1、The Fourth Period Extensive ReadingTeaching goals 教学目标1.Target language目标语言a. 重点词汇及短语on the way out, colony, predict, shape, pad, doormatb. 重点句子1. Not all predictions come true.2. With the first moon colonies predicted for the 1970s, work is now in progress on the types of building required for men
2、to stay in when theyre on the moon.3. . guitar music is on the way out.4. By the year 2000, housewives will probably have a robot shaped like a box with one eye on the top.2. Ability goals能力目标Help Ss make predictions about the future of China.3. Learning ability goals学能目标Encourage the students to us
3、e their imagination to predict the future of China.Teaching important points 教学重点 a. Get the main idea of the two reading materials.b. Help the students to learn how to read fast and get the main ideas quickly.Teaching difficult points 教学难点1. Find the main idea for each paragraph.2.How to help the s
4、tudents to understand the difficult language points in the reading and use them correctly.Teaching methods 教学方法1. Skimming and careful reading.2. Asking-answering activity.3. Discussion.Teaching aids 教具准备1. A projector and some slides.2. A tape recorder.Teaching procedures and ways 教学过程与方式Step Revis
5、ion1. Greetings.2. Revision.T: Yesterday I asked you to write what you will be doing in 10 years time. Are you ready?Ss: Yes.T: Then Ill ask some of you to read out what you have written.S1: Ill be a famous surgeon. And I will be famous at home and abroad. Many surgeries that I have performed will b
6、e done online. Sometimes I will carry out operations on foreign patients.S2: I will be a famous physicist, and I will have made many important discoveries. I will invent more advanced means of transportation. It will take only half an hour for us to go to London from Beijing.S3: I will be an astrona
7、ut. I will be traveling among many stars by spaceship.S4: I will be a famous writer all over the world. At times I will often go overseas to give lectures.T: Good! I hope all your wishes will come true. From now on we should work hard to turn our dreams into realities. Step Culture corner1. Lead-inT
8、: People often make very interesting predictions. Do you think all these predictions will come true?S: No. Some predictions will come true, but others wont.T: Today lets learn some bad predictions made last century. Please turn to Page 9. 2. SkimmingThis step is to help the students to get a general
9、 idea of the passage. Ask them to read fast and find out what the predictions are about.T: Please have a quick look at the titles and tell me what the predictions are about.After a few minutes.T: Who can tell me in what aspects people made some predictions last century?S5: They made predictions abou
10、t airplanes, computers, clothes, men on the moon, the Beatles, robots in the house and keys.T: Quite right. 3. Careful readingThis step is to help the students to grasp some detail information. Ask them to read carefully and then ask some students to tell if the statements are true. If false, ask th
11、em to correct them.Show the following on the screen.Read fast and tell whether the following statements are true or false:1. According to Orville Wright no flying machine will ever fly from Boston to Paris.2. The prediction that “Thirty years from now people will be wearing clothes made of paper whi
12、ch they will be able to throw away after wearing just once” is made by Changing Times Magazine.3. According to Decca Recording Co, the sound and guitar music is on the way out.4. According to New York Times by 2000, robots shaped like a human would help the housewives a lot.5. The prediction that “B
13、y the mid-1980 no one will need to use the keys” was made by an economist named Christopher Evens.T: Id like you to read the passage again and tell if the statements are true. Correct any mistakes, if any. Suggested answersTrue: 3.False: 1.2.4.54. Reading aloudAsk the students to read aloud and find
14、 out the language points in the passage. Meanwhile ask them to decide which prediction they find most amusing.T: Please read aloud and decide which prediction you find most amusing. At the same time underline the language points.5. Language pointsT: Look at the screen. Lets go through the language p
15、oints of this part.1. Not all predictions come true.It belongs to a partly negative sentence. When “all, both, everything, everybody, always .” are used together with “not”, they are partly negative.e.g 1) All that glitters is not gold. 2) He doesnt always come late.2. With the first moon colonies p
16、redicted for the 1970s, work is now in progress on the types of building required for men to stay in when theyre on the moon.Pay attention to the structure “with +noun / pron + -ing / done / to do / prep phrase / adj / adv”e.g 1) The newly chosen manager felt worried, with so much work to be done. 2
