Unit 2 Period 4 Using language 1 & Assessing your progress Video Time课件-高中英语人教版选择性必修第一册

该高中英语课件围绕“未来科技与社会变化”展开，通过图片匹配、词汇解析（如AI、纳米机器人等）及视频拓展激活背景知识，再以讨论（未来发展、挑战与机遇）、听力（专家预测）、角色扮演（未来职业访谈）为支架，构建“词汇-理解-应用”的学习脉络。 其亮点在于融合多模态资源（视频、听力、图文）与任务链设计，通过Future Library阅读对比、未来图书馆创意设计等活动，培养语言能力（对话填空、观点表达）和思维品质（科技伦理辨析）。小组合作（头脑风暴、角色扮演）提升学习能力，学生在实践中深化语言应用，教师可依托结构化活动高效落实教学目标。

Unit 2 Looking into the future Make predictions about future changes To learn to get speakers’ opinions in a dialogue. To learn to talk about the advantages and disadvantages of new technology. What do these pictures show? Match the words with pictures. ___ automation ___ nanobots ___ global warming ___ artificial intelligence ___ cloning ② ③ ④ ⑤ ③ ② ⑤ ① ④ ① If time permits, watch the following videos to learn more about them. automation nanobots Global warming cloning automation: the technique of making an apparatus (装置), a process, or a system operate automatically nanobots: a machine or robot built on the nanoscale (纳米级), still in the research-and-development stage, with potential applications in medicine and industry global warming: the increase in temperature of the earth’s atmosphere, that is caused by the increase of particular gases, especially carbon dioxide artificial intelligence: the ability of a digital computer or computer-controlled robot to perform tasks commonly associated with intelligent beings cloning: the process of generating a genetically identical (相同的) copy of a cell or an organism (有机体) Discuss these questions in groups. 1. How do you think these events or such technology might develop in the future? 2. What challenges might they bring? 3. What opportunities might they bring? Future development: Challenges: The AI is programmed to do something beneficial, but it may develop a destructive method for achieving its goal. Opportunities it may take: People can use the AI to do most of the daily chores. More and more people can be free to do work of creating new things. Future development: Challenges: Opportunities it may take: More nanobots will be created to help doctors to find out the root of a disease and make operations more accurately. New kinds of virus may appear and even nanobots can’t find out where they come from. The nanobots may bring more people’s life back. Future development: Challenges: Opportunities it may take: Work in factories will be more efficient. More labor force can be freed from working. More and more workers will be out of work. People will learn more about how to create a machine and how to operate it to help work. Future development: Challenges: Opportunities it may take: More animals even human beings will be cloned. Cloning may result in disorder on the earth. More lives will be saved and more diseases can be cured. Future development: Challenges: Opportunities it may takes: Air pollution will be decreasing. There will be glaciers again in the Arctic Ocean. There may be other threats to the Polar bears. People can live in harmony with the Polar bears. Listen for predictions When listening for predictions, you should listen for the use of the future tense, in particular the future tense with will or will be doing. Words such as predict, prediction and forecast, are also used quite often when making predictions. Name Occupation Prediction Dr Han Vincent Black Computer scientist 1. Computer will be cleverer than us in the future. 2. People will also be programming computers to think like humans. 3. We’ll be programming them to not think in ways that may harm humans. 4. We’ll also be creating machines to help people internally. architect There will be cities floating on water and people could move into housing in cities that float. Listen to the radio interview with Dr Han and Vincent Black giving their predictions about the future, and then fill in the table below. Listen for the answers. 1. What is name of the radio programme? 2. What is the radio host’s concern about smart computer? 3. According to Dr Han, how can this problem be avoided? Future Changes. Will smart computers be dangerous to humans? Scientists will be programming smart computers to not think in ways that may harm humans and they’ll be creating machines to help people internally. Listen again and discuss whether you think Dr Han and Vincent Black’s predictions are possible. Why or why not? Your opinion Dr Han’s prediction Vincent Black’s prediction In groups, brainstorm about the future. Discuss these points. future events or problems the world might face future technologies how these things will change the way we live the challenges and opportunities these things might bring clothing food living transport problems might face future technology how they change our life challenges and opportunities We can talk about these points in four ways that are essential to our life. Imagine that you have a job that makes you an expert in the future. In pairs, interview each other about your jobs and predictions. Use the expressions in the box to help you. Tips 1. Think of the job you may do in the future; 2. What do people do with the job now? 3. What do you think people will do with the job in the future? 