Unit 3
Life in the Future
A changing world
carriage
bicycle
motorcycle
train
aeroplane
?
space craft
sedan chair
car
time travel
Q: How do you usually go to school?
Means of transportation
Life in the past
Life at present
life in the future
?
Do you want to go traveling in the future like the mechanical cat---“Duo La A Meng”?
The time machine can bring you to the future.
Pre-reading
Make a list of the problems human beings are facing today.
Help
water pollution
poor sanitation
air pollution
deforestation
desertification
starvation
poverty
war
violence
Other issues
overpopulation
problems the earth is facing:
air pollution
water pollution
noise pollution
soil erosion
white pollution
overpopulation
poverty
war &violence
(rubbish)
…
Fasting Reading
Put the sentences in order:

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 3008.
D. I have my first try to master a hovering
carriage.
C-A-D-B
For the first two paragraphs:
1. Why did I have the chance to travel to the year AD 3008?
2. What is a “time lag”?
3. How did I feel when I was in the capsule ?
4. Who guides my trip?
5. Why did my guide give me some tablets?
6. Who transported us to the future?
Why did I have the chance to travel to the
year AD3008?
2.What is a “time lag”?

3.How did I feel when I was in the capsule?
I took up the prize I won the year before.
The seats in the capsule are very comfortable.
“Time lag” means a person gets flashbacks from his previous time period.
4.Who guides 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.
For the third paragraph:

How did I feel as soon as I was transported to
the future?
2.How did Wang Ping solve this problem?

3.What do you think has caused this kind of problem?
After I was transported to the future, I was
hit by the lack of fresh air and my head ached.
Wang Ping gave a mask to me and hurried me
through to a small room nearby to have a rest.
Now we are causing more and more pollution to the
nature, this will cause serious problems to life in the
future. This may be the cause of the lack of fresh air
in the future.
For the fourth paragraph:
What did Wang Ping’s house look like?
What was the green wall made of? What’s the
purpose of building this kind of green wall?

3. How can you produce a TV set in Wang Ping’s house?
His house is a large bright, clean room. It had a green
wall, a brown floor and soft lighting.
The green wall was made of trees. The leaves of the
trees will provide much-needed oxygen to the house.
You can just flash a switch on the computer screen
and a TV set will rise from the floor.
Careful reading
Judge whether the following statements are true or false
1.In the year AD 3008,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.
True or false
True or false
4.This text is an introduction both to the more advanced forms of transport in AD 3008 but also to the advantages and problems of life in the future.
1.Li Qiang got the chance of having this time travel trip because _______.
A. He had passed the final term exam with a very good result
B. He had written a story about a trip to the year AD 3008
C. He had won a prize
D. He had given money to the company of “Future Tours”
Choose the best answer
2. What do you think of Li Qiang’s trip to the year AD 3008?
A. Uninteresting.
B. Very exciting.
C. Very easy.
D. Very cheap.
3. What can we infer from the text?
A. Li Qiang felt a bit uncomfortable at first.
B. While traveling, there was no one else besides Li Qiang and Wang Ping.
C. It was the first time travel trip for Li Qiang and Wang Ping.
D. Li Qiang regretted having traveled to the year AD 3008.
4. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the text?
Wang Ping suffered from “jet lag” when he traveled to the year AD 3008.
B. Wang Ping was Li Qiang’s friend and guide.
C. Li Qiang lost sight of Wang Ping because there were so many carriages around him.
D. Wang Ping was very hospitable. (好客的)
5. Please choose another title for the text.
A. Visiting Wang Ping’s house.
B. Traveling to the future.
C. Company of “Future Tours”.
D. Feeling in the Time Travel Trip.
Now try to find out what happened

to Li Qiang before, during and after

the journey.
Detail Reading
nervous
uncertain
time lag
time capsule
Confused
lack
ached.
showed
green
brown
soft
Exhausted
fell
asleep

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
Did you do anything bad for the
environment in your daily life?
What should you do to make our world more beautiful ?
???
Discussion
Group Work:

Useful expressions

1.handkerchief 手帕
2.plastic bag 塑料袋
3.recycle 再利用
4.solar energy 太阳能
5.chewing gum 口香糖
6.battery 电池
7.one-off chopsticks 方便筷
1.Using the handkerchief instead of the paper napkin.
2.Using paper bags instead of plastic bags.
3. Don’t use one-off chopsticks.
4. Go to work/school on foot or by bike not by car.
5. Throw cans, bottles, paper and plastic into the
dustbin.
……..
Advice
Homework
1.背诵 aspect—stewardess

2. 作业本　Ｐ26 Ⅱ