Unit 3 Life In the Future
教材分析
I．教学内容分析：
本单元的中心话题是“谈未来”， 内容主要涉及人类对今后生活环境的想象、猜测和思考。 语言技能和语言知识主要围绕“未来生活”这一中心话题进行设计的
Warming up 部分通过一个填表活动引导学生去回顾过去、认识现在和展望未来。
Pre-reading部分首先让学生列举一些当今世界存在的问题，接着要求学生考虑一下在未来社会里哪些问题会克服、哪些问题将恶化。这样就为下面阅读做了铺垫。
Reading 部分以Li Qiang 发自宇宙空间站的电子邮件的形式向读者讲述了他是如何安全到达“未来世界”以及在“未来世界”的第一印象。教师引导学生把阅读的重点放在“未来世界”生活与现在生活的不同点上。
Comprehending 设计了五个教学活动来加深学生对“阅读”(Reading )的理解和复习。
活动一设计了5个问题，考查学生对文章主要信息的理解。
活动二要求学生通过阅读找到“未来世界”在以下几方面的变化：跨时空旅行、交通、住房、城镇环境和空气质量。接着学生应该在思考的基础上得出自己的结论，即哪些变化好，哪些变化不好，并说出理由。
活动三要求学生通过阅读来判断李强对未来的态度是乐观的还是悲观的。学生应该在文中找出支持自己观点的论据或例子，尽可能说服别人。
活动四让学生概括每一段的大意和具体信息，并复述课文，更深入地理解课文内容。
活动五让学生朗读课文最后一段，注意语音语调和节奏。
Learning about language部分突出了本单元的一些重点语汇和语法，通过语篇来考察学生运用本单元部分词汇的能力的练习。语法部分要求学生主动找出阅读语篇中饿重点结构—过去分词用定语和状语，然后加以应用。教师要提醒学生既要注意语义(meaning )也要注意形式(form).
Using Language部分涵盖了听、说、读、写四项语言基本技能。
summing up部分归纳了本单元的主要学内容并让学生自我检测一下效果。
Learning tip 部分告诉学生在讨论时记笔记的好处和方法。
II．教学重点和难点
1. 教学的重点
(1) 回顾历史，认识现在，展望未来，激发学生的想象力；
学习使用有关预测和猜测的表达方式；
掌握过去分词作定语、状语的用法；
运用所学的英语写出具有丰富想象力的短文。
2. 教学的难点
激发学生的想象力对未来生活进行展望；
掌握过去分词做定语、状语的用法；
学习对有关预测和猜测的表达方式。
III．教学计划
本单元分六课时：
第一、二课时：Warming Up, Pre-reading, Reading, Comprehending
第三、四课时：Learning about language, Using Language
第五课时：Listening and speaking (Using Language)
IV．教学步骤：
Period 1 & 2 Warming Up & Pre-reading, Reading Comprehending
Teaching Goals:
To illustrate Ss’ imagination of future life.
To arouse Ss to pay more attention to the problems that probably appeared in the future life.
To make Ss know the difference of life between the past, present and future.
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1 Leading-in
Purpose: To talk about past and future changes of life.
1. Group work
Let Ss discuss the questions in groups of four.
How do you usually get to school?
Where do you live, in a city or in the countryside?
Where would you like to live in the future?
Do you live in a flat or a house?
Do you have a room of you won? Can you describe the room in the picture?
What kind of housing would you like to have in the future?
What would you like to have in your room?
What can we use to build houses? (brick, stone , steel , glass, ice, wood , plastic bamboo, …)
2. Conclusion
This unit introduces what life in the future might be like to Ss. By discussing and answering the questions above can make Ss have a general understanding of the present and future life and can also illustrate Ss’ imagination about the future life.
Step 2. Warming Up
1. Pair work
In pairs let Ss list the changes in housing, transport, jobs, families and education will happen in the next century.
2. Individual work
According to the result of the above Pair work, fill in the chart.
表格 1
Present time
In one Thousand Years’ Time
Transport
Work
Finance and currency
Languages
Environment
Education
Houses
Communication
Suggested Answers:
表格 2
Present time
In One Thousand Years’ Time
Transport
Airplanes; cars; bicycles
No longer by air because of environmental pollution; bicycles and horses will make a comeback
Work
Office; factory; construction; landscape; service
At home using advanced, interactive computers; meetings can be conducted on the computer and people will see each other speak.
Finance and currency
Banks; offices; insurance; business
One global currency—maybe the yuan as China will be the largest global exporter
Language
English; Russian; Chinese
One global language- perhaps Chinese or still English
Environment
Air: could be improved in cities
Very poor; need to recycle all waste; control on the use of cars; no airplanes; methods to improve poor air quality. Climate of the earth being very hot is making problems over water resources
Education
Nursery; schools; university
Longer than now possibly until 25 years of age so that students can learn all the new technologies
Houses
Flats; houses; concrete; wood
Built into the ground as the surface of the earth is so hot.
Communication
Post office; Internet
By thoughtpad, telephone, computer, mobiles, Morse code, etc
Step 3. Pre-reading
1. Pair work
Ask Ss to discuss the following questions in pairs.
Make a list of the problems human beings are facing today.
(2) What problems do you think people will have overcome in one thousand years? Which ones do you think will still exist in AD 3008?
Suggested Answers:
(1) The seven serious problems facing mankind:
① The first problem I would like to point out is the decline of morality.(道德沦丧)
② The second problem is the racial bias problem. (种族歧视)
③ The third problem , which is a most serious problem , is the rapid depletion of resources on the Earth. (资源匮乏)
④ Now I come to the fourth problem, the problem of the large gap between the poor and the rich . (贫富悬殊)
⑤ The fifth problem is the pollution problem.(环境恶化)
⑥ Now I would like to talk about the sixth problem, the expensive arms race problem. (军备竞争)。
⑦ The seventh problem is that the technologies vital to the welfare of human beings are becoming more and more concentrated in the hands of a small group of people. (技术垄断)
(2) Various answers are acceptable.
2. Discussion
Show Ss the above pictures and ask them what problems each picture shows. This can arouse Ss interest. Ask Ss to have a wide range of discussion about the present and future life. They can discuss as much as they can.
Suggested Answers:
Picture one: global warming,
Picture two: acid rain,
Picture three: growing areas of desert,
Picture four: over large world population,
Picture five: lack of enough drinking water,
Step 4. Reading
1. Skimming
Pair work:
Ask Ss to look the three pictures (P18) and then discuss with their partners and answer the following questions:
① Picture one:
* What can you see in the picture?
