The City of the Future

book 4       the city of the future
learning paper2         intensive reading
learning aims: to learn the passage and master a general idea
importance and difficulty: sentences and no matter + what/when----and with + 賓語+賓補
ⅰ.read the passage on page2 the city of the future
1. decide which topics are mentioned in it and pick them out.
1.)alternative energy 2.) environment 3.) entertainment 4.) crime  5.) traffic   6.) weather   7.) shopping  8.) schools   9.) public services
ⅱ.read the first paragraph and do the following exercises.
1. who knows for sure what the city of the future will look like?

2. what is certain about the city of the future?

3. what materials can be recycled?

4. what alternative energy is mentioned?

5. why will it become very important to care for the environment?

6. which sentence has the seam meaning as the one below?
no one knows certainly,and predicting the future is not a wise thing to do.

7. they are going to get bigger before they get smaller. (translate)

8. there are plenty of things about city life in the future which are not certain. (定語從句)(translate)

ⅲ.read the rest of the passage and answer the questions.
1. why did the teacher ask his students how to run a city of 50000 in 2025?

2. where will garbage ships go?

3. who will batmam nets catch?

4. where won’t people be allowed to smoke?

5. how will people go shopping?

6. what number will people keep for life?

7. what won’t people have to pay for?

8. how will senior citizens and the disabled go anywhere in the world?
ⅳ.dicussion :
1. which prediction in this passage will come true first? and which one is the most useful?
               
2.what will the city of the future look like in your opinion?

ⅴ.learn the following sentences by heart.
1.to get rid of garbage problems, the city will load huge spaceship with waste materials and send them towards the sun, preventing landfill and environmental problems. 為了擺脫垃圾問題的困擾，城市將會用巨型飛船裝載廢棄材料，朝太陽發射，這樣做防止了垃圾填埋和環境問題。
to get rid of garbage problems 不定式作目的狀語
to find out what young people think about the future of urban life, a teacher -------
1)______________,(為了趕上第一班車) he got up very early.
2)----why are they pulling down the houses?
------_____ a new parking lot（停車場）