Tomorrow you will be ready for some visits organized by computer. 2.过去分词作状语（The past participle as the adverbial） Worried about the journey, I was unsettled for the first few days. Confused by the new surroundings, I was hit by the lack of fresh air.

Period 1

Teaching Aims:

1. Learn some new words and expressions.

2. Help the students to talk about life in the past, at present and in the future. 3. Enable the students to describe the life in the past, at present and in the future. Difficult and Important Points:

Compare life in the past, at present and in the future

What is life in the future like? What changes will take place? Teaching Methods:

1. First and careful reading,

2. Asking and answering question activity 3. Individual, Pair work & group work Teaching Procedures:

Step 1 warming up Show the students some pictures or videos of the past and present life, and ask them their first impressions of the pictures.

lead-in: Talk about how many changes there have been in the past and in the present.

Step 2: pre-reading

1. Can you tell what problems people are facing today?

2. What problems do you think people in the future will have overcome? Which ones will still be there or even worse in AD3005? 找教案 http://www.zhaojiaoan.com

Key: 1. The problem of population will be solved, have begun to Control the birth rate.

2. The problems will be still there, and will even worse.

3. I don’t think so. Now scientists are trying their best to develop new resources that human beings can make use of ,such as solar energy. In my opinion…

step 3： fast reading

Read the text for the first time and tell what the text is about?

It’s an e-mail written by a man Who has taken up a trip to the future.

2. Look at the following sentence, there are in wrong order, tell me the correct order for these sentence

A. We were transported into the future by a comfortable time capsule.

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B. I arrived a t Wang Ping’s home and everything in his house made me surprised. C.I won a travel to the year AD3005

D. I have my first try to master a hovering carriage. Step 4 careful reading 1. Questions & answers:

1. Why did I have the chance to travel to the year AD3005? 2. What is a “time lag”?

3. How did I feel when I was in the capsule? 4. Who guides my trip?

5. Why did my guide give me some tables? 6. Who transported us to the future?

Key 1. I took up the prize I won the year before.

2. “Time lag” means a person gets flashbacks from his previous time period. 3. The seats in the capsule are very comfortable. 4. My friend Wang Ping is my guide to the future.

5. The tablets could help me feel less nervous and uncertain 6. Wang Ping’s parents’ company transported us to the future.

2. Fill in the Chart: Time travel Good changes Can travel to Different times as you wish .can move swiftly save living space Busy, look like markets Own family oxygen supply Bad changes After-effects of travel Disorganized, difficult to find way Short of space Easy to get lost Poor quality in public places transport houses Towns Air quality

3. Reading the text to decide on the type of writing and summary of the idea

Type of writing Main idea of the passage This is a piece of narrative writing. It tells about Li Qiang traveling to the year AD 3005 and his experiences there. 30

Topic sentence of 1st paragraph Topic sentence of 2nd paragraph Topic sentence of 3rd paragraph Topic sentence of 4th paragraph I have traveled to the year AD 3005. I was still on the earth but one thousand years in the future. I was hit by the lack of fresh air. Tomorrow I will be ready for other visits organized by “ Future Tours”. 4. Making a chain of events from the text First Impressions

Going by a On earth At home in Suffering time but 1000 the year from capsule AD 3005 years in “time the future lag”

Step 5: Discussion: Sample answers Ex.2

I think the writer has an optimistic view of the future. He was very excited when he traveled to the year AD 3005 an d couldn’t believe if was true. From this, we can see he is eager to go to the future. Though she was hit by the lack of fresh air,

The 2nd & 3rd period

Teaching aims:

Learn expressions & phrases

Learn language points 找教案 http://www.zhaojiaoan.com Difficult and Important Points: 1）Language points

2）The usage of “take up and sweep” Teaching Methods: Presentation & Practice Teaching Procedures: Step I Revision Have a dictation

Step II. Check the answers

1)Check the answers of yesterday’s homework (P42.Using Words and Expressions) Step three language point

Warming up

aspect n. 方面，外观

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You’ve only considered one aspect of the problem.

The fierce aspect of the salesman frightened the customer off.

Pre-reading

overcome vt. 克服,战胜,找到处理问题的办法; 表示 “压倒,受不了” 时, 常用被动语态; be overcome with… “…之极, 极为 … ” He overcame the bad habit of smoking.

We’ll overcome the difficulty when we got to it. The child was overcome by weariness and slept. My mother was overcome with grief.

Reading

1. I still can’t believe that I am taking up my prize that was won last year. Take up 开始从事，选修, 占用, 吸收 When does the manager take up his job? he took up art in college

He decided to take up photography as his career. This table takes up too much room. Plants take up water. take 的词组

take off 脱下, 起飞 take over接管 take to 喜欢上， 对…产生好感 Helen always helps her mother even though going to school ____ most of her day A. takes up B. makes up C. saves up D. puts up 找教案 http://www.zhaojiaoan.com

2.I have to constantly rub my eyes to remind myself that I have traveled to the year AD3005

我得不断擦拭自己的眼睛来提醒自己， 我已到了公元3005年

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