* What are the people doing?
* Where do you think they are doing?
② Picture two:
* How many people can you see in the picture?
* Who are they, do you know?
* What else can you see in the picture?
* What can you use them for?
③ Picture 3.
* What can you see in the picture?
* Where is Li Qiang?
* What is Li Qiang doing?
* What is the table and chairs made of?
* What is the wall made of? What fun_ction does it have?
(2) Discussion:
Ask Ss read through the text as quickly as possible and talk about Li Qiang’s first impressions of AD 3008, and at the same time underline words, phrases, or sentences that are closely related to Li Qiang’s first impressions.
2. Scanning
(1) Team work
Ask Ss to discuss how far their ideas of the future are from those in the story. Let them discuss the following questions.
① Do you think Li Qiang is impressed by what he finds in the future? Why or why not?
② What improvements do you think there will be to your home city or home village one thousand years in the future? What problems might there be?
③ What ideas do you think were believable in this story? Why?
④ Which ideas do you think are too unrealistic? Why?
(2) Group work
This text is written as if it were a letter from a son to his parents. He is telling them his impressions in an informal way. So the descriptions are mixed with his impressions to give you his idea of what the future is like. Now please discuss the style of the text.
① Do you think Li Qiang’s descriptions are fair? Why or why not?
② What language does he use that gives you that impression?
③ Do you think he feels comfortable in the future? Why or why not?
④ What language does he use that gives you that impression?
3. Comprehending
Ask Ss to tell the following sentences are True or False (T or F)
(1) Li Qiang was worried about the journey, so he was unsettled all the time.
(2) Wang Ping is his friend who is also a good guide.
(3) His head ached because of lack of oxygen.
(4) Li Qiang lost in touch with Wang Ping, but he found him at last.
(5) Wang Ping’s mother was not friendly to him.
Suggested Answers: (1) F (2) T (3) F (4) T (5) F
4. Listening
Listen to the tape and fill in the chart bellow:
Good changes
Bad changes
Time travel
Transport
Houses
Towns
Air quality
Suggested Answers:
Good changes
Bad changes
Time travel
Can travel to different times as you wish
After– effects of travel
Transport
Can move swiftly
Disorganized, difficult to find way
Houses
Save living space
Short of space
Towns
Busy, look like markets
easy to get lost
Air quality
Own family oxygen supply
Poor quality in public places.
5. Group work
Divide the whole class into four groups. Each group is supposed to read through the text and find out the difficult words, expressions and sentences and then discusses them.
(1) take up 占领；占据；接受
When does the incoming manager take up his job?
The copying of these documents took up the whole morning.
He has taken up art in college.
He decided to take up photography as his career.
He is going to take up the story where he left off yesterday.
(2) constantly adv 不断地
His report was constantly interrupted by applause.
The area was constantly hit by drought.
拓展：constant: adj 不断的
(3) remind vt 使想起；提醒
常见用法：remind sb. to do sth. / remind sb. of sth./ remind sb. That… 提醒某人做某事；使某人想起
Please remind me to leave her this note
The film reminded him of what he had seen in China.
Please remind me that I must call her up before nine.
(4) previous adj 在前的；早先的
He has had no previous experience of this kind of job.
(5) tablet n 药片
He took a sleeping table.
(6) opening n 口子; 通路
He put a gate across the opening in the fence.
(7) surroundings n 环境
We must learn to get used to social surroundings.
拓展：surrounding adj. 周围的
(8) lack: n 缺乏；没有
The lack of rain aggravated the serious lack of food.
拓展：lack: vt& vi 缺乏
Owing to lack of time, we cannot do more than what we have done.
Is she lacking in courage?
(9) press: vi & vt 按；压；逼迫
He pressed the doorbell.
Just press this button, and you'll start the engine.
The debts pressed on him.
拓展：press: n 压；推；新闻界；
The press have / has been invited to a press conference to hear the government's statement on the event.
(10) swiftly adv. 迅速地；敏捷地
He swiftly glanced at the book and answered the question.
(11) sight: 视力；视觉
常见用法：lose sight of: 不再看见……
in sight of: 可被.…..望见
in sight: 可见，看得见；
out of sight: 看不到，不被看到；
at the sight of: 一看见就.…..
at first sight: 一见就.…..; 初次看见时
catch sight of: 瞥见
(12) sweep up 横扫；打扫
Herry was swept up into the center of them and my link with him was broken as I was carried up to the top of a high building nearby.
(13) switch n. 开关；闸
The switch is broken so you need a new one.
拓展：vt 转换
He switched the TV on
He switched the conversation from one subject to another.
Step 5. Discussion
What three visits would you ask to go on if you were Li Qiang? Make a list of them below. Then compare your list with your partners or classmates.
1._____________ 2. ________________ 3. ____________
Suggested Answers: 1. A space station 2. Another planet 3. A historical museum.
Step 6. Homework
Read the text again and again and go over the main language points.
Finish Ex1 and Ex2 in Learning about language.
Retelling the story, either in writing or in speech, is very useful to learners of a foreign language. It demonstrates his understanding of the story. Next you are going to practise in pairs retelling Li Qiang’s story traveling to the year AD 3008. You may make use of the words and expressions you have just learnt.
Period 3 & 4 Learning about Language, Using Language
Teaching Goals:
To discover the useful words and expressions in the text.
To learn and improve the use of useful words and expressions.
To practise reading skills and learn something more about the future life.
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1 Learning about Language
Discussion As we all know that robots now have become a very important part in human’s life. Let Ss discuss the robots’ advantages and disadvantages.
2. Ask Ss to do Ex2 (P20). In this Exercise, Ss can learn some phrases’ meaning by learning their forming. That is, a verb can change its meaning slightly when you add a preposition or adverb to it. Now, look at the boxes below. Write the phrases down:
search take slide sweep press for up down into
Suggested Answers: (1) search for (2) take up (3)slide into (4) sweep up (5) press down
Search for/swept up/ pressed down/ sweep up/took up/ slid…into
3. Ask Ss to choose the correct phrases to finish each sentences.
use up speed up sweep up come up eat up sit up turn up take up
When I was young, the teacher always required us to ________ straight.
In Britain you show your good manners at a meal if you ______ all the food.
(3)We’ll make our bathroom more comfortable if we _______ the mess every day.
Charles’ bicycle started to _______ as it went down the hill.
Don’t forget that you must ________ for the examination.
All the paper was _______ before the work was finished.
The director showed his interest in your work when he ______ to see it.