4. Why do you have the prediction? Making predictions I think/believe/predict that in the future… My prediction is that… By 2030, we will… In the (distant) future there will… I can imagine/forecast… I doubt/don’t think that… One challenge will be… We will have the opportunity to… We will be doing… We are going to… Useful expressions to make predictions: I think/believe/predict that in the future ... My prediction is that ... By 2030, we will ... In the (distant) future there will ... I can imagine/forecast ... I doubt/don't think that ... One challenge will be ... We will have the opportunity to ... We will be doing … We are going to do … To consolidate the words and expressions in this unit in dialogue; To consolidate the grammar of this unit in the text; To use words and expressions in this unit to make a design for the future life. Unit 2 Looking into the future Use the words and expressions in this unit at proper places; Complete the dialogues with the correct forms of the words in the box. luxury prospect rural absence prediction essay network emphasis 1. A: Why are you so concerned? B: We can’t win the case in the ________ of relevant evidence. 2. A: It’s difficult to make accurate __________ about the effects on the environment. B: I couldn’t agree more. We should place more ________ on environmental protection. 3. A: What are you working on? B: I’m writing an ______ on how to integrate individuals’ values and society’s needs. 4. A: How do you find working in your new office? B: It’s great! The office ________ allows users to share files and software, and to use a central printer. 5. A: I don’t quite understand your choice. What might be the advantages of living in remote ______ area? B: The ________ of getting a high-paying job is low, but I find it more meaningful to help people there. In addition, I have the _______ of breathing fresh air every day. absence prediction emphasis essay network rural prospect luxury Read the passage of Future Library and know about the new style of library; Compare the common libraries with the Future Library. It’s clean and quiet. We can read books there. What’s the image of a library in your mind? Katie Paterson was born 1981 in Glasgow. Paterson studied at Edinburgh College of Art from 2000-2004 (BA) and the Slade School of Fine Art in London from 2004-2007 (MFA). Can you imagine what a library is like in the future? Katie Paterson’s works 28 Read an introduction to the Future Library project. Fill in the blanks using the correct forms of the words in the box. cut down keep use write read The Future Library is a project by the artist Katie Paterson. It began with the cutting down of trees in a forest north of Oslo, Norway, in 2014. The Future Library Trust _____ wood from these trees to build a special room – the Silent Room – in the Oslo Public Library. In place of the trees that had been cleared, 1,000 new trees were planted. Every year from 2014 until 2114, a different popular author ______________________ one original story, and the librarians ______________________ all the stories in the Silent Room, where visitors can look at them but not read them. In 2114, the organisers _______________________________ the 1,000 trees that were planted back in 2014. They will then use the wood for publishing the 100 books in the Silent Room. So in 2114, people _______________________ books that were made from the trees that are growing right now. used will write/ will be writing will keep/ will be keeping will cut down/ will be cutting down will read/ will be reading Know more about the library planting trees wood cut for books a marked tree “We are building the Silent Room using the trees we cleared from the forest, still containing their scent. The atmosphere is key in our design, aiming to create a quiet, peaceful space which can allow the imagination to journey to the forest, the trees, the writing, the deep time, the invisible connections, the mystery.” It’s difficult to make accurate predictions about the effects on the environment. accurate adj. ① correct and true in every detail 正确的 ② able to give correct information or to do sth. in an exact way 精确的 e.g. My watch wasn’t accurate. Can you tell me the time now? Work in groups to talk about your opinions on the Future Library in the passage. Talk about your imagination of future libraries. your aim of starting the library who are your potential readers what may be their needs how will you design the library Draw the picture of your library in groups. Then show your picture to the class. Lavf57.71.100 Packed by Bilibili XCoder v1.0(fixed_gap:False) Lavf58.12.100 Codec by Bilibili XCode Worker v4.8.33(fixed_gap:False) Lavf58.12.100 Codec by Bilibili XCode Worker v4.6.4(fixed_gap:False) Lavf58.12.100 Codec by Bilibili XCode Worker v4.8.16(fixed_gap:False) 09 3 Listen to a radio interview with Dr Han and Vincent Black... 人民教育电子音像出版社 普通高中教科书 英语 选择性必修 第一册 2020 vocal 154364.8 $