Global Reading Detailed Reading After Reading Supplementary Reading Detailed Reading Before Reading Unit 2 Smart Cars Listening Comprehension Warm-up Questions Background Information
Global Reading Detailed Reading After Reading Supplementary Reading Detailed Reading Before Reading Unit 2 Smart Cars Listening Comprehension Thinking Before Listening Thinking While Listening Listening and Speaking
Global Reading Detailed Reading After Reading Supplementary Reading Detailed Reading Before Reading Unit 2 Smart Cars Background Information Automobile Industry Global Positioning System Intelligent Transportation System
Global Reading Detailed Reading After Reading Supplementary Reading Detailed Reading Before Reading Unit 2 Smart Cars Listening Thinking Before Listening The title of the passage you are going to listen to is “Cars of the Future”. Write down three questions about cars of the future
Global Reading Detailed Reading After Reading Supplementary Reading Detailed Reading Before Reading Unit 2 Smart Cars Listening Thinking While Listening Listen to the passage and find out if it answers the questions you asked in Exercise 1
Global Reading Detailed Reading After Reading Supplementary Reading Detailed Reading Before Reading Unit 2 Smart Cars What kind of car will we be driving in 2010? Rather different from the type we know today, with the next 20 years bringing greater change than the past 50. Their vision is of a machine with three wheels instead of four, electrically powered, environmentally clean, and able to drive itself along “intelligent” roads equipped with built-in power suppliers. Future cars will pick up their fuel during long journeys from a power source built into the road, or store it in small quantities for traveling in the city. Instead of today’s seating arrangements — two in front, two or three behind, all facing forward — the 2010 car will have a versatile interior with adults and children in a family circle
Global Reading Detailed Reading After Reading Supplementary Reading Detailed Reading Before Reading Unit 2 Smart Cars This view of the future car is based on a much more sophisticated road system, with strips built into motorways to supply power to vehicles passing along them. Cars will not need drivers, because computers will provide safe driving control and route finding. All the driver will have to do is say where to go and the computer will do the rest. It will become impossible for cars to crash into one another. The technology already exists for the car to become a true automobile
Global Reading Detailed Reading After Reading Supplementary Reading Detailed Reading Before Reading Unit 2 Smart Cars clean driving: electrically powered, environmentally clean safe driving: controlled by computer more comfortable: a versatile interior with the adults and children in a family circle Listening and Speaking Listen to the passage again and say what changes will make driving: — cleaner? — safer? — more comfortable? Tips:
Global Reading Detailed Reading After Reading Supplementary Reading Detailed Reading Before Reading Unit 2 Smart Cars Warm-up Questions 1. What do you think is the most profitable and powerful industry of the 20th century, computer, automobile, petroleum or airplane? 2. What do you think will be the most profitable and powerful industry in the 21st century, communication, astronautics, biology or construction? 3. What is the greatest invention in the world so far?
Global Reading Detailed Reading After Reading Supplementary Reading Detailed Reading Before Reading Unit 2 Smart Cars 4. If you could afford a car, would you buy one? Which brand would you like to have?