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课件网) Unit 4 Unit 4 Digital life The fun they had 通过阅读理解，能够讨论未来数字化生活 能够合理想象数字化生活的图景，并描述其带来的变化 能够客观评价这些变化带来的影响，并完成一篇关于50年后未来数字化生活的短文 adj. 奇怪的，不寻常的；不可思议的 n. 卧室 Last night, I found a strange small box under the bed in my bedroom. v. 投，扔，抛，掷 I throw my homework on the sofa. n. 家庭作业， 功课 v. 猜，猜测 Can you guess if anyone saw my lost key pron. 有人， 任何人 Look at the two pictures and compare the two schools. Use the words to help you. book classroom screen teacher 1 people machine In the first picture, the teacher and students are in a classroom. The teacher is writing on a blackboard. They are using books to learn. In the second picture, the teacher and students are online. The teacher is writing on a screen. They are using machines to learn, not books. 1. What’s in the boy’s hand 2. What machine is near the girl A book. A television screen. 3. What’s the girl doing 4. What’s she thinking about She’s looking at a screen. / She’s having an online class. She’s thinking about the school life in the past. 1. Who are “they” 2. What fun did they have “They” are kids in the old schools. They came to school and laughed and shouted in the playground. They sat together in the classroom and went home together after school. Their teachers were people. Read the passage. Who teaches Margie 2 A machine teaches Margie. Read the passage again. Complete the mind map. Tommy’s discovery Tommy found an old 1_____. It was about an old kind of 2_____. Margie’s school Margie’s 3_____ was right next to her bedroom. Her teacher was a 4_____. Margie’s thoughts The students must have 5_____ school in the old days. book The fun they had school Paras 1-7 Paras 8-9 Paras 10-12 classroom machine loved Tommy’s discovery Margie’s school Margie’s thoughts Complete the table. 3 Tommy found the real book. The book was very old. It had old and yellow pages. The words stood still on the pages. They thought it was strange to read the words from the old book. Tommy thought it was a waste because one would throw it away when finishing reading it. The book was about school. Because it was an old kind of school, from hundreds of years ago. Margie’s classroom was right next to her bedroom. And her teacher was a machine. She thought the old schools were a lot of fun because the students could study and play together and the teachers were people. 1 How might Margie feel when she saw a “real book” 2 Were the children familiar with “real books” How can you tell She might feel excited. 4 Answer the questions. No, they weren’t familiar with “real books”. They thought it was strange to read the words because they stood still on the pages, instead of moving across a screen. 1. Do you want to go to a school like Margie’s Why or why not 2. What do you think schools will be like in 50 years Yes and no. I think it ... ...
