【精品】高中英语(人教大纲)第二册上：Unit6 Life in the future(第一课时)

Unit 6 Life in the future
I.Brief Statements Based on the Unit
The topic of this unit is about the humanbei ng’s 1ife in the future．This unit is made upof warming up，listening，speaking，pre-read-ing，reading，post-reading，language study andintegrating skills．These tasks will be finishedin five periods． In the first period，we’ll do warm ing up，listening and speaking to improve thestudent’s listening and speaking abilities．Atthe same time．arouse the students’interest inthe topic of this unit．
In the second period，we’ll finish thetask 0f pre-reading,reading and post-read-ing．In post—reading，let the students give freerein to their imagination by discussing somequestions．We’11 read a passage ab out 1ife inthe future．It will tell us what the humanbeing’s life w ill be like in the future．In themeanwhi le we’ll learn some useful words andexpressions．
The third period consists of two parts：Word study and Grammar-Noun Clauses．Through word stu dy we’ll revise some wordsand phrases，which are related to the topic ofthis unit．As to the grammar：Noun clauses,we can master them by doing more practicalpractice given in the textbook and workbook．
The main purpose of the fourth period isto train the students’reading and writingabilities by reading and writing a short pas-sage about 1ife in the future．In the last period,we’ll deal with thegrammer in this unit-Noun C1auses．In a word,we can train the stu dents’lis-tening,speaking,reading and writing abilitiesby doing the exercises the textbook and theworkbook provide．
Ⅱ.Teaching Goals
1．Talk about life in the future．
2．Practise making predictions．
3．Learn about Noun Clauses．
4．Write a definition paragraph．
Ⅲ．Teaching Time：Five periods：
Ⅳ．Background Information
1.World in the Future
Scientists think that wonderful things may e true in the future．Future means a time that not yet e．It can be a short time from now or a long time from now．Some of the underwater wonders are almost ready to e true now．O thers won’t e tr ue,we think，until a long time from now．Some,of course．may never e true-but
who knows for sure?They may．What are some of the wonders that may e true in the fu-ture?
Let’s go back to dry land and tak e a fu-ture journey the other way--up instead of down．
Huge rocket liners take you into space to visit the Moon Camp．You walk around on the moon in s special moon suit．You visit an observatory where a giant telescope looks far into space--farther than anyone has ever been able to see from Earth．You go deep down into one of the moon mines．
After you have visited the moon,you visit the Mars Colony and the Venus
Explo-ration Outpost．
Let’s go back to Earth．
In the far，far future，girls—and boys,too--may be playing with dolls that look like the people of the planets visited by our space-man．
To control or run all kinds of toys,boys and girls may learn to use special ccmput-ers--machines that answer questions and do arithmetic faster than you can think．
Bicycles and perhaps skates may be run by jet power,and a new thing to ride may be a small flying saucer．Imagine a race between them!
There may be telepathy helmets that send thought waves from your brain to that of your friend miles away．You just think athought and your friend knows it!You can have secrets with each other that nobody elsecan turn it on!
There will be other surprises in the fu-ture．How would you like to have a robot playmate?
Having robot playmates may not be somuch fun as it seems．But maybe a boy with awrench and a screwdriver can fix the robot sothat it won’t be too pe rfect!
What about the food of the future?Sci-entists think that much of it will be artificial-made in factories from such surprising thingsas coal．1imestone。

air and water．
You don’t think that ice-cream or cakeor candy or even bread and potatoes made outof these things will taste very good．You maybe wrong．These artificial things will beblended so skillfully be food chemists thatthe food of the future probably wi11 be deli-cious．It probably will also be healthful be-cause life will be put into it．
Scientists of the future will almost cer-tainly find other ways to make life last lon-ger．They probably will find cures for mostdiseases．Hospitals will probably have“bodybanks〞that can give you almost any new partyou need to keep on living．People of the fu-ture may live to be a lot older than 100 years．Are you wondering whether there’11 betelevision in the future?’T here’ll almost cer-tainly be wonderful programs.Televisionscreens probablywi11 be large and flat，hang-ing on the wall or going across the four wallsof a room．People on the screen will look real as if they were right in the room with you．What about highways of the future?Well,avery small child probably will be able to drivea car．Nobody will need to steer．Electric sig-nals will hold each car on the right road toget wherever the“Driver〞wants to go．Andit probably will be impossible for cars tosmash together。

