北师大版高中英语 必修二 Unit 4 Cyberspace Warm - up 课件（30张）.ppt

Warm - up Unit 4 Cyberspace Have you read any science fiction books or seen any science fiction films? What do you think of them? Do you think they will come true? In this unit you will… Read about the internet and virtual reality. Listen to a phone conversation, radio programmes and a song. Practise telephoning and making suggestions. Write an e-mail message and an internet page about your area. Learn how to make predictions about the future; Learn about conditionals. 2004 - The Day after Tomorrow is a movie about global warming and how it will destroy cities and change the world in the future. Global warming causes world flooding The movie Waterworld (1995) is set in the future when the polar ice-caps have melted. The actor Kevin Costner plays a character searching for dry land—something no one has ever seen. TERMINATOR Androids who think and feel like us 2001 - A.I. is a movie about a boy who doesn’t know that he is really a robot. 1866 - From the Earth to the Moon is a book about people traveling to the moon. Alien spaceships abduct humans Have you seen these films? the Contact of Third Kind 1977-2004 - The movies that make up Star Wars are about wars in space. There are many amazing characters in these movies. 1. Which of the films and books mentioned on this page have you seen or read? Which of the predictions in them: have already come true? b) do you think will come true in your lifetime? What other predictions do you know from science fiction books or films that have come true? 2. Listen to four experts. Which predictions are they discussing? Use the Key Words to help you. Answers: 1. making androids (artificial humans) 2. flooding in different countries 3. time travel 4. a virus develops which we have no power to stop Tapescript 1. Well, that’s very interesting question. It is already possible to make artificial organs and parts of the body-but it won’t be possible for a very long time to make artificial humans, known as androids, that can think