1、1Unit 3 Life in the future. 单元教学目标技能目标 Skill GoalsTalk about things in the past, at present and in the futureTalk about changes at presentPredict good and bad changes in the future. 目标语言词汇1 四会词汇Expect, aspect, constant, constantly, remind, jet, previous, tablet, capsule, opening, surrounding, lack,
2、ache, mask, bend, press, swift, swiftly, master, sight, flash, switch, optimistic, length, extraordinary, extraordinarily2 认读词汇jet lag, flashback, expertise, hover, pessimistic, enormous, imitate, 3 词组take up, remind . of ., lose sight of ., catch sight of ., sweep up, speed up, assist in4 重点词汇const
3、ant, remind, lack, sight, assist, require, settlement, previous, swift语法The past participle as the attributeand following him to collect a hovering carriage driven by computer.The past participle as the adverbialWorried about the journey, I was unsettled for the first few days.Hit by a lack of fresh
4、 air, my head ached.Exhausted, I slid into bed and fell fast asleep.重点句子1. This is similar to the “jet lag” you get when flying, but instead it means you keep getting flashbacks from your previous time period. P172. Well-known for their expertise, his parents company named “Future Tours” transported
5、 me safely into the future in a time capsule. P183. He handed it to me and immediately hurried me through to a small room nearby for a rest. P184. He was swept up into the centre of them. 5. I found later that their leaves provided the house with much-needed oxygen. P188. Everyone will get twice as
6、much personal space as in flats on land. P589. Only when the robot cleaner touches objects can they be moved. P59. 教材分析与教材重组1. 教材分析2本单元以“Life in the future”为中心话题，旨在通过本单元的学习，让学生大胆发挥想象，对人类今后的生活环境，生活方式进行猜测，并在此基础上，对人类的种种活动进行反思，提倡环保生活意识。同时让学生学会过去分词作定语和作状语的不同用法。最后让学生将本单元所讨论的话题和推测手法相结合，学习怎样写 report。1.1 War
7、ming Up 部分利用一个关于“住”和“行”的对比研究表格引导学生回顾过去，认识现在和展望未来。通过这一活动，引发学生对过去，现在和未来的思考，使学生对将要阅读的文章有个知识准备。1.2 Pre-reading 部分让学生充分运用发散思维，先列举当今世界人类面临的一些突出问题，然后要求学生思考为什么会产生这些问题，这些问题中哪些在未来社会仍然可能存在，哪些将会被克服，哪些将会恶化。为下面的阅读做了铺垫。1.3 Reading 部分通过一封发自未来的电子邮件，讲述了作者 Li Qiang怎样安全到达“未来世界” ，他对“未来世界”的印象，以及“未来世界”的日常生活方式和交通工具情况。阅读时要把
8、重点放在“未来世界”生活与当今生活的不同点上。1.4 Comprehending 部分设计了三个教学活动来加深学生对 Reading部分的理解。第一个活动要求学生通过阅读找出“未来世界”在以下几个方面的变化：跨时空旅行，交通，住房，城镇环境和空气质量。接着让学生在此基础上得出自己的结论，哪些变化好，哪些变化不好，并说明理由。第二个活动要求学生通过阅读来判断 Li Qiang对“未来世界”的态度是乐观的还是悲观的。学生要在文中找出支持自己观点的论据，尽可能说服别人。第三个活动让学生想象一下 Li Qiang将会去参加哪些活动。这样既鼓励学生展开丰富的想象，又为 Using Language部分的
9、语篇学习做了铺垫。1.5 Learning about Language部分突出了本单元的一些重点词汇及语法。首先通过完成语篇来考查学生运用本单元词汇的能力，并且通过练习，让学生区分两种动词短语，一种是以动词为中心的词组，另一种是以介词为中心的词组。语法部分要求学生主动找出阅读语篇中的重点结构过去分词作定语和状语，然后加以应用。1.6 Using Language 部分涵盖了听，说，读，写四项语言基本技能。要求学生通过阅读 I HAVE SEEN AMAZING THINGS 一文，对 Li Qiang旅行的第三站有个总体的印象，并能找出部分细节知识。1.7 SUMMING UP 部分归纳了本
10、单元的主要学习内容并让学生自我检测一下学习效果。1.8 LEARNING TIP 部分告诉学生在讨论时记笔记的好处和方法。2. 教材重组2.1 可将 Warming Up, Pre-reading, Reading 和 Comprehending 整合在一起上一节精读课。2.2 Using Language 中的 reading 和 listening 是 Li Qiangs travel to the future的延续，可将这两部分及 Workbook 中的 LISTENING整合起来上一节听力课。2.3可将 Learning about Language 和 Workbook 中的 US
11、ING WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS 及 USING STRUCTURES整合起来上一节语法课。2.4 将 Workbook 中的 READING TASK 和 LISTENING TASK 结合起来上一节泛读课，进一步拓展学生的思维和想象力。2.5 将 Using Language中的 speaking 和 Workbook中的 TALKING 整合在一起上一节口语课，鼓励学生对现在进行反思，对未来进行大胆猜测(make predictions)。2.6 将 Workbook 中的 SPEAKING TASK 和 WRITING TASK 整合起来上一节写作课，同时对整个单元进
12、行一个小结。33. 课型设计与课时分配1st Period Reading2nd Period Listening3rd Period Grammar4th Period Extensive Reading5th Period Speaking6th Period Writing . 分课时教案The First Period ReadingTeaching goals 教学目标 1. Target language 目标语言a. 重点词汇和短语constantly, remind, vehicle, carriage, bathroom, temple, private, settlemen
13、t, impression, constant, jet, previous, tablet, capsule, opening, surrounding, lack, ache, mask, bend, press, swift, swiftly, master, sight, flash, switch, optimistic, length, take up, lack of, lose sight of, sweep up, catch sight ofb. 重点句式This is similar to ., but it means . P17Well-known for ., hi
14、s parents company，called “Future Tour”, transported me safely into the future in a time capsule. P18He handed it to me and immediately hurried me through to a small room nearby for a rest. P182. Ability goals 能力目标Enable the Ss to talk about the life in the past, at present and in the future.3. Learn
15、ing ability goals 学能目标Help the Ss learn how to describe the life in the past, at present and in the future.Teaching important difficult points 教学重难点Compare life in the past, at present and in the future.What is life in the future like? What changes will take place?Teaching methods 教学方法Fast and caref
