Warm-up (30 Mins) Cyberspace

The Day after Tomorrow is a movie about global warming and how it will destroy cities and change the world in the future. Do you know something about the film?

The movies that make up Star Wars are about wars in space. There are many amazing characters in these movies. Do you know what this film is about?

A.I. is a movie about a boy who doesn’t know that he is really a robot From the Earth to the Moon is a book about people traveling to the moon. Do you know the film “A. I” and the book “From the earth to the moon”?

More science fiction films. Have you ever seen them? The Terminator Ⅱ 地球反击战

1. Which of the predictions in them: a) have already come true? b) do you think will come true in your lifetime? See too some pictures.

Listening: KEY WORDS: robot, artificial human, cyberspace, planet’s climate global warming, world flooding, time travel, virtual reality, virus

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

TapescriptTapescript 1. 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? Homework