北师大版高一英语教学（必修2）Unit 4教案 《1 Tommorrow’s world 教学指导.docVIP

《1 Tommorrows World》教学指导Objectives ■ To use the title of a text to predict the content. ■ To practise using vocabulary of cyberspace. ■ To practise using will and going to to talk and write about the future. Resource used Grammar Summary 1. Mini-Grammar 1 Possible problems Students tend to overuse will to express the future. The Language Power gives practice in the use of will and going to separately as well as contrasting them. Some students may have more knowledge than others of cyberspace, the Internet and e-mail. Background Virtual reality is a development of computer technology in which, through headsets and special gloves and suits equipped with sensors, the user can directly interact with a 3-D computer programme by moving “inside” it. Some of its most popular applications are flight simulators and a variety of arcade games. The tapescript in Lesson 2 gives the history of the web. Routes through the material ■ If you are short of time, set some of the exercises for homework and omit Exercise 8. ■ If you have time, do the Options activities. ■ If you have two periods for this lesson, a suitable natural break is after Exercise 6. Language Power: pages 54?C55. Mini-Grammar: 1. Reading Before you start Exercise 1 ■ As a class, students discuss life in the next twenty years and the effects of technology. Draw students’ attention to the use of will in the question and example answer and encourage them to use similar structures. If you wish, elicit topics and write them on the board to start students thinking, e.g. travel, education, communication, food, personal relationships, work, hobbies, sport, money, government, health, homes, agriculture.. Exercise 2 ■ Ask students how useful it is to read the title of a text or a newspaper headline. In pairs, students discuss which topics will be in this text, “The Future of Cyberspace”. Ask students if they would include any other topics if they were writing the article. Read to learn Exer