What will life be in the future?

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Unit6
Life in the Future
What will life be in the future?
communication work business and money the human
body language houses and buildings transportation
education
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Listening-1
1.What year is Mekanika living in? 2.Where does
she live? 3.What happened to the people on the
earth? 4.Why is she writing you this letter?
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Listening-2
Mekanikas Our life




Time Food School Transportation
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Speaking
It would be wonderful if Its possible/impossible
to predict Just imagine if It would be bad
forif No one can predict what/when We can only
guess
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videophone
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computer
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fax
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Pre-reading
1.How will people shop in the future? 2.How will
people travel in the future? 3.What will schools
be like in the future? 4.What will the future be
like in general?
business
transportation
Education and knowledge
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Life in the future
Life in the future
Life in the future
Life in the future
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What are mentioned in the article?
travel
online shopping
education
Smart cards
health
sports
medical science
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At what speed does the new maglev train travel?
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Whats the advantage of on-line shopping?
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Will people in the future be able to enjoy a
longer and healthier life? Why?

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What kinds of schools will be there in the future?
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Main ideas of two parts
Part 1 The prediction of the life in the future.
Part2Future transportation/
education/business/ health and medicine
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True or false
1.It is impossible to make forecasts about future
developments. 2. The maglev train travels at an
amazing 430 km/m. 3. People can combine shopping
with fun in the future. 4. Smallpox cannot be
defeated. 5.We are sure that our efforts to
improve the world will be successful.
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F
T
F
T
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Note-making
What How
Transportation cleaner,faster and safer transportation means-maglev
Business e-commerce, online shopping,on the internet
Health and medicine healthy diet, longer longevity, more active in old age etc.
Education and knowledge Lifelong study, e-schools, a classroom on the air
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Integrating skills
1.What would you use an e-friend for if you had
one?
2.Why is difficult for Mekanika to know what is
real and what is an image?
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Writing
How to write a definition paragraph
1.whats the thing you want to define? 2.What
does it look like ? 3.What is it used for? 4.How
does it work?
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Grammar

• What you need is more practice (??)
• I cant imagine when we will be able to travel
• in space
  (????)
• This reminded me of what he had once told us
• 
  (????)
• The problem is whether robots will be smarter
• than human (??)
• Scientists havent found answers to the question
  why there is no life on Mars (????)

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Noun clauses introduced by Question Words
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The plan he made is practical. Every one of
them has made a plan how they will improve their
English in less than fifty days
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1 ???????????????? 2 ?????????????? 3
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I dont understand why he always goes to work at
the weekend.
I never forget when we will have a holiday.
Do you ask him when he will go back home to spend
the Spring Festival ?
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exact original predict forecast
trend contemporary indicate system urban
amazing ensure consumer reform e-commerce
reform necessity entertainment purchase remain
regularly genetics lifelong require issue
download imitate transform
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?????? keep in touch with on the air
in store deal with

• ?? ????
• A good example of how transportation is changing
  is the new maglev train.
• It is certain that things will change.
• We dont think about the world and reality in the
  same way you did either.