Life in the Future
一教学设计思想
高中英语课程的总目标是使学生在义务教育阶段英语学习的基础上，进一步明确英语学习的目的，发展自主学习和合作学习的能力；形成有效的英语学习策略；培养学生的综合语言运用能力。综合语言运用能力的形成建立在语言技能，语言知识，情感态度，学习策略和文化意识等素养整合发展的基础上。语言技能和语言知识是综合语言运用能力的基础/情感态度是影响学生学习和发展的重要因素。学习策略是提高学习效率，发展自主学习能力的先决条件。文化意识则是得体运用语言的保障。
本节课的中心话题是未来的生活，具体内容涉及未来的交通，商业，医药与健康，知识与教育等，激发学生的思维，引起学生对未来人类生活的幻想和想象。
二The record of the class
Teaching aims:
1. Have a good understanding of the text and learn some useful words and expressions.
2. Improve the Ss’ reading ability.
3. Know more about the future and enrich the Ss’ imagination.
Key points: Have a good understanding of the text through the exercises.
Difficulties: To talk about the questions in Post-reading
Teaching aids: computer, tape-recorder, handout
Teaching procedure:
Step 1 Lead in
T: What’s the date today?
S: Today is the 15th of November, 2004.
T: If today were a day of 3000 years, Can you imagine what your life will be like in the future? Use your heads and good imagination to describe your future life. You can refer to the questions if you like. Let’s have a discussion. (show the questions on the screen)
Where will you live in the future?
How will you travel in the future?
Where will you work and study in the future?
What kind of money will you use?
Will you still get sick?
（设计意图：为了启发学生思考，设计了五个问题，涉及到了建筑，交通，职业，教育，商业和人类健康，激发学生的思维，引起学生对未来人类生活的幻想和想象，）
(Two minutes later), ask one or two of the students to something about the future life.
S1: In the future people will communicate more easily and conveniently. They can talk on the phone and send e-mails on the Internet, like shopping, reading, borrowing books, depositing money, ordering meals or tickets.
S2: Human beings will look healthier in the future. in spite of this they still get sick. However, scientists will have a better understanding of how cancer develops.
S3: in the future people will travel to different places. Not only do they enjoy local travel but also they travel abroad. Some even can afford to travel in space.
T: From your description, I can see you have a good imagination, maybe you can be an excellent director of scientific fiction film. Today, we will learn unit 6. life in the future. (write the title on the blackboard)
Step 2 Pre-reading
T: First, let’s scan our text very quickly and find out in which paragraph you can find the answers to these questions of task 1.
How will people shop in the future? Para__3_____
How will people travel in the future? Para__2_____
What will schools be like in the future? Para___5____
What development is expected in health. Para___4____
What will the future be like in the future? Para__1 and 6__
(设计意图：让学生快速浏览课文，找出能回答这五个问题的段落。这样既能激发学生探究这五个问题的答案。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。)
Three minutes later, ask some of them to speak out their answers.
T: Now, let’s check our answer together.
S: we can find the answer to question 1 in paragraph 3.
S: we can find the answer to question 2 in paragraph 2.
S: we can find the answer to question 3 in paragraph 5.
S: we can find the answer to question 4 in paragraph 4.
S: we can find the answer to question 5 in paragraph 1.
T: Usually, we can get a general idea about the text in the first paragraph. What can you know from the last paragraph? The writer usually drew a conclusion about the text. So you can find your answer to question 5 in both paragraph one and six.
T：Do you need to read the text sentence by sentence?
S: NO, we just need to read the subtitle.
Step3 While reading
T: You did a good job. Now let’s read our text carefully this time and judge the statements of task 2 true or false. If the statement is false, tell me the reason why the statement is false. Read the statements carefully first. ( hold on the paper and show it to the students)
Ｔ：(Two minutes) Do you have any difficulty in understanding the sentences?
Ｓ：Ｎo.
T: If not, please read the text carefully and silently by yourselves.
1. Second reading for details
1) Ask the Ss to read the text again. Then judge the statements true or false.
It is not easy to predict the life in the future.
Although a new maglev train travels, it may do harm to the environment.
It is the internet that makes it easier for companies to keep in touch with customers.
New discoveries in genetics and biochemistry may change the way people make medicines and cure diseases.
In the future students will have no homework any longer.
The high-pace life style and highly-developed society requires people in the future to become lifelong learners.
(设计意图: 让学生在阅读的过程中，善于捕捉信息，并对信息进行处理，做出自己的判断。训练学生的处理信息的能力。)
(Five minutes later)
T: Let’s check the answers with the whole class Key: TFTTFT
S1: The first sentence is true.
S2: The second sentence is false because the new maglev train is environmentally friendly, so it won’t do harm to the environment.