I hope you will ______ the new job you have been offered.
Suggested Answers: (1) sit up (2) eat up (3) clear up (4) speed up (5) turn up (6) used up (7) came up (8) take up
Step 2. Using Language
1.Pair work
Ask Ss to read the text again and make a dialogue with their partners to describe the life of one space creature. Ask one or two pairs to read the dialogues to the whole class. And then let Ss discuss them and see which group do a better job.
Sample dialogue:
S1: Our space creature is called a moddock. It comes from a planet going around a star on the outer part of the Andromeda galaxy. To begin with we thought it would be impossible to talk to this creature. It used to run away and hide whenever we came near. However, my friend thought of a good way to make friends with it.
S2: I noticed that it always looked up when oil was near. SO I thought maybe it could smell the oil so I covered myself in oil and went near. The moddock did not run away but came close to sniff me.
S1: Once we knew that an oil –smell was the way to make friends with it, everything was much easier.
S2: It would put one of its six hands over your face and feel the lip movements. Then it remembered them and watched your face. We found it could speak our language very quickly and soon we were having long conversation s. They ‘re marvelous language learners.
2. Writing
Ask Ss to draw a picture of their aliens and then write an essay based on their pictures. At last let them read it to their partners.
Sample writing:
The moddock is an alien from the Andromeda galaxy. It is shy until you get to know it. To make friends you need to cover yourself in oil as that is the thing the moddock likes best. It should be able to help you with your English homework because it is such a marvelous language learner! It stays in one place most of the time as it finds moving so painful. When it has to move, it rolls over and over like a ball. Moddocks live alone and never go to school. They don’t need to, as they are good observers and quick learners from others. It really likes humans and as we are now friends, it wants to become a human being too.
Step 3. Discovering useful structures
1. Individual work
Give Ss two sentences in which the past participle is used as an adverbial phrase.
Eg Worried about the journey, I was unsettled for the first few days.
Then ask Ss to find other three sentences from the reading passage with the past participle used as the adverbial.
Well-known for their expertise, his parent’s company…
Confused by the new surroundings, I was hit by the lack…
Exhausted, I slid into bed…
Let’s Ss discuss the usage of past participle and find some grammar usages.
2. Explanation of the grammar.
(1) 和现在分词一样，过去分词或过去分词短语也可以充当副词，修饰谓语动词。
过去分词可以表达下列四种意思：
① 方法或活动方式，如：
He walked up and down, lost in thought
I sat before the desk until after mid-night, absorbed in writing.
Surrounded by a host of fans, the film star left the airport excitedly .
② 原因，如：
Greatly disappointed, some staff decided to leave the place.
Taken by surprise, the enemy surrendered.
③ 时间，如：
Born and bred in a turbulent age, the older generation of people experienced all sorts of hardships.
Thrown to the floor, the boy regained his footing a few minutes later .
④ 条件，如：
Given more time, the slow learners would have done better .
Criticized by someone else, Tony would not have fared up like that.
(2) 除了直接修饰动词之外， 过去分词或短语也可以和连词组成短语，表示下列四种意思：
① 由 when ,whenever , while until等连词引导，表示“时间”，如：
When asked about his previous job, Bill said he had been a motor mechanic.
Susan seldom speaks in class until spoken to.
② 由where , wherever 连词引导，表示“地点”。
Mosquitoes should be completely exterminated where found.
Retires in good health should be invited to return to work wherever needed.
③ 由if , unless引导，表示“条件”，如
If kept for too long, some medicines will lose their effectiveness.
We have made a point of not attacking unless attacked.
④ 由 though, although , even though 连词引导，表示“让步”，如：
Though warned of the danger, they still went mountaineering.
Even though defeated for a second time, our team did not give up hope for the ultimate victory.
IV Studying the past participle as the attribute.
(3) 过去分词做定语, 在语态上表被动，在时间上表示动作已经发生或完成，与它所修饰的名词有逻辑上的动宾关系。 过去分词做定语时， 所修饰的名词在逻辑上相当于被动句中的主语，过去分词相当于谓语。
(4) 过去分词作定语表示动作在谓语之前发生，已经完成并具有被动意义。有时也不表示时间性。作定语的过去分词一般由及物动词变来，因为只有及物动词才有被动意义。如：
He is a teacher loved by his students. 他是个很受学生爱戴的老师。
(5) 也有不及物动词作定语的情况，一般作前置定语，它不表示被动意义，只表示主动意义，强调动作完成。不能像及物动词的过去动词那样放在名词后面作定语。如：
fallen leaves, retired workers , the risen sun
注意下面过去分词作定语的几种情况：
① 单个的过去分词作定语一般放在被修饰的名词之前。如：
We needed much more qualified workers
My friend is a returned student.
② 过去分词短语作定语要放在被修饰的名词后面，作后置定语，其作用相当与一个定语从句。如：
The student dressed in white is my daughter = The student who is dressed in white is my daughter.
③ 如果被修饰的词是由every /some/any / no+thing /body/one 所构成一个复合代词或指示代词those 等时，即使一个单一的分词做形容词，也要放在被修饰词的后面。例如：
Is there anything unsolved?
There is nothing changed here since I left this town.
④ 单个过去分词前加一名词或副词，常用连字符将它们连起来构成一个复合形容词，放在其修饰词前，作前置定语。
This is a state-owned factor.
This is our school –run factory.
⑤ 作前置定语的某些动词的过去分词的形式与作谓语或表语的过去分词的形式往往不一样。例如：
原形
用作定语的过去分词
用作表语或谓语的过去分词
drink
drunken
drunk
light
lighted
lit
melt
melten
melted
sink
sunken
sunk
We lit the candle and the candle lit up the room. 我们点着蜡烛，蜡烛照亮房间。
There is a lighted candle on the table. 桌上有一只点着的蜡烛。
Pair work
(1) In pairs combine these two sentences using the past participle as the adverbial.
① I was frightened by the loud noise. I went to see what was happening.
_________________________________________________________________
② He was hit by the lack of fresh air. He got a bad headache.
_________________________________________________________________
③ I felt very tired after the long journey. I still enjoyed meeting the aliens on the space station.
_________________________________________________________________
④ The little girl was frightened by the noise outside. The little girl dared not sleep in her bedroom.
_________________________________________________________________
⑤ The museum was built in 1910. the museum is almost 100 years old.
_________________________________________________________________
⑥ The student was given some advice by the famous scientist. The student was not worried about his scientific experiment any more.
