歌名：Love In The Future

作者： REO Speedwagon

背景信息：

歌曲Love in the Future收录在美国摇滚乐队REO Speedwagon于1990年发行的专辑The Earth, a Small Man, His Dog and a Chicken中。

在20世纪90年代，在经济飞速发展的同时，人们也关注到了工业生产以及其他不合理的人类活动给自然环境带来的毁灭性破坏。REO Speedwagon乐队将保护自然环境的主题与当时流行的摇滚乐形式相结合，通过音乐呼吁社会大众保护自然环境。

歌词大意：歌词以一位男士的角度抒发对于自然环境的破坏（包括河水变黑、空气污染等）以及其对自己子孙后代和身边珍爱之人带来的危害的深切忧虑。

歌词全文：

Love In The Future - REO Speedwagon

I cannot bathe you in a river gone black

I cannot hold you in a poison rain

If I can't see you through the air that we breathe

What will love in the future be

I wanna watch my children laugh as they run

I wanna hold their children on my knee

And tell them stories of a vanishing sun

Of how it used to be

In my lover's life I want to share

I want to see the world now through her eyes

And about everything she sees I care

The time has come to rise

I cannot bathe you in a river gone black

I cannot hold you in a poison rain

If I can't see you through the air that we breathe

What will love in the future be

Will we make it a different story

Is there love in the future for you and for me

We're looking for answers in outer space

When will we discover the earth is a sacred place

I cannot bathe you in a river gone black

I cannot hold you in a poison rain

If I can't see you through the air that we breathe

What will love in the future be

Will we make it a different story

Is there love in the future for you and for me

I cannot bathe you in a river gone black

I cannot hold you in a poison rain

If I can't see you through the air that we breathe

What will love in the future be

Will we make it a different story

Is there love in the future for you and for me

教学建议：

本单元是关于environmental protection的主题，让学生围绕当前地球上存在的污染和环境破坏问题展开英语学习。因此本MV可运用于本单元的课前以及课中的教学。

在课前，可以让学生观看此视频，让学生谈谈对视频的感受的形式引出学习内容，；也可以让学生思考歌词中的“Love”的真正含义来引出课程内容，调动学生的学习积极性和学习兴趣。

在课中，可以以听音乐听写歌词的形式进行听力练习；或者选取歌词中的一些生词进行单词扩展，增加学生的词汇量。

环境保护-Love in the Future.mp4 .pptx