Life In The Future 課 時 5-1 備課人 萬興安 授課時間 2004.10
教學目標 1．Encourage the students to use their imagination to talk about life in the future.
2．Train the students’ listening ability.
教學重點 Talk about the life in the future
Dill Ss’ listening ability.
教學難點 Ss don’t know how to express the dreaming about the future.
教、學具 Multimedia, slides.
預習要求 Read new words in Unit 6.
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Step 1．Warming up
Task 1．Talk about the problems in your life.
Are you happy now? Are you satisfied with your life (your study, your family, housing, transportation, communication, etc.) Why? Can you give me some reasons? Do you want a happy and beautiful future? What do you want the life to be?
Task 2．Watch pictures on the screen and have a discussion in groups of four.
There are four pictures. They are about life in the future. It concerns many fields, such as transportation, city construction, outer creature, people’s health.
Please imagine what life will be in the future?
Task 3．Fill in the forms
Talk about the problems in life.
Ss give some reasons
Watch and discuss what life will be like in the future.
Ss look at the diagram and try to fill in the blanks in groups.
Show the screen.
Step 2．Listening
Pre-listening:
1．What is your life like as a student?
Questions for reference:
①How do you go to school?
②What subjects do you have? What are they about?
③what are your hobbies? / How do you spend your spare time?
④What do you eat? …
2 .Imagine where people will live in the future. State your reasons.
While- listening:
Now you will have a letter from a girl living in the future, she describes her life and explains why she lives where she does. Let’s compare our life with hers.
Post-reading:
Question: What does Mekanika want to know?
Step 3. Homework:
Write a letter to Mekanika and tell her about the things she wants to know.
Bb design:
Ss answer the questions.
Possible answer:
Maybe people live on another planet, because there are too many people on the earth. People will live in space because the earth has been polluted, and there is no room for people…
1．Listen for the first time, answer questions in Part 1.
2．Listen for the second time, do Part 2. Exercise1.
Ss have a discussion and guess, talking about what Mekanika wants to know.
課 題 SEFCB2Unit 6 課 時 5-2 備課人 萬興安 授課時間 2004.10
教學目標 1. Improve the students’ speaking ability by practising making predictions.
2. Train the students listening ability.
教學重點 Finish Wb listening and speaking exercises.
Train Ss’ listening and speaking ability.
教學難點 Wb listening exercises.
教、學具 A recorder, some slides, some pictures.
預習要求 Finish some of the Wb exercises.
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Step 1．Listening (WB)
Do the listening practice in the workbook step by step. If the material is too difficult, give students some difficult sentences first or even give the listening material to students after they listen to the tape twice.
Pre-listening task
(Look at the screen: a man landed on the moon for the first time.) When did man first land on the moon? Do you want to visit the moon?
What speed does a train reach on average now?
What conditions do lemon trees need to grow well?
While-listening question:
Now we’re going to listen to a news broadcast for the year 2035.
1．Listen for the first time, do exercise 1. Tick the subjects mentioned in the news stories.
2．Listen for the second time, do exercise 2. Answer the questions.
Step 2．Speaking
Pre-speaking:
Brief discription about Dolly (pictures of Dolly on the screen). Then talk about human clones.
Ask: have the scientists discovered how to make doubles? What would happen if there were human clones?
While-speaking:
What’s your opinions of making doubles?
See the picture.
Answer or discuss the problems.
Check answers.
Listen and tick the subjects mentioned.
Listen and finish Ex 2.
Cloning
Advantages Disadvantages
Useful expressions:
It would be wonderful if …
It’s possilbe / impossible to predret …
Just imagine if …
It would be bad for … if …
No one can predict what / when …
We can only guess.
Post-speaking:
Have a free discussion
What would happen if there were two Hitlers ?
Step 3．Homework
If you have the chance to make “doubles”, whom would you like to have doubled ? Why? Write a short passage.
Bb design:
Get Ss to tell the advantages and disadvantages.
Get them to use the phrases as much as possible.
Discuss the problems after class.
課 題 SEFCB2Unit 6 課 時 5-3 備課人 萬興安 授課時間 2004.10
教學目標 1.To enable the Ss to know more about history and nature of architecture.
2.To enable the Ss to learn to introduce an architect and his work.