__________________________________________________________________
Suggested Answers:
① Frightened by the loud noise, I went to see what was happening.
② Hit by the lack of fresh air, he got a bad headache.
③ Tired after the long journey, I still enjoyed meeting the aliens on the space station.
④ Frightened by the noise outside, the little girl dared not sleep in her bedroom.
⑤ Built in 1910, the museum is almost 100 years old.
⑥ Given some advice by the famous scientist, the student was not worried about his scientific experiment any more.
(2) In pairs combine the following sentences using the past participle as the attribute.
① Soon we lost sight of that famous astronomer. He is called Li Qiang.
② I am going to buy a painting. It is copied from Vincent van Gogh.
③ I like that old private house. It is built of wood and mud.
④ The room is completely empty. The room is connected to the rest of the house by a long passage.
⑤ The queen was sitting in a royal carriage. The carriage was drawn by four horses.
⑥ The vehicle is mentioned in the book. The vehicle is unknown to me.
⑦ The castle is under repair. It was built in 1432.
Suggested Answers:
① Soon we lost sight of that famous astronomer called Li Qiang.
② I am going to buy a painting copied from Vincent van Gogh.
③ I like that old private house built of wood and mud.
④ The room connected to the rest of the house by a long passage is completely empty.
⑤ The queen was sitting in a royal carriage drawn by four horses.
⑥ The vehicle mentioned in the book is unknown to me.
⑦ The castle built in 1432 is under repair.
(3) After finish the two exercises, ask Ss to discuss and compare the two different usages of the past participle.
Consolidation
Ask Ss to finish the following exercise and then check their answers
(1) ________(well-know) for his books about South Africa, JM Coetzee won the Booker Prize.
(2) A princess once owned a magical chair ______ (make) of gold and silver.
(3) On his birthday he received a mysterious present _______ (wrap) in gold paper.
(4) _______ (interrupt) by the bell, he was unable to finish his speech.
(5) _________ (awaken) by a noise at midnight, she saw a thief in her room.
(6) _________ (suppose) to be locked, this door is now wide open and the room is empty.
Suggested Answers:
(1) Well-known (2) made (3) wrapped (4) Interrupted (5) Awakened (6) Supposed
Step 4. Homework
1. Find all the sentences using the past participle in the Reading part.
2. Write a short passage about the life of aliens.
Period 5 Listening and speaking (Using Language)
Teaching Goals:
1. To get the main idea of the Listening part.
2. To develop Ss’ listening and speaking abilities.
3. To get more information about the future life.
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1. Listening
1. Individual work
(1) Listen to the tape and tick the things that you hear on the tape.
□ space creatures □ living on another planet □ new discoveries in space□ why a space station spins □ how to get water on Mars □ comets
□ houses in a town on Mars □ Martian creatures □ atmosphere and gravity
(2) Listen to the tape again, check the answers.
Suggested Answers:
living on another planet, atmosphere and gravity, how to get water on Mars, houses in a town on Mars
2. Pair work
Listen to the tape for the third time and try to get the answers to the questions. You can discuss with your partners.
How can “Wonder world” make sure there is enough oxygen?
How can “Wonder world” make sure there is enough water?
What is the advantage of living in “Wonder world”?
Do you think people will be healthy living in “Wonderful world”? why?
Suggested Answers:
“Wonder world ” will provide a covered area for people to live in with a special air supply.
“Wonder world ” will make sure there is enough water by collecting some from under the planet’s surface. After use, this water will be cleaned and recycled so that it can be used as rain to water crops and provide clean drinking water. Everyone will put their dirty water in special tanks and animals will have to go to the toilet in special places. Bacteria will clean this dirty water so it can be used again.
People may become rich or famous.
I think the people will be quite healthy as they have a satisfactory climate, enough water and sufficient accommodation to live comfortably.
Step 2. Speaking
1. In pairs ask and answer questions about what life will be like in your country in 1000 years’ time. Use expressions like:
Suppose that… Perhaps…
I wonder if… Maybe…
Is it likely that … Possibly …
Do you imagine that … Most likely …
Is it possible that… Probably…
Do you suppose that … I’m sure…
2. Ask Ss the following questions to stimulate their ideas.
(1) Suppose you would change something in your hometown, what would it be?
(2) Does your hometown need a really good quality of life?
(3) What do you suppose is most important to keep for future generations?
3. Ask Ss to prepare their talks in pairs. And let them get ready to give their talks to the whole class.
Sample dialogue:
P1S1: We have thought about what life might be like in our hometown 1000 years from now. As there may be dust and dirt in the atmosphere, people will have to live in towns covered by a large glass ceiling. There will be no fresh air inside, but there will be a means of for cleaning the air from outside the cover so people can breathe it safely.
P2S1: It may be hot in our hometown 1,000 years from now so we think everyone will need clothes with a cooling system fitted to them. Perhaps everyone will have to wear a machine, which pushes water into your body to stop you losing too much water.
P1S2: The buildings will be very high and built of special plastic from the dimpods so they won’t need strong foundations. This means we can build homes on wet and marshy ground so everybody will be able to have a place of their own to live.
P2S2: We don’t think that we will be able to live 1,000 years from now as we do now. There will be too many problems from global warming and too many people. We think it may take longer than one thousand years to deal with all these problems.
P1S1 and P1S2: Thank you.
Step 3. Homework
Review the whole unit.
Unit3 Life in the Future
教学设计
Teaching Goals:
Predicting the good and bad changes in the future.
imagine the alien creatures.
Functions：
做出预测（Making predictions）
Do you suppose that…?
Suppose that… I wonder if…
Do you imagine that…? I imagine that…
2. 猜测未来（Making conjectures about future）
Is it likely/ unlikely that… Possibly …
It is possible that … Most likely …
I’m sure… Probably…
Suppose that … Perhaps … Maybe …
Grammar:
1.过去分词作定语（The past participle as the attribute）
I followed him to collect a hovering carriage driven by computer.
Tomorrow you will be ready for some visits organized by computer.
2.过去分词作状语（The past participle as the adverbial）
Worried about the journey, I was unsettled for the first few days.
Confused by the new surroundings, I was hit by the lack of fresh air.
本单元以life in the future 为中心话题，旨在通过本单元的学习， 让学生大胆发挥想象， 对人类今后的生活环境，生活方式进行猜测， 提倡环保生活意识， 同时让学生学会过去分词作定语和作状语的不同用法， 最后让学生将本单元所讨论的话题和推测手法结合， 学习怎么样写report
本单元所涉及的要点有：
学习并了解未来生活的各个方面用与现在生活的不同之处， 学习外星人的生活方式。
2）学习表示预测，建议的句型。
（3）学习过去分词作定语和状语的结构。
（4）学习写好“report”,以训练学生的逻辑思维及写作能力.
