高中-英语-外研版-必修四-Module 1 Life in the Future 教案.docVIP

PAGE 优质资料欢迎下载 Module 1 Life in the Future Part One: Teaching Design Period 1 Reading—The City of the Future Goals To learn to read passages with the future continuous To learn to read with strategies Procedures ▇Warming up by defining future What is future? In a linear conception of time, the future is the portion of the timeline that is still to occur, i.e. the place in space-time where lie all events that still have not occurred. In this sense the future is opposed to the past (the set of moments and events that have already occurred) and the present (the set of events that are occurring now). ▇Before you read Please go over the word list for this module, paying attention to the pronunciation of the word, the relationship between its pronunciation and its spelling. ▇While you read Cut/ the sentences into thought groups, blacken the predicates, underline the useful expressions and darken the connectives. The City Of the Future What will the city of the future/ look like? No one knows/ for sure, and/ making predictions is a risky business. But/ one thing is certain—they are going to get bigger/ before they get smaller. In the future, care for the environment will become very important/ as earth’s natural resources run out. We will use lots of recycled materials, such as plastic, aluminum, steel, glass, wood and paper, and/ we will waste fewer natural resources. We will also have to rely more on alternative energy, such as solar and wind power. All this seems certain, but/ there are plenty of things/ about city life/ in the future/ which are not certain. To find out what young people think about the future of urban life, a teacher/ at a university/ in Texas/ in the United States/ asked his students/ to think how they would run a city of 50,000 people/ in the year/ 2025. Here are some of the ideas /they had: Garbage ships To get rid of garbage problems, the city will load huge spaceships/ with waste materials/ and/ send them /towards the sun, preventing landfill/