教學重點 To develop Ss’ abilities of reading passages about architecture
教學難點 Special words about Architecture.
教、學具 Some slides and a recorder
預習要求 Read new words in the text first
Look up more words about architecture.
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Step1 Revision
Show the Ss some sentences and ask them to fill in the blanks with right words
Steps 2 Pre-reading
1. Show the Ss some pictures about nature and architecture.
2.Let the Ss tell what the buildings look like.
3.Go through the instructions and the three sentences above the text
Step3 Reading
1)Give the Ss four minutes to read this passage and find the answers to the exercises in it.
2)Play the tape for the students to listen and read the passage once again. Then choose the best answers to the exercises on the slides according to the passage.
Show a slide:
1. Why did architects in the 1920’s want their buildings unnatural?
A.they didn’t like traditional architecture style.
B. They wanted to change people’s feelings of beauty.
C. They didn’t like building materials such as earth, stone, brick and wood.
D. They like buildings materials such as steel, glass and concrete.
2. In what ways in ancient architecture different from modern architecture?
Fill in the blanks with right words
Check answers.
Go through the instructions and the three sentences .
Read this passage and find the answers.
Listen and choose the best answers to the exercises on the slides according to the passage.
A. materials, shapes B. roofs, corners
C. size, height D. balconies, windows
3. Which of the following belongs to modern architecture?
A. Taihe Dian. B.The Temple of Heaven.
C.The Opera House in Sydney.
D.The great European Cathedrals.
4.Which of the following best expresses the main idea of this passage?
A. Ancient architecture is popular.
B.Modern architecture is popular.
C.Ancient buildings look more beautiful than modern ones.
D.Different times, different styles of architecture.
5. From this passage we can infer that ____
A. the writer prefers ancient buildings to modern ones. B. the writer prefers traditional materials to modern ones
C. the writer doesn’t like modern architects at all D. the writer prefers buildings which look natural to ones that look unnatural
3)Let the Ss read the passage again and fill in the blanks to complete this short passage.
Step 4 Language focus
Deal with some language points while checking the answers to Ex3 of Step 3
Step 5 Post reading.
Read a passage about architecture and choose right words to fill in the blanks.
Step 6 Exercises
Time permitting, do some exercises about language points.
Homework:
Finish the rest of the exercises on the worksheets
Bb design:
Get Ss finish the exercises:
1.Impress: have a favorable effect on sb.; make sb. feel admiration and respect.
Your efficiency impressed us most== We were most I________ _________ your efficiency
2. despite (prep): without being affected by
Despite_____ (want) to see him again, she refused to reply to his letters.
Despite_________ __________ _____________（其它人說什么）, I think he is a good boy.
3. inspire v: ①fill sb. with thoughts, feelings or aims.
②encourage
結(jié)構(gòu)：be inspired by
His best music ________ _________ __________（靈感來自）the memory of his mother.
His speech inspired me _______again.
A.try B.to try C.trying
Deal with some language points
Read a passage about architecture and choose right words to fill in the blanks.
5. Summary: In order to have a bright future,we should love our life, love the earth. We have to learn as much as possible and we must try to accept changes and appreciate what is new and different.
課 題 SEFCB2Unit 6
Language study and Grammar 課 時 5-4 備課人 萬興安 授課時間 2004.10
教學目標 1．Revise the words
2．Do some exercises to consolidate the Noun Clause
教學重點 Ss finish the exercises.
教學難點 Nothing too difficult.
教、學具 Workbooks, Exercise books, slides.
預習要求 Finish some of the exercises.
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Step 1．Revision
Activity: Teacher: What’s your future plan?
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Step 2．Word study:
Activity 1: 根據(jù)釋義說出或?qū)懗霰締卧鶎W詞匯。例如：
①a statement of what is judged likely to happen in the future, esp in connection with a particular situation, or of the expected weather conditions ______
②existing or happening now; modern _____
③a general development or change in a situation or in the way that people are behaving ________
④of or in a city or town _________
⑤a person who buys goods or services for their own use____________
⑥extremely small __________
⑦money in the form of notes and coins, rather than cheques or credit cards ______
⑧a medical doctor, esp one who has general skill and is not a surgeon ______
Activity 2:
Do Exercise 1 . Fill in the blanks with words in the text.