Periods 1&2
Teaching Aims:
1. Learn some new words and expressions.
2. Help the students to talk about life in the past, at present and in the future.
3. Enable the students to describe the life in the past, at present and in the future.
Difficult and Important Points:
Compare life in the past, at present and in the future
What is life in the future like? What changes will take place?
Teaching Methods:
1. First and careful reading,
2. Asking and answering question activity
3. Individual, Pair work & group work
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1 warming up
Talk about how many changes there have been in the last one thousand years. And what changes we might expect to find in the next one thousand years
Step 2: pre-reading
1.Can you tell what problems people are facing today?
2.what problems do you think people in the future will have overcome? Which ones will still be there or even worse in AD3008?
Keys:
1The problem of population will be solved, have begun to Control the birth rate.
2The problems will be still there, and will even worse.
3I don’t think so. Now scientists are trying their best to develop new resources that human beings can make use of ,such as solar energy. In my opinion……
Step 3： Fast reading
Read the text for the first time and tell what the text is about?
It’s an e-mail written by a man who has taken up a trip to the future.
2. Look at the following sentence, there are in wrong order, tell me the correct order for these sentence
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 AD3008
D. I have my first try to master a hovering carriage.
Step 4 Careful reading
1.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?
4. Who guides my trip?
5. Why did my guide give me some tables?
6. Who transported us to the future?
Keys:
1. I took up the prize I won the year before.
2. “Time lag” means a person gets flashbacks from his previous time period.
3. The seats in the capsule are very comfortable.
4. My friend Wang Ping is my guide to the future.
5. The tablets could help me feel less nervous and uncertain
6. Wang Ping’s parents’ company transported us to the future.
1How did I feel as soon as I was transported to the future?
After the writer was transported to the future, he was hit by the lack of fresh air.
2.how did Wang Ping solve this problem?
Wang Ping gave a mask to the writer and hurried him 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, this will cause serious problems to life in the nature. This may be the cause of the lack of fresh air in the future.
1 What did Wang Pang’s house look like?
His house is a large bright ,clean room. It had a green Wall, a brown floor and soft lighting .
2 What was the green wall made of? What’s the purpose of building this kind of green wall?
The green wall was made of trees. The leaves of the trees will provide much-needed oxygen to the house.
3 How can you produce a TV set in Wang Pang’s house?
You can just flash a switch on the computer screen and a TV set will rise from the floor.
Good changes
Bad changes
Time travel
Can travel to
Different times
as you wish
After-effects of travel
Transport
.can move swiftly
Disorganized, difficult to
find way
Houses
save living space
Short of space
Towns
Busy, look like
markets
Easy to get lost
Air quality
Own family
oxygen supply
Poor quality in public places
Sample answers to Ex.2
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 if 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 3nd period
Teaching aims:
Learn expressions & phrases
Learn. language points
Difficult and Important Points:
1）Language points
2）The usage of “take up and sweep”
Teaching Methods:
Presentation & Practice
Teaching Procedures:
Step I Revision
Have a dictation
Step II. Check the answers
check the answers of yesterday’s homework
Step three language point
1. FIRST IMPRESSIONS 第一印象
impression 印记；印象；感想；后接 of sb./ of sth./ on sb./ that 从句；
知识拓展：impress v.给……留下深刻的印象；使铭记；使感动；常用结构有：impress sth. on/upon sib ./ impress sb. with sth .给……留下深刻的印象；使铭记；
做一做:
1）________________________________ was favourable.他给我的第一印象不错。
His first impression on me / My first impression of him
2) His trip to India made ____________________________________.他的印度之行对他的触动很大。a strong impression on him
3) He ____________________________his sincerity. 他的真诚打动了她。 impressed her
2．I still cannot believe that I am taking up my prize that was won last year. 我仍然无法相信我是在接受去年获得的这个奖励。
take up 有这几个含义：
1）to start to do sth. 开始做（某项工作）；开始从事（工作）；
I have taken up teaching since I graduated from university.
我大学毕业后就从事教学工作。
2）to accept sth. that is offered or available 接受（建议或能得到的东西）
She took up his offer of a drink. 他请她喝一杯，她接受了。
另外还表示“占用空间和时间”
This table takes up too much room. 这张桌子太占地方了。
The work took up all his time. 那工作花费了他所有的时间。
做一做：
Helen always helps her mother even though going to school ______ most of her day. (广东)
A. takes up B. makes up C. saves up D. puts up
A
3.I have to remind myself constantly that I am really in AD 3008. 我不得不一直不断地提醒自己已到了公元3008年。
1)remind v.提醒；使想起；常用结构有: remind sb. to do sth.提醒某人做某事；remind sb.＋(that)/wh-从句 提醒某人……；使某人想起……； remind sb. about/of sth. 使某人想起或意识到……；提醒某人某事
He reminded the children to wash their hands. 他提醒孩子们去洗手。 This song reminds me of my childhood. 这首歌曲使我想起了我的孩提时代。 The doctor reminds me that I should see her again in two months. 医生提醒我两个月后应该再去看她。
做一做： ①1You _________me ______your father when you say that. 你说这样的话使我想起了你的父亲。
remind of
②Remind me ________ __________Alan before I go out.
提醒我在出去之前给艾伦打电话。
to phone
知识拓展：reminder n.提醒物；引起回忆的事物
2)constantly adv.始终； 一直；重复不断地
Fashion is constantly changing.时尚总是日新月异。
知识拓展：constant adj.连续发生的；不断的；重复的；
4. Worried about the journey, I was unsettled for the first few days. 因为担心旅程，开始的头几天我很不安。
此处 Worried about the journey的作用相当于一个原因状语从句As I was worried about the journey,在句中作状语
5. This is similar to the “jet lag” you get from flying, but it seems you keep getting flashbacks from your previous time period. 这种病有些像乘喷气式飞机高速飞行时所引起的时差反应那样，所不同的是，它意味着你的脑海里不停地从以前的时间段一直往回闪去。
1）be similar to 与……相似
be the same as 与……相同
be different from 与……不同
2）you get是定语从句，修饰the “jet lag”, 省略了关系代词which/that(作get的宾语)；when flying是省略句，省略了主语you和谓语动词的一部分were；instead位于句首或句末，作状语，引出与上文不同的内容。
3) jet lag指喷气式飞行时差综合症，即乘飞机跨越时区时，人体的生物钟或昼夜生理节律仍然停留在原时区的状态，从而与新时区不同步。flashback往事；往回闪现。
4) previous adj.先前的；以往的；（时间上）稍前的
No previous experience is necessary for this job.
