(共28张PPT)
Period 2 Reading
——First Impressions
Match each word with its meaning
①impression
②constantly
③previous
④press
⑤lack
⑥surroundings
a. continuously; frequently
b. everything that is around sb./sth.
c. an idea or opinion of what something or someone else
d. be without sth.
e. to push sth. closely and firmly against sth
f. happening or existing before sth. or sb.
⑦optimistic
g. believing that good things will happen in the future
Revision
A changing world
carriage
bicycle
motorcycle
train
aeroplane
?
space craft
sedan chair
car
time capsule
time travel
Means of transportation
First Impressions
1 .What’s the text about?
Li Qiang was surprised at the Wang ping’s home.
B.How was Li Qiang transported to the future.
C.How did Li Qiang get to the future and his first impressions of it.
D.The introduction of the “Future Tours” company.
fast reading
First impressions
Please read the text quickly and choose the right
answers to complete the chart.
Part 1 ___
Part 2 ___
Para. 2 __
Para. 3 __
Para. 4 __
A. Some details of the tour B. Boarding and taking off
C. A brief introduction of the tour
D. What happened to Li Qiang during the tour
E. What the future home looks like
A
B
C
D
E
A. Li Qiang was transported into the future
by a comfortable time capsule.
B. Li Qiang arrived at Wang Ping’s home and
everything in his house made him
surprised.
C. Li Qiang won a travel to the year AD 3005.
D. Li Qiang had his first try to master a
hovering carriage.
Put the statements into correct order
Brife introduction of the journey
Destination(目的地)
①
②
Who
③
Means of transportation
④
Why
What suffering
⑤
⑥
How
(to deal with)
Li Qiang Wang Ping
AD 3005
“time lag”
take up the prize won last year
time capsule
green tablets
Brife introduction of the journey
Careful reading
During the journey
Inside the capsule:
through the______
①
_________seats
a _____ drink
Lay______
_________from ground, _________
_________the journey
1000 years later
?
outside
the capsule
opening
comfortable
calming
relaxed
rose slowly
swinging
completed
During the journey
Outside the capsule:
②
1.How did Li Qiang feel as soon as he landed in the future? How did Wang Ping solve this problem?
2. In what way did people in the future travel?
3. How did people drive a hovering carriage?
4. Why did Li Qiang lose sight of Wang Ping?
1.How did Li Qiang feel as soon as he landed in the future? How did Wang Ping solve this problem?
2. In what way did people in the future travel?
Li Qiang was hit by the lake of fresh air and his head ached. Wang Ping gave him a mask and ask him to have a rest in a small room nearby.
People there travelled in a hovering carriage driven by computer.
3. How did people drive a hovering carriage?
You can drive it swiftly by bending and pressing down on the driving stick strongly.
4. Why did Li Qiang lose sight of Wang Ping?
Because there are so many hovering carriages flying in all directions that Wang Ping was swept up into the center of them and Li Qiang was carried up to the top of a high building nearby.
◆It is a large _______clean room.
◆It had a _____ wall, a brown floor and soft lighting.
◆The wall moved — it was made of _____! Their leaves provided the room with much-needed ______.
◆A table and some chairs rose from _____________ as if by magic, when Wang Ping’s mother ______ a switch on a computer screen.
flashed
green
trees
oxygen
under the floor
bright
During the journey
③at Wang Ping’s home
Air quality
Houses
Religion
Clothing
Time travel
Transport
Towns
Eating
CHANGES
Air quality
Houses
Time travel
Transport
Towns
Find out the changes Li has mentioned
What’s the writer’s attitude towards the future, optimistic or pessimistic?
How do you know?
Discussion
Homework
Read the text again and find out the important and difficult language points and sentence patterns in this part.
Do Exx. 1-2 on Page 19.
time capsule
seats in the capsule
comfortable
new surroundings
lack of fresh air/the air is thin
a hovering carriage
You can drive it swiftly by bending and pressing down on the driving stick strongly.
people fly by in all directions
What’re the changes in air quality?
The air seemed thin as though its combination of gases had little oxygen left.
What’re the changes in transport?
People will travel in a hovering carriage driven by computer. These hovering carriages float above the ground and by bending and pressing down on the driving stick strongly one can move swiftly.
What’re the changes in houses?
The house has tree walls to provide oxygen. The furniture of the house is under the ground and by flashing a switch the furniture will rose from the floor.
What’re the changes in towns?
The town looks like a large market and people flying by in all directions.
water pollution
poor sanitation公共卫生
air pollution
Deforestation滥砍滥伐
desertification沙漠化
starvation
Global warming
overpopulation
Nowaday human beings face many problems. Which problems do you think will be settled in the future? Which problems will not be settled in the future?
Disscussion