Using Language
Unit 3 Life in the future
Just imagine, several thousand years later, the scientific technology is becoming more modern than it is now. What will happen?
Are you me?
Clone!!
How amazing!!!
I HAVE SEEN AMAZING THINGS
I have seen amazing things.
* enormous adj. 巨大的；庞大的
* imitate vt. 模仿；仿照
* up-to-date adj. 现代的，最新的
* moveable adj. 可移动的；活动的
* citizen n. 公民；居民；市民
* thoughtpad n. 思想仪
key words
instant n. 瞬间；片刻
adj. 立即的；立刻的
limitation n. 限制；局限，极限
efficient adj. 有能力的；效率高的
dustbin n. 垃圾箱
ribbon n. 丝带； 带状物
ecology n. 生态；生态学
dispose vt. 布置；安排
* greedy adj. 贪吃的；贪婪的；贪心的
* swallow vt. 吞下；咽下
* recycle vt. 回收利用；再利用
* manufacture vt. （用机器）大量生产；
成批制造
* motivation n. 动机
Task 1
Fast Reading
1. How many stops did they visit?

2. How many inventions did the guide
introduce to us? What are they?
Three inventions. Thoughtpad, a machine and robots.
Three.
Detail Reading
Divide the text into four Parts.
Task 2
1). What is the space station like?
It is an enormous round plate.
1. Read the first part
2). Why did the space station spin
slowly in space?
To imitate the pull of the earth’s gravity.
2. Read the second part
True or false
1). Messages can be sent using
a thoughtpad.
2). The space citizens could send message
clearly at any time.
3).We can blame the tools for the faults of
the user.
T
F
F
Place the metal band over one’s head, clear one’s mind, press the sending button, think one’s message and the next instant it’s sent.
How are the messages sent in the
31st century?
3. Read the third part
True or false
1). The rubbish used to be sent to be
buried or burned.
2). The rubbish is turned into the same
grades of material.
3). Nothing is wasted and everything is
recycled.
F
T
T
The giant machine swallows all the waste available and the rubbish is turned into several grades of useful material, such as “fertilizer” for the fields and “soil” for deserts.
How does the waste machine work?
4. Read the fourth part
1).What can be produced in space?
Who manufactures them?
drugs, clothes, furniture, hovering carriages, etc.
Robots manufacture them.
2). How are the goods transported to the  earth?
By industrial spaceship.
Analyze and compare. Fill the table.
Task 3
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
Summary
It was my first visit to a space station.
Described as an e________ round plate, it spins slowly in space to _______ (模仿) the pull of the earth’s gravity. The g________ showed us three stops. In the first stop, I saw the thoughtpad used for s_______ messages.
Task 4
normous
imitate
uide
ending
Next stop, we are in the environment area. There is w_____ machine which can s________ all the waste available. The t_____ stop showed us how the goods are m__________ by r______
aste
wallow
hird
anufactured
obots
n. (pron.)
疑问词＋to do
doing sth.
wh-clause
consider
考虑
Language points
Let me consider. 让我仔细想想。
I am considering the purchase of car. 我在考虑买一辆车。
We must consider giving it a try. 我们应当考虑试一试。
We should consider what to do next.
我们应当考虑一下怎么办。
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.
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…
Discussion
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.