1、Unit 3 Life in the Future赖兰英【单元导航】 Einsteins theory of relativity brought space and time together in a single, four-dimensional arrangement that he called spacetime.The Universe is full of heavy objects exerting gravitational effects and the net result is that spacetime is not flat at all but curved
2、. Everything, including light, has to follow curved paths in spacetime. Black holes have such a huge gravitational pull that nothing can escape from them, not even light.Period 1Warming Up and ReadingStep 1. Pre-reading1. Imagine what changes will happen in the next century in your life. For example
3、 in housing, transport, jobs, families and education.2. Make a list of the problems you think human beings are facing today.3. Mark out which problems may be solved in 1000 years and which may not. Then choose one of the “may not” and discuss in a group whether it will be better or worse by AD 3008,
4、 and give the reasons.Step 2. Fast-reading （方法导引：略读或浏览阅读skimming：忽略不懂的句子和生词，快速阅读原文。目的只是为了了解阅读材料的大意）1. Skim the passage and answer the questions. 1) Why did Li Qiang go into the future? 2) How did he feel when he left his own time? 3) How did he get to the year 3008? 4) What did he notice first when
5、he arrived in AD 3008?2. Scan the passage quickly and write down the main idea of each paragraph in your own words.Paragraph 1Paragraph 2Paragraph 3Paragraph 4Step 3. Careful reading （方法导引：采用扫描式阅读scanning：进行有目的的阅读，目的是寻找某些资料或信息，对于无关部分可以忽略。）1. Whats the text about?A. An e-mail written by a man who has
6、 taken up a trip to the futureB. The man have his first try to master a hovering carriage.C. The man are surprised at the Wang pings home.D. The preparation of the trip.2. Do you think Li Qiang feels comfortable in the future? What words does he use that he gives you that impression? Please fill in
7、the chart.Good changesBad changesTime travelTransportHousesTownsAir quality3. Detail reading, and answer these questions.1) Why did Li Qiang has the chance to travel to the year AD3005?2) What is a “time lag”?3) How did they travel to the year AD3005?4) Who guided the trip?5) Why did Li Qiangs guide
8、 give him some tablets?6) Who transported them to the future?7) What was the air like there? In what way did people there travel?8) What were houses like there?Step4. Activity Discuss the following topic with your partners in a group of six. What improvements do you think there will be to your home
9、city or homevillage one thousand years in the future? What problems might there be?Step5. Homework:Retell the text in your own words.学后反思我的阅读完成情况呃，我还要努力！answers:Pre-readingTips:global warming, acid rain, growing areas f desert, overlarge world population, lack of enough drinking water Fast-reading1.
10、1) Li Qiang went into the future because he had won a prize that gave him a tour.2) He felt rather anxious when he left his own time but soon got it over.3) He went by time capsule.4) The first thing he noticed was the poor quality of the air and it gave him a headache.2.Paragraph 1How I came to tak
11、e a time travel journey.Paragraph 2The journey.Paragraph 3My impression of life one thousand years into the future.Paragraph 4Staying in Wang Pings home.Step 3: Careful-reading1. A2. Good changesBad changesTime travelcan travel to different times as you wishafter-effects of travelTransportcan move s
12、wiftlydisorganized; difficult to find wayHousessave living spaceshort of spaceTownsbusy; look like marketseasy to get lostAir qualityown family oxygen supplypoor quality in public places3.1）I took up the prize I won the year before.2) “Time lag” means a person gets flashbacks from his previous time
13、period.3) In a time capsule.4) My friend Wang Ping is my guide to the future.5) The tablets could help me feel less nervous and uncertain.6) Wang Pings parents company transported us to the future.7) The air seemed thin as if it had little oxygen left; people there travelled in a hovering carriage driven by computer.8) Bright, clean, green, moving walls, brown floor and soft lighting, trees inside room, movable furniture.