宣汉县第二中学

张建涛

Life in the Future Reading and Vocabulary

BrainstomWhat will life in the future look like?

clinic disability mall online outdoors

recreation run out solar surgery urban

Word Study

Pre-readingLook at the title of the passage.

Tick the topics you think it will mention

alternative energy public services crime

environment entertainment traffic

weather shopping schools

Read the text carefully and complete the following chart.

Garbage ships

The city will with waste materials and send them towards the sun.

Holidays at home

People will be able to go anywhere in the worldusing

Recreation All forms of recreation will be provided by the city.

Cars All cars will use , and it will be possible to change the colour of cars

Resources We’ll use lots of and also have to

How the students would run a city in the year 2025

load huge spaceships

free of charge

solar energy, electricity

alternative energyrely onrecycled materials

hi-tech cameras attached to their head

Detailed understanding

• Read the text carefully again and choose the best answers.

1 No one knows for sure what the city of the future will look like because

a. making predictions is very dangerous b. it is very hard to make predictions c. making predictions is of no use d. it is no good making predictions

b

2. Distance surgery will be common because a. doctors can carry out operations from thousands of

miles b. doctors will be more skilled and more experienced c. each city will have its own tele-surgery outpatient

clinic d. each city will have its own spaceport

c

What will the city of the future be like?

Batman Nets : nets instead of guns

Forget the malls : online voice command

Telephones for life: birth never change

Space travel : ordinary people common spaceport

Tele-surgery : distance outpatient clinic

Listen to the tape

Forget smoking : allowed outside cities outdoors

1 not a wise thing to do 2 use up3 remove4 old people5 tied to sth

a risky business

get rid of

senior citizens

attached to

run out

Find some phrases in the text meaning these things

Which prediction

1 is the most useful? 2 will come true first? 3 do you agree best?

Discuss the questions

Don’t Don’t forget forget your your

homeworhomework:k:

1.Remember the new words and useful expressions2.Preview Listening and Vocabulary

Goodbye!

a robotic dog

a solar energy car

Cars in the future

Garbage ships

shopping mall

Forget the malls

online

shopping

Space travel