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Unit 3 life in the future
本单元以life in the future 为中心话题，旨在通过本单元的学习， 让学生大胆发挥想象， 对人类今后的生活环境，生活方式进行猜测， 提倡环保生活意识， 同时让学生学会过去分词作定语和作状语的不同用法， 最后让学生将本单元所讨论的话题和推测手法结合， 学习怎么样写report
本单元所涉及的要点有：
1. 学习并了解未来生活的各个方面用与现在生活的不同之处， 学习外星人的生活方式。
2）学习表示预测，建议的的句型。
（3）学习过去分词作定语和状语的结构。
（4）学习写好“report”,以训练学生的逻辑思维及写作能力.
The 1st Period
Teaching Aims:
1. Learn some new words and expressions.
2. Help the students to talk about life in the past, at present and in the future.
3. Enable the students to describe the life in the past, at present and in the future.
Difficult and Important Points:
Compare life in the past, at present and in the future
What is life in the future like? What changes will take place?
Teaching Methods:
1. First and careful reading,
2. Asking and answering question activity
3. Individual, Pair work & group work
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1 warming up
Talk about how many changes there have been in the last one thousand years. And what changes we might expect to find in the next one thousand years
Step two:  pre-reading
1.Can you tell what problems people are facing today?
2.what problems do you think people in the future will have overcome?Which ones will still be there or even
worse in AD3005?
Key: 1The problem of population will be solved,have begun to Control the birth rate.
2The problems will be still there,and will even worse.
3I don’t think so.Now scientists are trying their best to
develop new resources that human beings can make use of ,such as solar energy.In my opinion……
  step three   fast reading
Read the text for the first time and tell what the text is about?
It’s an e-mail written by a man Who has taken up a trip to the future.
2. Look at the following sentence, there are in wrong order, tell me the correct order for these sentence
A. We were transported into the future by a comfortable time capsule.
B. I arrived a t Wang Ping’s home and everything in his house made me surprised.
C.I won a travel to the year AD3005
D. I have my first try to master a hovering carriage.
 Step four   careful reading
1.why did I have the chance to travel to the year AD3005?
2. What is a “ time lag”?
3. How did I feel when I was in the capsule?
4who guides my trip?
5.why did my guide give me some tables?
6.who transported us to the future?
Key 1. I took up the prize I won the year before.
2. “Time lag”means a person gets flashbacks from his previous  time period.
3. The seats in the capsule are very comfortable.
4. My friend Wang Ping is my guide to the future.
5. The tablets could help me feel less nervous and uncertain
6. Wang Ping’s parents’ company transported us to the future.
1How did I feel as soon as I was transported to the future?
After the writer was transported to the future,he was hit by the lack of fresh air.
2.how did Wang Ping solve this problem?
Wang Ping gave a mask to the writer and hurried him through to a small room nearby to have a rest.
3.what do you think has caused this kind of problem?
Now we are causing more and more pollution to the nature,this will cause serious problems to life in the nature.This may  be the cause of the lack of fresh air in the future.
1  What did Wang Ping’s house look like?
His house is a large bright ,clean room.It had a green Wall,a brown floor and soft lighting .
2   What was the green wall made of? What’s the purpose of building this kind of green wall?
 The green wall was made of trees.The leaves of the trees will provide much-needed oxygen to the house.
3   How can you produce a TV set in Wang Ping’s house?
You can just flash a switch on the computer screen and a TV set will rise from the floor. 
Good changes 
Bad changes
Time travel Can travel to
Different times
as you wish After-effects of travel
transport .can move swiftly Disorganized, difficult to
find way
houses save living space Short of space
Towns  Busy, look like
 markets Easy to get lost
Air quality Own family
oxygen supply Poor quality in public places
Sample answers Ex.2
I think the writer has an optimistic view of the future.He was very excited when he traveled to the year AD 3005 an d couldn’t elieve if was true.From this,we can see he is eager to go to the future.Though ehe was hit by the lack of fresh air,