Unit3 Wariming up and Reading.ppt

Read the passage again, discuss which changes to life in AD3008 are good or bad and give reasons for your choices. Then please finish the chart. Good changes and reasons Bad changes and reasons Time travel Transport Houses Towns Air quality can travel to different times as you wish after- effects of travel can move swiftly disorganized; difficult to find way save living space short of space busy; look like markers easy to get lost own family oxygen supply poor quality in public places Write down the main idea for each paragraph in your own words. Then add the important details. Main idea: How I came to take a time travel journey Details: my prize; my excitement Main idea: The journey Details: how I felt; the spaceship; the journey Main idea: My impressions of life one thousand years into the future Details: little oxygen; masks to provide oxygen; hovering carriage; how to drive them; a “time lag” moment Main idea: Staying in Wang Ping’s home Details: appearance of house; trees as walls; where furniture stored; ate meal; prepared for sleep Have a class discussion and decide whether you think the writer has an optimistic or a pessimistic view of the future. Take a few minutes to read through the passage again. Make notes to help you remember your reasons. Be prepared to join in a class discussion. Try to persuade others to agree with you. Discussion Speaking and Writing In pairs try to think of some benefits and problems in the future. Talk and write about what life may be like on the earth in 1000years’ time. Follow these steps. In pairs prepare 4 to 5 questions about the future. Ask and answer questions using the following expressions. These expressions may help you: Suppose that … Do you imagine that …? I wonder if … Is it possible that …? Is it likely /unlikely that …? Do you suppose that …? Get together with another pair. Hold a discussion and make notes of their answers. Organize the notes you have collected from the discussion. Choose 2 or 3 o