高中英语人教版必修5Unit3LifeinthefutureReading教案(系列五)

Unit 3 Life in the future 教案

Warming Up, Prereading & Reading prehending

Teaching Goals:

1.To illustrate Ss’ imagination of future life.

2.To arouse Ss to pay more attention to the problems that probably appeared in the future

life.

3.To make Ss know the difference of life between the past, present and future.

Teaching Procedures:

Step 1 Leadingin

Purpose: To talk about past and future changes of life.

1. Group work

Let Ss discuss the questions in groups of four.

(1)How do you usually get to school?

(2)Where do you live, in a city or in the countryside?

(3)Where would you like to live in the future?

(4)Do you live in a flat or a house?

(5)Do you have a room of you won? Can you describe the room in the picture?

(6)What kind of housing would you like to have in the future?

(7)What would you like to have in your room?

(8)What can we use to build houses? (brick, stone , steel , glass, ice, wood , plastic bamboo, …)

2. Conclusion

This unit introduces what life in the future might be like to Ss. By discussing and answering the questions above can make Ss have a general understanding of the present and future life and can also illustrate Ss’ imagination about the future life.

Step 2. Warming Up

1. Pair work

In pairs let Ss list the changes in housing, transport, jobs, families and education will happen in the next century.

2. Individual work

According to the result of the above Pair work, fill in the chart.

表格 1

Suggested Answers:

表格

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Present time In One Thousand Years’ Time

Transport Airplanes cars bicycles No longer by air because of environmental pollution

bicycles and horses will make a eback

Work Office factory

construction landscape

service

At home using advanced, interactive puters

meetings can be conducted on the puter and people

will see each other speak.

Finance and

currency

Banks offices insurance

business

One global currency—maybe the yuan as China will

be the largest global exporter

Language English Russian

Chinese

One global language perhaps Chinese or still

English

Environment Air: could be improved

in cities

Very poor need to recycle all waste control on the

use of cars no airplanes methods to improve poor

air quality. Climate of the earth being very hot is

making problems over water resources

Education Nursery schools

university

Longer than now possibly until 25 years of age so

that students can learn all the new technologies Houses Flats houses concrete

wood

Built into the ground as the surface of the earth is

so hot.

munication Post office Internet By thoughtpad, telephone, puter, mobiles, Morse

code, etc

Step 3. Prereading

1. Pair work

Ask Ss to discuss the following questions in pairs.

(1)Make a list of the problems human beings are facing today.

(2) What problems do you think people will have overe in one thousand years? Which ones do you think will still exist in AD 3008?

Suggested Answers:

(1) The seven serious problems facing mankind:

① The first problem I would like to point out is the decline of morality.(道德沦丧)

② The second problem is the racial bias problem. (种族歧视)

③ The third problem , which is a most serious problem , is the rapid depletion of resources on the Earth. (资源匮乏)

④ Now I e to the fourth problem, the problem of the large gap between the poor and the rich . (贫富悬殊)

⑤ The fifth problem is the pollution problem.(环境恶化)

⑥ Now I would like to talk about the sixth problem, the expensive arms race problem. (军备竞争)。

⑦ The seventh problem is that the technologies vital to the welfare of human beings are being more and more concentrated in the hands of a small group of people. (技术垄断)

(2) Various answers are acceptable.

2. Discussion