这一工作无需相关的经验。
I couldn't believe it when I heard the news. I had only seen him the previous day.
听到这个消息时，我不敢相信；我就在前一天还见到过他。
知识拓展：previously adv. 先前的；早先
The building had previously been used as a hotel.
这座楼房早先曾用作旅馆。
6. Well-known for their expertise, his parents’ company. called “Future Tours” ,transported me safely into the future in a time capsule. 他父母的“Future??Tours”公司技能精湛，用时间太空舱安全地把我运送到未来。
1) Well-known for their expertise表原因，相当于一个原因状语从句，表示他父母的“Future??Tours”公司能够把我运送到未来的原因
2) named “Future Tours”是过去分词作定语，相当于定语从句that was named “Future Tours”
7. Hit by the lack of fresh air, … 缺乏新鲜空气我感觉受不了。
1) lack 用作名词表示：“缺乏；短缺”；用作动词表示：“缺乏；短缺；没有；不足”。
a lack of food /money/skills 缺乏食物/金钱/技能
做一做:
①The trip was cancelled through___________________________.
因为缺乏兴趣这次旅行被取消了。
through lack of interest.
②He ____________________________. 他缺乏信心。He lacks confidence.
知识拓展：lacking adj. 缺乏；没有；匮乏；不足
surroundings n.[pl.] 环境；surround v. 围绕；环绕； surrounding adj.周围的；附近的
Everyone likes to work in pleasant surroundings.
人人都喜欢在愉快的环境中工作。
8. Soon I was back on my feet again and following him to collect a hovering carriage driven by computer. 很快我又重新振作起来，跟随他领取了一部由电脑控制的气垫车.
1）back on one's feet 经受打击后重新站起来，再次恢复了健康
2）driven by computer在句中作定语,相当于 which was driven by computer；
过去分词短语作定语通常放在被修饰的词后面，相当于一个定语从句：
The suggestion made by the foreign expert was adopted by the manager.
外国专家所提出的建议被经理采纳了。
9．These hovering carriages float above the ground and by bending or pressing down in your seat.
1）by+ doing 用某种方式或手段, 如, They put out the fire by pouring water on it. 他们泼水扑灭了火； 句中by bending and pressing down on the driving stick strongly修饰move swiftly,表示使气垫车“迅速地移动”的手段；driving stick中的driving为动名词作定语，表示用途，如：a sleeping car 用来睡觉的车（卧铺车）；one在句中泛指人。
2） bend 弯曲；使弯曲；弯腰；弯身；常用搭配有: bend one's mind/efforts to sth. 致力于某事；bend sb.to sth. 迫使；说服 bend the truth 歪曲事实
It's hard to bend an iron bar. 把铁棒弄弯很不容易。
做一做:
①She _____________________and kissed her daughter.
她低下头吻了她的女儿。
bent her head
②The road_________ sharply__________________. 路向右急转弯。
bent …to the right.
3) press v. 压；按；推；挤；坚持；敦促 n. 报章杂志，新闻工作者，新闻界
做一做:
①She ______ _________hard _____the gas pedal.
她用力踩下油门踏板。 pressed down…on
②He is still _________her claim_______ compensation(赔偿).
他仍坚持索赔。 pressing … for
③______ _________was/were not allowed to attend the trial(审判).
庭审谢绝新闻采访。The press
4）by后接动名词，常作状语，修饰谓语或某个动作，表示其行为的方式或手段。
做一做:
He made his boss pleased________________________________.
他改进了工作老板很高兴 by improving his work
10．However, I lost sight of Wang Ping when we …王平不见了。
lose sight of 看不见, 忘记, 失去 其反义词组catch sight of sth/sb 看见某人/物
另外, at first sight 一见就；乍看起来 ； at (the) sight of 一看见就……; out of sight 看不见 ： Out of sight, out of mind. 眼不见,心不念。be in sight 看得见，在眼前 ；
做一做:
1）We___________________ several precious animals. 我们失去了很多的珍惜动物
have lost sight of
2）乍看起来，这个问题好像容易。__________________________________________________.
At first sight, the problem seems easy.
3）小岛仍然可以看的见。_____________________________________.
The small island is still in sight
4）一看见老师男孩就跑掉。 ________________________________________________.
At the sight of the teacher, the boy ran away.
11．He was swept up into the centre of them .他被卷入到这群车队当中去了，
sweep up打扫，横扫；涌向；快速地抱起
She was left to sweep up after the party.
聚会结束后她被留下来打扫。
做一做:
1) He ________________________into his arms.
他一把将孩子抱进怀里。
swept up the baby
2)In pushing to the train, the children ___________the crowds of people.
A. sweeping up into B. swept up into
C. were swept up D. were swept up into
D
12．Just at that moment I had a “time lag” flashback and saw the area again as it had been in the year AD 2008.就在那一时刻，我得了时间滞后症，在我脑海里，这个地方又闪回到公元2008年。
1) time lag指乘坐时间太空舱穿梭未来时由于速度极快而产生的“时间滞后症”，与jet lag喷气式飞行时差综合症，即乘飞机跨越时区时人体的生物钟或昼夜生理节律仍然停留在原时区的状态类似。
2) as it had been in the year AD 2005 是方式状语从句,修饰主句I saw the area again ;
as it had been 是由as it be变来的， as it be表示 “按照原状, 照旧, 像…”
The situation is as it was before.形势还是原来那样.
13. Then Wang Ping flashed a switch on a computer screen, and a table and chairs rose from under the floor as if by magic. 王平闪了一下电脑屏幕上的开关，于是一张桌子和几把椅子就像魔术般地从地面升了起来。
本句有两个句子并列，前两者之间用逗号隔开最后两者之间用and连接；
2) 后面的一个分句使用了倒装句，主要是为避免头重脚轻，使句子平衡，同时也可使前后联系得更加紧密，正常语序是a switch on a computer screen flashed；
3) 此处as if 引导的是一个省略的方式状语从句，其完整句子是as if a table and chairs rose from under the floor by magic
4）switch 用作名词表示“开关；转换”。用作动词表示“转换，改变”。
She made the switch from full-time to part-time work when her first child was born.。
第一个孩子出生后，她就由全日工作改为非全日工作。
Press these two keys to switch between documents on screen.
