人教版高二Unit6Lifeinthefuture.doc

人教版 高二Unit 6 Life in the future教材分析： 本单元围绕Life in the future这一主题开展听、说、读、写多种教学活动，让学生想象未来人们的住房、交通、商业、医药与健康、知识与教育等方面，这些话题能激发学生的想象力，培养发散性思维。学生通过本单元学习，能拓展知识面，不仅了解到目前社会各个领域的发展状况，并且能学会科学地预测未来，让学生关注社会、了解社会，并为实现美好的未来而努力学习。 “热身”（Warming up）目的是鼓励学生大胆想象和积极思考，激活学生已有的相关背景知识，补充必要的和新的背景知识，以启发学生对话题的思考。本课一开始就提出问题：What will life be like in the future? 为了启发学生思考，教材设计了通讯、语言、职业、建筑、商贸、交通、教育、人体等方面的话题，并设计了四幅关于交通、城市建设、外星人、人类健康的图片，供学生参考讨论。这样的设计能激发学生的思维，引起学生对未来人类生活的幻想和想象。 “听力部分”(Listening)是一封3044年生活于火星的一位学生来信，信件分两部分，描述了3044年火星的生活情景，要求学生听录音回答问题并完成表格练习。 “口语”(Speaking)部分设计了以下内容：2089年科学家已掌握了克隆人的技术，能制作一个与原型一模一样的另一个新人，新人能做一切原型会的事情。要求学生讨论决定这种新技术应不应该采用。这样的设计能训练学生的思维、推理能力。 “读前”(Pre-reading)部分设计了四个问题，让学生在讨论的基础上，快速浏览课文，找出能回答这四个问题的段落。这样既能激发学生探究这四个问题的答案，又能引导学生归纳主题，同时对学生的快速阅读能力提出了要求。 “阅读”(Reading)部分是一篇幻想将来人类生活的科普文章，共分四个部分，分别阐述和设想将来的交通、商业、医药与健康以及教育与知识。 “读后”（Post-reading）部分共五个问题，其中第一道题要学生检查自己“读前”问题的答案，是否弄清了各段的主旨大意。其他几个问题要求学生讨论课文，属于拓展性的问题。 “语言学习”（Language study）有两部分。第一部分是词汇学习（Word study），第一个练习检测学生能不中将课文词汇运用于新语境之中，第二个练习是为了帮助学生巩固新学词汇，并培养学生的语境中学习理解、运用词汇的学习策略。第二部分是语法学习，设计了四个练习。第一个练习要求学生判断所给六个句子属于哪一类名词性从句(本单元着重介绍了主语从句、动词宾语从句、介词宾语从句和表语从句)，这是属于概念结构的练习；第二个练习要求学生将左边方框中的问句和右边方框中未完成的句子编成含有名词性从句的复合句；第三个练习要求学生区分名词性从句和定语从句；第四个练习要求学生将原句编成含有名词性从句的句子。通过所有这些练习的训练，使学生能进一步清楚名词性从句的种类、结构，并能掌握运用。 “综合技能”(Integrating skills)部分包括： 1阅读训练：通过阅读3044年Mekanika的一封来信，了解3044年作者的生活，然后讨论回答三个问题，为写作埋下了伏笔。 2写作训练：设想你刚从4367年旅游回来，你看到了一个叫Mogray的新发明，要求学生写一篇文章，解释What is a Mogray? What does it look like? How does it work? What is it used for? 教材列出了提纲和问题，供学生参考，为学生写作的内容和方法做了指导。 “学习建议”(Tips)部分是有关词汇学习的建议，引导学生运用联想来学习 和记忆词汇。 “复习要点”(Checkpoint)部分简要地总结了本单元的语法重点名词性从句(2)，并设计了一个问题引导学生对本单元所学内容进行总结和自评。 教学重点和难点 一、重点： 话题：Talk about life in the future 功能：practise making predictions 词汇：predict remain certain company in general catch a glimpse of keep in touch with pay attention to lead to in store deal with come true 表达用语： 1It would be wonderful if 2Its possible / impossible to predict 3Just imagine if 句型： 1One way to catch a glimpse of the future is to examine some of the major trends in our temporary society. 2New technology is being used to make sure that the cars, taxis, buses and trains we use dont pollute the air. 3Real classrooms will always be popular, but e-schools will help people study whenever they have time and wherever they may be. 4If we learn to accept changes and appreciate what is new and different, we will be well prepared for whatever the future may have in store. 语法：Noun Clauses eg. 1. What life will be like in the future is difficult to predict. 2. They are careful about what they eat and exercise regularly. 3. The discussion topic for today is what schools will be like in the future. 二、难点： 1How to make the students understand the reading passage better. 2How to master the usages of the Noun Clause used as the Subject,Object and Predicative. 3How to help the students write a definition paragraph. 语篇分析： 本单元ReadingLife in the future是一篇幻想将来人类生活的科普文章，共分四个部分，分别阐述和设想将来的交通、商业、医药与健康以及教育与知识。本文中提到了一些新的发明创造（如maglev train）及当代社会的主要趋势。通过本课教学，让学生了解社会发展之快，科技发展之迅猛。只有认真学习，才能适应新时代的需要。只有创新才会推动社会的发展、历史的进步。 1编者意图： 让学生畅想未来，激发他们创造性思维。 引导学生了解社会，关注社会，并且努力去改造社会。 使学生明白，为了美好的明天，他们必须努力学习，终生学习。 2篇章结构思路： How will people travel in the future? How will people shop in the future? What will happen in the field of health and medicine in the future? What will schools be like in the future? 3课文图解： Read the text LIFE IN THE FUTURE, and then complete the following chart. (阅读课文未来的生活，并完成下列表格。) Items Main idea Details Transportation Transportation is becoming cleaner, faster and safer. Cars, taxies, buses and trains dont pollute the environment. Business Business wont be as usual in the future. E-commerce, or business done on the Internet has become more and more popular. Shopping has become a form of entertainment. People will use smart cards instead of cash. Health and medicine People will enjoy a longer, healthier and more active life. People are careful about healthy diet and exercise regularly. Advances in medical science have also overcome new diseases. New discoveries in genetics and biochemistry will be used. Education knowledge The schools of the future will be different. The way we view knowledge is changing. In the future, there may be more “schools on the air” or “e-schools”. We will become lifelong learners. 4课文复述： Retell the text using about 100 words.