新课标人教版八年级英语下册Unit 1 Will people have robots--SELF CHECK [ty].doc

Structures
Future with will; Yes/No questions with short answers
Questions with more, less, fewer
Target language

What do you think life will be like in 100years?
Every home will have a robot.
Will kids go to school? No, they won’t. They will study at home.
There will be fewer trees.
Vocabulary
Robot, pollution, astronaut, apartment, rocket, space station, moon
free time
Learning strategies
Guessing sequencing
Unit 1 Will people have robots
Part 1: Teaching design
SELF CHECK
1 Filling blanks
To check your studies, you will first fill in the blanks with the words given on page 7. Then make your own sentences with the same words.
wear; work; look; fly; keep
1. I want to work for myself when I’m old.
2. My friends keep a pet pig in their house.
3. I need to look smart for my job interview.
4. We have to wear a uniform to school.
5. One day people will fly to the moon for vacation.
6. He always wears a smile. He wears his hair in a funny way. What should I wear today? She was wearing yellow that day.
7. The rock musician worked the crowd of young girls into a frenzy. Work your way through every problem or task. He is working his servants hard. Is your husband working again? I will work hard to improve my grades. This pilot works the controls. Work the phones. The voting process doesn't work as well as people thought. She works the night clubs. This dough does not work easily. The stitches of the hem worked loose after she wore the skirt many times. Work the raisins into the dough. Work stone into tools. The political candidate worked the crowds. His fingers worked with tension. Work one's way through the crowd. The vintner worked the wine in big oak vats. My personal trainer works me hard. She knows how to work the system. Work the clay until it is soft. This old radio doesn't work anymore. I cannot work a miracle. The artist's work influenced the young painter. Work the metal into a sword. Work the soil. The wine worked. Work out your problems with the boss.

2 Reading and circling
Turn to page 7, and read the passage, circling the inventions on the right.
While reading, try to cut the sentences/, blacken the predicates, darken the connectives and underline the useful expressions.
Now you will read the passage once again and copy the expressions into your Expressions Books.
predicting the future, come true, no sound in movies, the head of one of the biggest movie companies in the United States, see actors talk, of course, have a computer in his or her home, would never be used by most people
3 Finding words
You will go over the unit again to find these in the box on page 7.
1. A place to live in space: space station
2. Something kids will use to study at home: computer
3. These will be in every home: money
4. Yang Liwei is a famous Chinese: astronaut
Just for fun!
To end this period, let’s look at the two pictures and say something about them. Try to use will in your sentences.

Reading: Do you think you will have your own robot?
Before you read—please go over the vocabulary list for this unit at the back of your text book.
While you read—cut/ the sentences into thought groups, blacken the predicates, underline the useful expressions and darken the connectives.
After you read—copy all the useful expressions into your Expression-Book.