Ping when we reached what looked like a large market because of too many carriages flying by in all directions ________.

At home: ◆It is a large, bright clean room. green ◆It had a _______ wall, a brown floor and soft lighting. trees ◆The wall moved — it was made of _______! Their leaves provided the room with much-needed oxygen _____. ◆A table and some chairs rose from under the floor as if by magic when Wang Ping _______ flashed ____ a switch on a computer screen.

Task 8 Detailed reading 1. Read the passage carefully and guess the meaning of the underlined words according to the context. 1) Well-known for their expertise, his parents company, called “Future Tours”, transported me safely into the future in a time capsule.

expertise A. possibility B. experience C. efficiency D. special skills and knowledge

2) I Still cannot believe that I am taking up this prize that I won last year. A. occupying B. accepting C. picking up D. going on

Task 9 Discussion What’s the writer’s attitude towards the future, positive or negative? How do you know? ? negative ? positive

Pessimistic (negative) We know that from the following sentences: 1. Worried about the journey, I was unsettled for the first few days. 2. At first my new surroundings were difficult to tolerate. 3. Exhausted, I slid into bed and fell fast asleep.

optimistic (positive) I think the writer has an optimistic view of the future. He was very excited when he traveled to the year AD 3008 and couldn’t believe it was true. From this, we can see he is eager to go to the future. Though he was hit by the lack of fresh air, the problem was immediately solved by putting on a mask. And he tells us the transport in the future is convenient. When he arrived Wang Ping’s home, he found there were many trees after the wall moved, and these trees provided the house with much-needed oxygen. Finally he described the automatic equipment in Wang Ping’s house. All the above has shown his view of the future.

Tips : We should draw a conclusion from the passage not from one of the details.

Homework 1. Finish “ Learning about language”. 2. Review the key sentences in the text. 3. Review the new words of Unit 3 and get ready for the dictation.