2. How did Wang Ping solve this problem?
He gave Li Qiang a mask to put on and hurried him to rest.
3. What do you think has caused this kind of problem?
What changes do you expect to see in our lives in one thousand years’ time?
Our Life in the Future
思维导图
In 2008 (Para. 1-2)
First impressions
In 3008 (Para. 3-4)
carriage.
c a bd
Careful reading
Go through the first two paragraphs quickly and answer the following questions.
1. What is a “time lag”? 2. How did Li Qiang feel when he was in the
How I felt before the time travel.
What I experienced while time-traveling.
My experience of life 1,000 years in the future.
My experience of visiting Wang Ping’s house in the future.
population traffic
pollution
global warming housing world peace
food
environment
Talk about what you think may happen in the future.
more people
live on the moon
journey
3 Main idea: My expressions of life 1,000 years into the future
Details: little oxygen; masks to provide oxygen; hovering carriage; how to drive them; a “time lag” moment
Read and discuss which changes to life in AD 3,008 are good and which are bad and give reasons for your choices. Then finish the chart.
Good changes Bad changes
Paragraph
1
2
Main idea and important details
Main idea: How I came to take a time travel journey
Details: my prize; my excitement Main idea: The journey Details: how I felt; the spaceship; the
What is your view of the future and why do you think so?
C. what the life was like in the future
D. the introduction of the “Future Tour” company
Put the following sentences into the correct order.
a. We were transported into the future by a comfortable time capsule.
4 Main idea: Staying in Wang Ping’s home
Details: appearance of house; trees as walls; where furniture stored; ate meal; prepared for sleep
Does the writer have an optimistic or a pessimistic view of the future? Give your reasons.
a solar energy car
In what kind of houses may people live in the future?
Where may people live in the future? under the sea
on the moon
How will people communicate tomorrow?
5. Who transported them to the future? Wang Ping’s parents’ company.
Go through the third paragraph, and then try to answer the following questions.
1. How did Li Qiang feel as soon as he landed in the future?
3.Why did Li Qiang’s head ache? Para 3
The passage is mainly about __B___.
A. how Li Qiang was transported to the future
B. how Li Qiang got to the future and his first impressions of it
capsule? 3. Who guided Li Qiang’s trip? 4. Why did Li Qiang’s guide give him some
tablets? 5. Who transported them to the future?
1. What is a “time lag”? “Time lag’’ means a person gets flashbacks from his previous time period.
huge population global warming
different kinds of pollution
food safety
shortage of resources
bad environment
hunger war
Talking about the future, what do you care about most?
no forests
use robert
no petrol
work at home
travel by spacecraft
no war
more pollution
cities under the sea
1. How do you usually get to school? 2. What kind of vehicle do you think people
As our society develops, we have got much benefit. But at the same time, we have to face lots of problems. Can you find out what kind of problems human beings are facing?
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
2. How did Wang Ping solve this problem?
3. What do you think has cause this kind of problem?
1. How did Li Qiang feel as soon as he was transported to the year AD 3008? He felt that he was lack of fresh air. The air was very thin.
Now we are causing more and more pollution to the nature, and this will cause serious problems to the life in the future. This may be the cause of the lack of fresh air in the future.
2. How did Li Qiang feel when he was in the capsule? The seats in the capsule were very comfortable.
3. Who guided Li Qiang’s trip? His friend.
4. Why did Li Qiang’s guide give him some tablets? The tablets could help him feel less nervous and uncertain.
will use in the future? 3. Where would you like to live in the future? 4. What kind of housing would you like to