按这两个键就可以在屏幕上的文件之间进行切换。
I can't work next week, will you switch with me?
下个周末我不能上班，咱俩换个班好不好？
14．Exhausted, I slid into bed and fell fast asleep. 由于太累了，我倒在床上马上就睡
着了。
exhausted表原因，相当于一个原因状语从句As I was exhausted；fell fast asleep 酣睡。fast或sound常与fall asleep 搭配表示睡的程度深。
做一做:
1) ______________, the children ___________ __________at once.
由于太累了，孩子们马上就睡着了。
Exhausted , fell asleep
2) 太激动了，这位老人一句话也说不出来。_______________________________________________________.
Too excited, the old man couldn’t say a word
Learning about Language
15. speed (sth.) up 加速；加快
Cars speed up once they reach the highway.
汽车一到高速公路就加速。
They have speeded up production.
他们加快了生产速度。
Homework
Do exercises on page20 and Page 56 in the book
The 4th period
Teaching Aims:
Teach grammar (The Past Participle as the adverbial and attribute)
Improve the students’ listening skills.
Difficult and Important Points:
1)Learn the grammar(The Past Participle as the Predicative & Attribute)
2)Have the Ss sum up the fun_ction of the past participle using inductive method.
Teaching Methods:
Inductive Method
Group work
Teaching Procedures:
Step I Dictation
Step II. Grammar
Grammar past participle used as adverbial and attribute
Complete the following sentences with the words given, using their proper forms.
1, I like reading the novels______ (write) by him
2. The girl ________(write) a letter is my cousin
3. There is something wrong with my bike and I have to get it __________(repair).
4.He spoke loudly in order to make himself ____ (hear)
Sentence patterns
Worried about the journey, I was unsettled for the first few days
As I was worried about the journey, I was unsettled for the first few days
Well known for their expertise, his parents’ company named “future tours” transported me safely into the future in a time capsule.
His parents’ company was well known for their expertise …
Confused by the new surroundings, I was hit by the lack of fresh air
When I was confused by the new surrounding, I was…
Arriving home, he showed me into a large bright, clean room.
When he is arriving home, he showed me into…
Exhausted, I slid into bed and fell fast asleep
As I was exhausted, I slid into bed and fell fast asleep.
过去分词作状语，意义上相当于状语从句， 表示时间， 条件，原因， 伴随状况等
Whenever praised, he blushed
United, we stand, divided, we fall
Written in a hurry, the book is full of errors
Although born in Germany, John lives and works in U.S.A
PAGE 21, EX 2
1. Frightened by the loud noise, I went to see what was happening.
2. Hit by the lack of fresh air, he got a bad headache,
3. Tired after the long journey, I still enjoyed meeting the aliens on the space station
4. Frightened by the noise outside, the little girl dared not sleep in her bedroom.
5. Built in 1910, the museum is almost 100 years old.
6. Given some advice by the famous scientist, the student was not worried about his scientific experiment any more.
Pick out two more sentences from the reading with pp used as the attribute.
1. His parent’s company named “future tours” transported me safely into the future in a time capsule.
2. Tomorrow you will be ready for some visits organized by the company
3. He became inspired when he thought about helping ordinary people exposed to cholera.
Ex 3
1.Soon we lost sight of that famous astronomer called Li Qiang
2.I am going to buy a painting copied from Vincent van Gogh
3.I like that old private house built of wood and mud
4.The room connected to the rest of the house by a long passage is completely empty
5. The queen was sitting in a royal carriage drawn by four horses.
6. The vehicle mentioned in the book is unknown to me
7. The castle built in 1432 is under repair
Homework
Finish the grammar exercises in the book and ELL papers.
The 5th Period
Teaching Aims:
Improve the students reading skills.
Learn something about “I have seem amazing things”
Difficult and Important Points:
1)Reading Comprehension
2) write a report
Teaching Methods:
Comparative method
Teaching Procedures:
Step1 extensive reading
Name of creature
Mu-mu
Dimpods
Size
Tall and thin
Small
appearance
Black and white face,
a pointed head,
shell-covered leg
Like a little cat
color
Black and white face
Blue or purple
personality
Very friendly
Interesting and lively
Numbers of arms
Six
Too many to tell
Numbers of legs
One long leg
covered by shell
To many to tell
How it moves
Slowly and
from side to side
Skip around fast
voice
Whisper
shout
Food
Mixture of carrot
juice and cocoa
Lemonade with herbs
Step2 group work
Create a new alien and fill in the blanks then draw it out
Name of creature
Moddock
Size
Small child when grown
Appearance
Very large nose and hairy body
Color
grey
Personality
Slow and shy but friendly once approached
Number of arms
Six
Number of legs
six
How it moves
Rolls over and over like a ball
Voice
Uses sign language
food
oil
With your partner, draw a picture of your alien.
Then write a description based on your drawing and the notes in the chart.
Step 3 extensive reading 2 Rising to a challenge
Paragraph 1
Silver adventure:
Advantages:
Paragraph 2:
Problem existed in the past:______________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
Now solved by________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
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The 6th Period
Teaching procedures
Step 1 Revision
1 Check the homework exercises.
2 Ask the Ss a few random questions to revise future time and introduce the topic of the unit. For example: What lessons do you have this afternoon / tomorrow? Are you going to do anything special this evening? What do you think the weather will be like tomorrow? What are you going to do on Saturday evening? Are you planning to do anything on Sunday?
Step 2 Presentation
S. Ask questions about the picture (in PPT.), and get Ss to tell you what they think is happening. Teach the new words majority, goods, industry. Read the introduction aloud.
Step 3 Reading
Say Now read the dialogue silently and find out this information: What is being planned at this company? Allow the Ss a few moments to carry out the task. Check the answer. (A new factory may be built.) See if the Ss can guess the meaning of out of work.
Step 4 Dialogue
Play the tape of the dialogue for the Ss to listen and follow. Go through the dialogue briefly and make sure the Ss understand it. Ask questions like these: What are people at the company talking about? Who is going to make the decision? Why does the company need to build a new factory? What is the difficulty? Why do some people want the new factory to be built? Why are some people against the new factory? Explain that may have plans expresses uncertainty about the future. Play the tape again. This time the Ss listen and repeat. Then let the Ss practice the dialogue in pairs. You may wish to ask one pair to act the scene in front of the class.
