《Go for it》 8B
Unit 7 Will people have robots?
(Section B 1a-1e，3a)
Teaching Aims
1) The students will be able to talk about the life in the future.
2) The students will be able to talk about the life now, in the future and in the past.
Language Focus
The students will be able to use the following words and sentences properly in given situations;
astronaut, rocket, space station, apartment
What will your life be like in the future?
What is your life like now?
What was your life like 10 years ago?
Difficulties
1) The students might find it difficult to read the words: astronaut, apartment.
2) The students may find it difficult to use the sentences in three kinds of tenses.
Teaching Procedures & Activities
Step1: Warming- up:
T: Hello, everyone! Nice to meet you. First let’s enjoy some nice photos. Watch carefully please, and tell us the jobs.
T: What kinds of jobs are they? (Show all the jobs in PPT) Read the words together.
They can be ended with “ist, er, or”
T: What will you be in 10 years?
S: I’ll be…
T: How will you do that? (Ask and answer in pairs)
Step2:Lead-in
1.T: (Show Ss a picture of an astronaut): Look! What’ s her job?
T: Yes, she’s an astronaut. How did she go to the moon? Yes, she went to the moon by rocket. She flew rockets to the moon. Do you know other words of transportation?
( show some words of the transportation through the mind map)
2.T: I think I’ll go to work by subway in the future. How will you go to work in 10 years? (Ask and answer in pairs)
3. T: By the way, where will you live in 10 years?
S: I’ll live in…
T: Where will I live in 10 years? Can you guess? I’ll live in a big house. But now I live in an apartment. How about the astronauts? They’ll live on a space station.
Will we live on a space station in the future? Maybe some day we will.
Step3:Pair work
T: Now let’s imagine what our life will be like in 10 years.
Imagine like this in pairs.
Step4:Listening
T: Good job. Another two students are talking about their lives too. Let’s predict what they are talking about. In picture I, they are talking about a photo. In picture2, Joe will go to other planets, he’ll go there by rocket. In picture 3, they may be at the party.
T: Now let’s listen and number the pictures. (check the answers)
T: Listen again and fill in the blanks. (1d)
Step5:Imitation
T:OK. This time listen carefully and pay attention to the underlined sentences and words.
T: Read the conversations together.
T: Turn to page P102,and read the conversations loudly by yourself.
T: Let’s talk about Joe’s life.
Step6: Finish 3a
T: How about Jill’s life? What will she be like in 20 years? Please fill in the blanks with the words in the box.
Step7:Pair work
T: What will your life be like ?
Let’s make a conversation in pairs. The form may help you.
Step8: Homework
1.Read three conversations more time after class.
2.Write a report according to your conversation.
