Lesson plan

Lesson plan——Life in the future
Students: 40 Junior high students, Grade 2
Lesson duration: 40 minutes
Teaching aims: (3mins)
1.Predicting the good and bad changes in the future.
2.Imagine the alien creatures.
3.To arouse students’ interest in learning about the future life.
Functions: (5mins)
做出预测（Making predictions）
Do you suppose that…? Suppose that…I wonder if…
Do you imagine that…? I imagine that…
猜测未来（Making conjectures about future）
Is it likely/unlikely that…Possibly…It is possible that…Most likely…
I’m sure…Probably…Suppose that…Perhaps…Maybe…
Teaching Methods: 1. First and careful reading.
2. Asking and answering question activity.
Teaching procedures (30mins)
Step1. Reading and learning new words. Fast reading and careful reading.
Step2. Warming up.
Talk about how many changes there have been in the last one thousand years. And what changes we might expect to find in the next one thousand years. (Direct the students to have a discussion in groups of 4-6, ask the leader of each group to make a
Answer the following questions
1.How did people travel 1000 years ago?
2.How do you usually go to school?
3.How would you like to go to school in the future?
4.Where would you like to live in the future? Would you like to live on the moon?
5.Can you imagine what life will be like in the future?
Step3. Learning the passage——First Impressions
Grammar of this passage: (This is also the difficult point in this lesson.)
1.过去分词作定语（The past participle as the attribute）
I followed him to collect a hovering carriage driven by computer.
Tomorrow you will be ready for some visits organized by computer.
2.过去分词作状语（The past participle as the adverbial）
Worried about the journey, I was unsettled for the first few days.
Confused by the new surroundings, I was hit by the lack of fresh air. Difficult sentences
1.Worried about the journey, Iwas unsettled for the first few days.
2.Well known for their expertise, his parents’ company named ”future tours”.
3.Transported me safely into the future in a time capsule.
4.Cofused by the new surroundings, I was hit by the lack of fresh air.
5.Arriving home, he showed me into a large bright, clean room.
6.Exhausted, I slid into bed and fell fast asleep.
Homework (2mins)
Doing exercise1 in page 19 in the book. Doing exercise2 in your exercise book. Review the new words and difficult sentences.。