Life in the future（Period 1 Welcome to the Unit）
have the students discuss the changes that have taken place for almost one thousand years and what will happen in the coming one thousand years.encourage the students to predict what problems people will have to overcome.understand and learn the following words and expressions: vehicle, carriage, private, settlement, impression, take up, constant, remind, previous, tablet, capsule, surrounding, lack, mask, bend, press, swift, master, lose sight of, catch sight of, sweep, switch, optimistic, length, speed up, extraordinary, helmet, assist in, agency, slip, require.teaching difficultiespredict what changes may take place/be found in the next one thousand years.teaching aidscai equipment with a multi-media classroom and other normal teaching toolsthree dimensional teaching aimsknowledge aimslearn about the changes that have happened for almost one thousand years and what will happen in the coming one thousand years.list what problems people will have to overcome.try to understand and learn the following words and expressions: vehicle, carriage, private, settlement, impression, take up, constant, remind, previous, tablet, capsule, surrounding, lack, mask, bend, press, swift, master, lose sight of, catch sight of, sweep, switch, optimistic, length, speed up, extraordinary, helmet, assist in, agency, slip, require.ability aimsdevelop the students’ ability of speaking.encourage the students to imagine what will happen in the future to cultivate the students for creativeness.emotional aimsencourage the students to be brave enough to imagine what seems impossible today.let them realize nothing is impossible and we can make the impossible possible.having courage to imagine sometimes leads to new success and new breakthroughs in the future.
teaching procedurestep 1 greetingt: hello, my friends.s: hello, miss wang.step 2 word puzzlest: open your books to page 94.let’s read the words and expressions together.(the students read those words and expressions together.help them pronounce the new words and expressions correctly.later give them some time to remember some.if some students are poor in pronunciation, the teacher should give them some more help.)t: now, listen to me carefully.i will give you some explanations or situations for some words and phrases.when i tell you some meanings or situations, you’d better guess which words or phrases i refer to.get ready for it.let’s see who will be the first to find out the correct answers.t: when we go to some place, especially to a place far away from you, what do you need the most?