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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