Life in the future（The Fourth Period）

(the students begin to read.after a while.teacher checks their compre-hension.)
t：who’d like to tell me what you would use an e-friend for，if you had one?
(one students stands up.)
s：let me try.if i had an e-friend.i would let him help me with what i couldn't do，keep me company,talk with me and help me with my homework.
(another student begins to give the answer.)
s：i think i would have the e-friend help me take notes when i was listening to a lecture and play chess with me.fur-thermor，i would let my e-friend help me if i was in trouble.
t：thank you.now the second question：why is it sometimes difficult for mek-anika to know what is real and what is an image?any volunteer?
s：because the world and people are imi-tated so well that we can see them，hear them，touch them，talk to them and feel them.they are just like the real world and real people.
t：ok.the last question：how is our 1ife different from the way people lived one thousand years ago?
s：now life is much easier and more con-venient than in the past.we can keep in touch with each other by cellphone or by computer instead of by writing letters.
s：we can travel by car instead of on foot.we can buy things on the inter-net.we can also get the latest infor-mation by surfing the internet.
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step ⅳ listening and reading aloud
t：now let’s listen to the tape.when i play it for the first time，just listen   carefully.when i play it for the second time，please listen and repeat.then read the passage aloud.pay attention to your intonation.are you clear?
s：yes.
(play the tape for the students to lis-ten.then when the students read the   passage.the teacher goes among them and corrects their mistakes in pronun-ciation，intonation and stress.)
step v writing
t：we have known what the life will be in the year 3044.imagine that you have come back from a trip to the future.you visited the year 4367 and you saw a wonderful    invention called a mogray.now work with your partner and decide what a mogray is，what it looks like and what it is used for.
(teacher asks the students to discuss the questions.and then collect their
answers.after that，the teacher says the following.)
t：now you know what it is like.please write a paragraph about what a mogray is.before writing，you have to complete the outline on the screen.
(show the following on the screen.)
what can a mogray
be used for? what does a mogray
look like?
how does it work?
 

(teacher asks the students to write the outline in their exercise books.students may have various answers.)