Unit 2 Lesson2 Life in the future 教案

Unit 2 Lesson2 Life in the future
Warming-up & Reading
*Teaching goals:1. Learn some new words and expressions.
2. Improve the reading skills of the students.3. To illustrate Ss’ imagination of future life.*Teaching points:
1. Have the students discuss the changes that have taken place these years and what will happen in the coming one thousand years.?
2. Encourage the students to predict what problems people will have to overcome
*Teaching aids: the recorder, the English book
*Teaching procedures:
I. Tuning in
Picture 1
a. What can you see in Picture 1?( We can see two robots)
b. What are the robots doing? (The robot on the left is working in a factory, and the one on the right is examing /treating the patient.)
c. What may replace workers and doctors fifty years from now?( Robots may replace them.)
Picture 2
What’s the name of the sheep in Picture? (Dolly)
When was it born and when it died? (It was born in 1996 and died in 2003.)
Was it an ordinary sheep, or was it cloned? ( It was cloned.)
What’s the difference between Dolly and an ordinary sheep? ( Dolly was a cloned sheep.)
Will scientists be able to control genes and clone more animals in fifty years? (Yes, they will.)
Picture 3
What will our environment be like in the future? ( If we don’t protect it, it”ll become worse.)
What does Picture 3 show you about the weather in 2060? ( It shows the weather will be warmer than it is now.)
What will be the result of global warming? (There will be a shortage of water./ The world will be short of water.)
II. Practice more on the text
read after the recorder together
read after the recorder individually
answer the questions
fill in the blanks on Page 58
do more exercises on Passive Voice
6. Do exercises on Page 62.
① How did you come to school today? By bus, by bike, by motorbicycle, by car or on foot? Which one do you like best, why?
② Can you think that how did I come to school 10 years before?
【以学生身边的事为话题能够引起学生兴趣，并且为学生的日常经历，学生有话可说】
③ Have you ever thought about the changes in transport and what changes would you might expect to see in the next one thousand years?
Discuss it with your partners from these aspects:
AD1008: China
AD2008: Modern World
AD3008: Your ideas
Transport
By horse or by simple vehicle such as a carriage.
By car, by bus, by train, by air, by motorbike, by bike, by maglev, by ship.
By spaceship, or capsule, by advanced vehicle to be invented.
Houses
Made of wood and mud:
no bathrooms.
Apartment, villa, Siheyuan
Special houses with advanced equipment, which can be moved to any place.
Villages
Many small house round a temple and a pond.
There are many buildings with gardens, wide roads and large fields.
Farmers needn’t go to work, and they will live in a folded house with everything people need. Computer will do anything to help villagers.
Towns
Streets with markets, small shops and private houses.
There are crowded skyscrapers on both sides of main streets with malls and shopping centers.
Streets will not as crowded as now, because the entire vehicle can fly in the sky. People? will take whatever they need for free.
Location of settlement
On the earth; on land
On the earth, on land
On the moon, on the other planets; under the sea.
T: As we all know, no one can stop the wheel of history. Our society keeps advancing, so what will happen in the future? Sure you often dream of your beautiful life tomorrow. Now, I’d like to share with you what you have imagined about the future. You are free to show your different imaginations.
S: People will not have to work, because all of work will be done by machine.
S: People will go to space very easily. We can go to other stars just as we visit other cities? nowadays.
S: People will live forever and no one will die.?
S: In the future people will live in different places. As the population is exploding, more people will prefer to live in faraway places, under the sea or even on the moon.?
S: In the future people will speak only English and Chinese.?
S: In the future, people can eat anything. People won’t need to worry about the food problem in the world.
Group work:
S: In the future people can find many ways to deal with pollution, we can live in a better environment. People in the future will explore a new kind of energy, which will never be used up.
【一定时间的小组讨论，学生能够充分发散思维，锻炼口语和表达能力，将学生的思考进行展示，能够充分调动学生的积极性，且学生对过去、未来进行思考能够锻炼学生思维能力。】
Extension activity
Writing: The Future Life
Iv. Homework:1. read the text 2. writing: describe the life of your future and write it down.