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山谷和溪流证实火星上曾存在水？

It may be difficult to imagine, people will live on the planet Mars.

by the year 2100

Task 1:Read the book and answer the following questions Why do people need to move to Mars ?

What form will the food probably be in space?

How will students study, do their homework and take exams on Mars?

Will space travel make people feel ill?

What is the virtual teacher called?

Earth is becoming more and more crowded and polluted .

The food probably will be in the form of pills.

They can study, do their homework and take exams in online schools.

Yes .

The virtual teacher is called e-teacher.

Task 2 : What will the life be like ?

Transport

Food, water and air

Gravity

spacecraft

space shuttles

…too slow to carry …

…take only a very short time…

plants will produce …

It is not sure if these plants…

3/8

This will be dangerous because…

have to … special boots to…

Task3:The better life on Mars

•People will have more space.•Robots will do most of our work…•There will probably be no schools on Mars.•We can study, do our homework and take exams in online schools.

Task 4:Some worse ways

Food will not be the same ---will not be as tasty as they are today

Space travel will make …

The journey to Mars will be very uncomfortable.

Task 5:Difference between life on Earth and life on Mars

Earth today Mars in 2100Polluted and crowded

Spacecraft are slow

Gravity is not a problem for us

People can wear many types of shoes

People do not have much space

we take exams at school

we have many different kinds of food

clean and has lots of space

Space shuttles are very fast

It will be a big problem

We must wear helmets

We have more space

In online schools

Food will be the same

Match the words with the description

provides many hours of air

take high-quality images

small and light and has lots of memory space

the food can be stored for many months

a large hard hat that protect the head and is connect to the air tank

fixed to the walls to prevent floating

for walking on the surface of the planet

provides energy for the spacesuit

Important phrases: How do you like …

What do you think of …

get to

be cared for

in the form of

in the future

at the moment

at present

more and more…

first of all

large numbers of

a very short time

at the speed of

be able to

be sure

float away into

choose from

in many ways

highly possible

as … as …

dried food

in the solar system

move out of

the first part of

turn on

get ill from …

be great to

keep …away from

be worth doing

be different from

form of entertainment

take off

1   ． It’s becoming more and more c and p .

2   ． H we can build a better world on Mars.

olluted rowded

opefully

How can we get to the Mars?

In space shuttles

1.  T should be better.

2.  At present our spacecraft are too s to c large numbers of people.

3.  By 2100,the space shuttles can travel at h the speed of l .

ransport

low arry

alf ight

1. Scientists should d plants that can grow on Mars.

2. The plants will p the food and oxygen.

evelop

roduce

1. The gravity on Mars only about three e (3/8 )of the gravity on Earth.2.We could jump e and f into space.3. Humans have to wear s boots to make themselves heavier.4. The boots will probably become f . There’ll be many different d for s_____ to choose from.

ighths asily loat

pecial

ashionable esigns ettlers

Where will we live on Mars?

In a dome with 10 bedrooms

Life on Mars will be b than on Earth in many ways.

1.  people have .

2. Living in a dome with 10 bedrooms is highly p .

3.R will do most of our work.

4. We will have more time for our h .

etter that

more space

ossible

obots

obbies

1.Every student will have a computer c to an inter-planet computer network.

2.They can s____, __ ____ _______and _____ _____in online schools.

3.Each student will also have____ __ ____

_______ online teacher called ‘e-teacher’

onnecting

tudy do their homework take exams

their own online teacher

In some ways, Life on Mars may not be better than life on Earth.

1.  Food will be not as t as they’re today

It will be in the form of p .

2.  Space travel will make people feel i .

The journey to Mars will be very u .

asty

ills

ll

ncomfortable

Discussion

 

Advantages of life on

Mars

Disadvantages of life

on Mars 1.2.3.4. . . .

1.2.3.4. . . .

Advantages of life on Earth

Disadvantages of life

on Earth