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课件网) Period 3 Using Language Ⅰ Unit 2 Looking into the Future Learning aims 1. To learn to talk about the advantages and disadvantages of new technology. 2. To learn to get speakers’ opinions in a dialogue. What do these pictures show Match the words with pictures. ___ automation ___ nanobots ___ global warming ___ artificial intelligence ___ cloning ② ③ ④ ⑤ ③ ② ⑤ ① ④ ① Leading-in Look at the pictures and talk about what you have known about them. ② ③ ④ ⑤ ① Discuss these questions in groups. 1. How do you think these events or such technology might develop in the future 2. What challenges might they bring 3. What opportunities might they bring Pre-listening Future development: Challenges: The AI is programmed to do something beneficial, but it may develop a destructive method for achieving its goal. Opportunities it may take: People can use the AI to do most of the daily chores. More and more people can be free to do work of creating new things. Future development: Challenges: Opportunities it may take: More nanobots will be created to help doctors to find out the root of a disease and make operations more accurately. New kinds of virus may appear and even nanobots can’t find out where they come from. The nanobots may bring more people’s life back. Future development: Challenges: Opportunities it may take: Work in factories will be more efficient. More labor force can be freed from working. More and more workers will be out of work. People will learn more about how to create a machine and how to operate it to help work. Future development: Challenges: Opportunities it may take: More animals even human beings will be cloned. Cloning may result in disorder on the earth. More lives will be saved and more diseases can be cured. Future development: Challenges: Opportunities it may takes: Air pollution will be decreasing. There will be glaciers again in the Arctic Ocean. There may be other threats to the Polar bears. People can live in harmony with the Polar bears. Task: Listen to the radio interview with Dr Han and Vincent Black giving their predictions about the future, and then fill in the table below. Name Occupation Prediction Dr Han Vincent Black Listening and Speaking a computer scientist Computers will be cleverer than us. People will be also programming computers like humans; we’ll be programming them not to think like humans; we’ll also be creating machines to help people internally. an architect There will be cities floating on water and people could move into housing in cities that float. Listen for predictions When listening for predictions, you should listen for the use of the future tense, in particular the future tense with will or will be doing. Words such as predict, prediction and forecast, are also used quite often when making predictions. Host: On today’s episode of “Future Changes”,we talk with two experts from different fields, Dr Han and Vincent ... ...
