unit 3 Life in the future reading教案

Unit 3 Life in the future
Warming up-comprehending
Ⅰ Teaching aims
1.Making prediction about life in the future
2.Develop the students’ reading ability
Ⅱ Teaching important and difficult points
1.Develop the students’ reading abi lity by doing exercise
2.Making the students know that how the scientists explore the truth with the fearless spirit
Ⅲ Teaching procedure
Step 1 warming up and leading-in
T:Hello,everyone.How are you today?
S:I’m fine,thank you.And you?
T:I’m fine,too.I’m so happy to be here to have a happy new lesson with you..Today we will learn something interesting.We will learn Unit 3 Life in the future.Before the class, let’s have a prediction about the life in the future.In your opinion,what will our life be like in the future. Lily:I think in the future everyone will have a loner life span,and everyone will live to be at least 300 years old.
T:Sounds interesting,how about you.Lucy.
Lucy:I think in the future,cancer can be cured and people will never suffer a lot from cancer. Tom:In the future,people will live under the sea because of the bad environment and the air will become worse and worse.
T: All of you made a prediction about the life in the future from one aspect.What changes do you expect to see in your life in one thousand years time?Now please have a discussion with your partner and finish the exercise P in our textbook.
Step 2 pre-reading
T:We all made predictions about the life in the future just now.Well, we all know that there are many different problems in our today’s life,right?So we all hope that life wil l be better in the future.
So ①Make a list of the problems human beings are facing today
②Which problems do you think people will have overcome in one thousand years ?Which one do you think will still exist in AD3008?Gi your reasons.
Gina:In our today’s life ,our environment is becoming worse and worse,which have been influencing our life and have caused a series of problems.And I think this problem will still exist in AD3008
Mike: Today there are all kinds of cars ,and the traffic is becoming worse and worse because of cars.But I think in the future people will travel or go to work by space ship ,and then the traffic problems will be solved.
Step 3 Reading
T:All of you did a great job.You shared your opinions .Li Qiang,my friend,won a prize and had a travel to the future.Let’s read the passage and find answers to our predictions.
First,please read the text quickly and finish the following exercise.
Fast reading
Skim the text and choose the best answers
1.The passage is mainly about ________
A.How Li Qiang was transported to the future.
B.How Li Qiang got to the future and his first impression of it
C.What life was like in the future.
D.The introduction of the “Future Tours”company.
2.Which of the following is RIGHT order according to the text.
a Li Qiang visited a strange-looking house and had a good rest in it
b They climbed into the time capsule through a small opening.
c Hit by a lack of fresh air,Li Qiang ha
d a headache
d Wang Ping gav
e Li Qiang some green tablets before the travel trip.
e Li Qiang had a “time lag” flashback and realized that he had been transported into the future
of what was still in his town
f Li Qian
g followed Wang Ping to collect hovering carriage driven by computer
A d-b-c-f-e-a
B a-b-d-e-f-c
C b-d-c-f-e-a
D d-c-b-e-f-a
Step 4 careful reading
Read the text and choose the best answer.
1.What does “time lag”mean according to the author?
A.It is quite different from “jet lag”.
B.It is what you get when you are flying on a plane.
C.It means you keep thinking of the things you may experience in the future.
D.It means you keep getting flashback from your previous time period.
2.What and where did the story happen?
A.It happened in outer space in the future.
B.It happened on the earth in the future.
C.It happened in outer space at present time.
D.It happened on the earth at the present time.
3.How did the system work?
A.Oxygen was provided by a group of machines.
B.Oxygen was provided by some chemicals.
C.Oxygen was provide by some green leaves.
D.Oxygen was made from some chemical materials.
4.Where did Li Qiang lose sight of Wang Ping?
A.I n a hotel capsule.
B.In a room
B.In a large market D.In a hovering carriage.
5.We can infer from the passage that________
A.t he air quality would not be so good in the public areas in the future.
B.everyone would have to put on a mask when they went outside in the future
C.the writer had been transported into another city
D.T he writer felt uncomfortable for a long time after finishing the journey.。