四川省岳池县第一中学高中英语 Module1 Life in the Future 第5课时学案 外研版必修4

Period 5: Cultural Corner
学习目标：
1. 了解人们对未来世界的种种预测
2. 树立跨文化交际意识
3. 掌握重点句子的用法
学习重点：
了解人们对未来世界的种种预测
学习难点：
掌握重点句子的用法
课前预习
使用说明与学法指导：
1. 树立跨文化交际意识
2. 15分钟之内完成
教材助读：
Glass Recycling
Glass has the least volatile pricing of all the post consumer recycling commodities. Composed of sand and potash; bottle glass is made from readily available and inexpensive raw materials. To be competitive, recycled glass must maintain a price that competes with these abundant raw materials. Traded as flint (clear), amber (brown), emerald (green) or mixed color broken glass.
The price depends on the cleanliness and color of the recycled product. Clean flint cullet (another w ord for broken glass) is usually the most desirable form of recycled glass scrap. Mixed color broken glass with ceramics or stones mixed in it is the least desirable grade of cullet bringing the lowest price. Most Recyclers color sort and break or crush and screen bottles before selling their product.
Modern, high production bottle manufacturing requires very clean and uniform feedstock. Over the past decade there has been a growth in the glass benefacti on sector. These are intermediate processors that receive glass from recycling programs and run it through a series of steps to remove any contaminants (rocks, ceramics, metal caps, etc.) and provide a uniform feedstock to the bottle manufacturers. These preprocessor provide an excellent market for recycling programs that do not have the volume or ability to produce glass for direct mill delivery. Glass beneficiation plants use sophisticated optical sorting machines to separate the glass into the three color types. They may also x-ray the glass to detect any rocks or ceramics which are then removed. Magnets and eddy current separators are used to removed magnetic and non-magnetic metal contamination from caps and lids. The end product is a uniformly sized load of ground glass that is free of contaminants readily acceptable by bottle manufacturers.
Lower grades of recycled glass that are too mixed or contaminated, may be used in concrete or in road paving material called "Glass halt". In some areas where there is an overabundance of low grade glass it is used to cover over the rubbish in the land fill in place of sand. This is not truly recycling and it is hoped that better sorting technology will soon make this material usable for new bottles.
Glass recycling saves energy because recycled glass can be processed at a lower temperature than blending new glass from raw materials. Also, recycled glass is usually closer to the bottle plants than the sources of potash, the most expensive com ponent in glass bottles and jars. Bout 32% of energy can be saved because of its low melting point.
It is easier to manufacture new glassware from recycled glass than from raw material, which can also reduce air pollution by 20%, and water pollution by 50%.
预习自测题：
1．Ask Ss to read the passage individually and then decide which prediction you find most amusing.
2: Blacken the predicates, underline the useful expressions and darken the connectives.
我的疑问：
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课内探究
质疑探究：
1.With the first moon colonies predicted for the 1970’s, work is now in progress on the types of building required for men to stay in when they are on the moon. 二十世纪七十年代第一批月球移民的预言现在进展到为居住在月球上的人设计住宅楼的样式。

2.By the year 2000, housewives will probably have a robot shaped like a box with one large eye on the top, several arms and hands, and long narrow pads on the side for moving about. 到2000年，家庭主妇们会拥有盒子形状的机器人，这些机器人在顶部有一只大眼，有许多胳膊和手，两侧的又长又窄的脚用来移动。

with复合结构的构成
上面两句话中都出现了With复合结构，这个句型具体有以下几种用法：
①with+宾语+名词
He died with his daughter yet a school girl.他死的时候,他的女儿还是个学生.
②with+宾语+形容词
He used to sleep with all the windows open.他过去常常开着窗子睡觉.
③with+宾语+副词
The girl fell asleep with the light on.那位女孩睡着了,灯还亮着.
④with+宾语+不定式
I can't go out with these clothes to w ash.因为这些衣服要洗,我不能出去.
⑤with+宾语+介词短语
He sat near the fire with his back to the door.他坐在炉子旁,背朝着房门.
⑥with+宾语+现在分词
She lives in the room with the light burning.她住在亮着灯的那个房间里.
⑦with+宾语+过去分词
With everything done, she went home.做完一切事情以后,她回家了.
Consolidation
①With winter _______ on, it’s time to wear warm clothes.( come)
②The boy likes to sleep with the light ______(burn)
③I won’t be able to go on holiday with my mother _____ ill. (be)
④I went out with the light _____ off. ( turn)
⑤The murderer was brought in, with his hands ____ behind his back. (tie)
⑥He lay in bed, with his eyes ______( stare) at the roof.
⑦He lay in bed, with his eyes ______(fix) on the roof.
⑧He lay in bed, with the door ____(open).
⑨He lay in bed, with the door _____(close).
⑩We had our lessons, with a guest _________ at the back of the classroom. (seat / sit)
微写作
写作素材
1．能源专家预言地球上有限的资源将要用光。

2．预言引起了很多人的注意。

3．我们相信科学家将最终找到可替代能源。

4．我们对我们未来的生活持乐观的态度。

提示黑体部分用本单元词汇表达。

连句成篇(将以上句子连成一篇50词左右的英语短文)
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课后反思：
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课后训练
阅读理解。

Floor sweeping, dusting, window cleaning, picking up the kids, doing the laundry, folding clothes, tidying the house: such activities are common in our life. Yet, if engineers are right, by 2020, we may not need to do them by ourselves, thanks to
the development of domestic (家庭的) robots.
“We a lready have grass-cutting robots. The public have happily accepted them working around their gardens,” says expert Gordon Wyeth of Brisbane’s University of Queensland. “N ow robots able to walk and balance on two legs are becoming common in laboratories, a nd their working ability is always rising while costs fall.”
As a result, home robots will be the next “must have” for buyers by 2020 when they will have become as necessary as personal computers today. They will be smart, ready to finish their tasks and will work together with humans and other smart robots.
“I am sure most home robots will end up being named and treated like pets,” added Wyeth. “They will create a whole new industry.”
Robots can expect to face a lot of technological competition in the home, thanks to developments in materials. At the University of New South Wales in Sydney, for example, researchers, led by Rose Amal an d Michael Brungs, are developing self-cleaning surfaces for use in hospitals as well as home kitchens and bathrooms. The surfaces will also be designed so that droplets (小液滴) cannot form on them.
What’s more, scientists are working on materials that will not only change our homes but will change the way we dress through the creation of “intelligent (智能的) clothes”. Special fabr ics (纺织品), fitted with monitors, will study our health throughout the day while we sleep, work and exercise.
1. The first paragraph mainly shows that ______.
A. what engineers have said about robots might be wrong
B. robots are invented mainly to do housework for humans
C. domestic robots can do everything for humans in ten years
D. domestic robots will play a great role in our everyday life in the future
2. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 4 mean?
A. People will no longer keep pets in the future.
B. The home robot will be very common in every family in the future.
C. Most home robots will do nothing in the future.
D. Most home robots will have a name of their own.
3. We know the surfaces being developed by the researchers ______.
A. will not get dirty easily
B. are mainly for home use
C. has been used in hospitals
D. are made from common materials
4. From the passage, we know the “intelligent clothes” ______.
A. are a little heavier than normal clothes
B. can be made from any kind of fabric
C. can study our health with monitors in them
D. cannot be washed with water。