北师大版第七模块20单元第一课学案U20-warm&L1学案

Unit 20 New Frontiers

I. Warm-up

Match the Key Words with their Chinese meanings.

1.artificial intelligence 光年 7.radiation 宇宙 2.bacteria 重力 8.radium 搜索引擎 3.dataprocessing 质量,大量 9.radioactive 太阳系 4.gravity 人工智能 10.universe 辐射

5.light year 数据处理 11.search engine 镭 6.mass 细菌 12.solar system 放射性的

II. Match the Key Words with the four branches of the science. Add more words.

Physics: energy, mass… Biology: bacteria… Astronomy: deep space, universe… Information technology: artificial intelligence, data processing… III．Translation

1. 人们利用搜索引擎在网上查找信息。

2. 科学家们相信在宇宙中有大量的放射性物质。

3. 依据这些数据处理，人们能提高工作效率。

4. 太阳系是由行星组成的。

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Lesson1 Futurology

Reading 1. Skimming

Question: What is the text about?

Read the text fast and find out the correct answer.

? From the Past to the Future ? The Future Business ? Tomorrow's World ? A Perfect Future?

2. Scanning

Read each part fast to match its main idea.

? Part1 What will the author be doing on Saturday morning? ? Part2 What is futurologist? ? Part3 What are being predicted?

3. Careful reading

(1) Read part1 (para.1)

Question: Which kind of people are called futurologists?

A. People who like to read fantasy stories and imagine what the world will be like in the future.

B. People who write science fiction novels about the future themselves. C. People who predicted things that finally came true. D. People who think about the future for a living. (2) Read Part2.

Match the time with the topic of each prediction.

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time topic

1) in the next few years our health 2) by the year 2015 universe 3) by the year 2025 clothes

4) by the year 2030 electronic human 5) by the middle of the century computers 6) by the end of the century the life of people Read carefully again about each prediction and fill in the form. When What are the predictions? in the next few Computers will become ________. We will be able to ________ years by 2015 by 2025 by 2030 the the the any file or _________ our computers. year The clothes will become ________, strong, never get old and ______, and won’t be ruined by______. year No one would die of_________, live on _______, and there will be no________. year It will be possible for us to live for at least _____years. Tiny, insect-like robots may be sent around our bodies to ______our health and ________ repairs. by the middle We will be ______ our brains to these computers and a huge of the century database (数据库). by the end of We will have discovered other places in our solar system the century ________ for living and will have discovered ways to go further into space.

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