1. Reading FIRST IMPRESSIONS

2. take up be back on one’s feet safety belt lose sight of … sweep up slide into 安全带 看不见 …… 打扫 ; 横扫 ( 快捷而悄声地 ) 移动 ……; 溜进 …… 拿起 ; 接受 ; 开始 ; 继续 ( 困境后 ) 恢复 ; 完全复原 ( 飞机等 ) 起飞 Match

3. Words: impression, constant, previous, guide, tolerate, lack, adjustment, press, fasten, switch

4. How I came to take a time travel journey Write down the main idea for each paragraph in your own words. Paragraph 1 - main idea: details: my prize; my excitement The journey Paragraph 2 - main idea: details: how I felt; the spaceship; the journey Skimming Reading Comprehension II

5. My impressions of life one thousand years into the future Paragraph 3 - main idea: details: little oxygen; masks to provide oxygen; hovering carriage; how to drive them; a “time lag” moment Staying in Wang Ping’s home Paragraph 4 - main idea: details: appearance of house; trees as walls; where furniture stored; ate meal; prepared for sleep

6. Skimming for general idea

7. What is the text mainly about? A. Huge changes in the future. B. Problems facing the future humans. C. Li Qiang’s impressions of the space station. D. Li Qiang’s future journey. Reading Comprehension I Skimming

8. Scanning for specific information

9. 1. Why was Li Qiang unsettled for the first few days? A. Because he was uncertain about what might happen during the future tour. B. Because he became so excited whenever he thought of the future tour. C. Because he couldn’t wait to make the future tour. D. Because he hadn’t decided whether to take the risk of experiencing the future tour. Reading Comprehension III Scanning

10. 2. Which of the following statements is not true? A. Li Qiang got a headache because of lack of fresh air. B. It took Li Qiang only a short time to arrive in the future. C. It seemed very difficult for Li Qiang to learn to drive a hovering carriage. D. There was more oxygen inside Wang Ping’s home than outside.

11. 3. How did Li Qiang get to the year 3008? A. By airplane. B. By rocket. C. In a time capsule. D. In a spaceship. 4. From the text we can see that ____. A. there will not be enough food B. there will be less oxygen C. there will be traffic jams D. living space will be too limited

12. 5. Which is the right order of the incidents happening on Li Qiang’s travel to the year AD 3008? a. He was transported into the future in a comfortable time capsule. b. He tried to master a hovering carriage. c. He won a prize to travel to the year AD 3008. d. He arrived at Wang Ping’s house and everything in it made him surprised. e. He put on the mask and felt better in no time. A. a-b-c-d-e B. b-a-d-c-e C. c-a-e-b-d D. d-e-b-c-a

13. Answer the following questions. 1 Why did Li Qiang go into the future? 2 How did he feel when he left his own time? 3 What did he notice first when he arrived in AD 3008? 4 What else did he find that was different? Reading Comprehension IV Scanning

14. 1 Why did Li Qiang go into the future? 2 How did he feel when he left his own time? Li Qiang went into the future because he had won a prize that gave him a tour. He felt rather anxious when he left his own time but soon got it over.

15. 3 What did he notice first when he arrived in AD 3008? The first thing he noticed was the poor quality of the air and it gave him a headache. 4 What else did he find that was different? He found several things that were different: 1) a mask to give him enough oxygen

16. 2) a hovering carriage 3) having a “time lag” experience 4) a strange-looking house that belonged to Wang Ping’s parents 5) trees that acted as walls and provided oxygen for the room 6) tables, chairs and a bed that were stored under the floor

17. Discuss these questions in groups. Group Work

18. The reading passage describes some good and bad changes to life in AD 3008. In pairs, discuss which changes are good or bad and give reasons for your choices. Then write down your ideas in the chart. There is no right or wrong answer. Discussion

19. Good changesBad changes Time travel Transport Houses Towns Air quality

20. Good changesBad changes Time travel Trans- port Houses can travel to different times as you wish after-effects of travel can move swiftly disorganized; difficult to find way save living space short of space

21. Good changesBad changes Towns Air quality busy; look like markets easy to get lost own family oxygen supply poor quality in public places

22. What’s the writer’s attitude towards the future, optimistic or pessimistic? How do you know? Discussion optimisticpessimistic

23. We know that from the following sentences: 1. Hit by a lack of fresh air, my head ached. 2. However, I lost sight of Wang Ping when we reached what looked like a large market because of too many carriages flying by all directions. Pessimistic For example:

24. What should we do to make sure we will have a bright future? We should try to learn to accept changes and appreciate what is new and different. And we should learn more knowledge to fit in with the needs of the society ．

25. Individual activity

26. I. Retell the text by filling in the following blanks. Li Qiang felt ________ and _________ at first. As a result, he suffered from _______. Li Qiang was transported safely into the future in a ____________. The air seemed ____. Li Qiang was hit by a lack of ________ and his ____ ached. worriedunsettled time lag time capsule thin fresh air head 注 : 另附 word 文档。 点击此处链接

27. Wang Ping gave Li Qiang a ______ to put on. Arriving at Wang Ping’s home, Li Qiang was shown into a large bright, clean room with a ______ wall, a ______ floor and soft lighting. __________, he slid into bed and fell ____ asleep. green Exhausted brown fast mask

28. II. Task-based reading. 注 : 另附 word 文档。 点击此处链接 Read the passage and fill in the blanks below. People will live a completely _________ life in 2050. Then TV channels will have ___________. Programmes will be directly _______ to the television by computers after people choose them from a menu. Holographic Feedback TV will make it _________ for us to see, different disappeared sent possible

29. smell and touch the things that we see on television. People will be ______ of water with agriculture changing. By 2050, people will enjoy a faster and safer travel thanks to the function of computers used in ______________. It’s common to see robots used everywhere due to their great __________ in 2050. With advanced medicine __________, the blind and the deaf are able to see and hear. short transportation advantages technology

30. 1.Finish the exercises 1-3 on Page 20 in your books. impression, take up, constant, jet, uncertain, guide, steward, lose sight of …, sweep up, slide into. 2. 发挥想象，连词成文 (50-100 字 ) 。