Controllers that won’t evenhave to be touched willmake all speedingcars miss each other or will put on thebrakes．Driving in a car will be as safe as be-ing at home．
But maybe the most wonderful surprisein the future will be weather control，Citiesmay have giant plastic domes over them tokeep out snow，rain，or storms． When you plan a piic in a park。

youwon't have to worry about rain．It will rainonly when the“ weatherman〞thinks it isneeded to freshen the air inside the city．Allother days will be fair and warm．
The future should be a wonderful time in which to live．But the time you are
living innow was also“ a wonderful future〞to thepeople who lived 100 years ago． 2。

Three Things That Will Change YourLife
Today our lives are changing faster thanat any time in history．Here we report onthree important changes that will have a bigimpact on our everyday lives in the future．
The cashless society Cash and bank-notes wi1l disappear almost pletely．They willbe replaced by smart cards--plastic c ardswith microchipprocessors“loaded〞withsome money．When we pay for goods．the re-tailer w1l insert our smart card into a pay-ment terminal and money w．1l be transferredfrom our card to the retailer's card．When all the money is used up，we will be able to“re-load〞it by inserting it into a telephone，dia-ling our bank account and transferring moneyto the card from the account．1f we want totransfer money from our card to a bank ac-count．we will use the same method．Smartcards will be able to hold several differentcurrencies at the same time．so if we goaboard．we will use our smart cards in thesame way．Interactive telephones Hhuman telephoneoperators will be sharply replaced by talking puters．These puters will recognizespeech．ask us what information we need，ac-cessthe information from a database，and convert it to speech．If we want to book aflight or pay a bill by phone，we will interactwith a talking puter to do SO．Of course，this won't happen until all the technology is
in place，but when it is we will soon get usedto interacting with puters in this way．Human telephone operators will be used onlyfor more plexoperations
such as dealingwith plaints or solving concrete prob-lems．
Intelligent cars Traffic congestion incities will be reduced because drivers will useelectronic route maps to find the quickestroute to theirdestination and avoid trafficjams．Congestion will also decrease when e-lectronic systems start changing motorists fordriving in cities．As soon as motorists have topay to drive in cities，they will stop Usingtheir cars and use public transportinstead．Speed control systems will be built into cars．These systems will automatically regulate thespeed of the car to take account of traffic andweather conditions and prevent accidents．Itwill be many years before these changesbring results but when they do，there will bea 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.Im prove the students’ speaking ability bypractising making predictions．Teaching Important Points：
1. Train the studts'1istening ability．
2. Letthe studentsgive free rein to their1imagination.
Teaching Difficult Points：
1．How do improve the students' listeningability．
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，pairorgroup 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 puters．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 livehappily. 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.
StepⅡWarmingup
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 minutesto discuss．)
T：Who’d like to tell me h ow people will travel in the future and where they will
go and why?
(One Student puts up his hand．)
T：Oh，Li Jun，you have a try．
S：I think people will travel by using pub-lic transport．Electric cars will be
trav-elling through the streets day and night．Anybody will be able to stop oneand take it．They can go wherever they want．
S：I think people will travel by car，whichdoesn't burn gas，but solar energy．In- stead of wheels，the car needs a Cushion of air．Thus。

