Unit 4 Section Ⅰ　Starting out & Understanding ideas(word教参)-【优化探究】2021-2022学年新教材高中英语选择性必修第三册配套教参（外研版）

单元知识目标 重点单词 artificial; assistant; victim; potentially; capacity; analyse; illegal; immoral; client; cite; assess; bound; cycle; demand; mechanical; tightly; desperate; clue; faulty; consistent 重点短语 used to; in the way of; in contrast; hang out; wipe out; lie in; agree on; around the corner; go through; difference between...and...; as though; change one's mind 单元语法 主谓一致(2) 单元写作 读后续写 单元话题衔接 我们未来的生活会是什么样呢？就让我们通过下面这篇短文一起了解一下吧！ What will our future life look like? At the future home, cookers will be set so that you can cook a complete meal at the touch of a switch.Television will give the information on prices at the nearby shops as well as news and enjoyment.Visionphones (可视电话) will bring pictures as well as sound to telephone conversation.Machines will control temperature, lighting, enjoyment and gardening, etc.As for work, robots will take over most jobs and working hours will fall to under 30 hours a week.Holidays will get longer.Six weeks will be the holidays every year. What shocks us most is that in the future it will be possible to use virtual (虚拟的) reality to bring the dead back to life.People will drag out their old and boring home movies and choose a relative to bring back to life.The visual will be combined with records about that person to create a virtual relative.Then the family can have a chat with that relative, keep it running, and live with it. In fact, there're many other wonderful and unbelievable things we'll experience in the life of future.And do you want to learn more about the city life in the future? Well, let's step into this unit to explore what a future citizen's life is like together. Section Ⅰ　Starting out & Understanding ideas 授课提示：对应学生用书第50页 自主预习 [重点单词] Ⅰ.基础词汇 1．artificial adj.人造的，人工的 2．victim n．受害者 Ⅱ.拓展词汇 1．humanity n．人类→human n．人；人类 2．assistant n．助手，助理→assist v．帮助→assistance n．帮助 3．potentially adv.潜在地→potential adj.潜在的n.潜力 4．capacity n．能力，才能→capable adj.有能力，有才能 5．analyse v．分析→analysis n．分析 6．regulate v．控制，管理→regulation n．规则