英语选择性必修 第一册Unit 2 Looking into the Future完整版ppt课件

这是一份英语选择性必修 第一册Unit 2 Looking into the Future完整版ppt课件，共22页。
Life in the past
Life at present
Life in the future
What d yu think f the life in the future?
Predict abut future changes
Pre-listening : make predictins abut future changes
Match the wrds with the pictures n page 18.
___ autmatin 自动化___ nanbts 纳米机器人___ glbal warming 全球变暖___ artificial intelligence (AI) 人工智能___ clning 克隆
What d these pictures shw? Match the wrds with the pictures.
Befre-listening
Artificial intelligenceIt is the science and engineering f making intelligent machines, especially intelligent cmputer prgrams. It is related t the similar task f using cmputers t understand human intelligence.
Glbal warmingThe plar bear suffers hunger and lss n habitat caused by glbal warming.
Autmatin: A rbt armA rbt arm is used t assemble parts in a factry, which prmtes the autmatin f manufacturing.
ClningThe tw mnkeys are Zhng Zhng and Hua Hua, which were prduced by the Chinese Academy f Science in Shanghai thrugh clning. They were the first successfully clned primates.
NanbtsA nanbt is a micrscpic rbt. While they are still in the develpment stage, it is thught that nanbts can be used within the human bdy t deliver carefully targeted dses f medicine t areas in the bdy that need them and t repair human tissues and cells.
Listen t the fllwing dialgues, and then try t answer the questins .
1st listening :
1 Hw many persns are talking ? A. Tw B. Three C. Fur.2 What is their relatinship? A. Friends. B. Teacher and students C. interviewer and interviewees. 3 What are they talking abut? A. Jbs. B. future predictin C. Hbbies
Listen t a radi interview with Dr Han and Vincent Black. And then fill in the blanks.
2nd listening :
Hst: On tday’s episde f “Future Changes”, we talk with tw ___________ frm different fields, Dr. Han and Vincent Black, t hear their abut the future. First, Dr. Han, culd yu please tell ur audience what yu d?Dr. Han: Certainly, I’m a cmputer ____________ .Hst: Culd yu please tell us yur ____________.Dr. Han: Yes, well, I ______________ that cmputers will be cleverer than us in the future.Hst: This is because we’ll be prgramming them t nt think in ways that may__________ humans.
I think scientists will put sme small intelligent machines, called ____________I’m an . I design buildings.I believe that cities __________ n water are part f the wrld’s future . With causing plar ice t melt, the sea level rising by many meters is a very realistic .That sunds very_______________.
glbal warming
Listen again and then fill in the table belw.填表并用完整的句子回答问题。
3rd listening :
cmputer scientist
cmputers will be cleverer than us and can think like humans, but they will d us n harm
peple will live in the cities flating abve the sea
Answer the questins with the help f the infrmatin f the table n page 3
1.What is the ccupatin f Dr Han? And his perditin?2.What is the ccupatin f Vincent Black ? And his perditin?
The ccupatin f Dr Han is a cmputer scientist.
His predictin is that cmputers will be cleverer than us and can think like humans, but they will d us n harm.
The ccupatin f Vincent Black is an architect.
His predictin is that peple will live in the cities flating abve the sea.
Pair-wrk: Wrk in pairs t discuss the questin f Ex 4 n P 19 .
Whether Dr. Han and Vincent Black’s predictins are pssible? Why r why nt?
Pssible answers :
I think Dr Han’s predictin is impssible .Cmputers can never be cleverer than us. Because they are prgrammed by humans.
I think Vincent Black’s predicatin is likely t happen, because f glbal warming, the sea level is rising. Sme places will be flded and the land is getting smaller. Hence, it is a gd idea t build huses abve the sea.
Make predictins abut yur future jb with yur partners. Use the expressins in the bx t help yu.
Making Predictins :
I think /believe / predict that in the future…By 2030, we will…I can imagine/ frecast … will be ding…My predictin is that ….In the future there will be …I dubt /dn’t think that ….We will have the pprtunity t …We are ging t ….
Discuss with yur partners abut the future lifestyles. The expressins f the fllwing chart might help yu.
Future lifestyle
N lnger by air because f envirnmental pllutin; bicycle and hrses will cme back
Using advanced, interactive cmputers at hme Meetings can be cnducted n the cmputer Peple will see each ther n the net .
One glbal currency- maybe yuan f China will be the largest glbal exprter.
One glbal language---perhaps Chinese r still English
Very pr, need t recycle all the waste, cntrl n the use f cars, n airplanes, methds t imprve pr air qualities; climate f the earth being very ht , shrtage f water resurces.
Lnger than nw pssibly until 25 years f age s that students can learn all the new technlgies.
Built int the grund as the surface f the earth is s ht.
By thught pad, telephne, cmputer, mbiles , Mrse cde, etc.