Life in the future
Teaching aims and demands
Goals: Talk about life in the future
Practise making predictions
Learn about Noun Clauses(2).
1. Vocabulary and useful expressions:
Forecast, major, trend, contemporary, indicate, urban, energy, ensure, system, consumer, reform, customer, goods, purchase, tiny, cash, remain, importance, regularly, physician, cure, biochemistry, educator, hopeful, reality
In general, keep in touch with, pay attention to, in store,
2. Function:
Making prediction:
What will life be like in the future?
How will people….
Where will people work….
It would be wonderful if …..
It would be bad for …. If…….
It’s possible/ impossible to …..
No one can predict what /when…...
3. Grammar:
Noun Clauses:(2)
What life will be like in the future is difficult to predict.
They are careful about what they wear.
If we learn to accept change and appreciate what is new and different….
Teaching procedure:
Period 1.
Step 1.Warming up
1. Brainstorming:
Find as many words as the students can find about future lives.
2. Following the steps of the warming-up on page 41.
3. Activity:
Discuss in groups about the following areas in the future:
Communication/ housing/ transportation/ education/ hospital
Step 2. Pre-reading
1. Show some pictures of highly-developped technology used in daily life.
2. group work: describe the pictures.
Step 3. While-reading
1. Scanning: Ss read quickly and answer:
What is the passage about?
2. Ss read and get the main ideas of each paragraph.
Step 4. After-reading
Comprehending by answering the following questions:
What are the advantages of future transportation, smart card, online shopping and e-schools?
What will happen in the field of health and medicine in the future?
Why is it important to be lifelong learners?
What should we do to make sure we will have a bright future?
Step 5. Assignment
1. surf the internet and get more information about the topic..
2. find a few sentences in the passage which you like most, understand them entirely and then explain them to your deskmates.
Period 2.
Step 1. Warming up
Ask some Ss to recite the sentences that they have learnt last period.
Step 2. Learning about the language
Teacher explain some language points in the text on page 43--44.
1. What life will be like in the future is difficult to predict.
What’s….like?
What’s the weather like today?
What’s the picture like?
2. E-commerce, or business done on the internet, is becoming more and more popular as people discover the advantages of online shopping.
Done on the Internet
The Past Participle used as Attributive.
3. Homework will always be homework, but the schools of the future will probably be quite different from what they are today.
the Noun Clause here used as object
Step 3. Practice
1. Ss finish Ex 1 and 2 on page 45 by themselves.
2. check the answer.
3. Teacher gives Ss suggested answer and tell them why if the Ss have any problem.
Step 4. Assignment
1. Learn the useful expressions by heart.
2. Finish Wb. Ex1 –3 focusing on vocabulary on page 117--118.
Period 3.
Step 1. Revision
Check the answers of Wb Ex 1 – 3 on P117--118
Step 2.
1. Discoverig useful structures and underline the Noun Clauses in passage:
Let Ss themselves find the functions of the Noun Clauses.
2.Ss study more examples on p46.
What life will be like in the future is difficult to predict.
They are careful about what they wear.
If we learn to accept change and appreciate what is new and different….
3.More exercises to consolidate the Grammar.
.EX1-3 on p118
Step 3. Talking
1. Ss four in one group and have a discussion about the topic on page 117
2. Ss make notes during the discussion, and try to use wh-questions freely to get information needed.
Step 4. Speaking
Ss work in pairs and make prediction:
The following structures are helpful to students:
What will life be like in the future?
How will people….
Where will people work….
It would be wonderful if …..
It would be bad for …. If…….
It’s possible/ impossible to …..
No one can predict what /when…...
Step 5. Assignment
Finish Wb Ex 2on page 117
Period 4.
Step 1. Warming up
Ask Ss some questions about Life in the future
Step 2. Reading
1. Ss read the passage :
Where is the future going?
2. Help Ss to understand the passage entirely.
3. Finish the comprehending exercises on P121
Step 3. Writing
Finish the writing task on p 121
The following chart may be a help for making logical thoughts
Period 5. (Listening)
Step 1. Listening
1. Ss finish the listening task on page 42
2. Ss listen to the tape again and check the answers.
Step 2. dealing with the Ex 1-2 on p116 on Workbook.
Step 3. Listening skills
Give the students some tips on how to improve listening while checking the Ex.
a. make notes while listening;
b. grasp the most important information
Period 6. (Writing )
Step 1. Pre-writing
1. Ss read the passage onP47 and get a general idea about it.
2. Explain the skills on how to organize a paragraph.
Step 2. While-writing
1. Ss write a short e-mail to an e-pal
2. Ss exchange their writing and correct the mistakes.
3. Ss rewrite the letter again.
Step 3. After-writing
Choose some samples and show them in class.
Tips on writing:
Pay attention to the form of writing a letter.
Pay attention to the tense while writing.
Pay attention to the structures of the sentences.
Step 4. assignment
Ss in group 3-5, discuss the life in 3044
Period 7.
Teachers can use this period freely.
Suggestion: Teachers can use this period to let Ss sum up what they have learned and explain what Ss couldn’t understand very well in this unit. Teachers can also add more practice in this period to consolidate what the Ss have learned. Finally, ask the Ss to learn to definite. It is very important to improve their learning and let them have a sense of achieving gradually.