Teaching plan of Unit 3
Life in the future
Topics: Prediction of the good and bad changes in the future; Alien creatures
Teaching aims and demands:
Goals: 1. Speaking and reading Talk about life in the future
2.Function. Practice making predictions
.Practice making conjectures (function)
3. Using language.
Learn about the past participle (3) as the Adverbial& Attributive
Vocabulary and useful expressions:
Settlement, impression, temple, constant, remind, take up, previous, remind…of…, ache, surrounding, bend, press, swift, lose sight of , sweep up, switch, optimistic, pessimistic, opportunity, length, speed up, imitate, extraordinary, assist in , agency, skip, require, alien, tablet, master, vehicle
Teaching procedure:
Period 1.
Step 1.Warming up
1. Brainstorming:
Find as many words as the students can find about future lives.
1. Following the steps of the warming-up on page 17.
1. Activity:
Discuss in groups about the following areas in the future:
houses/ transport/ Villages /towns/locations of settlement
Step 2. Pre-reading
1. Show some pictures of highly-developed technology used in daily life.
1. group work: describe the pictures.
Step 3. While-reading
1. Scanning: Ss read quickly and answer:
What is the passage about
1. Ss read and get the main ideas of each paragraph. Discuss their ideas and the writing style of the reading passage.
1. Ss examine the text more carefully to find those words and structures that are difficult to understand.
1. Help the Ss with their difficulty.
Step 4. After-reading
Comprehending by finishing the table below
Good changes and reasons Bad changes and reasons
Time travel Can travel to different times as you wish After-effects of travel
Transportation 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
For exercise 2 , Ss may give their own opinions.
Step 5. Assignment
1. surf the internet and get more information about the topic..
1. find a few sentences in the passage which you like most, understand them entirely and then explain them to your desk mates.
3. Finish Wb. Using words and Expressions Ex1 –2 on page 56
Period 2.
Step 1. Warming up
Ask some Ss to recite the sentences that they have learnt last period.
Step 2. Learning about the language
Explain some language points in the text on page 17--18
1. Worried about the journey, I was unsettled for the first few days.
In this sentence the past participle is used as an adverbial phrase. It is a way of joining two clauses together.
1. …a hovering carriage driven by computer.
In this sentence the past participle is used as an attribute after the word it describes.
Discovering useful words and expressions
Reading the advertisement on Page 19-20 filling the blanks with the given words.
Step 3. Discovering useful structures and practice.
1. Ss finish Ex 2 and 4 on page 20-21 by themselves.
1. check the answers.
1. Give Ss suggested answer and tell them why if the Ss have any problem.
Step 4. Assignment
1. Learn the useful expressions by heart.
1. Finish Wb. Ex 3-5 Using words and Expressions
Period 3.
Step 1. Revision
Check the answers of Wb Ex.
1. Discovering more useful structures.
2.More exercises to consolidate the Grammar.
. Ex1 –2 using structures on page 57--58.
Step 2. Talking
1. Ss four in one group and have a discussion about the topic on page 58-59
1. Ss make notes during the discussion, and try to use wh-questions freely to get information needed.
Step 3. Speaking
Ss work in pairs and make prediction:
The following structures are helpful to students:
What will life be like in the future
How will people….
Where will people work….
It would be wonderful if …..
It would be bad for …. If…….
It’s possible/ impossible to …..
No one can predict what /when…...
Period 4.
Step 1. Warming up
Ask Ss some questions about Life in the future
Step 2. Reading
1. Ss read the passage on page 21:
I HAVE SEEN AMAZING THINGS
1. Help Ss to understand the passage entirely.
1. Finish the comprehending exercises on P22-23
Step 3. Writing
Finish the writing task 1on Page 60.
Period 5. (Listening)
Step 1. Listening
1. Ss finish the listening task on page 23
1. Ss listen to the tape again and check the answers.
Step 2. dealing with the Ex 1—2 on Page 59 on Workbook.
Step 3. Listening skills
Give the students some tips on how to improve listening while checking the Ex.
a. make notes while listening;
b. grasp the most important information
Period 6. (Writing )
Step 1. Pre-writing
1. Ss read the passage on P21 and get a general idea about it.
1. Explain the skills on how to organize a paragraph.
Step 2. While-writing
1. Ss write a short report to the company.
1. Ss exchange their writing and correct the mistakes.
1. Ss rewrite the report again.
Step 3. After-writing
Choose some samples and show them in class.
Tips on writing:
Pay attention to the form of writing a report.
Pay attention to the tense while writing.
Pay attention to the structures of the sentences.
Step 4. Assignment
Ss in group 3-5, discuss the life in 3005
Period 7.
Teachers can use this period freely.
Suggestion: Teachers can use this period to let Ss sum up what they have learned and explain what Ss couldn’t understand very well in this unit. Teachers can also add more practice in this period to consolidate what the Ss have learned. Finally, ask the Ss to learn to definite. It is very important to improve their learning and let them have a sense of achieving gradually.
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