Unit 2 Lesson 2 Life in the Future 学案（无答案）

Lesson 2 Life in the Future
Learning aims
Knowledge objectives:
1．Predicting the good and bad changes in the future.
2．Imagine the alien creatures.
3．To learn some words related to the building materials;
4．To know something about the predictions about the future life.
Ability goals:
1．Making predictions
Do you suppose that…? Suppose that…
I wonder if…
Do you imagine that…?
I imagine that…
2．Making conjectures about future
Is it likely/ unlikely that…
Possibly …
It is possible that …
Most likely …
I’m sure…
Probably…
Suppose that …
Perhaps …
Maybe …
Learning important and difficult points
1．Predicting the good and bad changes in the future.
2．Imagine the alien creatures.
3．To learn some words related to the building materials;
4．To know something about the predictions about the future life.
Learning procedures
I. Answer the following questions
1．How did people travel 1000 years ago?
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2．How do you usually go to school?
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3．How would you like to go to school in the future?
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4．Where do you live now?
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5．Where would you like to live in the future? Would you like to live on the moon?
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6．Can you imagine what life will be like in the future?
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II. pre-reading
1．Can you tell what problems people are facing today?
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2．What problems do you think people in the future will have to overcome? Which ones will still be there or even worse in AD3005?
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3．Work in pairs. Imagine you are two inventors and you have designed a new product, which you want to sell.
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III. Preview the reading part according to the following questions.
Part1 fast reading
Present some pictures about the problems that people are acing today, including housing, population, pollution, global warming, traffic, hunger, etc. Then show a picture of the time tunnel to lead in Reading.
Read the text for the first time and tell what the text is about?
1．It’s an e-mail written by a man who has taken up a trip to the future. And what’s the main idea of the passage?
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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 a t Wang Ping’s home and everything in his house made me surprised.
C．I won a travel to the year AD3005
D．I have my first try to master a hovering carriage.
3．Choose the best answer to the question.
The passage is mainly about _________.
A．How Li Qiang was transported to the future.
B．How Li Qiang got to the future and his first impressions of it.
C．What the life was like in the future.
D．The introduction of the “Future Tour” company.
4．True or False
（1）Li Qiang was relaxed when he traveled to the year AD 3005. ( )
（2）Li Qiang suffered from “time lag” at first. ( )
（3）The “Future Tour” company transported Li Qiang into the future in a time capsule. ( )
（4）It took them a long time to travel to the year AD 3005. ( )
（5）Li Qiang and Wang Ping always kept in touch with each other during the time travel. ( )
（6）During his time travel Li Qiang found that the house of the wall was brown. ( )
Part 2 careful reading
Go through the first two paragraphs quickly, then answer the following questions:
1．Why did I have the chance to travel to the year AD3008?
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2．What is a “time lag”?
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3．How did I feel when I was in the capsule?
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4．Who guides my trip?
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5．Why did my guide give me some tables?
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6．Who transported us to the future?
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Go through the third paragraph, then try to answer the following questions.
1．How did I feel as soon as I was transported to the future?
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2．How did Wang Ping solve this problem?
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3．What do you think has caused this kind of problem?
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Read fourth paragraph quickly, then answer the following questions:
What was the green wall made of?
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What’s the purpose of building this kind of green wall?
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