英语必修5人教版新课标Unit 3教案（第1--2课时）
Unit 3 Life In the Future
教材分析
I．教学内容分析：
本单元的中心话题是“谈未来”， 内容主要涉及人类对今后生活环境的想象、猜测和思考。 语言技能和语言知识主要围绕“未来生活”这一中心话题进行设计的
Warming up 部分通过一个填表活动引导学生去回顾过去、认识现在和展望未来。
Pre-reading部分首先让学生列举一些当今世界存在的问题，接着要求学生考虑一下在未来社会里哪些问题会克服、哪些问题将恶化。这样就为下面阅读做了铺垫。
Reading 部分以Li Qiang 发自宇宙空间站的电子邮件的形式向读者讲述了他是如何安全到达“未来世界”以及在“未来世界”的第一印象。教师引导学生把阅读的重点放在“未来世界”生活与现在生活的不同点上。
Comprehending 设计了五个教学活动来加深学生对“阅读”(Reading )的理解和复习。
活动一设计了5个问题，考查学生对文章主要信息的理解。
活动二要求学生通过阅读找到“未来世界”在以下几方面的变化：跨时空旅行、交通、住房、城镇环境和空气质量。接着学生应该在思考的基础上得出自己的结论，即哪些变化好，哪些变化不好，并说出理由。
活动三要求学生通过阅读来判断李强对未来的态度是乐观的还是悲观的。学生应该在文中找出支持自己观点的论据或例子，尽可能说服别人。
活动四让学生概括每一段的大意和具体信息，并复述课文，更深入地理解课文内容。
活动五让学生朗读课文最后一段，注意语音语调和节奏。
Learning about language部分突出了本单元的一些重点语汇和语法，通过语篇来考察学生运用本单元部分词汇的能力的练习。语法部分要求学生主动找出阅读语篇中饿重点结构—过去分词用定语和状语，然后加以应用。教师要提醒学生既要注意语义(meaning )也要注意形式(form).
Using Language部分涵盖了听、说、读、写四项语言基本技能。
summing up部分归纳了本单元的主要学内容并让学生自我检测一下效果。
Learning tip 部分告诉学生在讨论时记笔记的好处和方法。
II．教学重点和难点
1. 教学的重点
(1) 回顾历史，认识现在，展望未来，激发学生的想象力；
学习使用有关预测和猜测的表达方式；
掌握过去分词作定语、状语的用法；
运用所学的英语写出具有丰富想象力的短文。
2. 教学的难点
激发学生的想象力对未来生活进行展望；
掌握过去分词做定语、状语的用法；
学习对有关预测和猜测的表达方式。
III．教学计划
本单元分六课时：
第一、二课时：Warming Up, Pre-reading, Reading, Comprehending
第三、四课时：Learning about language, Using Language
第五课时：Listening and speaking (Using Language)
IV．教学步骤：
Period 1 & 2 Warming Up & Pre-reading, Reading Comprehending
Teaching Goals:
To illustrate Ss’ imagination of future life.
To arouse Ss to pay more attention to the problems that probably appeared in the future life.
To make Ss know the difference of life between the past, present and future.
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1 Leading-in
Purpose: To talk about past and future changes of life.
1. Group work
Let Ss discuss the questions in groups of four.
How do you usually get to school?
Where do you live, in a city or in the countryside?
Where would you like to live in the future?
Do you live in a flat or a house?
Do you have a room of you won? Can you describe the room in the picture?
What kind of housing would you like to have in the future?
What would you like to have in your room?
What can we use to build houses? (brick, stone , steel , glass, ice, wood , plastic bamboo, …)
2. Conclusion
This unit introduces what life in the future might be like to Ss. By discussing and answering the questions above can make Ss have a general understanding of the present and future life and can also illustrate Ss’ imagination about the future life.
Step 2. Warming Up
1. Pair work
In pairs let Ss list the changes in housing, transport, jobs, families and education will happen in the next century.
2. Individual work
According to the result of the above Pair work, fill in the chart.
