Welcome to the unit教案2

Unit 3

Tomorrow’ world

Welcome to the unit Teaching Aims: 1.

To make students know and discuss what people could do in the future and imagine what tomorrow’s world would be like.

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To practice students’ oral English.

Teaching Important and Difficult Points: How to develop students’ speaking ability by participating fully in the discussion. Describe a future world Teaching Approaches: 1.

Visual-scene teaching method, tasked-based method as well as the approaches of discussion

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Emphasis will be put on Ss’ ability of

speaking, expressing and brainstorming. 3.

Introduce a rich variety of activities and approaches will be introduced to meet different needs of the Ss.

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Make full use of the advantages of multimedia.

Interaction Patterns:

Teachers -class, individuals, pairs Teaching Aids: multimedia and a blackboard

Procedures for teaching: Step 1 Greeting and Brainstorming

1. Show the posters to the Ss and ask them to discuss:

Have you ever read any science fiction stories?

Do you like them? 1). What do you like most about science fiction stories, the characters, plot or the language used? 2). Why are so many people interested in science fiction stories?

Because they allow people to use their imagination and think about what life will be like in the future.

Ok, let’s make up the story together. 2. Show some pictures of the ET film and watch the video. 1). Ask students to make up the story.

2). Answer some questions.

What do you like most about science fiction stories, the characters, plot or the language used?

Why are so many people interested in science fiction stories?

3. Show some pictures of Kid 3000 and ask them to think about what life will be like in 3000 with the help of the pictures. Step 2 Welcome to the unit 1.

Description: Ask students to form pairs to describe the pictures

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Discussion: Ask students to discuss the pictures and do the exercises Picture 1 1) What is the robot doing? 2) Do you think robots can do everything for humans? Why or why not? 3) Do you think you will have a robot at home in the future? Picture 2

1) Where are the passengers going? 2) Do you believe that one day travelling to the Moon or planets, like Mars or

Jupiter, would be just like travelling to another city? Why or why not?

3) If you had a chance, would you like to fly to the Moon or Mars? Picture 3 1) What are the people doing? And how old is the man? 2) Do you think people can live that long in the future? Why or why not? Picture 4 1)

Can you tell where these people are working? 2)

Can you tell who these people are and what they are doing there? 3)

What problems are the aliens and the people probably talking about? 4)

What is the relationship between them? Step 3

Consolidation (Group work)

Ask the students to discuss the questions. 1) What developments in science and technology would you like to see happen in the future? 2) Do you think the Moon could be a tourist destination in the future? 3) Do you think robots will replace human beings in the future? What things do

you think robots can’t do? Step 4 Homework 1. Find more information about robots and science fiction. 2. Preview Reading.