17、) He felt himself infected, with so many people excited about the news.3) He is sure to win the match, with so many people to help him.3. In progress: being done or madee.g 1) Please be quiet! The recording is in progress. 2) The examination is in progress.4. . and guitar is on the way out.On the wa
18、y out: going out of fashion or favore.g 1) This kind of clothes are on the way out. 2) It is said that the Zero Band is on the way out.5. . housewives will probably have a robot shaped like a box with one large eye on the top.“shaped” here is used as attributive. “ shape” means “give a shape or form
19、 to sth；have a great influence on sb / sth”e.g 1) The flower is shaped like a bird. 2) The writer shaped what he had in his mind into the novel. 3) The experience shaped my future.6. ListeningThis step is to help the students to correct the pronunciation and intonation of the students. Teachers can
20、ask them to listen to the tape of the passage and imitate the pronunciation. 7. Writing predictions about life in China in the futureThis step is to stimulate the students imagination. Teachers can ask them to work in pairs and talk about the life in China in the future.T: Have your ever imagined li
21、fe in China in the future? Id like you to work in pairs and have a discussion.After several minutes.T: Now Id like you to report your work.Ss: 1. China will become one of the strongest countries in the world.2. All the people in China will live in cities and there will be no countryside.3. Each fami
22、ly will have at least a car.4. Peoples income will be ten times those of today.5. Everyone will be able to go abroad for further study or just for sight-seeing.6. All the citizens of China will enjoy free medical health care.7. People will be healthier, as genetic engineering is progressing. And peo
23、ple will enjoy a long life span. 8. In the future people will do shopping mainly online.Step Extensive reading (Workbook Page 69)1. Lead-inT: Now lets learn some more predictions about tomorrow world. Please turn to Page 69. Lets read Tomorrows World.Ss: Yes.2. Pre-reading This step is to get the st
24、udents to have a general idea of the whole passage.T: Work in pairs, and look at the headings and the title of the article. Predict words and ideas you expect to find in each section.After a few minutes.T: Have you finished this exercise? Lets check the answers together.Suggested answersA. Houses B.
25、 Jobs C. Vacations D. Information E. The distance future3. ReadingThis step is to get the students to read more carefully and grasp some detail information. Teachers can ask them to read carefully and do Exercise 10. Then get them to discuss their answers in pairs and then with the whole class.T: Pl
26、ease read the passage carefully and lets do Exercise 10. After you have finished this exercise, discuss your answers in pairs and then lets check the answers together. 4. Language points1. But people will want to shape their homes to match their dreams.match sth / sb with sth /sb: find sth /sb that
27、fits or corresponds to sth / sbe.g. Something went wrong in matching supply to demand.2. House kits, “kit” means set of parts sold together to be assembled by the purchaser. 3. . the space hotels will orbit the earth where it will be possible to have a longer vacation.The clause introduced by “where
28、” is an attributive one.e.g 1)This is the point where the two rivers join together.2)The store where they put their goods is behind the radio shop. 4. By the end of the next century, there will be holiday centers on the moon with leisure facilities for families.Pay attention to the existential sente
29、nce used with the future tense.e.g 1)There will be a lecture about the computer this Friday.Pay attention to other forms listed below: 2) I expect there will be a university in our city. 3) There have been great changes in our hometown in the last five years. 4) There seems to be some difficulty in
30、carrying out the plan.5. ListeningThis step is to help the students to correct the pronunciation and intonation of the students. Teachers may ask them to listen to the tape of the passage and imitate the pronunciation. T: Listen to the tape and imitate the pronunciation and intonation. Pay attention
31、 to the language points in the passage.Step Summary and AssignmentT: Today weve learned about some predictions that didnt come true and also some predictions about tomorrow world. Weve also learned some useful words and expressions. After class, finish the following homework: 1. Go over what we have learned in this module. 2. Preview the next part-writing.