表格 1
Present time
In one Thousand Years’ Time
Transport
Work
Finance and currency
Languages
Environment
Education
Houses
Communication
Suggested Answers:
表格 2
Present time
In One Thousand Years’ Time
Transport
Airplanes; cars; bicycles
No longer by air because of environmental pollution; bicycles and horses will make a comeback
Work
Office; factory; construction; landscape; service
At home using advanced, interactive computers; meetings can be conducted on the computer and people will see each other speak.
Finance and currency
Banks; offices; insurance; business
One global currency—maybe the yuan as China will be the largest global exporter
Language
English; Russian; Chinese
One global language- perhaps Chinese or still English
Environment
Air: could be improved in cities
Very poor; need to recycle all waste; control on the use of cars; no airplanes; methods to improve poor air quality. Climate of the earth being very hot is making problems over water resources
Education
Nursery; schools; university
Longer than now possibly until 25 years of age so that students can learn all the new technologies
Houses
Flats; houses; concrete; wood
Built into the ground as the surface of the earth is so hot.
Communication
Post office; Internet
By thoughtpad, telephone, computer, mobiles, Morse code, etc
Step 3. Pre-reading
1. Pair work
Ask Ss to discuss the following questions in pairs.
Make a list of the problems human beings are facing today.
(2) What problems do you think people will have overcome in one thousand years? Which ones do you think will still exist in AD 3008?
Suggested Answers:
(1) The seven serious problems facing mankind:
① The first problem I would like to point out is the decline of morality.(道德沦丧)
② The second problem is the racial bias problem. (种族歧视)
③ The third problem , which is a most serious problem , is the rapid depletion of resources on the Earth. (资源匮乏)
④ Now I come to the fourth problem, the problem of the large gap between the poor and the rich . (贫富悬殊)
⑤ The fifth problem is the pollution problem.(环境恶化)
⑥ Now I would like to talk about the sixth problem, the expensive arms race problem. (军备竞争)。
⑦ The seventh problem is that the technologies vital to the welfare of human beings are becoming more and more concentrated in the hands of a small group of people. (技术垄断)
(2) Various answers are acceptable.
2. Discussion
Show Ss the above pictures and ask them what problems each picture shows. This can arouse Ss interest. Ask Ss to have a wide range of discussion about the present and future life. They can discuss as much as they can.
Suggested Answers:
Picture one: global warming,
Picture two: acid rain,
Picture three: growing areas of desert,
Picture four: over large world population,
Picture five: lack of enough drinking water,
Step 4. Reading
1. Skimming
Pair work:
Ask Ss to look the three pictures (P18) and then discuss with their partners and answer the following questions:
① Picture one:
* What can you see in the picture?
* What are the people doing?
* Where do you think they are doing?
② Picture two:
* How many people can you see in the picture?
* Who are they, do you know?
* What else can you see in the picture?
* What can you use them for?
③ Picture 3.
* What can you see in the picture?
* Where is Li Qiang?
* What is Li Qiang doing?
* What is the table and chairs made of?
* What is the wall made of? What function does it have?
(2) Discussion:
Ask Ss read through the text as quickly as possible and talk about Li Qiang’s first impressions of AD 3008, and at the same time underline words, phrases, or sentences that are closely related to Li Qiang’s first impressions.
2. Scanning
(1) Team work
Ask Ss to discuss how far their ideas of the future are from those in the story. Let them discuss the following questions.
① Do you think Li Qiang is impressed by what he finds in the future? Why or why not?
② What improvements do you think there will be to your home city or home village one thousand years in the future? What problems might there be?
③ What ideas do you think were believable in this story? Why?
④ Which ideas do you think are too unrealistic? Why?
(2) Group work
This text is written as if it were a letter from a son to his parents. He is telling them his impressions in an informal way. So the descriptions are mixed with his impressions to give you his idea of what the future is like. Now please discuss the style of the text.
① Do you think Li Qiang’s descriptions are fair? Why or why not?
