一、Teaching materials:
Unit 2 Everyone will have a small sea. (Module 4 Life in the future)
二、Targets for this period:
The students can use “will” to express their own wishes
To get necessary information from the reading material
To talk about the prospect of one’s own school
三、Key points:
Key vocabulary-car, farm, holiday, plane, sea, sun, expensive, rough, comfortable
Key structures -will + V.原形
四、Teaching methods:
Task-based approach and bottom-up approach
五、Teaching aids
Reading material, blackboard
六、Teaching arrangements:
Step One Lead-in (Homework)
Have a dictation and ask the students to imagine what life will be like in ten years
Step Two To pronounce some new words and expressions of Unit 2
1. Students read the words after the tape.
2. Students practice pronouncing the words by themselves.
3. Help some students correct the pronunciations of some words.
Step Three Pre-reading (Activity 1)
1: Read through the words in the box and make sure that the students understand them all.
2. Ask the students to look at the pictures and tell their partners what they can see in the each one.
3. Collect their answers in a whole-class setting as complete sentences.
4. Learning to learn: Before the students read the passage, have them read through the Learning to learn box.
5. Talk about the importance of inferring the meaning from context, and the fact that it is not necessary to understand every word in order to understand the general meaning of a text.
Step Four Fast reading (Activity 1&2)
1. Ask the students to read through the passage individually, and then match the paragraphs with the pictures.
2. They should check with a partner.
3. Collect the answers in a whole-class setting; ask a student to read a paragraph and then say which picture it goes with.
Step Five To match the pictures and paragraphs with the headings (Activity 3)
1. Read through the words and have the students repeat them.
2. Work on the syllable stress of the multi-syllable words.
Cli/mate Homes Jobs Tech/nol/o/gy Tran/sport
3. Make sure they understand what the words mean.
4. Ask the students to match the paragraphs and pictures individually, then check with a partner.
5. Collect the answers from the class.
Cli/mate: Paragraph B-Picture 2 Homes: Paragraph C-Picture 5
Jobs: Paragraph E-Picture 3 Tech/nol/o/gy: Paragraph D-Picture 1
Tran/sport: Paragraph A-Picture 4
Step Six Careful reading(Activity 3)
Ask the students to read through the sentences and decide which are true in the passage.
Step Seven Detail explanation
1. get
1) get + adj. e.g. The food is getting cold.
2) get sb. sth. = get sth. for sb.
3) get to a place get up get on/off
2. heat
1) (v.) We’ll heat some milk for the coffee
2) (n.) I can’t walk in this heat.
3. three days a week once a year three times two weeks
Step Eight Students practice reading the passage aloud
1. Read through the words and have the students repeat them chorally and individually. (Activity 4)
2. Make sure they understand the meaning of all of them.
3. Ask the students to match the words individually, then check with a partner
cheap-expensive comfortable-uncomfortable easy-difficult good-bad hot-cold interesting-dull large-small light-heavy new-old rough-smooth short-long strong-weak warm-cool
Step Nine To answer the questions (Activity 5)
1. Read through the words and have the students repeat them after you.
2. Ask them to find answers individually then check with a partner.
Step Ten Writing (Activity 8)
Read the example sentences, and help them to see that “so” relate the cause to the effect to become a single sentence with two clauses.
e.g. Planes will be very large. Flying will be very cheap.
----Planes will be very large so flying will be very cheap.
1. It will probably be hot all year so the winter will be very short.
2. We’ll use the sun to heat our homes so no one will be cold and there’ll be lots of hot water.
3. People will work three days a week so they’ll have long holidays and lots of free time.
Homework:
1. To talk about life in the future in pairs
2. To finish Unit2, Module4, 点中典
Blackboard designing
Unit 2 Everyone will have a small sea.
Headlines: notes-pictures
Cli/mate: Paragraph B-Picture 2 Homes: Paragraph C-Picture 5
Jobs: Paragraph E-Picture 3 Tech/nol/o/gy: Paragraph D-Picture 1
Tran/sport: Paragraph A-Picture 4
The opposite adjective:
hot-cold interesting-dull large-small light-heavy
new-old rough-smooth short-long strong-weak warm-cool
cheap-expensive comfortable-uncomfortable easy-difficult good-bad
so-clause
e.g. Planes will be very large. Flying will be very cheap.
----Planes will be very large so flying will be very cheap.
1. It will probably be hot all year so the winter will be very short.
2. We’ll use the sun to heat our homes so no one will be cold and there’ll be lots of hot water.
3. People will work three days a week so they’ll have long holidays and lots of free time.