Unit 6 Life in the future
Teaching goals : 1.talk about life in the future
2. practise making predictions
3. learn about Noun clauses (2)
4.write a definition paragraph
Period 1
Step 1 warming up
Task 1 (optional) (class work) Present Ss some pictures about the changes in the past few years.(transportation. Communication, food ect) Ask Ss to tell the differences.
① What changes have taken place in these pictures?
② How did the changes come about?
③ What is your opinion towards such changes in our life?
Task 2 ( group work) Look at the pictures on Page 41
1What can you see in the pictures?
Picture 1: A car with flowing lines but without wheels. It looks different from the car used today. It must be faster and cleaner without using petrol.
Picture 2: A city with low modern buildings with flowing lines. There are many trees and the sky is clear with stars shining.
Picture 3: An ET and a spaceship/ spacecraft.
Picture 4: Very old but healthy people. Two bottles of pills of nutrients.
2What kind of life are these pictures about?
Task 3 ( group work ) Work in groups and discuss the future of one of the following areas. Use the questions( Page 41) given to get started. The form below may be helpful.

At present
In the future
Communication
By e-mail/ letter/ telephone/ telegram/ using the Internet/ face-to-face communication
Easier/ cheaper/ faster
By e-mail/ letter/ telephone/ telegram/ using the Internet/ face-to-face communication
Work
Stay in one job, in the workplace, eg. offices, factories, ect. , busy
Easier, change jibs, work at home, more free time, need little manual/ physical labor
Business and money
Cash (coins, bills), credit cards, computers
No cash, credit cards, computers
The human body
Sometimes get sick
Healthier, not easily get ill, bigger & healthier bodies, bigger brains
Language
English, Chinese, ect.
different languages
Global/ universal language
Houses and buildings
Without good environment
Greener, practical & beautiful
Transportation
Pollution, traffic jams, unsafe
Safer, faster, cleaner, visit other planets
Education
Boring, tiring, uninteresting, hard, go to school
Stay at home, fun & easy, Teachers help students learn what they want to learn
Step2: Language points (for Warming up, Listening & Speaking)
Use the questions below to get started.
1.get done
(1) = do get started = start
(2) = be done Be careful with the hot soup, or you will get burnt. = …, or you will be burnt.
Two hundred people were killed in the accident and more got injured. = … more were injured.
2.do business 做生意
(It’s none of your business. = It has nothing to do with you.
Mind your own business. Business is business get down to business)
Twice as good or double trouble?
3.(1) twice as… as…
(2) twice more/ -er than…
(3) twice the size/ age/ length/ width/ height/ depth/… of …

Period 2 Reading

Step 1: Lead in ( powerpoint )
1. T: Many people have a curiosity to know about what life will be like in the near future or the faraway future. Class, do you have such a curiosity? As we know, nobody can know exactly what future is like, so what we can do is make predictions. Let’s see the science fiction’s king Arthur C. Clarke’s future predictions.

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Arthur C. Clarke's predictions for the next century:
2003 The automobile industry is given five years to replacefossil fuels.
2004 First publicly admitted human clone.
2009 All nuclear weapons are destroyed.
2010 A new form of space-based energy is adopted.
2011 Space flights become available for the public.
2013 Prince Harry flies in space. Compl

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