16、ul reading; asking and answering activity; individual, pair or group work.Teaching aids 教具准备A computer and a projector.Teaching procedures ways 教学过程与方式Step I Warming UpShow some pictures of life in the past, at present and in the future to the Ss, period by period. First show the pictures of life in
17、 China in AD 1005.T: Do these pictures describe our daily life? Ss: No, perhaps they describe life of many many years ago.4T: Good. Then can you tell me what life was like one thousand years ago? For example, life in AD 3008. S: Let me try. People living at that time didnt have cars or planes. They
18、rode horses or took carriages.S: They didnt have electricity. S: They didnt live in tall buildings.Show the pictures of life at present.T: Good! What about our life at present? What is it like?S: Our life at present is convenient. We live in various kinds of buildings, and we have lots of entertainm
19、ents. We travel by many modern transportations, such as cars, buses, planes and etc. Show the pictures of life in the future.T: Every day we can come across passages about life in the future in magazines, newspapers and so on. Please look at these pictures and try your best to describe what life in
20、the future will be like.S: Let me have a try. I think in the future we can travel the whole space in a spaceship freely. And perhaps we can communicate with aliens.S: At that time, I think the earth will have been polluted so heavily that no one can live on it. We perhaps will have to move to other
21、planets to live. .Then set a scene for the Ss A special tour guide.T: Now imagine you are working in a tour company which has just promoted a new kind of travel time travel. Your company can transport people in AD 2008 to the past, also it can transport people in the past to your cities. You are cho
22、sen to be a guide for 5 people who want to go back to the China in AD 1005, and also 4 people in that year want to visit the China in AD 2008. How will you organize your trip? What kind of things will you introduce to those people? Give the Ss 2 minutes to discuss.T: OK. Times up. Volunteer?S: If I
23、am the tour guide who will take people back to the past, I will introduce them the houses, the way people lived and their clothing. Because these are quite different from ours today, I think people will be very interested in them.S: If the company gives me the chance to take people living in the pas
24、t to our city at present, I will try my best to provide them an impressive trip. I will introduce something which is different from things in the past to them. For example, transportation, TV, computer and business. Because these have changed greatly as time goes by. T: OK. You have done a good job.
25、 Now open your books and turn to page 17. Please work in pairs to discuss the items in the chart. When you finished, complete the chart. Give the Ss ten minutes, and after that, check the answers.Step Pre-reading5Get the Ss to discuss the problems that human beings are facing today (such as pollutio
26、n, all kinds of shortages). Make a prediction about the future: which problems may be solved, and which will still be there. This part will prepare the Ss for the text. T: We all know that as our society develops, we have got much benefit. But at the same time, we have to face lots of problems. Can
27、you find out what kind of problems human beings are facing?S: Pollution.S: Population is becoming larger and larger.S: The shortage of resources.T: Yes! Then can you predict which problems can be solved in the future? And which ones will still be there?S: I think the problem of population will be so
28、lved in the future, because now more and more countries have begun to control the birth rate.S: I think the problems of pollution and shortage of resources will still be there, and will even get worse. S: I dont think so. Now scientists all over the world are trying their best to develop new resourc
29、es that human beings can make use of, such as solar energy. In my opinion, the problems can be solved one by one.Step ReadingT: Now please open your books and turn to page 17. Lets read the passage First Impressions. Read it quickly and then tell me what it is about.Several minutes later.T: Well, ha
30、ve you finished reading the passage?Ss: Yes.T: OK. Who would like to tell me what the text is about?S: Its an e-mail written by a man who has taken up a trip to the future.T: Good. Then look at the following sentences. They are in wrong order. Anyone can tell me the correct order of these sentences?
