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Unit 4 Living with technology
Integrated skills
Making a time capsule
Lead-in
What do the two pictures have in common?
capsules
Lead-in
1. Have you heard of a time capsule?
2. What can a time capsule be used to do?
What is time capsule? What can it be used to do??
A time capsule is something shaped like a capsule, which is buried in the ground. You can put a variety of things in it as long as you have an inventive mind. These things are intended to show how we lived.
Listening
A talk about time capsules
Go through the material and circle the key information.
Guess the content and key points of the talk.
Listening tip:
Structure
important people
important year
A2. ( Page 50).
Time capsules
Purpose of a time capsule
To provide a picture of (1) ____________________ at the tme 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) __________ from his computer to be put in a time capsule, which was opened in (3) ________.
A time capsule was launched to (4) _____________________________ in 2008. It contains a list of humanity’s most important achievements and personal messages, as well as copies of the (5) _______ of famous people like Stephen Hawking.
what life was like
the mouse
2013
the International Space Station
DNA
Step 2:Listening to a talk about time capsules
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1938
III. Reading
the time capsule displayed at the 1939 New York World‘s Fair
What did Einstein put into the time capsule?
Think and guess
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Part Paragraph(s) Main idea
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Para. 1
A brief introduction to the 1939 time capsule
Para. 2
Para. 3-4
The objects contained in the time capsule
Albert Einstein’s message for future generations
Read the introduction and fill in the table.
Our time is rich in inventive minds, the inventions of which could make our lives considerably easier. We are crossing the seas by power and use power also in order to relieve humanity from all tiring muscula