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.
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- d o 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
Step 1. Skimming:
Skim through the passage and get its general idea.
The passage is mainly about
.
A.how Li Qiang was transported to the future.
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.
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. And who transported us to the future?
Wang Ping ’s parents ’company transported us to the future.
My friend Wang Ping is my guide to the future.
1.How did I feel as soon as I was
transported to the future?
I thought it was difficult to tolerate. I was hit by the lack of fresh air. 2. How did Wang Ping solve this problem?
Wang Ping gave a mask to me and hurried me through to a small room nearby to have a rest.
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.
1. What did Wang Ping ’s house look like?
large, bright and clean
His house is a large bright, clean room.
It had a green wall, a brown floor and soft lighting.
Discussion
pessimistic
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&2on page 19.
4.Review the words and phrases of this
unit. A dictation tomorrow.Ten words
from “lack”to “safety belt”.
Homework
The Fifth Element.。
