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M4

Unit 3

Tomorrow’s world

Period 1

Welcome to the unit and word power 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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1) To learn how to form abstract nouns from verbs and adjectives by adding suffixes. 3.

2) To know some words related to computers and the Internet, and to apply them practically. Teaching Important and Difficult Points: 1) How to make students master the rules of forming abstract nouns from verbs and adjectives.

2) Make students expand related vocabulary and apply them practically. Teaching Approaches: 1.

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

Explanation method to make students master the rules of forming abstract nouns from verbs and adjectives.

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2) Description method to make students to master some words related to computers.

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?

Step 2 Welcome to the unit

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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? Teaching notes:

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? Teaching notes:

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 Forming abstract nouns from verbs and adjectives 1. We can form abstract nouns from some verbs and adjectives by adding suffixes.

1). adjectives → abstract nouns

1. We can form abstract nouns from some verbs and adjectives by adding suffixes.

1). adjectives → abstract nouns

Exercise 2). verbs → abstract nouns

Exercise Tips: Sometimes we need to change the final letters of a word before adding suffix: produce→production

silent→silence

decide→decision

pretty→prettiness

please→pleasure

2. Read about the history of the world’s most successful online businesses. Use the plural forms to fill in the blanks. Answers: Teaching notes:

1) development

2) failure

3) connections

4) improvements

5) achievement

Step5 Words related to computers and the Internet 1 Revise names of some parts of the computer. (screen, monitor, speaker, keyboard, mouse, CD-Rom, printer) 2 Teach Ss to learn more words related to computers, especially the most up-to-date hardware: (hard drive, floppy disk, floppy disk drive, U-Disk, ROM, RAM, CPU) 3 Teach Ss to understand the functions of different parts of a computer.

Step 6 More words related to computers scanner

扫描器

sound card声卡

Hyperlink

超链接

network card cursor

光标

click点击

Ask them to complete the poster on page 47. Answers:

1) keyboard

2) mouse

3) data

4) CPU

5) e-mails

6) surf

7) download

8) software

Step 7 Homework 1. Revise what we have learnt in this part. 2. Try to find more information about computer science. 教学后记或反思：

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