(请用100个词左右复述课文) Notes: Try to use the simple future tense. Make use of the chart above while retelling. The possible version below can be used as a material for both retelling and dictation. One possible version: Although life in the future is difficult to predict, we can still examine some of its major trends in the contemporary world. Transportation will become cleaner, faster and safer. the vehicles will not pollute the environment. Helped by a computer system, people will travel at an amazing speed. Business wont be as usual in the future. The Internet will play an important role and shopping will become a form of entertainment. People in the future will be able to enjoy a longer, healthier and more active life. In the future, there will be more “schools on the air” and ever “e-schools”. Instead of being students only when we are young, we will become lifelong learners. 5德育渗透： The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. 对于明天认识的唯一限制是我们对于今天的疑惑。 （Franklin Delano Roosevelt 美富兰克林D罗斯福） Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow. 进步是今天的活动、明天的保证。 （Emerson 美爱默生） The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves through their lives. 教育的目的在于使青年人能够对自己终身进行教育。 （Robert M. Hutchins 美哈钦斯） The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it. 人生重要的事情是确立一个伟大的目标和树立实现这个目标的决心。 （Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 德歌德） 6写作技巧：How to describe an object? A description of an object should include a physical description and a “practical / functional” discription.Give students questions for reference. What is it? What does it look like? (eg. how big it is?) How does it work? What is it used for? What do you think of it? 课时安排： Period 1Warming up & listening Period 2Speaking & listening (wb) Period 3&4Reading Period 5Language Study & Grammar Period 6Integrating Skills 教学计划： Period 1 Warming up & Listening Teaching goals: 1Encourage the students to use their imagination to talk about life in the future. 2Train the students listening ability. Teaching procedures: Step 1Warming up task 1Talk about the problems in your life. T: Are you happy now? Are you satisfied with your life (your study, your family, housing, transportation, communication, etc.) Why? Can you give me some reasons? Do you want a happy and beautiful future? What do you want the life to be? task 2Watch pictures on the screen and have a discussion in groups of four. There are four pictures. They are about life in the future. It concerns many fields, such as transportation, city construction, outer creature, peoples health. T: Please imagine what life will be in the future? Task 3Fill in the forms Fields Today Tomorrow Communication letters, e-mail, telephone, cellphone more cellphones, videophones, easier, cheaper Work Business and money The human body (Health) Language Houses and buildings (environment) Transportation Education Step 2Listening Pre-listening: 1What is your life like as a student? Questions for reference: How do you go to school? What subjects do you have? What are they about? what are your hobbies? / How do you spend your spare time? What do you eat? 2 .Imagine where people will live in the future. State your reasons. Ss: Maybe people live on another planet, because there are too many people on the earth. People will live in space because the earth has been polluted, and there is no room for people While- listening: T: Now you will have a letter from a girl living in the future, she describes her life and explains why she lives where she does. Lets compare our life with hers. 1Listen for the first time, answer questions in Part 1. 2Listen for the second time, do Part 2. Exercise1. Post-reading: Question: What does Mekanika want to know? Homework: Writing: write a letter to mekanika and tell her about the things she wants to know. Period 2Speaking & listening (WB) Goals: 1Improve the students speaking ability by practising making predictions. 2Train the students listening ability. Step 1Listening (WB) Do the listening practice in the workbook step by step. If the material is too difficult, teachers can give students some difficult sentences first or even give the listening material to students after they listen to the tape twice. Pre-listening: task Story 1(Look at the screen: a man landed on the moon for the first time.) When did man first land on the moon? Do you want to visit the moon? Story 2What speed does a train reach on average now? Story 3What conditions do lemon trees need to grow well? While-listening: T: Now were going to listen to a news broadcast for the year 2035. 1Listen for the first time, do exercise 1. Tick the subjects mentioned in the news stories. 2Listen for the second time, do exercise 2. Answer the questions. Step 2Speaking Pre-speaking: Brief discription about Dolly (pictures of Dolly on the screen). Then talk about human clones. T: Have the scientists discovered how to make doubles? What would happen if there were human clones? While-speaking: Whats your opinions of making doubles? Cloning Advantages Disadvantages Useful expressions: It would be wonderful if Its possilbe / impossible to predret Just imagine if It would be bad for if No one can predict what / when We can only guess. Post-speaking: Have a free discussion What would happen if there were two Hitlers ? Step 3Homework If you have the chance to make “doubles”,whom would you like to have doubled ? Why? Write a short passage. Period 3&4Reading Goals: 1Learn and master some important expressions. 