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课件网) The world of tomorrow Unit 4 A glimpse of the future Listening and Speaking By the end of this class, students are expected to: ① listen to a conversation about the rules of time travel; ② complete some exercises when listening; ③ read a passage about future life and learn some expressions; ④ talk about the life in the future. Learning objectives 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. Listening for the main idea To get the main idea of a topic requires us to understand the dialogue or monologue, and also requires us to have a high generalization ability: to understand what the dialogue is about; to analyse the key points of the dialogue or paragraph by using the logical relationship of the full text. Pre-listening 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. Listen to the conversation and choose its main idea. Listening Rule 1 _____ A tourist wants to _____ _____ because _____. The guide told her _____. Listen again and complete the table. 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 Rule 2 _____ The guide said that _____ _____. Be careful not to break anything. breaking something could also cause a paradox and change your path through life Rule 3 _____ _____ A tourist wants to _____. The guide told him not to because _____ _____ _____. 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 Now take turns to be the guide and explain the rules of time travel. Time travel Rule 1 _____ Rule 2 _____ Rule 3 _____ Rule x _____ Complete the boxes with the expressions from the conversation. Amazing! Wow! I can’t wait to… So, what you’re saying is that … How about … Imagine how excited … That’s OK, isn’t it Are you serious Let me get this straight. You mean that … It’ll be exciting enough to … Expressing excitement Asking for confirmation Amazing! Wow! I can’t wait to … Imagine how excited ... It’ll be exciting enough to … So, what you’re saying is that … How about … That’s OK, isn’t it Are you serious Let me get this straight. You mean that … Read the passage on page 57 and put the expressions below into the boxes. Expressions about time: _____ Expressions about expectation: _____ 1, 3, 4, 6, 7 2, 5, 8 1. within our lifetimes 2. bank on 3. any time soon 4. on the horizon 5. get our hopes up 6. around the corner 7. far ahead of their time 8. bound to happen Compl ... ...
