What did the people use as vehicle in the past ?

sedan chair

What about now ?

What kind of vehicle will we use in the future?

a solar energy car

What kind of houses did the people live in in the past ?

What kind of houses do the people live in now ?

Villa

What kind of houses will the people live in the future ?

Space house

hard poor

better happier

?

What changes do you

expect to see in your

life in one thousand

years’ time?

Present Time In One Thousand Years’ Time

Transport

Work

Finance and currency

Airplanes, cars, bicycles

Office, factory, construction, landscape, service

Banks, offices, insurances, businesses.

No longer by air because of environmental pollution; bicycle and horses will come back

At home using advanced, interactive computers. Meetings can be conducted on the computer and people will see each other speak.

One global currency- maybe the yuan as China will be the largest global exporter.

Present Time In One Thousand Years’ Time

languages

Environment

Education

Houses

communication

English , Russian, Chinese

Air: could be improved in cities

Nursery, schools , university

One global language---perhaps Chinese or still English

Very poor, need to recycle all the waste, control on the use of cars, no airplanes, methods to improve poor air qualities; climate of the earth being very hot is making problems of water resources.

Longer than now possibly until 25 years of age so that students can learn all the new technologies.

Flats, houses, concrete, woodPost office, internet

Built into the ground as the surface of the earth is so hot.

By thought pad, telephone, computer, mobiles , Morse code, etc

Make a list of the problems human are facing today.

poverty

war

violence

Other issuesOther issues

overpopulation

Help

pollute the environment

take up too much room to park…

traffic jam

problems the earth is facing:

air pollution water pollutionnoise pollution

soil erosion

white pollution

overpopulationpovertywar &violence

(rubbish)…

Do you want to go traveling like the man in the movie? And Do you want to know what it

will be like in AD3008?

Put the sentences in order:

A.We were transported into the future by a comfortable time capsule.B. I arrived at Wang Ping’s home and everything in his house made me surprised.C. I won a travel to the year AD 3008.D. I have my first try to master a hovering carriage.

C-A-D-B

For the first two paragraphs:

1. Why did I have the chance to travel to the year AD 3008?

2. What is a “time lag”? 3. How did I feel when I was in the capsule ?

4. Who guides my trip?

5. Why did my guide give me some tablets?

6. Who transported us to the future?

1.Why did I have the chance to travel to the year AD3008?

2.What is a “time lag”?

3.How did I feel when I was in the capsule?

I took up the prize I won the year before.

The seats in the capsule are very comfortable.

“Time lag” means a person gets flashbacks from his previous time period.

4.Who guides my trip?

5.Why did my guide give me some tablets?

6.Who transported us to the future?

My friend Wang Ping is my guide to the future.

The tablets could help me feel less nervous and uncertain.

Wang Ping’s parents’ company transported us to the future.

For the third paragraph:

1.How did I feel as soon as I was transported to the future?

2.How did Wang Ping solve this problem?

3.What do you think has caused this kind of problem?

After I was transported to the future, I was hit by the lack of fresh air and my head ached.

Wang Ping gave a mask to me and hurried me through to a small room nearby to have a rest.

Now we are causing more and more pollution to the nature, this will cause serious problems to life in the future. This may be the cause of the lack of fresh air in the future.

For the fourth paragraph:1.What did Wang Ping’s house look like?

2.What was the green wall made of? What’s the purpose of building this kind of green wall?

3. How can you produce a TV set in Wang Ping’s house?

His house is a large bright, clean room. It had a green wall, a brown floor and soft lighting.

The green wall was made of trees. The leaves of the trees will provide much-needed oxygen to the house.

You can just flash a switch on the computer screen and a TV set will rise from the floor.

Read the passage again, discuss which changes to life in AD3008 are good or bad and give reasons for your choices. Then please finish the chart.

Good changes and reasons

Bad changes and reasons

Time travel

can travel to different times as you wish

after-effects of travel

Transport

can move swiftly disorganized; difficult to find way

Houses save living space short of space

Towns

busy; look like markers

easy to get lost

Air quality

own family oxygen supply

poor quality in public places

Judge whether the following statements are true or false

1.In the year AD 3008,the air in private houses was poor quality.

2.Hovering carriages were a fast means of transport,and people could fly in them in every direction.

3.Li Qiang arrived in a busy town where he got lost.

4.This text is an introduction both to the more advanced forms of transport in AD 3008 but also to the advantages and problems of life in the future.

1.Review the reading passage and find out the difficult language points to you.

2.Finish exercises 1-4 on page 19.