Life in the future（The Second Period）

the second period
teaching aims：
1.learn and master the following expressions：
  in general，catch a glimpse of，keep in touch with，pay attention to，lead to，in store
2.improve the students' reading ability.
3.let the students know something about the life in the future.
teaching important points：
1.improve the students' reading ability.
2.master the following phrases：
  in general, catch a glimpse of, keep in touch with，pay attention to,1ead to, in store
3.enable the students to understand the text better.
teaching difficult point：
how to make the students understand the reading passage better.
teaching methods：
1.discussion before reading to make students become interested in what they will learn.
2.scaning the text to get a general idea of the text.
3.careful reading to get the detailed information in the text.
4.individual，pair or group work to make every student work in class.
teaching aids：
1.a multimedia
2.a tape recorder
3.the blackboard
teaching procedures：
step i greetings and lead-in
greet the whole class as usual.
t：do you like watching plays?
ss：yes.
t：now i'll show you three plays.watch carefully. after that i'll ask you a
question.
(teacher shows the plays.after that，teacher says the following.)
t：what differences have you found in these plays? who’d like to answer this question? any volunteers?
s：i think the ways that people work are different.in the first play，some people    are working by hand.in the second play.some people are working with machines while some people are giving orders to robots to work for them in the last one.
t: yes.our society is developing very fast, so our life has also changed a lot.
with the development of science and technology, our life now is quite dif-ferent from that in the past.do you want to know what life wi11 be like in the future?
ss：yes.
  t：today we are going to read a passage about life in the future.
step ⅱ pre—reading
t：now first let's learn some new words on page 110.
   (teach the words and explain them to the students.then ask the students to read after the tape.at last teacher says the following.)
t：ok.now i want you to discuss four questions. look at the screen.
   (teacher uses the multimedia to show the questions on the screen.)
1.how will people shop in the future?
2.how will people travel in the future?
3.what will schools be like in the fu-ture?
4.what will the future be like in gener-a1?
  (teacher gives the students four minutes to discuss and then collects their an- swers.finally ask them to read the text to find out the answers to the questions.)