2. What is a “ time lag”?

1.why did I have the chance to travel to the year AD3005?

2. Look at the following sentence, there are in wrong order, tell me the correct order for these sentence

A. We were transported into the future by a comfortable time capsule.

B. I arrived a t Wang Ping’s home and everything in his house made me surprised.

C.I won a travel to the year AD3005

D. I have my first try to master a hovering carriage.

　Step four　 careful reading

2.what problems do you think people in the future will have overcome?Which ones will still be there or even

worse in AD3005?

Key: 1The problem of population will be solved,have begun to Control the birth rate.

2The problems will be still there,and will even worse.

3I don’t think so.Now scientists are trying their best to

develop new resources that human beings can make use of ,such as solar energy.In my opinion……

　step three　 fast reading

Read the text for the first time and tell what the text is about?

It’s an e-mail written by a man Who has taken up a trip to the future.

3. Individual, Pair work & group work

Teaching Procedures:

Step 1 warming up

Talk about how many changes there have been in the last one thousand years. And what changes we might expect to find in the next one thousand years

Step two:　 pre-reading

you tell what problems people are facing today?

2. Asking and answering question activity

1. First and careful reading,

3. Enable the students to describe the life in the past, at present and in the future.

Difficult and Important Points:

Compare life in the past, at present and in the future

What is life in the future like? What changes will take place?

Teaching Methods:

2. Help the students to talk about life in the past, at present and in the future.

1. Learn some new words and expressions.