课件62张PPT。Life in the futurePast, Present,FutureChanges from ancient times to modern societyHousing
Clothing
Education
Eating
Communication
Transportation Housing Life in the pastClothing Education: Eating Communication:Transportationcartsedan chair Conclusion What words can describe the life in the past?Hardpooreasyuncomfortable ……Life in the past
Housing Villa Life at presentClothing Education Communication:video telephoneEating transportationLife at presentMake a list of the problems human are facing today.We benefit a lot from the new society, but there are still many problems in the worldwater pollutionpoor sanitation公共卫生air pollutionDeforestation滥砍滥伐desertification沙漠化
starvationGlobal warmingproblems the earth is facing:air pollutionwater pollutionnoise pollutionsoil erosionwhite pollutionoverpopulationpovertywar &violence(rubbish)aidsLife in the futureTomorrow will be better What will our future life be like?a robotic doga solar energy carlife in the futureA bed carA car which can sail on the waterA city on the waterLocation of settlementunder the seaOh, my God! I am
clonedDo 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.Theory of Relativity, proposed by Einstein, is the theoretical foundation of time traveling.
1 .What’s the text about?
A. An e-mail written by a man who has taken a trip to the year AD 3005;
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 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.
C, A, D, BSkimming: answer the following questions:Where did Li Qiang and Wang Ping go last year? What transported them here?
How to control the hovering carriage driving by the computer?
What actually were the walls of the house ?
What was the fun_ction of the walls?Where did Li Qiang and Wang Ping go last
year? What transported them here?They were still on the earth but one thousand
years in the future.A time capsule was sent to
transport them safely into the future by Wang
Ping’s parents’ .How to control the hovering carriage
driving by the computer?The hovering carriage can move very
swiftly by bending and pressing down on
the driving stick strongly.What actually were the walls of the house ? What was the fun_ction of the walls?The walls of the house actually were trees.
their leaves can provide the house with
much-needed oxygen.Now try to find out what happened to Li Qiang before, during and after the journey.nervousunsettledtime lag time capsuleConfusedlackachedshowedgreenbrownsoftExhaustedfellasleepDetailed reading Read the passage again, discuss which changes to life in AD3005 are good or bad and give reasons for your choices. Then please finish the chart.What’s the writer’s attitude towards the future, optimistic or pessimistic? How do you know?Discussion optimisticpessimisticWe know that from the following sentences:1. Worried about the journey, I was unsettle for the first few days.
2. Confused by the new surroundings, I was hit by the lack of the fresh air.
3. Exhausted, I slid into bed and fell fast asleep.Pessimistic1. Make a list of the problems human being 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 AD 3005?Housing
Population
Pollution
Global warming (greenhouse effect)
Traffic
Hunger
Literacy….Discussion:pressure on house space, transport, global warming, acid rain(酸雨),growing areas of desert, pollution, overlarge world population, hunger, shortage of resources, AIDS, cancer…………lack of enough drinking water …HelpoverpopulationHow to deal with the issues?Yesterday is a history
Tomorrow is a mystery
Today is a gift
So we call it present With the development of science and technology, some of our wildest dreams could come true in the future.Everybody wishes a bright future. Be
sure to seize the present. Make the
best of today, and you’ll succeed
tomorrow .Learn from yesterday,
live for today,
and hope for tomorrow.
