Unit 3 Life in the future
The first period
Teaching Contents:
Warming up, pre-reading, reading
Teaching aims:
1.Inspire the students to imagine the future life.
2.Develop the students’ reading ability
3.Enable the students to understand the meaning of the text
4.Get the students to think about the problem we’re facing now and in the future what the world would like
Important & difficult point:
Compare life in the past, at present and in the future. The students imagine what the future life is like and use the proper expressions.
Teaching methods: fast and careful reading; asking and answering activity; pair or group work
Teaching procedures:
Step1: Lead-in.
Look at some pictures of Mars and pictures about life in the past, at present and in the future.
Step2: Warming up.
Before doing the exercise, look at some pictures to remind the students of old things.
And let the students know the change of life.
Step3: Read the text quickly, then put the sentences into the correct order.
Step4:Go through the first two paragraphs quickly, then answer the following questions:
Step5: Have a discussion.

The second period
Teaching Contents:
1.Reading & Comprehending
2.Language points
Teaching Aims:
1. Develop the students’ reading ability
2. Enable the students to understand the meaning of the text

Teaching Important Point:
Develop the students’ reading ability
Teaching Aids:
A computer, A tape recorder.
Teaching Procedure:
Step1: Fast Reading 1
Ask the students to read the text quickly while listening to the tape of the text, then find out the main idea of the text.
Step2: Fast Reading 2
Ask the students to read the passage in detail and try to fill in the table.
Step3: What’s the writer’s attitude towards the future, optimistic or pessimistic?
How do you know?
Step4: Make a telephone conversation between Li Qiang and his mother according to the text.
Step5:Learn some important structures


The Third period
Teaching Content: Grammar
Teaching Aims:
Teach grammar (The Past Participle as the Adverbial & Attribute)
Difficult and Important Points:
Distinguish the usage of the past participle as the adverbial and the past participle as the attribute.
Teaching methods: practice.
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1. Word Study
Ask the Ss to do the Exx. 1&2 on pages 19 & 20 in Using words And Expressions in Workbook. Then check the answers.
Step 2. The Ss will learn the usage of the past participle in different situations.
Step 3. Make clear to the Ss the usage of the past participle as the adverbial. Ask the students to rewrite with proper conjunctions
Step 4. Complete each sentence using the Past Participle of the right verb.
Step 5. Summary
Step 6. Make clear to the Ss the usage of the past participle as the attributive.
Step 7. Do some exercises

The Fourth period
Teaching Contents: Talking
Teaching aims:
Enable the Ss to talk about things at present and predict things in the future.
Important & difficult point:
Teaching methods: Pair work and group work
Teaching procedures:
Step1: Lead-in.
Look at some pictures of inventions. Let students be proud of the great people who have great imagination.
Step2: Encourage the Ss to design an object for the future and ask them to make an introduction of their inventions.
First, you need to decide on your product;
Second, you will have to explain how your product works.
Third, you need to show that people will be willing to use it.
Use the descriptions on P56.
Step3: Learn some language points

The fifth period
Teaching content: LISTENING

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