Unit 3 Life in the future
The First Period----Reading
By 黄蔚 from 深大附中
一， 教学目标(teaching aims)
Students’ Book: Warming up and Reading.
1. 能力目标（ability aim）
a. Enable students to talk about their life at present.
Look back to the life in the past.
Predict the life in the future.
b. Understand the text and try to find out what life in the future is like.
c. Understand the details about the text and make a comparison among life in the past, life at present and life in the future.
2. 语言目标（language aim）
Important words and phrases: take up; constantly; remind; lack of; lost sight of; sweep up; catch sight of
二， 教学重难点（Teaching important points）
1. Compare life in the past, life at present and life in the future.
2. What is life in the future like? What changes will take place?
三， 教学方法(teaching method)
a. Fast and careful reading.
b. Asking-and-answering activity to check Ss’ understanding.
c. Individual, pair or group work to finish each task.
d. Discussion.
四， 教具准备（teaching aids）
A computer, a projector
五， 教学步骤（teaching procedures）
Step I Warming up
1. Lead in the topic by the song “whatever will be will be”. Ask Ss about their predictions about future.
2. Set a scene for the Ss. Imagine you are working for a tour firm. Your company organize special trip to transport people to the past and transport people in the past to your city. Ask Ss to organize the trip, and think of something which are representative of that age to introduce to those travelers.
3. Do a life style investigation. Compare life in the past and life at present, let Ss have some impression about the changes.
Step II Pre-reading
Get the Ss to discuss about the problems that human beings are facing today. (such as pollution, all kinds of shortages.) Make a prediction about the future. Which problems may be solved, and which will still be there. This part will prepare the Ss for the text.
Step III Reading
1. Get the Ss to read the text quickly and get the general idea. Give Ss a few minutes and then ask them to rearrange the correct order of some of the sentences picked out from the text.
2. Ask Ss to scan the first two paragraphs quickly to get some basic knowledge of the travel, and then check their understanding by asking some comprehending questions.
3. Give Ss a few minutes to go through the third paragraph and to think over the questions. Get some details on the environment in the future. Encourage them to find out the reasons for the terrible environment.
4. Get Ss to read the forth and fifth paragraphs and find out something about both transportation and daily life in the future. Try to retell the daily life in Wang Ping’s house.
5. Get Ss to close their books and try to review what they had read by judging some true or false questions.
Step IV Follow up activity
Get Ss to compare life at present and life in the future. Find out the changes on several items. Try to distinguish which changes are good and which are not good.