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Unit 4 Living with technology
Integrated skills
Making a time capsule
Step 1:Task presentation
Listening tip: scan the table to predict answers
Step 2:Listening to a talk about time capsules
Step 2:Listening to a talk about time capsules
Purpose:
To provide a picture of (1) ______________at the time it was created
Contents:
Almost anything
(2)__________to the future: ▷describe what life was like
▷contain (3)______________for the future
Famous time capsules:
In 1983, Steve Jobs donated (4) __________ from his computer to be put in a time capsule.
A time capsule was launched to 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)_________ of famous people like Stephen Hawking.
what life was like
A letter
hopes & wishes
the mouse
DNA
technology
typical
Activity1: reading
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Step 3: Exploring the 1939 time capsule
1. What were the purpose and contents of the 1939 time capsule?
2. What was Einstein’s message to the future generations about? How did he feel when he wrote the message?
Activity1: reading
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Step 3: Exploring the 1939 time capsule
Purpose:
Contents:
To show what life was like in America in 1939
Einstein’s message
typical of 1939
1. What were the purpose and contents of the 1939 time capsule?
Activity1: reading
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technological progress
social problems
hopes and wishes
Einstein’s message:
proud
worried
Einstein’s feelings:
Step 3: Exploring the 1939 time capsule
2. What was Einstein’s message to the future generations about? How did he feel when he wrote the message?
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Step 3: Exploring the 1939 time capsule
He believed future generations would read his message with “a feeling of proud and justified superiority”.
Activity 2: critical thinking
more advanced technology
social problems solved
technological progress
social problems
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Step 3: Exploring the 1939 time capsule
Activity 2: