【河南省专用】2014届高考英语一轮单元复习课件精品必修五：Unit 3 Life in the future Reading.pptVIP

Warming Up A space travel is a travel where you visit some other planets, the Mars, for example. A time travel is a travel where you stay where you are but go to the future or the past. What change do you expect to see in your life in one thousand years’ time? Choose two of them to have a discussion and then finish the chart below. Pre-reading Think about following questions before reading the passage. If you have a time travel to the world in 1000 years, how can you get there? What will you see? What problems will you face? How to solve these problems? Reading 1. Skim over the passage and find the main idea of the passage. It’s about Li Qiang’s journey to the future and his first impression of the life in the future. 2. In your opinion, can the present title “First Impressions” summarize the passage perfectly? If not, try to substitute it with a new one. Task 2: Scanning Read the passage more carefully and answer the following questions. 1. Why did Li Qiang have the chance to travel to the year AD 3008? 2. What does “time lag” mean? 3. What’s “Future Tours”? 4. When Li Qiang’s head ached, how did Wang Ping help him? 5. How did they get to the market? 6. How did a hovering carriage work? 7. Why was there a green wall in the room? 8. Are there anything else special in the room? Keys to Task 2 1. Why did Li Qiang have the chance to travel to the year AD 3008? He is taking up his prize that was won last year. 3. What’s “Future Tours”? It’s Wang Ping’s parents’ company, which is well known for sending people safely into the future in a time capsule. 4. When Li Qiang’s head ached, how did Wang Ping help him? Wang Ping handed him a mask to put on and immediately hurried him through to a small room nearby for a rest. 5. How did they get to the market? By a hovering carriage which can float. 6. How did a hovering carriage work? It was driven by computer. They floated above the ground and by bending or pressing down in your seat,