英语UNIT2LOOKINGINTOTHEFUTURE导读话题妙切入学案.docx

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1、UNIT 2 LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE导读。话题妙切入DACimiJATIMIACQStimulate Your Imagination and PotentialE名喜潮语QYou can never plan the future by the past.Burke你永远不要依照过去来计划未来。伯克Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts.一Alfred North Whitehead想象不应脱离现实。阿尔弗雷德诺斯怀特海I like the dreams of the future better than th

2、e history of the past.Thomas Jefferson我不缅怀过去的历史，而致力于未来的梦想。托马斯杰斐逊Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.-John Ruskin无目标而生活，犹如没有罗盘而航行。一一约翰拉斯金Anything one man can imagine, other men can make it real.Jules Verne但凡人能想象到的事物，必定有人能将它实现。儒勒凡尔纳Life is just a series of trying to make up your mi

3、nd.Thomas Fuller人生就是一系列决心的结果。一一托马斯富勒哲理故事Hope and DespairHope is magic that pulls people out of the edge of despair and gives them the energy to go for a bright future. Life teaches us not to regret over yesterday because i t has passed and is beyond our control. Tomorrow is unknown because it could

4、either be bright or dull. So the only way is to work hard today, and we will enjoy a better tomorrow.美文欣赏11 s exciting to imagine how future humans will have solvedw the problems we have now, or what amazing new inventions will make our lives more convenient and interesting.Robots will be doing most

5、 of our jobs, from building homos to teaching math. There are already robots that clean floors and pump gas. In the future they will be more complicated(复 杂的)and useful. Unfortunately, with robots taking all the jobs, unemployment rate will be high.Speaking of being social, we will communicate in an

6、 entirely different way. Forget texts and emails. Mindreading technology will allow us to send thoughts to each other without speaking a word. We will also be able to send thoughts to objects around us. (Instead of pressing “start” on the microwave, you could just think “slarl. )Meanwhi le, chips im

7、planted(lflA) in our brains will improve our memory and intelligence.Today, around 30, 000 Americans die in car accidents each year. One hundred years from now, accidents will be a thing of the past. According to Mark Safford, consultant of the U. S. Department of Transportation, future cars will dr

8、ive themselves.These electric cars will communicate with other cars on the road to travel safely in close formation at high speeds.Raising animals is not the best way to produce food, and it harms the environment. Today, scientists can “grow” meat in a lab from animal cells, but its expensive and no

9、t very delicious. In the future, they will have perfected the process. You* 11 order hamburgers that come from factories, not cows. Scientists may even find ways to make lab-grown meat tastier and healthier than the real thing.探究发现1. Find out the main idea of the passage and then think of a proper t

10、itle for答案 The passage is mainly about the future life. The title is a More convenient and interesting future life.2. Find out what robots can help us do.答案 Do most of our jobs, such as build homes, teach math, clean floors and pump gas.3. Find out what our future life will be.答案 Robots will be doing most of our jobs. We will communicate in an entirely different way. Future cars will drive themselves. We 11 order hamburgers that come from factories, not cows.