Unit 3
Life in the future
Using language (1)
I Have Seen Amazing Things
What can you see in the picture?
How do you feel at first sight of it?
time travel
Free talk before reading
1. Do you think it’s possible for human being to have a time travel?
2. If you had the chance to take a time travel to the year AD 3008 as Li Qiang did, what places would you go to visit?
Read the text and find out the information below.
Modern Inventions of the 31st Century
Only to be seen on the Space Station
Use the information from the reading passage to
fill in this poster for the Space Station.
a waste machine
efficient
environmentally friendly
Thoughts must be clear or messages may be mixed up
1. no waste
2. no
pollution
3. no
environ-
mental
damage
1. disposes
of all waste
2. turns them into three grades of useful material
People must live on a space station to monitor the robots
Discussion 1
In pairs discuss the advantages and disadvantages of living on a space station. For example, would you like to live and work in one? What would you do with your spare time? Prepare to report to the class.
Try to predict your future life and make a short-term plan and talk about your dreams, and then fill in the chart.
Discussion 2
Fill in the chart after your discussion.
1. My first visit was to a space station considered the most modern in space.
Language points
considered the most modern in space是过去分词短语，在句中作定语，修饰前面的名词。
In judging him you should consider his youth.
I consider it a great honor to be invited to dinner.
I am considering the purchase of car. We must consider giving it a try.
We should consider what to do next.
consider 考虑，思考，认为
consider, think, believe, regard这些动词均含有“认为”之意。
consider: 指经过考虑和观察后得出的结论。
think: 普通用词，指按照自己的意见提出
看法。
believe: 通常指根据一定的证据，经思考后
而认为属实。
regard: 侧重凭外表或表面现象作判断。多
强调观点。
2. You place the metal band over your head, clear your mind, press the sending button, think your message and the next instant it’s sent.
instant n. 顷刻，刹那
I’ll be back in an instant.
An instant later the explosion occurred.
instant adj. 立即的，即时的，紧迫的
I don’t like drinking instant coffee.
The flood victims were in instant need of help.
moment, minute, instant这些名词均含“瞬间、片刻”之意。
moment: 较minute所表示的时间短，指一
刹那或一段很短时间，有时也含持续
的意味。
minute: 指极短的时间，但可觉察到时间的
持续。
instant: 常与moment换用，指一瞬间，但
更侧重时间短促，多用于表示紧迫、瞬
变等情况。
3. A giant machine, always greedy for more, swallows all the waste available.
greedy adj. 贪婪的
He looked at the shop window with greedy eyes. 
The dictator was greedy for power.
be greedy to do sth. 渴望做某事
be greedy for sth. 渴望…