1. Module 1 Life in the Future

2. The future city

4. The future house

5. The future bed

6. Group work
six students make up one group and discuss the pictures ,then answer the
following question one by one.
Suppose you are traveling to “A city of the future”, please imagine
what you will see there . What will be different from a present city ?

7. Book 4 Module 1
The city of future
Reading and vocabulary

8. Fast reading What have students in Texas university done?
Answer these questions about the passage.
(5’)
What have students in Texas university done?
Where will garbage ships go ?
Who will batman nets catch ?
Where won’t people be allowed to smoke ?
How will people go shopping ?
They have thought how to run a city in 2025.
To the sun
Criminals
Within a city’s limits
Online

9. 6. What number will people keep for life ?
7.What won’t people have to pay for ?
8. How will cars be different ?
9. What will doctors do from a distance ?
10. Where will old people go without moving ?
Their telephone number
Recreation
They’ll be powered by electrivity
Surgery
anywhere in the world

10. Careful reading
Find out the words and phrases from the text with their meanings.
A problem which prevent you from doing something _____________
Not in a building ______________
From the sun ______________
Free time activities, such as sport and entertainment _____________
You can use this to catch a lot of fish at the same time____________
through the internet _____________
a place where you can get medical treatment _____________
to do with town or city life ____________
a shopping center ___________
to use up or finish completely ____________
medical treatment in which the doctor cuts open your body________
disability
outdoors
solar
recreation
net
online
clinic
urban
mall
Run out
surgery

11. Fill in the following blanks:
What will the city of the future _____ ______ ? No one
knows ____ _____,And _________ ___________ is a risky
business. But one thing is ______-- they are going to get
bigger before they get smaller. In the future, ____________
the environment will become very important as earth’s natural
Resources _____ _____ . We will use lots of _________
___________, such as plastic, aluminium,steel,glass,wood and
paper, and we will waste fewer__________ resources. We will
also have to _____ more ____ alternative energy, such as
solar and wind power . All this seems certain, but there
are plenty of things about city life in the future which are
not ________.
Look like
for sure
making predictions
certain
care for
run out
recycled
materials
natural
rely on
certain

12. Discussion :
What changes will take place in schools, public services, traffic, and weather?
Useful words:
Robot, jet packs, hoverboards, computer, microchips, implant, virtual helmets, bring lessons to life…
Global warming

13. Translation 谁也说不准，而且猜测也是件冒险的事． 未来城市市内将不允许吸烟．
每一个人在出生的时候都会领到一个电话号码，无论他们生活
　在什么地方，这个号码都不会改变．
４.所有的汽车都将采用电能，太阳能或风能，只要轻轻一拨开关，
　汽车就会改变颜色．
No one knows for sure and making predictions is a risky business.
No smoking will be allowed within a future city’s limits.
Everyone will be given a telephone number at birth that will
Never change no matter where they live.
All cars will be allowered by electricity,solar energy or wind ,and it will be
possible to change the color of cars at the flick of a switch.

14. Language points
In the future , care for the environment will become very
important as earth’s natural resources run out.
（１）Care for 爱护，关心．
（２）
run out　用完，用光．是不及物动词词组，没有被动语态．
Run out of 　用完，用光．　主语必须是人．
Eg. He __________________(花光了钱)that his mother gave
yesterday.
When water___________（用光了）, he stood there helpless.
has run out of money
run out

15. ２.To get rid of garbage problem, the city will load huge
spaceships with waste materials and send them towards the
sun, preventing landfill and environmental problems.
现在分词做结果状语
不定式做目的状语
（１）get rid of 摆脱，除去，去掉．
翻译：他还没有改掉抽烟这个坏习惯．
＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿
He hasn’t got rid of the bad habit of smoking.
（２）load….with…　把…装上…
类似结构的词组：
　　　　　　 fill…with….
　　　　　　cover…with…
　　　　　　equip…with…

16. Homework Write a passage to describe the future city life according
to our text.
such as the car , the house , the transport ,,ect.
In my opinion , the future city life will …