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Unit 1

The robot is coming. Let’s wait!

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little-less-least;

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1. 个人创新 : Make a conversation.

2. 自我复习 : Ask and answer.

3. 合作学习 : 1a, 1b, 1c, 2a, 2b, 2c

4. 才技展示 : How to use “will”?

What are you going to do in the future? =What will you do in the future?

Will you have a robot? Do you want to know about the life in the future?

Talk Talk Freely

FreelyWhat are you going to be in the future?

Make a conversation in your group.

There will be a concert by Zhang Liangying this Sunday. Will you go to the concert? Will there be many fans in the concert?

Yes, there will.

No, there won’t.

robot

There will be robots in people’s homes?

Life 100 years from now Do you

think...?

Yes, there will. / No, there won’t.I think every home will have a robot.

Do you think there will be robots in people’s homes?

Yes, there will. I think every home will have a robot.

Will kids go to school?

No, kids won’t go to school. They will study at home on computers.

How old will people live to be?They will live to 200. There will be more people. But they won’t use money.

Will people have more free time?

1a What will the world be like in 100 years? Check A or D.

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1b Listen and circle the predictions you hear.

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Read the listening and make a conversation like 1c.

Listening

Listen and circle the words and then check the predictions you hear.

Survey in your group: What will the life in the future be like? Talk about the pollution, people, trees, cities, transportation…

1. Oral: Talk about your future.

2. Written: Write a letter to the magazine about 1.

3. Make up conversations.

1. 个人创新 : Make a conversation.

2. 自我复习 : Ask and answer.

3. 合作学习 : 3a, 3b, 3c, 4

4. 才技展示 : past, now, future

个人创新 1: Make a conversation in pairs.

What do you think will be like in the future?

What about your life five years ago?

Predict what will happen five years later.

Look at the pictures and fill in the blanks.

Make predictions about Sally in your group.

Look! Talk about his yesterday, today and tomorrow. Then think about your past, now and future. Discuss in your group.

Write about yourself.

Design your city. Then talk about it.

新目标

1. Make a conversation.

2. Learn the new words.

3. Finish off 1a, 1b, 2a, 2b, 2c.

4. Practice using “will”.

Talk about your past, now, future with your partners. Then make a conversation in pairs.

Discuss:

What will you be when you grow up?

Where will you live?

How will you go to work?

astronaut rocket

Make three sentences with “will”.

space station

computer programmer apartment

train

Jobs Transportation Places to live

astronaut

computer programmer

train

rocket

space station

houseapartment

Think of other words and write them down in your group. The most is the winner.

Listening

Listen and number. Then fill in the blanks with the words given.

2a Listen to Alexis and Joe. Number the pictures [1-3].

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2b Listen again. Fill in the blanks with the correct verbs from the box.

’ll live am ’ll fly took work ’ll be lived live

1. I in an apartment.

2. I near here.

3. I a computer programmer.

4. We in a house.

5. I the train to school.

6. I an astronaut.

7. I rockets to the moon.

8. I on a space station.

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work

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lived

took

will be

will fly

will live月亮，月球

2c PAIRWORK Role play the conversation between Alexis and Joe. Talk about Joe’s life now, ten years ago, and ten years from now.

A: Where do you live?B: I live in an apartment.

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1. Recite the listening.

2. Make a conversation in your group.

3. Complete the exercises.

4. Make a survey where you will live in the future.

Will people have robots?

What will you be? Where will you live? How will you work? What sports will you do there? What will you wear? Where will you have your vacation?

In ten years, I think I’ll be a reporter. I’ll live in Shanghai, because I went to Shanghai last year and fell in love with it. I think it’s really a beautiful city. As a reporter, I think I will meet lots of interesting people. I think I’ll live in an apartment with my best friends, because I don’t like living alone. fell—(fall 的过去式 ) 落下；变为

fall in love with sb. / sth. 喜爱、爱上某人或某物

I’ll have pets. I can’t have any pets now because

my mother hates them, and our apartment is

too small. So in ten years, I’ll have many

different pets. I might even keep a pet parrot!

I’ll probably go skating and swimming every day.

During the week I’ll look smart, and probably

will wear a suit. At the weekends, I’ll be able to

dress more casually. I think I’ll go to Hong Kong

on vacation, and one day I might even visit

Australia.

look + 形容词 看上去怎么样 e.g. She looked happy.

keep: v. 保持；维持；喂养

1. keep + sb. / sth. + 形容词 使某人 / 某物……

The job kept them busy for a year.

2. keep + 形容词 保持

The man ran up and down to keep warm.

3. keep + sb. / sth. doing 让某人 / 某物继续做某事

She kept us waiting for her at the station for an hour.

4. keep + doing 继续做，坚持做

He kept running after her, trying to catch her.

Ming in ten yearsMing in ten years

JobJob

PetsPets

SportsSports

PlacesPlaces

ClothesClothes

3b On a piece of paper, write about your life in ten years. Don’t write your name on the paper. Put all the students’ papers together. Take turns reading the papers. Then guess who wrote them.

A: This paper says “I’ll be an engineer in ten years.”

B: I think Lin Wei wrote that.

C: Yes, I wrote it.

4 PAIRWORK Answer the questions below. Then ask your partner for his or her ideas.

Questions You Your partner

Which country will win the next World Cup?

What will the weather be like tomorrow?

Which movies will win award next year?

What will teenagers do for fun twenty years from now?

世界杯

Self Check

1 Fill in the blanks with the words given.

wear work look fly keep

1. I want to for myself when I’m older.

2. My friends a pet pig in their house.

3. I need to smart for my job interview.

4. We have to a uniform to school.

5. One day people will to the moon for vacations.

面试；面谈

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keep

look

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fly

Predicting the future can be difficult. There are many famous predictions that never came true. Before 1929, there was no sound in movies. The head of one of the biggest movie companies in the United States predicted that no one would want to see actors talk. Of course, he was wrong! In 1977, the head of the largest computer company in the United States said, “No one will want to have a computer in his or her home.” He thought that computers would never be used by most people.

2 Read the passage and circle the inventions on the right.

predict v. 预言 future n. 将来；未来prediction n. 预言

come true 实现；达到 come—camecompany n. 公司 ( 复数 companie

s)

think—thoughtsee sb. do sth. 看到某人做某事 (make, let, hear, watch)

3 Find these words from this unit.

1. A place to live in space:

2. Something kids will use to study at home:

3. These will be in every home:

4. Yang Liwei is a famous Chinese .

space station

astronaut

computers

robots

Look! There will be different kinds of robots in the world. Which one do you like? Do you think you will have your own robot?

Do you know some movies about robots? What are the robots like? What will the robots be like in the future? If there are many robots everywhere, what will the world be like?

If I give you a robot in your family, what will happen in your family and in your school? Discuss in your group and report to the class.