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第12讲 选择性必修二Unit4 Integrated skills &Extended reading&Project
目标任务
课程标准
学习目标
围绕人与社会的主题语境,依托语篇,通过一系列英语学习活动,发展英语学科核心素养。
1. 综合运用听、说、读、看、写的技能,完成语言技能融合的活动。
2. 进行拓展阅读,通过观点表达等活动,进一步探究主题意义,获得对现代生活的新认识。
和同学一起开展合作学习、探究学习,完成一项综合性、实践性活动。
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预习导学
(一)课前阅读:
Making a time capsule(制作时间胶囊)
Purpose of a time capsule:
To provide a picture of (1) ___what life was like_______ at the time it was created
Things to be put in a time capsule:
• Almost anything
• A “letter to the future”
Famous time capsules:
• In 1983, Steve Jobs donated (2) ___the mouse_________from his computer to be put in a time capsule, which was opened in (3) ___2013________.
• A time capsule was launched to (4) ___the International Space Station_______ in 2008. It contains a list of humanity’s most important achievements and personal messages, as well as copies of the (5) ____DNA________of famous people like Stephen Hawking.
Anna is reading an introduction to the time capsule at the 1939 World’s Fair. Read the introduction below and answer the following questions.
The 1939 World’s Fair opened in New York on April30. The theme of the fair was “Building the World of Tomorrow”. One highlight of the fair was a time capsule with Albert Einstein’s message to people 5,000 years in the future.
The time capsule, buried 50 feet below the ground in a park, was designed to be opened in the year 6939. It was filled with various objects that were intended to show what life was like in America at the time the capsule was created: a toothbrush, a fountain pen, a baseball, a toy car, a small camera, microfilm rolls recording modern literature, contemporary art and news events of the 1930s, a variety of seeds including wheat, and many more.
Albert Einstein wrote a message to future generations, which was put in the capsule. In his message, he wrote about the technological progress man had made:
Our time is rich in inventive minds, the inventions of which could make our lives considerably easier. We are crossing t