1 Unit 3 Life in the future教案教学设计
Teaching Contents:
Oral practice based on the reading passage on page17 to page18.
1. Orally, answer several questions according to the text.
2. Practise two topics: 1) What do you suppose the future transportation will be like?
2) Imagine where the house will be built in the future ?
3. Listening and retelling.
Teaching aims:
1. Inspire the students to imagine the future life.
2. Inspire the students to say something about the future transportation and housing.
3. To improve the students’ oral ability.
Teaching Important & difficult point::
1. Inspire the students to imagine the future life and use the proper expressions.
2. Enable the students to understand the meaning of the text, and say something according to
the text.
3. To improve the students’ oral ability.
Teaching methods:
reading; asking and answering activity; pair or group work.
Teaching Aids: A computer, multmedia.
Teaching procedures:
Step1: Lead-in .
Enjoy a short video, cut from a science fiction film I, robot, to lead the students to
imagine the future world.
Step2: Fast Reading
Ask the students to read the text quickly, then find out the main idea of the text,
and answer several questions according to each paragraph.
purpose: These questionts are simple questions, just to help the students get a brief
acquaintance to the future world described in the text.
Step3: Listening and retelling according to paragraph 4. Show some tips to help the students
retell the sentences.
Purpose: This exercise is a practice for oral test part C in NCEE.
Step4: Design two topics while talking about the hovering carriage and Wang Ping’s house.
Practise the dialogues of making predictions.
2 Topic 1: What do you suppose the future transportation will be like?
Topic 2: Imagine where the house will be built in the future ?
The students may use these structures :
I suppose the transportation will be something like a ….
I suppose , in the future, the house will be built in…..
I imagine that ….
Purpose: To practise the structure orally I suppose that… , I imagine that.. .
Step5: Summary of the text orally.
This passage mainly tells us about a boy named Li Qiang”s trip to the future. It tells us
how he got to the future, how he felt and what he had seen.
Step6: Discussion.
“What’s the writer’s attitude towards the future, optimistic or pessimistic?”
“How do you know? “
The students may begin like these :
• In my opinion, the writer’s attitude towards the future is _________ .
• As far as I am concerned, the writer feels _________ to the future.
• I think the writer has an _________ view of the future.
Purpose: To learn to analyze the writer’s attitude and express your conclusion.
Step7 Homework
1. To talk with your chairmate on the topic: Imagine, what the future world will be?
2. Review the reading passage and find out the difficult language points to you.
3. Finish exercises 1,2&4 on page 19.
4. Review the words and phrases of this unit. A dictation tomorrow.
Display on the blackboard
Unit 3 Life in the Future
wh- do you suppose ….?
I suppose …..
I imagine that….
And some words, perhaps they will be: science fiction film, high-tech, time tunnel
Ps: Display on the screen
3 Step 1. Skimming:
Skim through the passage and get its general idea.The passage is mainly about .A.how Li Qiang was transported to thefuture.B.how Li Qiang got to the future and his first impression of it.C.what the life was like in the future.D.the introduction of the “Future Tours”company. Go through the first paragraph(Para.1) quickly, then answer the following questions:1. What is a “time lag”?
2.Who guides my trip?
3.How did he getto the future?Step2. Detailed reading
1. What is a “time lag”?“Time lag’’is similar to the “jet lag”.
It means a person gets flashbacks
from his previous time period.2.Who guides my trip?3. Andwhotransported us to the future?
Wang Ping’s parents’company
transported us to the future. My friend Wang Ping is my guide to the future. Para.3 Go through the third paragraph, then try to answer the following questions.1. How did I feel as soon as I was transported to the future? 2. How did Wang Ping solve this problem?3. Whatdo you think has caused this kind of problem that Li Qiang’shead ached?
1.How did I feel as soon as I was transported to the future? I thought it was difficult to tolerate.
Iwas hit by the lack of fresh air.
2. How did Wang Ping solve this problem?
Wang Ping gave a mask to me and
hurried methrough to a small room nearby to have a rest. 3. What do you think has caused this kind of
problem that li Qiang’s head ached?A. he got a bad cold when traveling.B. there was no air at all. C. he felt a bit homesick.
D. he was hit by a lack of fresh air.
Hit by a lack of fresh air, my head ached.
computerThe hovering carriage is driven by
________ . These carriages _____
above the ground and by ______
or ________ down in your seat,
you can driveit swiftly.floatbendingpressing What do you suppose(假设)the future
transportation will be like?Topic :I suppose the transportation will be
something like a ….I imagine that ….
Para.4Read the fourth paragraph quickly, then answer the following questions:1.What did Wang Ping’s house look like?2.What was the green wall made of ?
3. What’s the purpose of building this kind of green wall? 1. What did Wang Ping’s house
look like?large, brightand cleanHis house is a large bright, clean room.
It had a green wall, a brown floor and soft lighting.
