Unit1 Will people have robots?

• space station

• astronaut

rocket

1a Write each word in the correct column below.

astronaut house apartment computer programmer

train rocket space station宇航员 公寓

火箭 太空站

房子 电脑程序师

火车

Jobs Transportation Places to live

astronaut

computer programmer

train

rocket

space station

houseapartment

• 2a Listening

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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.

live

work

am

lived

took

’ll be

’ll fly

’ll live

飞行 take 的过去式

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.

Ming in ten years

Job

Pets

Sports

Places

Clothes

reportermany different pets/ parrot

go skating and swimmingShanghai/Hong Kong/ Australia

probably a suit(during the week)

casual clothes(on the weekend)

Fill in the chart.

3a Read Ming’s answer to the question “What will your

life be like in ten years?” Then fill in the chart.

What will you be in the future?

I will be a …..

I will ……

My life in the future:

In 10 years, I will be older, and I will do more sports and eat more vegetables and be healthier. By then I will have enough money and will travel all over the world….

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.

=I will

1.fell---(fall 的过去式 ) 落下；变为 fall off 跌下 fall down from.. 从…跌下 fall in love with sb / sth. 喜爱、爱上某人或某物

2.alone: 单独地，孤独地，：放在 be 动词或动词后面

I am alone, but I don’t feel lonely. 我独自 一人 ，但我不觉得孤单 ( 感觉 )

单独地；孤独地（强调独自一人，一种状态）

爱上

= a lot of

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. On the weekend, 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. Dress sb: 给某人穿衣 ： I dress myself everyday.

宠物

鹦鹉大概；也许 去滑冰

穿一套衣服 能够穿衣 随意地

甚至可能 喂养

1.look + 形容词 看上去怎么样 eg. She looked happy.

2.Be able to + 动词原形：能够做 .. （强调能力） be 动词有时态变化。 I am able to swim.=I can swim 。

十年后

Ten years ago, I was a college student. I majored in English. In my freetime, I played pingpong and read novels. Now , I’m a teacher in a middle school.I teach my students English. I am with them for 45 minutes every day. In ten years, I’ll be forty-three years old. So I think I’ll earn more money, and I’ll buy a bigger house.

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?

哪个

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.

我自己

面试；面谈

work

keep

look

wear

fly

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

predict v. 预言 future n. 将来；未来 ---- in the future

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