Unit 4 Living with technology Integrated skills(2)—Speaking and writing 课件-2023-2024学年高二英语牛津译林版（2020）选择性必修第二册

Unit 4 Living with technology Integrated skills(2)—Speaking and writing By the end of this period, students will be able to: 1. talk about your prediction of life in the future; 2. discuss detailed information about your time capsules for 2050; 3. introduce a product of the future. Lead-in What will you write to the future generations? Speaking In pairs, discuss ideas for your time capsule that will be opened in 2050 with the help of the following questions to make up a dialogue. What would you like to tell people in the future? Imagine that you need to put a technological product in the time capsule. What would you choose? why? What hopes and wishes do you have for the future? Useful questions Tip Using tone and stress appropriately In conversation, your tone and stress on certain words help express your ideas and emotions better. For example, you can use a rising tone to check or confirm something with your partner, even when what you say is not a question. If you stress “wonderful” when saying “It is a wonderful invention.”, it shows you think highly of the invention. A: Let’s begin our letter with a description of the world now to help people in 2050 understand how we live. For example, we’re currently living in an exciting time full of amazing scientific and technological discoveries. B: Yes! We can mention some important technologies that affect our lives greatly, like the Internet and artificial intelligence. Without them, the smartphone we use today wouldn’t be possible. A: Good idea! We could put my old smartphone in the capsule for them to see what it looks like and tell them more about it in the letter. B: They’ll be impressed for sure! Smartphones allow us to do many things from anywhere and at any time: video calling, surfing the Internet, shopping online, and finding our ways with virtual directions. Sample A: Exactly! I think they’ll be interested to know how smartphones make our lives more convenient and also how advanced they are in our time, e