高中英语人教新课标必修五 Unit 3 Life in the future Warming up and Reading教案

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Book 5 Unit 3 Life in the future
Warming Up & Pre-reading, Reading
Comprehending
Teaching Goals:
To illustrate Ss’ imagination of future life.
To arouse Ss to pay more attention to the problems that probably appeared in the future life.
To make Ss know the difference of life between the past, present and future.
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1 Leading-in
Purpose: To talk about past and future changes of life.
1. Group work
Let Ss discuss the questions in groups of four.
How do you usually get to school?
Where do you live, in a city or in the countryside?
Where would you like to live in the future?
Do you live in a flat or a house?
Do you have a room of you won? Can you describe the room in the picture?
What kind of housing would you like to have in the future?
What would you like to have in your room?
What can we use to build houses? (brick, stone , steel , glass, ice, wood , plastic bamboo, …)
2. Conclusion
This unit introduces what life in the future might be like to Ss. By discussing and answering the questions above can make Ss have a general understanding of the present and future life and can also illustrate Ss’ imagination about the future life.
Step 2. Warming Up
1. Pair work
In pairs let Ss list the changes in housing, transport, jobs, families and education will happen in the next century.
2. Individual work
According to the result of the above Pair work, fill in the chart.
表格 1
Present time
In one Thousand Years’ Time
Transport
Work
Finance and currency
Languages
Environment
Education
Houses
Communication
Suggested Answers:
表格 2
Present time
In One Thousand Years’ Time
Transport
Airplanes; cars; bicycles
No longer by air because of environmental pollution; bicycles and horses will make a comeback
Work
Office; factory; construction; landscape; service
At home using advanced, interactive computers; meetings can be conducted on the computer and people will see each other speak.
Finance and currency
Banks; offices; insurance; business
One global currency—maybe the yuan as China will be the largest global exporter
Language
English; Russian; Chinese
One global language- perhaps Chinese or still English
Environment
Air: could be improved in cities
Very poor; need to recycle all waste; control on the use of cars; no airplanes; methods to improve poor air quality. Climate of the earth being very hot is making problems over water resources
Education
Nursery; schools; university
Longer than now possibly until 25 years of age so that students can learn all the new technologies
Houses
Flats; houses; concrete; wood
Built into the ground as the surface of the earth is so hot.
Communication
Post office; Internet
By thoughtpad, telephone, computer, mobiles, Morse code, etc
Step 3. Pre-reading
1. Pair work
Ask Ss to discuss the following questions in pairs.
Make a list of the problems human beings are facing today.
(2) What problems do you think people will have overcome in one thousand years? Which ones do you think will still exist in AD 3008?
Suggested Answers:
(1) The seven serious problems facing mankind:
① The first problem I would like to point out is the decline of morality.(道德沦丧)
② The second problem is the racial bias problem. (种族歧视)
③ The third problem , which is a most serious problem , is the rapid depletion of resources on the Earth. (资源匮乏)
④ Now I come to the fourth problem, the problem of the large gap between the poor and the rich . (贫富悬殊)
⑤ The fifth problem is the pollution problem.(环境恶化)
⑥ Now I would like to talk about the sixth problem, the expensive arms race problem. (军备竞争)。
⑦ The seventh problem is that the technologies vital to the welfare of human beings are becoming more and more concentrated in the hands of a small group of people. (技术垄断)
(2) Various answers are acceptable.
2. Discussion


Show Ss the above pictures and ask them what problems each picture shows. This can arouse Ss interest. Ask Ss to have a wide range of discussion about the present and future life. They can discuss as much as they can.
Suggested Answers:
Picture one: global warming,
Picture two: acid rain,
Picture three: growing areas of desert,
Picture four: over large world population,
Picture five: lack of enough drinking water,
Step 4. Reading
1. Skimming
Pair work:
Ask Ss to look the three pictures (P18) and then discuss with their partners and answer the following questions:
① Picture one:
* What can you see in the picture?
* What are the people doing?
* Where do you think they are doing?
② Picture two:
* How many people can you see in the picture?
* Who are they, do you know?
* What else can you see in the picture?
* What can you use them for?
③ Picture 3.
* What can you see in the picture?
* Where is Li Qiang?
* What is Li Qiang doing?
* What is the table and chairs made of?
* What is the wall made of? What fun_ction does it have?
(2) Discussion:
Ask Ss read through the text as quickly as possible and talk about Li Qiang’s first impressions of AD 3008, and at the same time underline words, phrases, or sentences that are closely related to Li Qiang’s first impressions.
2. Scanning
(1) Team work
Ask Ss to discuss how far their ideas of the future are from those in the story. Let them discuss the following questions.
① Do you think Li Qiang is impressed by what he finds in the future? Why or why not?
② What improvements do you think there will be to your home city or home village one thousand years in the future? What problems might there be?
③ What ideas do you think were believable in this story? Why?
④ Which ideas do you think are too unrealistic? Why?
(2) Group work
This text is written as if it were a letter from a son to his parents. He is telling them his impressions in an informal way. So the descriptions are mixed with his impressions to give you his idea of what the future is like. Now please discuss the style of the text.
① Do you think Li Qiang’s descriptions are fair? Why or why not?
② What language does he use that gives you that impression?
③ Do you think he feels comfortable in the future? Why or why not?
④ What language does he use that gives you that impression?
3. Comprehending
Ask Ss to tell the following sentences are True or False (T or F)
(1) Li Qiang was worried about the journey, so he was unsettled all the time.
(2) Wang Ping is his friend who is also a good guide.
(3) His head ached because of lack of oxygen.
(4) Li Qiang lost in touch with Wang Ping, but he found him at last.
(5) Wang Ping’s mother was not friendly to him.
Suggested Answers: (1) F (2) T (3) F (4) T (5) F
4. Listening
Listen to the tape and fill in the chart bellow:
Good changes
Bad changes
Time travel
Transport
Houses
Towns
Air quality
Suggested Answers:
Good changes
Bad changes
Time travel
Can travel to different times as you wish
After– effects of travel
Transport
Can move swiftly
Disorganized, difficult to find way
Houses
Save living space
Short of space
Towns
Busy, look like markets
easy to get lost
Air quality
Own family oxygen supply
Poor quality in public places.
5. Group work
Divide the whole class into four groups. Each group is supposed to read through the text and find out the difficult words, expressions and sentences and then discusses them.