公开课准备reading 1.pptVIP

Match the main ideas of each paragraph Para.1 Para2 Para3 para4 How I felt in the spaceship Staying in Wang ping’s home My impressions of life one thousand years into the future How I came to take a time travel journey A. We were transported into the future by a comfortable time capsule. Now try to find out what happened to Li Qiang before, during and after the journey. What’s the writer’s attitude towards the future, optimistic orpessimistic?How do you know? Homework 1. Ex.1-3 on page 20. 2. Read the passage one more time and try to understand the difficult sentences. Discussion I think the writer has an optimistic view of the future. He was very excited when he traveled to the year AD 3008 and couldn’t believe it was true. From this, we can see he is eager to go to the future. Though he was hit by the lack of fresh air, the problem was immediately solved by putting on a mask. And he tells us the transport in the future is convenient. When he arrived Wang Ping’s home, he found there were many trees after the wall moved, and these trees provided the house with much-needed oxygen. Finally he described the automatic equipment in Wang Pings house. All the above has shown his view of the future. * * Make a list of the problems human being are facing today. Discussion: Housing Population Pollution Global warming Traffic Hunger… acid rain, growing areas of desert, overlarge world population, lack of enough drinking water … water pollution poor sanitation公共卫生 air pollution Deforestation滥砍滥伐 Desertification 沙漠化 starvation Global warming poverty war violence Other issues overpopulation Traffic jam Help What will life be like in one thousand years’ time? Which ones do you think will still exist in AD 3008? Give your reasons. House Car Predict the context of the passage. 1. What’s the text about? An e-mail written by a man who has taken up a trip to the future B. The man