it can float in the air．You can go wherever you want as long as you press a button on the puter inthe car．What's more，it won't cause any pollution．
(And then ask some Students to re-port．)
How wi1l people municate in the future?
S: People will municate with each other with puters, which are set in the watches. Where will people work in the future?
What kind of jobs will they have?
S：People wil1 work at home．The only thing that people do is to control therobots by pressing the buttons on t11e puter and let them work for us．
How will people do business in the fu-true?
What kind of money will they use?
S：By the year 2l00，shops will no longer exist．puters will have replaced them，and people will order goods from home．Instead of paper money，they will use credit cards．
What languages will people speak in thefuture?
Will people still speak Chinese and Eng-1ish?
S：Instead of any language，people Will use code to talk with each other．If they use a language to municate，I think t11ey Will speak Chinese．Because our country will be the strongest one．
What will schools be like in the future?
What subjects will people study?
S：Schools will be set up on the Internet．Students can stay at home and use puters to study．We can also down-load some information．We'll study so-cial sciences，natural sciences and soon．Schooling wi11 be much more inter-esting and effective．(After discussing all the questions，theteacher says the following．)
T：In spite of all these changes，man in the future will still have a lot in mon with us．They wi1l have thoughts and emotions similar to ours．Anyhow，they will be human beings．
StepⅢ Listening
T：Now open your books at Page 42．Let'sdo some Listening．First Part 1．You're going to listen to a letter about Mekanika's life．Listen carefully and pay
attention to the year when she isliving，the place where she 1ives,the things that happened to the people on the earth and the reason why she is writing you this letter．Write down what you hear．At last I'll check the answers with you．Is that clear?
Ss：Yes．
T：OK．Let's begin．
(Teacher plays the tape for the firsttime．Then plays for the second time，during which time teacher may pause for the students to write down the in-formation ．Finally teacher checks the answers in Part l with the whole class．)
T：Next listen to Part 2 and do the two exercises in them．
(Teacher lets the students go throughthe Exx in Part 2 and then plays the tape for
the students．At last check theanswers．)
StepⅣSpeaking
T：NOW look at the picture in Speaking Part．There are two girls in the picture．One girl is working on the -puter．The other is making a phone call．Can you find anything different between them?
Ss：No．They are the same．Maybe they are twins．
T：No，they aren't twins．One of them is cloned．With the development of tech-nology，scientists will be able to clonepersons as well as animals．Suppose the year is 2089 and scientists have discovered how to make“doubles〞，ex-act copies of a person that can do eve-rything the original can do．Now workin groups of four to discuss the question whether the new techno1ogy should be used．First give your opinion and tell the reason．Write it in yourtextbooks．After that make up a short dialogue, using the information in your books and the useful expressions on the blackboard. (Bb：It would be wonderful if…
It woul d be bad for…if…
It’s poss ible/impossible to predict…
No one can predict what／when…
Just imagine if…
We can only guess…)
(Teacher gives the students four mi-nutes to prepare in groups of four and then asks some groups to read their dialogues before the class．)
Sample dialogue：
S A：With the development of science and techno1ogy，the double would be made in the future．I think it would be a good idea to have a double. Becausewe could use the double to do the things we don't enjoy，forexample, we could let the double finish our homework．
S C：I agree with you．I would 1ike to have a double, too，because I don't have time to do all the things I'd like to do．For example，if I didn't have time to watch an exciting football game, Iwould let the double watch it.
S B：I don't agree with you．I think having a double might be dangerous because you don't know what the double might do．For example，the doublemight steal what they what they want or kill the person they hate.
S D：Yes，they might do something wrong. What's more，having doubles would make people confused，because no one would know who the double really was or how to treat it．Forexample, the double wouldn’t have an y parents and no one would see to them. S C：But having a double would be won-derful，because you could let the double do whatever you want them to do．
S A：Having a double would also be good because the double could attend an important meeting instead of you if you were ill．
S D：But I think it would be bad for society if people had doubles because they would make trouble forour society.
Step V Summary and Homework
T：Today we've done some listening and speaking and known how to make pre- dictions．Besides，we've also learnt someuseful expressions on the black-
board．After class．write down the dialogue you made in your exercise books and preview the reading passage on Page 43．
St epⅥThe D esign of the Writing on the Blackboard
Unit 6 Life in the future
The First Period
Useful expressions:
It would be wonderful if…
It would be bad for…if…
It's possible／impossib le to predict…
No one can predict what／whe n…
Just imagine if…
We can only guess…
StepⅦRecord after Teaching
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