2Improve the students reading ability. 3Let the students know something about the life in the future. Step 1Lead-in (Three pictures: First is about people working by hand, second is about people working with machines, third is about robots working for people.) T: Now Ill show you three pictures. What differences have you found in these three pictures? S: I think the ways that three people work are different. In the first picture, some people are working by hand. In the second picture, some people are working with machines while some people are giving orders to robots to work for them in the last one. T: Yes. Our society is developing very fast, so our life has changed a lot. With the development of science and technology, our life now is quite different from that in the past. Do you want to know what life will be like in the future? Ss: Yes. T: Today we are going to read a passage about life in the future. Step 2Reading Skimming: Do Exercise on P43. Scanning: Fill in the forms. Items Main idea Details Transportation Business Health and medicine Education knowledge Question: What are the advantages of future, transportation, smart cards, online shopping and e-schools? Are there any disadvantages? Step 3Post-reading: Debating For side: Life will be better in the future. Against side :Life will be worse in the future. For side Against side 1.Transportationwill be safer,faster,cleaner too many private cars crowded 2 advanced technology new medicines polluted environment new diseases 3 People will live longer too many senior citizens new problems 4 energy from wind,sun coal, electricity Natural resources will be used up 5 Step 4Summary: In order to have a bright future,we should love our life, love the earth. We have to learn as much as possible and we must try to accept changes and appreciate what is new and different. Step 5Homework Write a passage :Will life be better in the future? Period 5 Language Study & Grammar Goals: 1Revise the words 2Do some exercises to consolidate the Noun Clause Step 1Revision Activity: Teacher: Whats your future plan? Students: go to university, find a good job. have a beautiful house, own private cars. Step 2Word study: Activity 1: 根据释义说出或写出本单元所学词汇。例如： a statement of what is judged likely to happen in the future, esp in connection with a particular situation, or of the expected weather conditions _ existing or happening now; modern _ a general devepoment or change in a situation or in the way that people are behaving _ of or in a city or town _ a person who buys goods or services for their own use _ extremely small _ money in the form of notes and coins, rather than cheques or credit cards _ a medical doctor, esp one who has general skill and is not a surgeon _ Activity 2: Do Exercise 1 . Fill in the blanks with words in the text. Suggested answers: 1. forecast 2. trends 3. urban 4. consumers / customers 5. ensure 6. tiny 7. cash 8. regularly 9. physician 10.purchase / pruchases Read the sentences and translate them into Chinese. Exercise 2:Choose the correct phrases to fill in the blanks in the following story. Suggested answers: in general in store keep in touch with lead to pay attention to Write an ending to the story. Step 3Grammar: Noun Clauses used as Subject, Object and Predicative. Instructions: 1In the Object clause “that” is optional and can be omitted. But in the Predicative and Subject Clauses “that” is necessary and cannot be omitted. 2You should pay attention to the word order in the Noun Clause. Normal word order is used in it. 3In order to keep the sentence balanced. We often use “it” as the formal subject, which replaces the real subject. 4The subordinate conjunction “whether” can introduce all the Noun Clauses, while the subordinate conjunetion “if” can only introduce an object clause used as the object of a verb. Exercise: 1Find out the function of the Noun Clause in each sentence. 