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The world of tomorrow
Unit 4 A glimpse of the future
Listening and Speaking
By the end of this class, students are expected to:
① listen to a conversation about the rules of time travel;
② complete some exercises when listening;
③ read a passage about future life and learn some expressions;
④ talk about the life in the future.
Learning objectives
Time travel could result in a paradox – an event that contradicts itself. For example, if a person travelled back in time and prevented an event, that event would never have happened; there would therefore be no reason for the person to travel back in time to prevent it.
Listening for the main idea
To get the main idea of a topic requires us to understand the dialogue or monologue, and also requires us to have a high generalization ability: to understand what the dialogue is about; to analyse the key points of the dialogue or paragraph by using the logical relationship of the full text.
Pre-listening
1. Time travel is dangerous.
2. Talking to people in the past can change the future.
3. Anything you say or do in the past can affect the future.
4. Time travel within your own lifetime should be avoided.
Listen to the conversation and choose its main idea.
Listening
Rule 1 _____________________
A tourist wants to ______________________________
______________________________________________
because _________________________.
The guide told her __________________.
Listen again and complete the table.
Don’t talk to anybody.
tell her 8-year-old self to buy shares
in companies that are profitable today
she wants to become rich
not to do that
Rule 2 ______________________________________________
The guide said that _________________________________
__________________________________________________.
Be careful not to break anything.
breaking something could also cause
a paradox and change your path through life
Rule 3 ______________________________________________
______________________________________________
A tourist wants to __________________________________.
The guide told him not to because _____________________
__________________________________________________
__________________________________________________.
Never give anything from our time to someone in the
past.
give a present to his father
anything that doesn’t
belong to that time may have an impact on someone and
cause a paradox
Now take turns to be the guide and explain the rules of time travel.
Time travel
Rule 1 __________________________
Rule 2 __________________________
Rule 3 __________________________
Rule x __________________________
Complete the boxes with the expressions from the conversation.
Amazing!
Wow!
I can’t wait to…
So, what you’re saying is that …
How about …
Imagine how excited …
That’s OK, isn’t it
Are you serious
Let me get this straight. You mean that …
It’ll be exciting enough to …
Expressing excitement
Asking for confirmation
Amazing!
Wow!
I can’t wait to …
Imagine how excited ...
It’ll be exciting enough to …
So, what you’re saying is that …
How about …
That’s OK, isn’t it
Are you serious
Let me get this straight. You mean that …
Read the passage on page 57 and put the expressions below into the boxes.
Expressions about time: _________________
Expressions about expectation: ___________
1, 3, 4, 6, 7
2, 5, 8
1. within our lifetimes 2. bank on
3. any time soon 4. on the horizon
5. get our hopes up 6. around the corner
7. far ahead of their time 8. bound to happen
Complete the passage with the expressions in Activity 8.
Who knows in what exciting ways transport will change ___________________ Trains that travel at the speed of today’s aeroplanes may sound ____________________, but scientists are already developing “hyperloop” trains that travel at over 1,000 km per hour.
within our lifetimes
1. within our lifetimes 2. bank on
3. any time soon 4. on the horizon
5. get our hopes up 6. around the corner
7. far ahead of their time 8. bound to happen
far ahead of their time
And although we can’t _______________ flying cars being the norm _________________, there are plans to introduce flying taxis that will be stationed on rooftops around busy cities. Many cities already have elevated cycle paths and I’m sure that these are ________________ for many others around the world.
bank on
any time soon
1. within our lifetimes 2. bank on
3. any time soon 4. on the horizon
5. get our hopes up 6. around the corner
7. far ahead of their time 8. bound to happen
bound to happen
As well as faster, safer and more comfortable transport being just ________________________________, we can also _________________ about shorter waiting times, with companies intending to provide on-demand services.
on the horizon / around the corner
get our hopes up
1. within our lifetimes 2. bank on
3. any time soon 4. on the horizon
5. get our hopes up 6. around the corner
7. far ahead of their time 8. bound to happen
Talk about another aspect of life in the future using the expressions you have learnt in this section.
1. within our lifetimes
2. bank on
3. any time soon
4. on the horizon
5. get our hopes up
6. around the corner
7. far ahead of their time
8. bound to happen
Now think about how effectively your partner used these expressions, and what you could learn from him or her.
What other rules of time travel can you think of besides the three rules from the listening material Write them down.
Preview the next part: Developing ideas.
Assignment