② What language does he use that gives you that impression?
③ Do you think he feels comfortable in the future? Why or why not?
④ What language does he use that gives you that impression?
3. Comprehending
Ask Ss to tell the following sentences are True or False (T or F)
(1) Li Qiang was worried about the journey, so he was unsettled all the time.
(2) Wang Ping is his friend who is also a good guide.
(3) His head ached because of lack of oxygen.
(4) Li Qiang lost in touch with Wang Ping, but he found him at last.
(5) Wang Ping’s mother was not friendly to him.
Suggested Answers: (1) F (2) T (3) F (4) T (5) F
4. Listening
Listen to the tape and fill in the chart bellow:
Good changes
Bad changes
Time travel
Transport
Houses
Towns
Air quality
Suggested Answers:
Good changes
Bad changes
Time travel
Can travel to different times as you wish
After– effects of travel
Transport
Can move swiftly
Disorganized, difficult to find way
Houses
Save living space
Short of space
Towns
Busy, look like markets
easy to get lost
Air quality
Own family oxygen supply
Poor quality in public places.
5. Group work
Divide the whole class into four groups. Each group is supposed to read through the text and find out the difficult words, expressions and sentences and then discusses them.
(1) take up 占领；占据；接受
When does the incoming manager take up his job?
The copying of these documents took up the whole morning.
He has taken up art in college.
He decided to take up photography as his career.
He is going to take up the story where he left off yesterday.
(2) constantly adv 不断地
His report was constantly interrupted by applause.
The area was constantly hit by drought.
拓展：constant: adj 不断的
(3) remind vt 使想起；提醒
常见用法：remind sb. to do sth. / remind sb. of sth./ remind sb. That… 提醒某人做某事；使某人想起
Please remind me to leave her this note
The film reminded him of what he had seen in China.
Please remind me that I must call her up before nine.
(4) previous adj 在前的；早先的
He has had no previous experience of this kind of job.
(5) tablet n 药片
He took a sleeping table.
(6) opening n 口子; 通路
He put a gate across the opening in the fence.
(7) surroundings n 环境
We must learn to get used to social surroundings.
拓展：surrounding adj. 周围的
(8) lack: n 缺乏；没有
The lack of rain aggravated the serious lack of food.
拓展：lack: vt& vi 缺乏
Owing to lack of time, we cannot do more than what we have done.
Is she lacking in courage?
(9) press: vi & vt 按；压；逼迫
He pressed the doorbell.
Just press this button, and you'll start the engine.
The debts pressed on him.
拓展：press: n 压；推；新闻界；
The press have / has been invited to a press conference to hear the government's statement on the event.
(10) swiftly adv. 迅速地；敏捷地
He swiftly glanced at the book and answered the question.
(11) sight: 视力；视觉
常见用法：lose sight of: 不再看见……
in sight of: 可被.…..望见
in sight: 可见，看得见；
out of sight: 看不到，不被看到；
at the sight of: 一看见就.…..
at first sight: 一见就.…..; 初次看见时
catch sight of: 瞥见
(12) sweep up 横扫；打扫
Herry was swept up into the center of them and my link with him was broken as I was carried up to the top of a high building nearby.
(13) switch n. 开关；闸
The switch is broken so you need a new one.
拓展：vt 转换
He switched the TV on
He switched the conversation from one subject to another.
Step 5. Discussion
What three visits would you ask to go on if you were Li Qiang? Make a list of them below. Then compare your list with your partners or classmates.
1._____________ 2. ________________ 3. ____________
Suggested Answers: 1. A space station 2. Another planet 3. A historical museum.
Step 6. Homework
Read the text again and again and go over the main language points.
Finish Ex1 and Ex2 in Learning about language.
Retelling the story, either in writing or in speech, is very useful to learners of a foreign language. It demonstrates his understanding of the story. Next you are going to practise in pairs retelling Li Qiang’s story traveling to the year AD 3008. You may make use of the words and expressions you have just learnt.
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