新课标人教版八年级英语下册Unit 1 Will people have robots--SECTION A [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

SECTION A
Goals
● Learn to use questions with more, less, fewer
● Learn to express future with will
● Learn to answer Yes/ No questions with short answers
Procedures
Warming up
Choice 1
Warming up by watching The Story of Robot Wars
Hello, everyone! Nice to see you back at school after the winter holidays. How did you spend your Spring Festival?
Now I am going to show you a film called The Story of Robot Wars. What is a robot? Yes, it is 机器人. The story goes like this:
All the robots at the governmental institute of robots were shut down for the night, Suddenly in a flash of light they all got beamed to another planet! And then they all automatically turned on they saw that they were in a giant arena. Suddenly a monitor appeared, and on it a giant robot it said "let me explain, I am the champion robot, and I need entertainment, my newest entertainment is the "Robot Wars". It’s where you robots fight each other with missiles, lasers etc. Now eventually you will get to the point where there will other robots from other institutes for you to fight, and eventually one of you will fight me, now when you score a point by hitting your opponent you get a weapon" and with that they all got beamed to separate arenas and so the fight for freedom began.
Choice 2
Warming up by Learning about grammar
Welcome back to school. Now turn to page 3, and look at the grammar focus.
Will there be less pollution? No, there won’t. There will be more pollution.
Will there be fewer trees? Yes, there will.
Kids won’t go to school.
Kids will study at home on computer.
Now give attention to the blacken words. Will is used here to express future event.
More examples: I will have English classes this afternoon.
He won’t go to school tomorrow.
The form of the usage is: will+verb.
Now let’s have a game to make sentences with will to see who will say the most sentences with will.
1a Reading and checking
Now let’s go to page 2. There are 6 statements here. Read them and check A if you agree with the prediction. If you disagree with any of them check D.
What is a prediction?
A statement foretelling the possible outcome(s) of an event, process, or experiment. In meteorology, a prediction is also called a forecast. A prediction is based on observations, experience, and scientific reasoning. A guess, on the other hand, is based on conjecture (speculation), chance, and intuition.
1b Listening and circling
Listen and circle the predictions you hear in activity 1a.
Next you are to read the tapescript to blacken the predictions you hear in 1a. While reading you may try to find out the pauses between the thought groups.
1c Doing pairwork
Do you predict? Now in pairs ask and answer questions about the predictions in 1a.
A: Will people use money in 100 years?
B: No, they won’t. Everything will be free. Will people live to 200 years old?
A: Yes, they will.
A: Will people have robots in their homes?
B: Yes, they will.
A: Will books be only on computers?
B: No, they won’t. There will be still paper books in the future.
A: Won’t kids go to school?
B: Yes, they will. But they will have robot teacher teaching them English!
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2a Listening and circling
Listen and circle the words you hear.
Next you are to read the tapescript to underline the useful expressions. While reading you may try to find out the pauses between the thought groups.
2b Listening again
You are to listen again. Check the predictions you hear on page 3.
2c Doing groupwork
Look at activity 2b. You are to make conversations about the predictions.
A: I think there will be more pollution.
B: Well, I don’t agree. But I think there will be fewer trees.
A: I agree.
A: I think there will be less free time.
B: Well, I don’t agree. But I think there will be fewer subways.
A: I agree.
A: I think there will be more water.
B: Well, I don’t agree. But I think there will be fewer boats and ships.
A: I agree.
3a Looking and filling
1. Five years ago, Sally was in high school.
2. She played football.
3. She had a white robot rabbit.
4. Today she is in college.
5. She plays violin.
6. She has a robot dog.
7. In five years, Sally will be married.
8. She will play badminton with her husband.
9. She will have a baby daughter.
3b Doing pairwork
Next you are to look at 3a and make predictions about Sally.
A: What do you think Sally will be in five years?
B: I think she’ll be a doctor.
A: What sports will she play?
B: She’ll play tennis, I think.
A: What do you think Sally will be in five years?
B: I think she’ll be a housewife.
A: What baby will she have?
B: She’ll have a baby daughter, I think.
3c Writing about yourselves
You will look back, look ahead and write about yourselves.
Five years ago
Today
In five years
I was in primary school.
I played ping-pong.
I had a robot cat.
I am in junior school.
I play basketball.
I have a robot snake.
I will be in college.
I will play football.
I will have a robot friend.
Doing groupwork
You will draw a picture of the tomorrow city. And you will describe it to your class.

A: I think there will be more tall buildings. And there will be fewer cars and more buses.
B: I think there will be less water. And there will be more robots and more computers.
A: I think there will be more space stations. And there will be fewer astronauts and more pets.
A: I think there will be less housework. And there will be fewer toothbrushes and more factories.
Closing down by reading a poem about the future
Traverse : Into The Future
by Je ' Free

What I say now may be elementary -
Once man unravels time and its mystery
We travel to the past by memory
Imagination’s what our future will be

Delve in the theories of the human minds
It’s heaven or hell or in between those lines
Push to one direction, a radical turn
We see this paradox a great concern

We have explored it almost endlessly -
How we can change the course of history
Kaleidoscopic the world seems to be
We need a mechanism to set us free

Traverse the unreached boundaries...
Where there’s no war, poverty, and pollution
Traverse the possibilities...
Where there’s no environmental devastation
Traverse the unknown energy...
Where there’s a parallel dimension disguised
Traverse levels of this mystery...
Where we will be spending the rest of our lives