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| Step2 Study
cut down 砍倒；消减；缩小
1. If the forest is cut (cut) down, tourism will die completely.
2. He will now try to cut (cut) down the cost to a manageable range.
拓展：cut off 切断，阻碍
cut in 打断；插话
cut up 切碎
cut through 开辟出路或通道
Question time
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 tree in a forest north of Oslo, Norway, in 2014. The Future Library Trust used 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, 1000 new trees were planted.
Every year from 2014 until 2114, a different popular author has been writing one original story, and the librarians have been keeping all the stories in the Silent Room, where visitors can look at them but not read them. In 2114, the organisers will cut down the 1000 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 will be reading books that were made from trees that are growing right now.
Step3 Study
Vocabulary
1. luxury n. 奢华；奢侈品；豪华奢侈的生活或环境
2. prospect n. 可能性；前景
3. rural adj. 乡村的；农村的
4. absence n. 不存在；缺乏；缺席
in the absence of 缺乏
prediction n. 预测；预言
make accurate predictions 做出准确预测
6. essay n. 文章
7. network n. 网络
8. emphasis n. 强调；重视；重要性
place emphasis on 强调
（原文重现）It’s difficult to make accurate predictions about the effects on the environment.
要准确预测对环境的影响是很困难的。
1)be accurate in 在……方面准确无误
2)accurately adv.正确无误地，准确地
3)accuracy n．精确；准确
He is always accurate in what he says and does.
He gave a full and accurate account of his movements.
他完整而准确地叙述了自己的行踪。
Complete the dialogue with the correct forms of the words.
1.A. Why are you so concerned?
B.We can’t win the case in the absence
of relevant evidence.
A.It’s difficult to make accurate
predictions about the effects on the environment.
B. I couldn’t agree more. We should place more emphasis on environmental protection.
3.A. What are you working on?
B. I’m writing an essay 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 network 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 rural areas?
B: The prospect of getting a high-paying job is low, but I find it more meaningful to help people there. In addition, I have the luxury of breathing fresh air every day.
Step4 Discussion
Imagine that your 50-year-old future self has sent you a letter about your future career. What would that letter contain?
1. Which careers are you interested in?
2. How might future advances in technology change those careers?
3. What are the advantages and disadvantages of these future careers?
4. How might you best prepare for your future careers?
5. Do you like your future career?
Tips:
1. a description of the future career
2. the advantages and disadvantages of the career
3. the preparations that are (or are not) needed for the career
4. drawings or photos illustrating the career
5. a greeting and closing
Choose the most interesting future career, and write a personal letter to yourself from the future about that career.
Step5 Group show
Use the letter below to help you.
Dear Past Bingbing,
Hi! I’m Bingbing, your future self? I know that you are really worried about your future career,
so I wanted to write this letter to put your mind at rest.
I’m sorry to say that you won’t become a pilot as you wanted. In the future, large passenger airplanes will fly themselves and won’t need pilots. But there is a big problem in the future that you don’t have now: no one uses cars anymore—— they use personal jet packs. As you can imagine, the skies over the city get pretty busy! Someone needs to control all these people so they don’t have accidents. And that’s what you do: you’re a jet pack air traffic controller.
One really good point about your job is that you don’t have to leave home. Instead, you’ll use a virtual reality headset and microphone to do your job while you are sitting on the sofa drinking tea. But you will have to work on your people skills, as you will be talking to people all day. The bad point? Too many jet packs in the sky! Sometimes it can be kind of tense, and some people don’t like to obey the rules or be told what to do.
All in all, I think you’ll be happy with this job. But of course you will, because you’re me! Stop worrying! Your future is going to be great. Trust me.
Best regards,Future Bingbing
| Discuss the
problems in
pairs and
finish the the exercises: fill in the blanks and make dialogues.
Learn the
vocabulary and finish the dialogues carefully.
Work in pairs to discuss the content when
your 50-year-old future self has sent you a letter about your future career.
Show their
own letters in class.
| Improve students’ widely interest because the
library is
related to their life.
Improve students’ abilities to
capture the
details of
dialogues.
Cultivate students’
analytical and
creative abilities.
It help improve the ability of finding details and competition
Grasp how to write a letter to our own from the future, thus arose their
imagination and
creativity.
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