Life in the future（The First Period）

speed control systems will be built into cars.these systems will automatically regulate the speed of the car to take account of traffic and weather conditions and prevent accidents.it will be many years before these changes bring results but when they do，there will be a titanic improvement in road safety.
the first period
teaching aims：
1.encollrage the students to use their imagi-nation to talk about life in the future.
2.train the students'1istening ability.
3.improve the students’ speaking ability by practising making predictions.
teaching important points：
1. train the studcnts'1istening ability.
2. let the students give free rein to their1 imagination.
teaching difficult points：
1.how do improve the students' listening ability.
2.how to finish the task of speaking.
teaching methods:
1.listening-and-answering activity to help the students go through the listening ma-terial.
2.individual，pair or group work to make ev-ery student work in class.
teaching aids：
1.some pictures
2.a tape recorder
3，a projector
4.the blackboard
teaching procedures：
step i greetings and lead—in
t：good morning/afternoon，everyone.
ss：good morning/afternoon，teacher.
t：sit down，please.now we're having a class in a bight and spacious class-room with modern equipment such as radios and computers.and we all live a happy life today.we can get whatever we want.do you know how did people live in the past?
(one student stands up.)
s：when i was a child，my great-grandfa-ther often told me the stories of him in     the past. he often got hungry and didn’t have enough money to go to school and had no chance…i think people live a miserable life in the past.
t：yeah.people lived a hard in the past.with the development of science and  technology, people's life has changed a lot.now we all live happily. what do you imagine life will be like in the future?  today we are going to study unit 6 life in the future. (bb: unit 6 life in the future)it will tell us what life will be like  in the future.
step ⅱ warming up
t：now let's first have a discussion about the future of one of the areas in our  books.discuss them in groups of four.after a while，i'1l ask one of you to re-
  port the results.
t：now please discuss some questions.(show the picture and questions on the   screen.)

how will people travel in the future?
where will they go? why?
(give the students another two minutes to discuss.)
t：who’d like to tell me how people will travel in the future and where they will