Unit 4 World of the Future

Unit 4 World of the Future

Unit 4 World of the Future

1. Teaching Objectives

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To help students to get to imagine the future world; To help students to get to know the style of science fiction; To help students to learn to analyze the text; To help students to learn the language in this text; To help students to develop oral English ability and communicative competence.

2. Teaching Procedures

1) Lead-in activities

2) Cultural Backgrounds

3) Text analysis

4) Structural analysis

5) Language study

6) Exercises

I. Lead-in activities

1. Audiovisual supplements

Watch the film episode and then answer the following questions

Film Episode: I, Robot

Questions:

1). Why was the police officer scolded by the woman?

2). If you had a robot as your assistant, what would you want it to do?

2. Group Discussion

1. What the world may be if there were only robots?

2. Can robots finally take the place of human beings? What can we do to avoid?

II. Cultural background

With the rise of human civilization about 8,000 years ago and especially since the Industrial

Revolution in the mid-1700s, human beings began to alter the surface, water, and atmosphere of

Earth. In doing so, they have become active geological agents, not unlike other forces of change

that influence the planet. As a result, Earth’s immediate future depends to a great extent on the

behavior of humans. For example, the widespread use of fossil fuels is releasing carbon dioxide

and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and threatens to warm the planet’s surface. This

global warming could melt glaciers and the polar ice caps, which could flood coastlines around the

world and many island nations. In effect, the carbon dioxide that was removed from Earth’s early

atmosphere by the oceans and by primitive plant and animal life, and subsequently buried as

fossilized remains in sedimentary rock, is being released back into the atmosphere and is

threatening the existence of living things.

III. Text introduction

Throughout the text, the writer describes or tells the wonderful things of the future face to face

with you as a reader, which is appropriate and impressive, and which sounds more objective and

believable. Some questions are asked either to introduce the main topic or to project paragraph

topics.

IV. Structural analysis

Paragraphs 1 – 4

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