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课件网) Grammar and usage Unit 4 Living with technology 译林版2020选择性必修第二册 Learning objectives Understand the usage of the future continuous tense. Identify the verb form of the future continuous tense. Use the right tenses to complete a conversation and a passage. Apply the future continuous tense in new contexts. Contents 1. Lead in 2. Exploring the rules 3. Working out the rules 4. Applying the rules 5. Language points 6. Summary 7. Assessment 8. Homework 01. Lead in Lead in A UAV refers to an unmanned aerial vehicle. What is a UAV An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly referred to as drones,is an aircraft that operates without a human pilot onboard. Instead, UAVs are remotely controlled by a ground-based operator or autonomously controlled by onboard computers using pre-programmed flight paths and artificial intelligence algorithms. Lead in Let’s watch a video about it. 02. Exploring the rules Exploring the rules Read the talk and complete the table. At the school science exhibition, Jessica is giving a talk to her classmates on how drones may develop in the future. Drones The fields that have already been applied to Photography (1) _____ Military operations (2) _____ The fields that will be more widely applied to Delivery drones Delivery drones will be used to (3)_____ like food and drink. Passenger drones Passenger drones will be used to (4) _____. They can (5) _____, which will let us (6) _____. Significance The technology will (7) _____. Exploring the rules Scientific research Disaster relief deliver daily supplies carry people in crowded cities save time and greatly decrease road traffic enter the age of personal flying vehicles have a huge impact on everyday life Exploring the rules Find the sentences that use the future continuous tense and fill in the box below. The first one is done. Today I’ll be speaking to you about drones, … It can be predicted that before long many people will be using drones to deliver daily supplies like food and drink. We can assume that with improved technology in passenger drones, we will be entering the age of personal flying vehicles. Whatever happens, we’ll all be interacting with drones on a daily basis. 03. Working out the rules AI is already being applied in many fields. People can use AI to help them drive vehicles,write novels, translate foreign languages and do many other things. From this point of view, AI can be friends with humans. Working out the rules Let’s work out the rules. We use the future continuous tense to talk about an action that will be in progress at a particular moment in the future or a future action that is the result of a routine or an arrangement. We also use the future continuous tense to express (1)_____ (predictions/warnings). The verb form of the future continuous tense is “ (2)_____ doing”. predictions will be Working out the rules AI is already being applied in many fields. People can use AI to h ... ...
