Teaching plan of Unit 6
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 i
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