外研版必修4Module1LifeintheFuture教学设计.doc

Module 1 The City of the Future
Teaching aims:
1. Get the students to understand the house in the future and know the characters of materials.
2. Encourage the students to think and talk about what the city of the future will look like.
3. Form your own idea about the life in the future and describe the school of the future.
Warming—up Exercises:
Part Ⅰ: Choose the building materials to complete the sentences.
aluminium brick concrete glass mud plastic rubber steel stone wood

1. _________ is a very light metal.
2. ___________ is a very strong metal.
3. Both___________ and ___________come from trees.
4. __________ is light, strong, very popular, and man-made.
5. ___________are often used to build walls.
6. ___________ is very strong and used in many modern buildings.
7. ___________is wet earth.
8. ___________is a natural hard material.
9. ___________is used to make windows.
Part Ⅱ: Match the words and phrases from the box with their meanings.
solar urban landfill net recreation surgery clinic disability

1 a problem which prevents you from doing something ___________
2 from the sun ____________
3 free time activities, such as sport and entertainment ___________
4 you can use this to catch a lot of fish at the same time ___________
5 medical treatment in which the doctor cuts open your body _____________
6 a place where you can get medical treatment _____________
7 to do with town or city life ___________
8 the process of burying large amounts of waste material ___________
Presentation
Step 1: Lead in（导入）: As is known to us all, our world is changing very fast now. Can you imagine what our life in the future will be like?
Step 2：Pre-reading question
What topics do you think will be mentioned in a passage with the title The City of the Future?
Alternative energy shopping environment traffic weather entertainment crime schools public services
Step 3 : Fast-reading
1、Check your answers: Which topic is mentioned in the text?
2、Read the passage quickly and try your best to fill in the form.
Part1
(para __----para__)
Topic sentence:
Part2
(para __----para__)
Main idea：How will the students run a city in the future?

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Step 4: Careful-reading
Part 1: 1、Why will care for the environment become very important in the future?（ ）
A. Because earth’s natural resources run out.
B. Because we will use lots of recycled materials, such as plastic, aluminium, steel, glass, wood and paper.
C. Because we will waste fewer natural resources.
D. Because we will also have to rely more on alternative energy.
2、How to solve the problem of the running-out natural resourses?

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Part 2：
1、Compare and fill in the form

now
future
rubbish
We often bury or burn them
We’ll______________
with the garbage
crime
Police often arrest criminals by guns
Police will arrest criminals by_________
smoking
We can smoke in many places
No smoking is allowed _______________
shopping
We do shopping in supermarkets, stores or ______
We will do shopping and place orders______________
Seeing a doctor
We go to a clinic or a__________
Doctors will carry out many telesurgeries

2、True or False questions
⑴ Some one can know what the future city is like.
⑵ The natural resources have been used up.
⑶ You will not be allowed to smoke in a future city.
⑷ We must pay for seeing a film in the future.
⑸ Most of the people can travel in space easily in the future.
Language points
1、将来，爱护环境将会很重要，因为地球的资源将濒临枯竭。
In the future, ____________ the environment will become very important as earth’s
natural resources __________.
care . n 爱护，关爱，关心
vt 对...介意,对...计较
vi 关怀,照顾(+for)
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2. run out 用光 ； 跑出
我们的车子已经没油了。
Our car has run out of petrol.
高考链接
---- I'm still working on my project.
---- oh, you'll miss the deadline . Time is ___.
A. running out B. going out
C. giving out D. losing out
solar, online, predict, attach, run out, rely on, in the future, building materials

Step 5: Exercise and consolidation

I can’t _______ what schools will be like_________, but I know for sure that great changes will take place then. Recently I have looked up information_______, and I’d like to share some with you.
First, will be quite different. Some new types, such as plastic, glass will be used.
Second, the future schools will make full use of _____ energy, and the temperature inside will be fixed, for the natural resources are __________, and we will __________ alternative energy.
Third, there will be no books at all. Every classroom will be ________ to the advanced net system.
That’s my opinion of the future school, how about yours?
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Step 6: Post-reading: Speech contest
There is an English competition named “The school of the future” in our school. Now use your head and according to the knowledge you have learned to make a speech. You can talk about size ,material, equipment, management，classroom, blackboard, library, playground, gallery, dormitory，dining-room ,exam system and so on.
Step 7: Homework
Write yourself an E-mail and imagine your life in the future, with the beginning sentence: Dear future me,

【收获与发现】
Students’ self-evaluation
Can I understand all that the teacher taught? At what point I still puzzled?

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