课件16张PPT。LLILBOOK4 MODULE1LIFE IN THE FUTRE LISTENING Describing your homeListening and speakingSpeakingQ: If you try to describe your home to your partner, what things will you talk about?
Now try to describe your home, talking about the following things:
size and number of rooms
furniture
technologyPre-listening What can you guess about the listening passage from the sentences in Activity 2 on Page?Listen and answer the questions.2He describes what housed will look like in ___ years later? a) twenty b) thirty c) forty
He thinks houses in the future will be different ___. a) outside b) inside c) outside and inside
Houses will have _____ which move. a) floors b) ceilings c) walls
The most important room will be the _____ a) bathroom b) kitchen c) living roomListen and answer the questions.25. The ___ will be bigger. a) bathroom b) dining room c) toilet
6. The house will be controlled by a ___. a) computer b) robot c) telescreen
7. If machines are “smart”, they are_____ . a) clean b) invisible c) clever
8. The architect is _____ optimistic about the effect of the house on the environment. a) not at all b) not very c) veryWhat could happen to the dining room and the living room?
How will people switch on the lights?
What will the toilet be able to do?
What will the dishwasher be able to do?They will disappear.The computer will do it.It will move higher or lower depending on who uses it.It will wash the dishes without water.Work in pairs. Try to remember what the architect says about4Extra-Listening Fill in the missing parts according to what you hear.
I: Good afternoon everybody and ____the programme this afternoon is an expert on American ___________________, Mr. Simon Oppenheim who’s going to talk to us about the house in the future. So where _______________in twenty years’ time?
G: Twenty years _____ a long time. We ________ underground or in space. We _____________in houses and flats as we do today.
I: What will the houses look like?ondomestic architectureshall we be livingisn’twon’t be livingwill be livingG: I think they’ll look __________________they do today, at least from the outside. But hey will be different inside.
I: ______________?
G: ____________, they’ll be more flexible. That means we ________________ move the walls to create bigger or smaller rooms when we want to. So the dining room and living room as we know them would disappear.
I: And the kitchen?
G: The kitchen _____________the most important room in the house! We_________________, and we’ll probably be using the kitchen more as a family room. And bathrooms will be bigger.much the same asIn what wayFor a startwill be able towill becomewill still be cookingI: So we ___________________more time in the bath.
G: Just as other people have done in the past, like in the days of the ancient Romans, when the bath had an important social fun_ction…
I: What about furniture?
G: Well, a lot of furniture will be the same- we ____________________ in chairs and using cupboards to keep things in, but the technology will be different. I think a single computer will ______ most of the functions in the house, and it will have a voice recognition system.will be spendingwill still be sittingcontrolI: So we’ll just have to say Switch on the Light and the light comes on?
G: Yes, that’s right. And the technology will be smarter.
I: Smarter?
G: Yes. For example, if we ____________something, like there’s _________milk left in the fridge, the computer will tell us. Maybe a shopping list would appear on a screen on the fridge. And the toilet will move higher or lower, _____________who uses it – a child or an adult.run out ofno moredepending onI: Will the houses of the future be ______________________?
G: Yes, ____________. We’ll be using machines which use less energy. An example could be a dishwasher which doesn’t need water. I think everyone ___________________to take care of the environment.
I: Does that mean you’re ________________the future?
G: Oh yes, very definitely.environment friendlydefinitelywill be trying hardoptimistic aboutDiscussionWork in groups. Imagine your house of the future. One draws the picture of the future house while others trying to describe it.
Then present it to all.Homework Try to use the information in Activity 2 in Listening and Speaking on Page 5 to tell what the home of the future will be like.