本章主要分为四部分，即热身活动与课文背景介绍，文本赏析，文本语言点的理解与运用，以及拓展阅读与思考活动，本单元的知识结构如下图所示。

Warm-up

●Questions

●Allegory: In Introduction

●Poem

Background Information

●Author

●Fiction

●Future World

●Development of Technology

●Broadway

Text Analysis

1. Theme

2. Structure

3. Questions

4. Discussion

Writing Devices

Language Study

1) Word Study

Appalling / assent / cessation / decay / decrease / destined / dreadful / eliminate / epoch / extravagant / insane / plunge / stagnation / upright

2) Phrases and Expressions

be destined to / die out / do away with / get about / go overboard / in place of / keep track of / one thing at a time / plunge headfirst into / rest on / to and fro / to begin with

3) Grammar

Present Participles as Object Complement

4) Word Formation

● 1. Prefix–im

● 2. Suffix–able

Extension

1. Oral Work

2. Quizzes

3. Writing

4. Listening Lab