unit4 warm-up 张月苹. in this unit you will… read about the internet and virtual reality....

Unit4 Warm-upUnit4 Warm-up

张月苹

In this unit you will…

Read about the internet and virtua

l reality.

Listen to a phone conversation, ra

dio programmes and a song.

Practise telephoning and making s

uggestions.

Write an e-mail message and an

internet page about your area.

Learn how to make predictions

about the future; Learn about

conditionals.

Warm-up

2004 - The Day after Tomorrow is a

movie about global warming and

how it will destroy cities and change

the world in the future.

Global warming

causes world

flooding

2001 - A.I. is a movie about a boy

who doesn’t know that he is really

a robot.

1866 - From the Earth to the Moon

is a book about people traveling to

the moon.

1977-2004 - The movies that make up

Star Wars are about wars in space.

There are many amazing characters in

these movies.

1. Which of the films and books

mentioned on this page have you

seen or read?

Which of the predictions in them:

a) have already come true?

b) do you think will come true in

your lifetime?

What other predictions do you know

from science fiction books or films

that have come true?

2. Listen to four experts. Which

predictions are they discussing? Use

the Key Words to help you.

Answers:

1. making androids (artificial humans)

2. flooding in different countries

3. time travel

4. a virus develops which we have no

power to stop

TapescriptTapescriptTapescriptTapescript1. Well, that’s very interesting question.

It is already possible to make

artificial organs and parts of the

body-but it won’t be possible for a

very long time to make artificial

humans, known as androids, that can

think or feel in the same way as we

do.

2. We know that the planet’s climate is

changing. The Earth’s atmosphere is

gradually getting warmer. There is a real

danger that the sea level will go up and

there will be flooding in different countries

in the world. This is already happening in

countries like Bangladesh and some parts

of Europe, for example, Britain.

3. Well, it may sound surprising.

Imagine the situation of two twins-a

brother and sister. The sister goes

into space and travels at the speed

of light for ten years-when she

comes back to Earth she is thirty

years older than her twin brother!

4. Unfortunately, this is a very real

danger for the planet. A new

virus could develop that we have

no power to stop. It is something

we really should be worried

about.

Have you read some science

fiction?

Try to write a short summarize

about it. Did you like or dislike it?

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