2．You should pay attention to the word order in the Noun Clause. Normal word order is used in it.
3．In order to keep the sentence balanced. We often use “it” as the formal subject, which replaces the real subject.
4．The subordinate conjunction “whether” can introduce all the Noun Clauses, while the subordinate conjunction “if” can only introduce an object clause used as the object of a verb.
Go to university, find a good job. have a beautiful house, own private cars…
Check answers with the whole class.
Suggested answers:
1. forecast 2. trends 3. urban 4. consumers / customers
5. ensure 6. tiny 7. cash 8. regularly 9. physician 10.purchase / purchases
Step 3. Exercise:
1． Find out the function of the Noun Clause in each sentence.
2． Look at the questions about the future in the box on the left. Then use the expressions in the box on the right to change your questions into Noun Clause.
Example: How we should use modern technology is an important question. Activity: Look at the pictures on the screen, and complete the sentences using Noun Clauses.①We cannot be sur________
②The problem is__________.
③I can’t imagine ________.
④_________ is an important question.
⑤Scientists have (not) found answers to th e question ___________.
⑥They are worried about _______.
Exercise 3．Identify the type of clause in each of the sentences.
Instruction: The difference between a Noun Clause and an Attributive Clause. A Noun Clause is used as a Subject, Object, Predicative or Appositive in the main clause. An Attributive Clause serves as an attribute to some nouns or pronouns in the main clause, and it is often placed after this noun or pronoun. The Attributive clause is introduced by the relative pronouns and the relative adverbs.
Step 4．Homework
Exercise 4．Rewrite the following sentences so that they contain a Noun Clause of the type in brackets.
Bb design：
Suggested answers:
in general in store keep in touch with lead to pay attention to
Ss listen and write.
Check answers with Ss.
Ss tell the types in turn.
課 題 SEFCB2Unit 6 Integrating skills Greeting From The Future. 課 時 5-5 備課人 萬興安 授課時間 2004.10
教學目標 Get to know more about the life in the future.
Learn the following words and phrases:
Lots of fun, be programmed to, virtual reality, after all, change into ones and zeroes, clean up, travel back in time.
Drill Ss’ reading ability
Train Ss’ writing ability.
教學重點 Learn the following words and phrases:
Lots of fun, be programmed to, virtual reality, after all, change into ones and zeroes, clean up, travel back in time.
Drill Ss’ reading ability and writing ability.
教學難點 Writing exercise.
教、學具 Slides, pictures, Ex books.
預習要求 Read the new words in this unit.
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Step 1．Reading
Pre-reading:
Task: If you have an e-friend, what would you use it for?
As we know, people’s life has been changing. It’s getting better and better. What do you think life in the 31st century will be like? Will it be the same as that today?
Today we’re going to read a letter about the way people will live more than one thousand years later and we can know what the life in the 31st century will be like.
While-reading:
1．Skim and find out the main idea.
(Ss: help me with what I couldn’t do, keep me company, talk with me, help me with my homework …)
Ss: No, we think life in the 31st century will be very different from that in this century. We’ll live more easily than today. We’ll have a machine so what we want them to. The only thing we need to do is to press the buttons on the computer.
2．Scanning
①Find out how Mekanika describe her e-friend.
Mekanika’s e-friend
②What is virtual reality?
Post-reading:
Exercise 2．Why is it sometimes difficult for Mekanika to know what is real and what is an image?
Exercise 3．How is our life different from the way people live one thousand years ago?
Step 2．Writing: write about an object
We have known what the life will be in the year 3044. Imagine that you have come back from a trip to the future. You visited the year 4367 and you saw a wonderful invention called a Mogray.
Now work with your partner and decide what a Mogray is, what it looks like and what it is used for. Before writing, you have to complete the outline on the screen.
Instruction: A description of an object should include a physical description (what the object looks like, how big it is etc.) as well as a “practical / functional” description (what it can be used for / how you use it).
Step 3．Homework
1．Write the passage in your Exercise book.
2．Surf the Internet to find more information about life in the future.
Ss read and find out the answers.
Explain it in English or in Chinese.
Read the requires.
Listen to the instruction.
Write an article according to the request.
Rewrite the passage in the Ex book, paying attention to the handwriting.