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Past, Present, Future
Changes from ancient times to modern society • Housing • Clothing • Education • Eating • Communication • Transportation ……
housing in the past low , old, shabby , untidy, smelly…
Housing at present modernized, comfortable…
Clothing (past) grey, dull, clumsy, …
Clothing at present Fashionable, colorful, comfortable, …
Education in the past: Shabby classroom, badly equipped, …
education at present Multi-media Language lab
Eating (past) unsavory, unhealthy, lack of nutrition…
Eating at present tasty, nutritious, organic. . .
Communication (past): Inefficient, inconvenient
Communication(present): video telephone
Transportation in the past cart Slow, tiring, inconvenient, dangerous, … sedan chair
transpotation at present Maglev train Fast, enjoyable, safer, … Bullet train
• We benefit a lot from the new society, but there are still many problems in the world Make a list of the problems human beings are facing today.
Deforestation poorpollution air sanitation starvation 沙漠化 • Global desertification water pollution warming 滥砍滥伐 公共卫生
Can they be solved? bright ? Future
What will our future life be like?
a robotic dog a solar energy car
A bed car A car which can sail on the water
A city on the water
Oh, my God! I am cloned
Do you want to go traveling in the future like the mechanical cat---“Duo La A Meng”?
The passage is mainly about . A. how Li Qiang was transported to the future. B. how Li Qiang got to the future and his first impression of it. C. what the life was like in the future. D. the introduction of the “ Future Tours” company.
before the journey ________________ n (para 1) n 1. n 2. during the journey ________________ n (para 2) n 3. after the journey (future life) ________________ n (para 3 - 4)
1. Why did Li Qiang go into the future? Because he had won a prize that gave him a tour. 2. How did he feel when he left his own time? He felt worried/ unsettled/nervous / uncertain. 3. How did he get to the year 3008? He went by time capsule. 4. What is “time lag”? It means a person keeps getting flashbacks from his previous time.
Inside the capsule: climb in _____ comfortable _____ through seats opening the______ outside the capsule 1000 years later What? the journey completed ____ calming a _____ drink the capsule began swinging gently ______as sideways relaxed we lay______
n Try to find out the changes Li Qiang has mentioned in the passage.
find out the changes mentioned by Li. Qiang in the passage u u u u Transport Education Food Houses Communication Clothing Environment (air, water…) …
air thin little oxygen a lack of fresh air hovering carriage driven by computer transport float above… move swiftly by… strange-looking wall, floor, lighting houses a table and chairs …from under the floor
Further understanding What do you think Li Qiang will tell his parents in his next e-mail? Maybe something new he sees and experiences in this new world during the following days.
unsettled / nervous _______ and uncertain ____ Li felt Before the at first, as a result he suffered journey from _______. time lag During the Li was transported safely into time capsule journey (1) the future in a ______. tolerate During the It is difficult to _____ journey(2) the new surroundings. Li was lack hit by the ____ of fresh air ached and his head ______.
hovering We collected a _____ floated journey (1) carriage and _____ above the After the ground. showed Arriving home Li was ______ into a large bright, clean room green with a _____ wall, a brown floor _____ soft and _______ lighting. Exhausted _____, he slid into bed and asleep fell journey (2) ______ fast ______. After the
Yesterday is a history Tomorrow is a mystery Today is a gift So we call it present
Everybody wishes a bright future. Be With the development of sure to seize the present. Make the science and technology, some of our wildest dreams could best of today, and you’ll succeed come. tomorrow true in the future.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, and hope for tomorrow.
Arrange the order according to the C, A, D, B text. A. we were transported into the future by a comfortable time capsule. B. I arrived at Wang Ping’s home and everything in his house made me surprised. C. I won a travel to the year AD 3005. D. I have my first try to master a hovering carriage.
Discussion What’s the writer’s attitude towards the future, optimistic or pessimistic? How do you know? optimistic pessimistic
Pessimistic We know that from the following sentences: 1. Worried about the journey, I was unsettled for the first few days. 2. My new surroundings were to difficult to tolerate. I was hit by the lack of the fresh air. 3. Exhausted, I slid into bed and fell fast asleep.


