1、Noun clauses,we can master them by doing more practical practice given in the textbook and workbookThe main purpose of the fourth period is to train the studentsreading and writing abilities by reading and writing a short pas-sage about 1ife in the futureIn the last period,well deal with the grammer
2、 in this unit-Noun C1ausesIn a word,we can train the studentslis-tening,speaking,reading and writing abilities by doing the exercises the textbook and the workbook provide.Teaching Goals 1Talk about life in the future 2Practise making predictions 3Learn about Noun Clauses 4Write a definition paragra
3、phTeaching Time：Five periods：Background Information1.World in the Future Scientists think that wonderful things may e true in the futureFuture means a time that not yet eIt can be a short time from now or a long time from nowSome of the underwater wonders are almost ready to e true nowOthers wont e
4、true,we think，until a long time from nowSome,of coursemay never e true-butwho knows for sure?They mayWhat are some of the wonders that may e true in the fu-ture? Lets go back to dry land and take a fu-ture journey the other way-up instead of down Huge rocket liners take you into space to visit the M
5、oon CampYou walk around on the moon in s special moon suitYou visit an observatory where a giant telescope looks far into space-farther than anyone has ever been able to see from EarthYou go deep down into one of the moon mines After you have visited the moon,you visit the Mars Colony and the Venus
6、Explo-ration Outpost Lets go back to Earth In the far，far future，girlsand boys,too-may be playing with dolls that look like the people of the planets visited by our space-man To control or run all kinds of toys,boys and girls may learn to use special ccmput-ers-machines that answer questions and do
7、arithmetic faster than you can think Bicycles and perhaps skates may be run by jet power,and a new thing to ride may be a small flying saucerImagine a race between them! There may be telepathy helmets that send thought waves from your brain to thatof your friend miles awayYou just think a thought an
8、d your friend knows it!You can have secrets with each other that nobody else can turn it on! There will be other surprises in the fu-tureHow would you like to have a robotplaymate? Having robot playmates may not be so much fun as it seemsBut maybe a boy with a wrench and a screwdriver can fix the ro
9、bot so that it wont be too perfect! What about the food of the future?Sci-entists think that much of it will be artificial-made in factories from such surprising things as coal1imestone。air and water You dont think that ice-cream or cake or candy or even bread and potatoes made out of these things w
10、ill taste very goodYou may be wrongThese artificial things will be blended so skillfully be food chemists that the food of the future probably wi11 be deli-ciousIt probably will also be healthful be-cause life will be put into it Scientists of the future will almost cer-tainly find other ways to mak
11、e life last lon-gerThey probably will find cures for most diseasesHospitals will probably have“body banks”that can give you almost any new part you need to keep on livingPeople of the fu-ture may live to be a lot older than 100 years Are you wondering whether there11 be television in the future?Ther
12、ell almost cer-tainly be wonderful programs.Television screens probably wi11 be large and flat，hang-ing on the wall or going across the four walls of a roomPeople on the screen will look real as if they were right in the room with youWhat about highways of the future?Well,a very small child probably
13、 will be able to drive a carNobody will need to steerElectric sig-nals will hold each car on the right road to get wherever the“Driver”wants to goAnd it probably will be impossible for cars to smash together。Controllers that wont even have to be touched will make all speeding cars miss each other or
14、 will put on the brakesDriving in a car will be as safe as be-ing at home But maybe the most wonderful surprise in the future will be weather control，Cities may have giant plastic domes over them to keep out snow，rain，or storms When you plan a picnic in a park。you wont have to worry about rainIt wil
15、l rain only when the“ weatherman”thinks it is needed to freshen the air inside the cityAll other days will be fair and warm The future should be a wonderful time in which to liveBut the time you are living in now was also“ a wonderful future”to the people who lived 100 years ago 2。Three Things That
16、Will Change Your Life Today our lives are changing faster than at any time in historyHere we report on three important changes that will have a big impact on our everyday lives in the future The cashless society Cash and bank-notes wi1l disappear almost pletelyThey will be replaced by smart cards-pl
17、astic cards with microchip processors“loaded”with some moneyWhen we pay for goodsthe re-tailer w1l insert our smart card into a pay-ment terminal and money w1l be transferred from our card to the retailers cardWhen all the money is used up，we will be able to“re-load”it by inserting it into a telepho
18、ne，dia-ling our bank account and transferring money to the card from the account1f we want to transfer money from our card to a bank ac-countwe will use the same methodSmart cards will be able to hold several different currencies at the same timeso if we go aboardwe will use our smart cards in the s
19、ame way Interactive telephones Hhuman telephone operators will be sharply replaced by talking putersThese puters will recognize speechask us what information we need，ac-cess the information from a database，and convert it to speechIf we want to book a flight or pay a bill by phone，we will interact wi
20、th a talking puter to do SOOf course，this wont happen until all the technology isin place，but when it is we will soon get used to interacting with puters in this wayHuman telephone operators will be used only for more plex operationssuch as dealing with plaints or solving concrete prob-lemsIntellige
21、nt cars Traffic congestion in cities will be reduced because drivers will use electronic route maps to find the quickest route to their destination and avoid traffic jamsCongestion will also decrease when e-lectronic systems start changing motorists for driving in citiesAs soon as motorists have to
22、pay to drive in cities，they will stop Using their cars and use public transportinsteadSpeed control systems will be built into carsThese systems will automatically regulate the speed of the car to take account of traffic and weather conditions and prevent accidentsIt will be many years before these
23、changes bring results but when they do，there will be a titanic improvement in road safetyThe First PeriodTeaching Aims：1.EnCoLlrage the students to use their imagi-nation to talk about life in the future2.Train the students1istening ability3.Improve the students speaking ability by practising making
24、 predictionsTeaching Important Points：1. Train the studcnts2. Let the students give free rein to their1 imagination.Teaching Difficult Points：1How do improve the students listening ability2How to finish the task of speaking.Teaching Methods:1Listening-and-answering activity to help the students go t
25、hrough the listening ma-terial2Individual，pair or group work to make ev-ery student work in classTeaching Aids：1some pictures2a tape recorder3，a projector4the blackboardTeaching Procedures：Step I Greetings and LeadinT：Good morningafternoon，everyone.Ss：Good morningafternoon，teacher.Sit down，pleaseNow
26、 were having a class in a bight and spacious class-room with modern equipment such as radios and putersAnd we all live a happy life todayWe can get whatever we wantDo you know how did people live in the past?（One student stands up）S：When I was a child，my great-grandfa-ther often told me the stories
27、of him in the past. He often got hungry and didnt have enough money to go to school and had no chanceI think people live a miserable life in the past.YeahPeople lived a hard in the pastWith the development of science and technology, peoples life has changed a lotNow we all live happily. What do you
28、imagine life will be like in the future? Today we are going to study Unit 6 Life in the future. （Bb: Unit 6 Life in the future）It will tell us what life will be like in the future.Step Warming upNow lets first have a discussion about the future of one of the areas in our booksDiscuss them in groups of fourAfter a while，I1l ask one of you to re- port the resultsNow please discuss some questions（Show the picture and questions on the screen）H