2Look at the questions about the future in the box on the left. Then use the expressions in the box on the right to change your questions into Noun Clause. Example: How we should use modern technology is an important question. Activity: Look at the pictures on the screen, and complete the sentences using Noun Clauses. We cannot be sure _. The problem is _. I cant imagine _. _ is an important question. Scientists have (not) found answers to the question _. They are worried about _. Exercise 3Identify the type of clause in each of the sentences. Instruction: The difference between a Noun Clause and an Attributive Clause. A Noun Clause is used as a Subject, Object, Predicative or Appositive in the main clause. An Attributive Clause serves as an attribute to some nouns or pronouns in the main clause, and it is often placed after this noun or pronoun. The Attributive clause is introduced by the relative pronouns and the relalive adverbs. Step 4Homework Exercise 4Rewrite the following sentences so that they contain a Noun Clause of the type in brackets. Period 6. Integrating Skills Step 1Reading Pre-reading: Task: If you have an e-friend, what would you use it for? (Ss: help me with what I couldnt do, keep me company, talk with me, help me with my homework ) T: As we know, peoples life has been changing. Its getting better and better. What do you think life in the 31st century will be like? Will it be the same as that today? Ss: No, we think life in the 31st century will be very different from that in this century. Well live more easily than today. Well have a machine so what we want them to. The only thing we need to do is to press the buttons on the computer. T: Ok. Thank you. Today were going to read a letter about the way people will live more than one thousand years later and we can know what the life in the 31st century will be like. While-reading: 1Skim and find out the main idea. Main idea Paragraph 1 Mekanika describes an e-friend .She explains what it is. What it looks like and how people use it. Paragraph 2 Mekanika describes an idea, namely virtual reality. 2Scanning Find out how Mekanika describe her e-friend. Mekanikas e-friend What does it look like? How does it work? What can it be used for? What is virtual reality? Post-reading: Exercise 2Why is it sometimes difficult for Mekanika to know what is real and what is an image? Exercise 3How is our life different from the way people live one thousand years ago? Step 2Writing: write about an object T: We have known what the life will be in the year 3044. Imagine that you have come back from a trip to the future. You visited the year 4367 and you saw a wonderfu invention called a Mogray. Now work with your partner and decide what a Mogray is, what it looks like and what it is used for. Before writing, you have to complete the outline on the screen. What does a Mogray look like? How does it work? What can it be used for? Instruction: A description of an object should include a physical description (what the object looks like, how big it is etc.) as well as a “practical / functional” description (what it can be used for / how you use it). Step 3Homework 1Write the passage in your Exercise book. 2Surf the Internet to find more information about life in the future. 补充材料 文字资料 Changes in the Future Peering (展望) into the 21st century, authorities in the future see extraordinary changes throughout the worldWhether in the home, the workplace or outer space, many of these changes will be of the sort that seemed unthinkable only a few years ago Through worldwide computer network, scientists, engineers and technicians at different parts of the world can work on the same project at the same timeThey can exchange ideas, try out different designs and test their resultsExamples：An engineering team can design and try out a robot system or an entire factory before it is builtAn architectural team can do the same with a building or a bridgeA medical team can pretend to have a dangerous operation before performing it on a patient In everyday life, the future will mean talking directly to computers without pushing buttonsIts really convenientSimply tell a stove what to do, and it will hear your voice and understand the messageThe oven (烤炉) may even decide how long to cook the chickenTell the television, “ I want to watch Channel 12 at 8 pm, but store the show for next week,” and the job will be done The computer will talk, tooAlready some soft drink machines complain loudly if you dont put in enough moneyAt home, a bedside machine may some day tell, “You forgot to turn off the kitchen light” The wide use of personal computers, E-mails, fax machines and mobile phones is promoting （提升）more and moreWestern people will make their homes into officesThere they will be happier and more productiveThey will have more control over their time and feel more satisfiedThe practice will also help solve the problems of transportation and air pollution at the same time The practice of tele-working has been especially popular with banking and insurance（保险） industries and with large corporationsHowever, tele-working is not for everyone and it must be introduced with certain safeguardsCompan