51（八年级上册）Unit 7 Section B（1a-1e）（教案3）

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Unit 7 Will people have robots?
Section B（1a-1e）

Teaching Aims	Language goals   Learn to describe personal life using the simple future tense. Key words and phrases astronaut, apartment, rocket, space, space station, transportation, kind of Key sentences 1. What do you think your life will be like in 10 years? 2. I'll fly rockets to the moon. Maybe I'll also fly to other planets. 3. —Where will you live?   — I'll live on a space station.
Teaching Difficulties	Let Ss to learn to describe personal life using the simple future tense.
Teaching Aids	multimedia courseware or other realia that the T needs for teaching

Teaching Procedures	Tips
Step 1 Warming up
Free Talk Ask Ss to talk about what the life will be like in 100 years. T can give Ss some hints: the changes of cities / the environment / robots / people / the world / other things. Show PPT P7 to Ss, encourage them to talk about how the future will be different from now using “more”, “less”, “fewer”.
Step 2Presentation & Practice
Pre-listening 1a T may want to have Ss do activity 1a in the following way: Step 1: Have Ss close their textbooks. Step 2: Write the following words on the board: astronaut, house, apartment, train, rocket, space station, computer programmer. Step 3: Have Ss work in pairs to divide the words into categories but do not say what these are — T may tell Ss how many categories there are if they want. Step 4: After Ss have had time to work in pairs, elicit from Ss that there are three categories, and elicit from Ss the names of the categories and the words that should be placed in each category. Answers: Jobs Transportation Places to live astronaut, computer, programmer train, rocket house, apartment, space station 1b Ask Ss to think of other words and write them in the chart in 1a. T may want to have Ss work in pairs or small groups to add 5 more words to each column. In order to make the activity more exciting, T can tell Ss that the first pair or group to finish the activity is the winner! Encourage Ss to use their dictionaries and to ask T questions when they need help in naming a job, form of a transportation or place to live. Optional choice: T can ask Ss to make sentences using the words belong to the category of jobs, transportation and places to live. T can use the sentences on PPT P10 and P11 as examples. While-listening 1c T may want to have Ss do activity 1c in the following way: Step 1: Have Ss work in pairs. Step 2: One S in the pair should close his or her textbook, listen to the recording and take notes. Step 3: The other S in the pair should cover his or her ears while the recording is being played and thereafter open his or her textbook. Step 4: The S who listened to the recording in the pair should retell the contents of the recording to his/her partner. The S who didn’t listen to the recording should number the pictures according to his/her partner’s description. Answers: 2, 3, 1 1d Fill in the blanks first T may want to have Ss try to fill in the blanks first and then listen to the recording again to check their answers. Answers: 1. live  2. work  3. am  4. lived  5. took  6. will be  7. will fly  8. will live Show PPT P15, have Ss try to fill in chart about Joe’s life first, then listen to the recording to check the answers. Answers: Living Place: a house, an apartment, a space station; Job: a student, a computer programmer, an astronaut; Transportation: train, rocket Post-listening 1e T may want to have Ss take different roles when they perform the conversation in activity 1e. For example, in the conversation, Joe could be: A person from a very wealthy family A person who is very intelligent A person who is very good looking A person who is very athletic A person who is very kind A person who is very lazy A person who is very crazy Write the description 1-7 on the board. Have Ss write the numbers 1-7 on slips of paper. Ss should take turns drawing the slips of paper and acting out the selected role in a conversation. They also act out the roles in front of another pair of Ss who must guess the role. Take turns acting and guessing. Group work Divide Ss into groups of four. Ask them to make a survey about what each group member liked to do in the past, what they like to do now and what kind of person they want to be in the future.
Step 4 Summary & Homework
Summary Ask Ss to do the exercises from PPT P23-25. Homework: Preview the passage in Section B 2b. Do the exercises in students’ book.
Teaching Reflection	In this period, we can talk about the changes of people's life with different tenses—the simple present tense, the simple past tense, the simple future tense. The teacher may create some situations for the students to use the three tenses. In this period, the students should practice the simple future tense by listening to the tapes. And then get them to make the similar conversations. In this way they can improve their capacity of language organization and oral output. After that, the students must do some writing practice. Meanwhile, we should encourage the students to work hard to make their dreams come true.