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Unit 4 Pygmalion --------learning language Teaching Aims:

1.students can talk about the life in the future and make some predictions. 2.students are supposed to get more information about the changes of life in the future. The important Points: What Li Qiang experienced in the time travel journey in AD3008. The difficult points: 1.The changes of life in the future, especially in transportation,environment and housing 2.What’s the author’s attitude toward future, optimistic or pessimistic

Teaching methods: 1. Fast and detailed reading, 2. Asking and answering question activity 3. Individual, Pair work & group work Teaching procedures: Step 1. Greetings

Step2. Leading-in by a video Let students see a video and answer the questions：what kind of life did the man experience? Have we had this kind of life? So it will arouse their interest and introduce the topic---life in the future.

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Step3.warming up The students work in pairs to talk about what kind of life they want to live in the future. The students are given some hints in their paper to inspire them to say something optimistic about future. Then the second question aims at guiding the students to think about something pessimistic about the future. Through the discussion, they can realize what great changes we would have in the near future. Step4.Pre-reading Let the students look at the first picture on page18 and answer the following three questions. What can you see in the picture? What are the people doing? Where do you think they are going? If you want to know more about it,let’s read the whole text and find out what will happen. Step5. While reading 1.Listening

Listen to the tape carefully and then answer the following question What ’s the main idea of the passage? C. Li Qiang e-mailed to tell his parents something about his time travel trip.

2 .Fast reading Task1.Read through the passage quickly and Try to find out the different kinds of changes Li Qiang has mentioned in the passage.

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The answers:Transport

Air quality

Houses

Towns

Travel Question: good ones or bad ones? Task 2.

Put the following sentences into the correct order. a. We were transported into the future by a comfortable time capsule. b. I arrived at Wang Ping’s home and everything in his house made me surprised. c. I won a travel to the year AD 3008. d. I have my first try to master a hovering carriage. Tips:the teacher suggests that students pay attention to the time order.

The Key:

c-----a-----d---b

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Detail Reading

According to the time clue,we can divide the whole text into three parts.Now try to find out what happened to Li Qiang

before, during and after the journey. Before the journey: The information includes:who made the journey;when it happened;why he traveled to the future; what he suffered; how to deal with the problem; Which vehicle he was transported by During the journey:

inside the capsule; through the opening---comfortable seats---a calming drink---lay relaxed---rose slowly from ground---Complete the journey---1000 years later---outside the capsule

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outside the capsule:

Please go through the third paragraph, then try to answer the following questions. 1. How did I feel as soon as I was transported to the future?

The key: I was hit by the lack of fresh air and my head ached.

2. How did Wang Ping solve this problem?

The key :Wang Ping gave a mask to me and hurried me through to a small room nearby to have a rest. After the journey Ask students to find the key information and fill in the blanks At home: ◆It is a large bright clean room.

◆It had a _____ wall, a brown floor and soft lighting.

◆The wall moved — it was made of _____! Their leaves provided the room with much-needed ______.

◆A table and some chairs rose from _____________ as if by magic. when Wang Ping ______ a switch on a computer screen.

Step 6.Post –reading Let students work in groups and have a discussion: What’s the writer’s attitude towards the future, optimistic or pessimistic?

How do you know?

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Students can talk about time travel, transport, houses, towns, air quality from two aspects: good changes and reasons,

bad changes and reasons. Through the discussion, the students can find out what the author’s attitude toward the future. Step7. homework 1.Review the reading passage and find out the difficult language points to you. 2.Review the words and phrases of unit3 and get ready for a dictation.

Step8. Design of the blackboard

Unit3 Life in the future

before the journey The time travel journey

during the journey

after the journey

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