Unit3Lifeinthefuture-Usinglanguage[课件] (2).ppt

1、I Have Seen Amazing Things,Unit3 Using Language,Do you think its possible for human beings to have a time travel? 2. If you have the chance to take a time travel to the year AD 3005 as Li Qiang did, what places will you go to visit?,Free talk before reading,Task 1,Listen to the text and do the “True

2、 or False” exercises. 1.Manufacturing takes place not on the earth but on space stations. ( ) 2. The robots programmed and monitored by man produce goods. ( ) 3.During the process, there is no waste, no pollution and no environmental damage. ( ) 4. When goods are ready, they are sold on space statio

3、ns. ( ),T,T,T,F,II. Read the text and choose the best answer.1. People in the future communicate with each other by using _ . A. computer B. typewriter C. a “thoughtpad”2. Rubbish will be dealt with by _ . A. burying it B. burning it C. a giant machine which can swallow it3. If the user doesnt think

4、 his or her message clearly, _ may be sent. A. an unclear message B. a right message C. a wrong message,C,C,A,1. How many kinds of inventions are mentioned in the passage? What are they?,Three kinds of inventions. They are the thoughtpad, a waste machine and the manufacturing robots.,Read the passag

5、e, then finish the following exercises,Task 2,It spins slowly to imitate the pull of the earth.,Read Para 1. and answer: 2. What is the space station like? 3.Why does the space station spin slowly in space?,It is an enormous round plate.,Read Para2. and answer the questions. 4.What do they use to se

6、nd messages? . 5.How does it work? 6.What are the advantages of it? And the disadvantage(limitation) ?,They send messages using a thoughtpad.,They place the metal band over their heads, clear their minds , press the sending button, think their messages and the next instant they will be sent.,If the

7、user does not think his or her message clearly, an unclear message may be sent.,Read Para 3. and answer: 7. How do people on the space station dispose their rubbish ? 8. Why is their way to dispose rubbish a great idea ?,They dispose their rubbish with a waste machine.,Because during the process , t

8、he rubbish is turned into several grades of useful material, nothing is wasted, and everything is recycled.,Read Para4 and answer: 9. Who perform the manufacturing tasks on the space station? 10.What do people do in manufacturing process? 11.What are the advantages in manufacturing ?,Manufacturing r

9、obots.,Engineers programme robots and representatives of companies have to live on space station and monitor the robots and the production.,There is no waste, no pollution and no environmental damage.,Task 3,Read the passage and and fill in the chart,Modern Inventions of the 31st Century Only to be

10、seen on the Space Station,Use the information from the reading passage to fill in this poster for the Space Station.,a waste machine,efficient,environmentally friendly,Thoughts must be clear or messages may be mixed up,1. no waste 2. no pollution 3. no environ- mental damage,1. disposes of all waste

11、 2. turns them into several grades of useful material,People must live on a space station to monitor the robots,Discussion,In pairs discuss the advantages and disadvantages of living on a space station. For example, would you like to live and work in one? What would you do with your spare time? Prep

12、are to report to the class.,S1:Would you like to live and work .? S2:Wed really like to live and work. . Of cause there would be. , but wed really enjoy. . S1:And there are . . S2:Yes indeed! We both enjoy. . We would . so that we could . . S1:Robots are never tired so wed . . S2:When we get fed-up with competitions wed arrange for the robots to desi