Module1LifeintheFuture.doc

Module 1 Life in the future
Period 2 Reading and Vocabulary
Teaching goals:
1. To improve Ss’ reading skills and the ability;
2. To arouse Ss’ interest in learning about the future life;
3. To get Ss to know something about the predictions about the future life;
4. To make Ss learn how to analyze sentences and master some words and phrases.
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1 Leading-in
1. Show Ss some scenes from a movie about future to arouse their interest in future life.
2. Show some pictures about the city in the future to guide Ss to the theme The City of the Future
Step 2 Words exercise
Ss should be familiar with some words before reading to help them understand the passage easier. (Activity 3 on page3)
Step 3 Reading
1. Fast reading:
(1) Let Ss read the passage quickly and find out the topics mentioned in the passage.

p alternative energy
p environment
p traffic
p weather
p entertainment
p shopping
p crime
p schools
p public services

(2) Ask Ss to divide the whole passage into two parts:
Suggested Answers:
Part one: the first paragraph—general idea of the future city.
Part two: paragraph 2-11— predictions for specific aspects of the future life.
2. Intensive reading:
Ask Ss to read the passage carefully and answer the questions in Activity 6 on page4 in pairs.
3. Consolidation:
Let Ss read the passage again and complete the following chart.
In the future, ______________________ will become very important as we will _________ earth’s natural resources. And we will use lots of ________________ and also have to rely on ________________.
How the students would run a city in the year 2025.
Garbage ships
The city will ____ huge spaceships ____ waste materials and send them towards the sun.
Batman Nets
Police will use them to _______________.

Forget smoking
If you want to smoke, you can go outside cities, and outdoors.
Forget the malls
All shopping will be done online, and catalogues will have voice commands to ____________.
Telephones for life
Everyone will be given a telephone number at birth that will never change _______________________ they live.
Recreation
All forms of recreation will be provided ____________ by the city.
Cars
All cars will use
___________________________________, and it will be possible to change the colour of cars.
Telesurgery
It will be common to _______________ operations at a distance.
Holidays at home
People will be able to go anywhere in the world using ____________________
_________________________________.
Space travel
It will be _______ for ordinary people to travel in space.

Step 4 Analyze the sentences
Give students two long sentences from the passage to discuss the sentence component.
1.In the future, care for the environment will become very important （ as earth’s natural
resources run out. )
2.To find out what young people think about the future of urban life, a teacher at a
university in Texas in the United States asked his students to think （how they would
run a city of 50,000 people in the year of 2025.）
Step 5 Homework
1. analyze two sentences from the passage
Distance surgery will become common as doctors carry out operations from thousands of miles away, with each city having its own telesurgery outpatient clinic.
Senior citizens and people with disabilities will be able to go anywhere in the world using high-tech cameras attached to their head.
2. Imagine you are going through the Time Tunnel and now it is 2050 and describe the city and people’s life there through your eyes.