S3: The third sentence is true.
S4: The fourth sentence is true.
S5: The fifth sentence is false, because homework will be always be homework. Even in the future, students will still have homework, but it may be a bit different.
S6: The last sentence is true.
T: Ok, How many fields does the writer talk about?
S: four fields ( together).
T: What are they?
S: Transportation, Business, Health and medicine, Education and knowledge.
T: Good, let’s go through our text again and fill in the chart using the information you get from the text. Try to use the key words and phrases. I will give you an example, What field does the writer talk about first? What will the transportation be like in the future? Why will it be like that? (Give them an example). Are you clear, Ok, let’s have a competition, the right three lines fill in the first two columns and the left three lines fill in the rest two columns, let’s see who can be the first to finish the task.
2. Third reading to finish the form.
Ask the Ss to work in pairs, go through the text again and then fill in the form below using key words and key points.
Life in the future
Fields
What will they become?
the reasons
Transportation
cleaner
faster
safer
1 use new technology /develop new fuels and engines
2. travels at 430km/h
3 controlled by advanced computer system
Business
on the internet
entertainment.
smart cards
Health and medicine
longer
healthier
1. deal with new disease well
2 make new discoveries in genetics and biochemistry
3. remain active even in old age
Education and knowledge
1. study at home
2. more schools on the air /e-schools
3. lifelong learners
(设计意图: 培养学生的归纳能力，能运用关键词来总结主要内容。要让学生了解科学技术进步在未来生活中的巨大推动作用，让他们意识到只有用自己的智慧和勤劳的双手才能改造社会，为人类造福。并为读后的输出做铺垫。)
Ten minutes later, check the answer together.
Ｔ：After finishing our task, can you tell me what kind of life we will have in the future?
S：comfortable, convenient , longer, healthier, active .
Ｔ：Is that our whole life?
Ｓ；NO. That is just a part of our life, then in what other fields we can go on talking about? Let’s have brainstorm.
（The students will think up some other fields）
Ｓ： food, factory, energy, farm, language, house…
Ｔ：(write them on the blackboard). Now let’s talk about our future life in other fields. Try to use the phrases or the sentences you learned in this unit.
Step 4 post reading(Group discussion)
Fields
What will the become in the future
Energy / language / houses / farm…/ factory…
Five minutes later, ask three or four of them to report.
Ｓ：In the future people will live in different places. As the population is exploding, more people will prefer to live in faraway places, under the sea or even on the moon.
S2. In the future people will speak much fewer languages. Both English and Chinese lave become world languages.
S3: In the future, people can eat anything, people won’t need to worry about the food problem in the world.
S4: In the future people can find many ways to deal with pollution, we can live a better environment.
Ending.
T: Good, you know, Everything has advantages and disadvantages, What should we do to make sure we will have a bright future?
S: We should study hard and be a lifelong learners.
T: Good. we should be lifelong learners and accept the change ,appreciate what is new and different, making great efforts to make our dreams come true.
三. 评价：
整体评价：这节英语课强调在进一步发展学生综合语言运用能力的基础上，着重提高学生用英语获取信息，处理信息，分析问题和解决问题的能力。特别注重提高学生用英语进行思维和表达的能力；形成跨文化交际的意识和基本的跨文化交际能力；进一步拓宽视野，增强爱国主义精神和民族使命感，形成健全的情感，态度，价值观。为未来发展和终身学习奠定良好的基础。

本节课的中心话题是未来的生活，具体内容涉及未来的交通，商业，医药与健康，知识与教育等，激发学生的思维，引起学生对未来人类生活的幻想和想象。通过一系列的问题解决活动，促进和协调了学生多种智能的发展，使学生的语言运用能力，探究能力，创造能力，协作能力形成有机的整体，共同得到发展。
具体评价：
本节课以一系列问题组成的任务环，以学生的大胆预测来呈现主题life in the future,学生活动积极，能够充分展开幻想和想象，对未来生活进行描述。
在阅读的过程中通过找问题的答案来传授阅读技巧，形成有效的英语学习策略，教学设计合理。
通过判断句子正误及用关键词来总结文章内容来培养学生的发现信息，处理信息的能力。在处理信息过程中注重发展学生自主学习和合作学习的能力，综合语言运用能力,突出学习者在学习过程中的主体地位，切实调动和发挥学习者学习的积极性和主动性，有效地指导学习者获得学习上的成功。
四．课后反思
怎样才能使学生真正动脑筋，在兴趣中探索新的知识和掌握技能，改变以教师为主体的教学方式，是每个老师需要认真思考的问题。新教材知识面广，涉及的话题很新，贴近学生的生活，很容易引起他们的兴趣，教师应在吃透教材的基础上，选择合适的教学方法，真正地让学生动脑筋。