Life in The Future
Warming up
A changing world
What will my future life be like?
Whatever will be will be

Warming Up
Discussion and fill in the chart.
Life in the past
Life at present
modern house
Maglev train
Environmentally friendly
energy -saving
Amazing speed: 430 km∕h
engines
Computer system
safer
faster
cleaner
?
a solar energy car
life in the future
Light
and fast traveling
Future motorbike
The Space City
The Space House
a robotic dog
Amphibious house
Space fruit
cars,trains, boats, airplanes, hovercraft, helicopter
spacecraft, time travel, personal flying cars or bikes
flats in highrise buildings with kitchens and bathrooms
comfortable, modern flats,furniture in walls and floor; supply of oxygen
houses along streets with shops
many blocks of flats together; floating parks for children
large modern buildings;old historical buildings; blocks of flats
modern buildings; many parks, everything built in concrete; with green trees in houses
on the earth
on the earth; in space station; under the sea;on the moon
Pre-reading
1. Make a list of the problems human beings are facing today
housing
population
pollution
global warming
traffic
hunger
literacy
acid rain , growing areas of desert, overlarge world population, lack of enough drinking water …
Reading:

First Impressions
1.When I first met her,she gave me the impression that she was very kind.

2.Now I am the owner of this house.Do you know who was the previous owner?

3.The doctor told me to take two tablets three times a day.
(deep feeling of sb).
(coming before in time)
(pills)
Task 1
Try to guess the meaning of new words.
4.The accident happened as the jet was about to take off.

5.A train goes more swiftly than a bus.

6.Nowadays it’s important for us to master a foreign language.

7.Though he failed again and again,he was optimistic about his life.
(airplane)
(quickly)
(be good at)
(confident)
反义词: pessimistic
Task 2
Read this passage quickly,then finish these exercises.
1 .What’s the text about?
A. An e-mail written by a man who has taken up a trip to the future
B.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
2.Arrange the order according to the
text.
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.
Careful reading
1. Why did I have the chance to travel to the year AD3005?
2. What is a “ time lag”?
3. How did they travel to the year AD3005?
4. Who guided my trip?
5. Why did my guide give me some tables?
6. Who transported us to the future?
Why did I have the chance to travel to the year AD3005?

2. What is a “ time lag”?
3. How did they travel to the year AD3005?
I took up the prize I won the year before.
“Time lag ” means a person gets flashbacks from his previous time period.
In a time capsule.
4.Who guided my trip?
5. Why did my guide give me some tablets?
6.Who transported us to the future?
My friend Wang Ping is my guide to the future.
The tablets could help me feel less nervous and uncertain.
Wang Ping’s parents’ company transported us to the future.
Bright,clean,green,moving walls,brown floor and soft lighting,trees inside room,movable furniture.
7.What was the air like there? In what way did people there travel?

8.What were houses like there?
The air seemed thin as if it had little oxygen left;people there travelled in a hovering carriage driven by computer.
Task 3
Judge whether the following statements are true or false.
1.In the year AD 3005,the air in private houses was poor quality.

2.Hovering carriages were a fast means of transport,and people could fly in them in every direction.

3.Li Qiang arrived in a busy town where he got lost.

4.This text is an introduction both to the more advanced forms of transport in AD 3005 but also to the advantages and problems of life in the future.
Task 4:
Discussion
Do you think Li Qiang feels comfortable in the future? What words does he use that he gives you that impression?
Task 5
Have a discussion and fill in the chart on page 19
can travel to different times as you wish
after-effects of travel
can move swiftly
disorganised;diffi-cult 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
Homework
Finish 0ff the comprehending exercise 2 and 3
Try to retell the text in your own words