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课件网) Using language(2)： Listening Unit 4 A glimpse of the future By the end of this period, students will be able to: 1. understand topics related to time travel through listening; 2. Develop students’ imagination and creativity as well as interest in high-tech. Did You Know Time travel could result in a paradox—an event that contradicts itself. For example, if a person travelled back in time and prevented an event, that event would never have happened; there would therefore be no reason for the person to travel back in time to prevent it. Let’s watch a video! Listen to the conversation and choose its main idea. 1 Time travel is dangerous. 2 Talking to people in the past can change the future. 3 Anything you say or do in the past can affect the future. 4 Time travel within your own lifetime should be avoided. √ RULE 1 1_____ A tourist wants to 2 _____. because 3 _____. The guide told her 4 _____. RULE 2 5 _____ The guide said that 6_____. RULE 3 7 _____ A tourist wants to 8 _____. The guide told him not to because 9_____. Listen again and complete the table. RULE 1 1 _____ A tourist wants to 2 _____. because 3_____. The guide told her 4_____. RULE 2 5 _____ The guide said that 6 _____ Don’t talk to anybody. tell her 8-year-old self to buy shares in companies that are profitable today she wants to become rich not to do that Be careful not to break anything. breaking something can also cause a paradox and change your path through life. Check your answers. RULE 3 7 _____ A tourist wants to 8 _____. The guide told him not to because 9 _____. Never give anything from our time to someone in the past. give a present to his father anything that doesn’t belong to that time may have an impact on someone and cause a paradox Listening materials Guide: Welcome aboard, time travellers! We’ll begin our tour shortly. Today’s tour will take you back in time 50 years. For some of you, this tour will take you back to the days of your childhood. [Tourists exclaim, “Amazing!” “Wow!” “I can’t wait to see my great grandpa!” before quietening down.] Guide: Before we start our tour, I have to explain the rules of time travel. Please listen carefully. Number 1, don’t talk to anybody. Tourist 1: Why not I’m going to tell my 8-year-old self to buy shares in companies that are profitable today. That way, when I get back to the present, I’ll be rich! Guide: I’m afraid you cannot do that! If you do that, you'll change your life path. Maybe you will grow up to be a rich person. But that rich person will be a new person, not the person you are today. That person, the present “you” will disappear forever. That’s what we call a paradox. Tourist 1: So, what you’re saying is that learning about the future might change the way I am forever The “me” that I am now could no longer exist ！ Guide: Exactly. OK, next, be careful not to break anything. Breaking something can also cause a paradox and chang ... ...
