Life in the future（Period 1 Welcome to the Unit）
s: vehiclet: right.you are clever.t: something belongs to one particular person or group only, which is personal.what is it?s: private.t: excellent.can you use it to make a sentence?s: this is my father’s own private chair, which no one else is allowed to sit on.t: what a beautiful sentence.next one is coming before in time or order.can you guess what it is?s: i think it is previous.t: yes.would you please make a sentence using it?s: we had met on a previous occasion before...t: good.i like the book very much, but i don’t have enough money on me.what difficulty do i have now?s: you are lacking money.t: you are clever.i can’t buy the book because of lack of money.t: even if he is in lack of money to buy food to eat and to buy a house to live in, he is still confident and leads an active life.so we can say he is... s: he is optimistic, i think.t: quite good.he has an optimistic view of events.step 3 brainstormingt: as we all know, no one can stop the wheel of history.our society keeps advancing, so what will happen in the future?sure you often dream of your beautiful life tomorrow.now, i’d like to share with you what you have imagined about the future.you are free to show your different imaginations.s: people will not have to work, because all of work will be done by machine.s: people will go to space very easily.we can go to other stars just as we visit other cities nowadays.s: people will live forever and no one will die.ss: ...t: now let’s fill in the following chart according to your imagination.fields
what will the__________become in the future
energy
language
farm
factory(five minutes later, ask three or four ss to report.)s: in the future people will live in different places.as the population is exploding, more people will prefer to live in faraway places, under the sea or even on the moon.s: in the future people will speak only english and chinese.s: in the future, people can eat anything.people won’t need to worry about the food problem in the world.s: in the future people can find many ways to deal with pollution, we can live in a better environment.people in the future will explore a new kind of energy, which will never be used up.step 4 discussiont: just now you offered me a good chance to vividly view a future world.it is full of imagination and wonders.let’s wait together for it coming asap (as soon as possible).now let’s try to think about the many changes there have been in the last one thousand years.then think about what changes you might expect to find in the next one thousand years, especially consider the following fields: transport, houses, villages, towns, location and settlement.i will break you up into several groups.each group is made up of four students.discuss it in groups.in five minutes, one student in one group will report what you have discussed.