Teaching Plan

Teaching Plan
Module1 Life in the Future
Period3 Listening and Speaking
Analysis of students
This period aims to improve the students listening skills of finding specific information and oral English in talking about future life. The students in Class 19 are some top students in my school, who are good at English .
Teaching material
Module 1 Life in the future , period 3 Listening and speaking inSB4 by Foreign language teaching and research press.
Teaching goals
1.Practice listening skills ,esp. finding the special information.
2.Practice students’ oral English by talking about the home of the future.
nguage goals : learn to use the present future tense.
Teaching keys and difficult points
It’s important to practice improving students’ listening skills of finding specific information. Meanwhile, it’s difficult to talk about the future life using the proper sentences .
Teaching aid
A multimedia computer, a short video and listening material.
Teaching procedure
Step I. Greeting
Step II. Lead-in
Talk about our home at present and in the past.
T:Good morning ,boys and girls. Welcome to my class. Today we are talking about our home at present，in the past and in the future. At present, we live in the cottage in the countryside or apartments /flat s in the city. The houses are made of glass, steel and concrete. We have a big living room ,a small but tidy kitchen room and a comfortable bedroom. You know, life today is quite different from that in the past, so let’s watch a short video about our life in the past.From the video we know that people used to live in the courtyard, and the houses were made of wood ,stone, bricks or mud. Do you want to know what our home will be like in the future? Let’s listen to an interview and an architect will talk about the home of the future.
Step III. Pre-listening
Get students to listen to the interview and finish the follow tasks.
Task 1. Listen to the interview and choose the best answers.
1.Simon describes houses in years’ time. A. 20 B. 30 C. 40
2.He thinks houses will have which move . A. floors B. ceilings C. walls
3.He thinks we will spend more in the . A. living room B. bathroom C. bedroom
4. The technology will be in the future. A. flexible B. invisible C. smarter
5.The architect is very about the effect of the house on the environment.
A. optimistic
B. pessimistic
C. disappointed (ACBCA)
The houses will look the same as they do today from the outside.
would disappear.
Bathrooms will be bigger .
A lot of furniture will be the same –we’ll still sit in chairs and use cupboard to keep things in
will control most functions in the house, and it will have a voice recognition system.
will move higher and lower ,depending on who use it.
true(2,3) or false(1,4,5).
1.We won’t be living in houses and flats in the future but underground or in space.
2.We will be able to move the walls to create bigger or smaller rooms.
3. We’ll just say Switch on the Light and the light comes on.
4.A dishwasher will need much water.
5.Few people will be taking care of the environment.
Step V. After listening
Task 1.Words study.Match the phrase with its explanation
1.You get rid of something if you B . A. need it B. don’t need it.
2.If something is free of charge it A . A.doesn’t cost anything B.is allowed by the law.
3.For a start means B . A.In the end B. the first point is
4.If you run out of something ,you A . A. Leave it quickly B. haven’t got any of it left .
5.If something is on the way out it’s going to A. .A. disappear B. become famous
Task 2. Sentences study.
1.We’ll be living in houses and flats just as we do today.
2.I think they’ll look the same as they do today, at least from the outside.
3.I think a computer will control most functions in the house ,and it will have a voice
recognition system.
4.The house of the future will be environment friendly.
Step VI Speaking
Task 1. Group work. Get ss to work in groups and imagine their house of the future. One
draws the picture of the future house while others try to describe it using the questions on the
screen to help them work well.
Questions: 1. Where is it? In space ? Under water?
2.What will it be like?
3.What will it be made of/What materials will you use to build your dream house?
Why do you choose this kind of materials?
4. What new technology will you use?
Task 2.Show time.Present the picture drawn by the student to the whole class and describe their dream house in English.
Step VII Homework
1.Read more information about future life.
2. Write a passage about their dream house.
A sample
My dream house
I want to live in a house which is made of glass. It looks like a bottle. What’s more, it can float on the ocean. The reason why I want to live in glass house is that I can see beautiful scenery as well as all kinds of fish. In addition, I can travel around the world.
I hope that my dream house has two floors.On the first floor, there is a telescope that is used to look at the sky; on the second floor, which is under the water, I can watch all kinds of fish. In a nutshell, I love my dream house, which is full of love and colorful life.。