31、A. We were transported into the future by a comfortable time capsule.B. I arrived at Wang Pings 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.S: C-A-D-B.T: Very good! Lets go through the first two paragra
32、phs together and get the general idea of Li Qiangs trip to the future. Then answer the questions on the screen.Show these checking questions on the screen.1. Why did I have the chance to travel to the year AD 3008? 2. What is a “time lag”? 3. How did I feel when I was in the capsule? 4. Who guides m
33、y trip?5. Why did my guide give me some tablets?66. Who transported us to the future?A few minutes later, check the answers.Sample answers:1. He took up the prize he won the year before. 2. “Time lag” means a person gets flashbacks from his previous time period.3. The seats in the capsule are very c
34、omfortable.4. My friend Wang Ping is my guide to the future.5. The tablets could help me feel less nervous and uncertain.6. Wang Pings parents company transported us to the future.T: Wonderful. Do you want to know more about his trip? Now please go through the third paragraph to get some details on
35、the environment in the future. When you finish, please answer the following questions.Show these three questions on the screen.1. How did I feel as soon as I was transported to the future?2. How did Wang Ping solve this problem?3. What do you think has caused this kind of problem? Give the Ss 1 or 2
36、 minutes to think and they can discuss with their partners. Then check the answers.Sample answers:1. After the writer was transported to the future, he was hit by the lack of fresh air.2. Wang Ping gave a mask to the writer and hurried him through to a small room nearby to have a rest.3. Now we are
37、causing more and more pollution to the nature, this will cause serious problems to life in the future. This may be the cause of the lack of fresh air in the future.T: What will transportation in the future be like? Are there any differences between transportation in the future and that at present? N
38、ow please read the fourth and fifth paragraphs and find out something about both transportation and daily life in the future. After the Ss read the paragraphs, ask them the following questions.1. What did Wang Pings house look like?2. What was the green wall made of? Whats the purpose of building th
39、is kind of green wall?3. How can you produce a TV set in Wang Pings house?Sample answers:1. His house is a large bright, clean room. It had a green wall, a brown floor and soft lighting. 2. The green wall was made of trees. The leaves of the trees will provide much-needed oxygen to the house.3. You
40、can just flash a switch on the computer screen and a TV set will rise from the floor.T: So we can see life in the future is much more convenient and much easier than our present life. 7Step Follow-up ActivityGet the Ss to compare life at present and in the future. Find out the changes on several ite
41、ms. Try to distinguish which changes are good and which are not good and give reasons.T: Now lets make a prediction about future and see what will be changed in the future. I will give you 3 minutes to discuss in pairs, and after your discussion please finish the following chart.Sample answers:Items
42、 Life at present Life in the future (Changes) good or bad? Reasons?EnvironmentAir pollution and water pollution; resource shortageThe situation will get worse and worseThe development of our society will cause human being to develop more and more resources; and the development of industry will cause
43、 worse pollution to our environmentTransport Airplane, car, train, boat and helicopterSpacecraft, time travel, personal flying car or bikeMore convenientEducation People receive education in schoolPeople receive education on the Internet; can choose the subjects and the teachers they likeHave more c
44、hances to receive different knowledgeHouses Flats in high rise buildings; with kitchens and bathroomsCozy, modern flats, furniture in walls and floorThen let the Ss do Exx. 2 3 on page 19. A few minutes later, check the answers.Sample answer to Ex. 3:I think the writer has an optimistic view of the
45、future. He was very excited when he traveled to the year AD 3008 and couldnt believe it was true. From this, we can see he is eager to go to the future. Though he was hit by the lack of fresh air, the problem was immediately solved by putting on a mask. And he tells us the transport in the future is
46、 convenient. When he arrived Wang 8Pings home, he found there were many trees after the wall moved, and these trees provided the house with much-needed oxygen. Finally he described the automatic equipment in Wang Pings house. All the above has shown his view of the future.Step HomeworkReview the key
47、 sentences in the text. The Second Period ListeningTeaching goals 教学目标1. Target language 目标语言重点词汇和短语extraordinarily, atmosphere, gravity, assist in 2. Ability goals 能力目标Enable the Ss to tell the differences between two kinds of alien creatures.Enable the Ss to understand the facilities in “Wonderwor
48、ld”.3. Learning ability goals 学能目标Help the Ss learn how to promote a new invention by analyzing different situations.Teaching important difficult points 教学重难点Listen to the material about the new invention and find out its special qualities. Teaching methods 教学方法Discussion; listening; cooperative lea
49、rning.Teaching aids 教具准备A computer, a projector and a recorder.Teaching procedures ways 教学过程与方式Step Lead-inLet the Ss discuss the following two questions:1. Do you think time travel is possible?2. If you have the chance to have a time travel, which places would you like to visit? And why?T: Glad to see you, everyone. Last time we learnt something about Li Qiangs travel to the future. Its fantastic, right? In our daily life, we also read lots of novels and watch many films about time travel. Can you name so