Notes:
a People have been talking of it a lot recently.:
Note the Present Perfect Continuous Tense to express an activity which started in the past and is still continuing.
b I simply don‘t know. = I honestly don’t know.
c Right now = At this moment
d The problem is … it. = Finding land for building the new factory is a problem ( i.e. difficult).
e The majority of people = Most people
f a number of people = quite a lot of people
g out of work = do not have jobs
h But some people … built on. = Some people do not want them to build a factory on good farm land. Note the structure not want something to be done.
i I can see the problem. = I understand the problem.
j is likely to happen = will probably happen
k It‘s quite likely: Quite emphasizes likely and increases the possibility.
Step 5 Practice
Demonstrate how to make sentences from the table, and then get a few Ss to make example sentences. Then let the Ss do this exercise in pairs. At the end get Ss to write down 5 sentences from this table in their exercise books.
Step 6 Workbook
After Ex. 1 is done orally, get the Ss to write the answers in their exercise books.
Both Exx. 2 and 3 should be done in pairs first. Then check the answers with the class. Get Ss to translate the sentences into Chinese and ask them to think if they will be able to put them back into English. Pay attention to the sentence structures.
When doing Ex. 4, warn the Ss not to do word for word translation. Special attention should be paid to the sentence patterns and word order.
Step 7 Consolidation
With a good class you can give the Ss the following phrases and get them to make up a dialogue. Write these phrases on the Bb.
I believe you’re right.
What are the problems then?
What do you think is likely to happen?
Write them up on the Bb and demonstrate with a good S how it is possible to make up a dialogue.
A: I think the company will buy more land.
B: I believe you‘re right.
A: But it isn’t likely that the manager will make a decision soon.
B: What are the problems then?
With an ordinary class, just practice the dialogue in Part 1 again.
Homework
Finish off the Workbook exercises.
2. I still cannot believe that I am taking up this prize that I won last year.
我还是无法相信我是在接受去年赢得的这个奖励。
关键透析
take up 在此句中意为“接受”。
用法归纳
(1)占据时间、空间
Reading this novel took up most of my spare time.
读这部小说占去了我大部分空闲时间。
(2)开始从事
My father took up football when he was only ten years old.
十岁时，父亲开始踢球。
(3)拿起、举起
He took up his book and hurried out.
他拿起书匆忙出去了。
(4)欣然接受
She took up his offer of a meal.
他请她吃饭，她接受了。
即时活用
After studying in a medical college for five years，Jane___ her job as a doctor in the countryside.
A. set out?? B. took over?? C. took up?? D. set up
3. The air seemed thin, as though its combination of gases had little oxygen left.
空气似乎很稀薄，似乎它的混合气体中剩下的氧气很少。
关键透析
as though引导方式状语从句，意为“似乎、好像”。如：We felt as though we had witnessed the whole thing. 我们感到仿佛目击了整个这件事似的。
用法归纳
as though(=)as if
(1)引导方式状语从句
The old machine operates as if it were a new one.
这台旧机器操作起来就像新的一样。
(2)引导表语从句
It looks as if it is going to rain.
天似乎要下雨。
(3)as if后可接to do
He raised his hand as though to say something.
他举起手好像要说什么。
即时活用
Allen remembers everything exactly as if it ___ yesterday.
A. was happening ??B. happens? C. has happened? D. happened
特别提示
从属连词as if，as though多表示一种假设，因此从句中的谓语动词常用虚拟语气。He treats me as though I were a stranger.?
他待我犹如陌生人。
4. Just at that moment I had a “time lag” flashback and saw the area again as it had been in the year AD 2008.
就是在那时，我有了一次“时间逆转”的闪回，再次看到了公元2008年时的那的地区。
关键透析
as it had been in the year AD 2008，为定于从句，修饰先行词area。
用法归纳
as作连词引导从句：
(1)引导定语从句
As we all know, the earth travels around the sun.
众所周之，地球绕着太阳转。
(2)引导让步状语从句
Boy as he is, he knows so much about the world.
尽管他是个小孩，但他通晓很多事情。
(3)引导方式状语
She stayed in bed as the doctor had ordered.
她依照医生的吩咐卧床休息。
(4)引导时间状语从句
As time went by, we knew more and more about ourselves.
随着时间的退移，我们对自己的了解越来越深。
As I was getting on the bus, someone called me.
我上公共汽车时，有人叫我。
即时活用
---Who should be responsible for the accident?
---The boss, not the workers. They just carried out the order___.
A. as told ??B. as are told? ?C. as telling? D. as they told
特别提示?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
as引导的让步状语从句，需要倒装。这是高考命题中的一个重点和热点。 Child as he was, he knew what was the right thing to do.? 尽管他是个孩子，他却懂得应该做什么。(Child前无冠词)
5. At first my new surroundings were difficult to tolerate.
开始时新的环境让我很难忍受。
关键透析
to tolerate是不定式短语，作方面状语，其逻辑宾语是my new surroundings. 如：The air on mars is hard to breathe. 火星上的空气难以呼吸。
用法归纳
tolerate
(1)容许、允许
This kind of behaviour will not be tolerated.
这种行为是不能被容许的。
(2)忍受、容忍(bear=put up with=stand)
I don’t know how you tolerate that noise.
我不知道你怎么能忍受那样的噪音。
(3)耐得住、经受住
Few plants will tolerate sudden changes in temperature.
少数的植物能经受住温度的突然变化。
联想拓展
(1)toleration? n. 宽容、容忍
(2)tolerance? n. 忍受、容忍
(3)tolerant adj.? 容忍的
6. I found later that their provided the room with much-needed oxygen. Then Wang Ping flashed a switch on a computer screen, and a table and some chairs rose from under the floor as if by magic.
后来我才发现，就是这些树的叶子为这栋房子提供了最急需的氧气。然后王平使电脑屏幕上的一个开关闪了一下，于是一张桌子和几把椅子就像变魔术那样从地板下面升了上来。
switch? n.开关?? 如：You pressed the wrong switch. 你按错了开关。
联想拓展
switch
(1)Turn on/off the switch 打开/关掉开关
(2)the switch in … 在……方面的转变
(3)switch off=turn off 关掉(电灯或电器)
(4)switch on=turn on打开(电灯或电器)
(5)switch from A to B? 由A转变为B
即时活用
(1) Derek, I wish you'd keep that radio ___ ___.
德里克, 我希望你把收音机关了。
(2) ___ ___ the recorder, please.
请打开录音机。
(3) Duval could ___ easily ___ French ___ English.
杜瓦尔可以转很容易从法语译成英语。
(4) There's been a ___ ___ our plans.
我们的计划改变了。
