教学内容
本单元的主题是围绕“预测未来”这一话题,帮助学生学习语法项目——一般将来时.再通过听、说、读、写等训练,让学生熟练掌握语言知识和技能,对学生三种时态的运用能力进行综合的训练,帮助学生形成创造性地运用这些时态进行表达的能力.
三维目标
1.知识与技能
（1）Be able to pronounce and master the new words and phrases in Unit 1.
（2）Be able to use the three different tenses to depict the past,persent and future actions or states.
(3) Be able to talk about the usages and advantages of robot.
2. 过程与方法
（1）Let the students talk about what will happen in the future by listening and speaking.
(2) Learn the Indefinite Future Tense by listening to the dialogues and reading the passages.
(3) Learn how to talk about the dream by working in pairs and in groups.
(4) Learn to write a passage with the given information and the target language.
3、情感、态度与价值观
Widen students’ thinking and foster their creativity. They will be our inventtors in the future and that will make our life better.
重、难点与关键
1. Master the new words and phrases.
2. Master the usage of the Indefinite Future Tenses.
3. Master the target language:
What do you think life will be like in 100 years?
Every home will have a robot.
Will kids go to school?
No, they won’t . They’ll study at home.
There will be fewer trees.
教具
单词、词组卡片,课本磁带和录音机；一些有关机器人的资料.
课时划分
Period One: Section A (1a-2c)
Period Two: Section A (3a-4)
Period Three: Section B
Period Four: Self Check and Reading: Do you think you will have your own robot?
教学设计
Period One (第一课时)
Teaching aims
Learn the new words in Section A.
Be able to listen for specific information on what will happen in the future.
Introduce the Indefinite Future Tenses.
Be able to talk about what will happen in the future using the target language.
Teaching main and difficult points
Master the usage of the Indefinite Future Tense.
Talk about what will happen in the future.
Review the Simple Past Tense and the Simple Present Present Tense.
Learn how to use the Simple Past Tense and the Present Progressive Tense correctly.
Teaching procedure
Step1 Greeting
The teacher and the students greet each other.
Step2 Presentation
Draw a time line on the blackboard and mark the line as the following:
5 years ago now 1 year from now 5 years from now
Introduce the Indefinite Future Tense.
(1) Point to the now-point on the time line and says, “I am now in this school.” And then points to the 1-year-from-now, saying, “ I will be in this school one year from now.” Point tho the 5-year-from-now, saying, “I will be in this school five years from now, too.” (Write the sentences on the blackboard, the word will written in red )
(2) Get the students to read aloud the sentences several times until they can say them correctly.
(3) Prompt the students to say what they think the word will is used for. Teacher gives comments on the students’ work and tells the class: The word will here is used to tell the future actions or states.
Step3 Practice
Get the students to look at the picture and then talk about what they have seen in it . Teach the new word robot at the same time.
Show the students how to make dialogues using the sentences in1aand ask the students to make their own dialogues.
Play the recording for the students to listen and circle the predictions they hear in1a.
Have the students read the sentences in2afirst, and teach the new word pollution using a picture of a factory producing a lot of black smoke. Tell the students that less is the comparative degree of little, whichis used to modify a countable noun.
Play the recording for the students to listen and circle the words they hear.
Play the recording again for them to check their answers.
Answers:(2a)1-5 more, less, fewer, less, fewer (2b)2, 3, 4
Step 4 Consolidation
Get the students to cooperate with the teavher acting out the dialogue in the box in2c.
Have the students work in groups of four using the following structures:
A: I think there will be …
B: Well, I don’t agree. But I think there will be …
C: I agree.
Get some students to sum up what they have learned in this period. Theteacher makes a brief comment.
Have the class read through the sentences in the tableof Grammar Focus and raise questions if they don’t understand any of the sentences.
Step 5 Homework
Recite the sentences in Grammar Focus.
Review3a-4.
Prepare some old pictures of yourself and your parents, friends or your hometown, and imagine what they will be like in ten years.
