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2019-2020年高中英语第二册上Unit6Lifeinthefuture-Period4LetisreadandwriteGoals Foster the students ability to read English letters. Enable the students to write a predictable life in the future.Procedures:Leading in (1): by checking. ( lockstep work, approx. 5 min.) Good morning, boys and girls! Today firstly Id like you to share with your classmates your endings to the story in Exercise 2 on page 45.Leading in (2): by looking, listening and underlining. ( lockstep work, approx. 5 min.)Useful expressions from GREETINGS FROM THE FUTUREin the year 3044, do something differently, for example, keep somebody pany, look just like, a bit, lots of, help.with., be programmed to, take care of , old-fashioned, download.from ones memory, think about, in the same way, imitate the real world, virtual reality, sound absurd to, a little, after all, transform.into., recognize ones voice, more than, clean up, some day, in timeNow listen to the tape of the letter on page 47 and underline expressions which are useful to you.Task 1: Listening and reading aloud. ( lockstep work, approx. 5 min. )Now listen to the tape and read aloud the passage on page 47, paying attention to the pronunciation and intonation.Task 2: Talking and discussing. ( group work, approx. 10 min.)In groups you are going to discuss the three questions on page 47, using your imagination as much as possible. Then collect the answers from each group.Task 3: Writing. ( pair work and individual work, approx. 12 min.)1.Work with your partner in discussing the following questions:(1) What a mogray is?(2) What does it look like?(3) What can it be used for?(4) How does it work?2.Write your paragraph with the information you have got from the discussion.Closing up by further discussion. ( lockstep, approx. 8 min.)Now please read the following passage to discuss this question: What will be the result when we imagine the future?Olaf Stapledon wrote a book called First and Last Men, in which he looked millions of years ahead. He told of different men and of strange civilizations, broken up by long dark ages in between. In his view, what is called the present time is no more than a moment in human history and we are just the First Men. In 2,000 million years from now there will be the Eighteenth or Last Men.However, most of our ideas about the future are really very short sighted. Perhaps we can see some possibilities for the next fifty years. But the next hundred? The next thousand? The next million? Thats much more difficult.Since we men and women lived by hunting 50,000 years ago, how could they even begin to picture modern life? Yet to men of 50,000 years from now, we may as primitive in our ideas the Stone Age hunters do to us. Perhaps they will spend their days rollicking to make new spundels, or struggling with their ballalators through the crib. These words, which I have just made up, have to stand for things and ideas that we simply cant think of.So why bother even to try imagining life far in the future? Here are two reasons. Firstly, unless we remember how short our own lives are pared with the whole human history, we are likely to think our own interests are much more important than they really are. If we make the earth a poor place to live on because of our carelessness or greed or quarrel, our grandchildren will not bother to think of excuses for us.Secondly, by trying to escape from present interests and imagine life far in the future, we may arrive at quite fresh ideas that we can use ourselves. For example, if we imagine that in the future men may give up farming, we can think of trying it now. So set your imagination free when you think about the future.
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