Module1lifeinthefuturePeriod1IntroductionReadingandVocabulary教案（外研版必修4）.doc

第  PAGE 14 页 共  NUMPAGES 14 页 Introduction The topic in this module is “Life in the Future”.Before the class,the teacher may encourage the students to find some pictures of some buildings and bring the pictures to the classroom for use.They may also surf the Internet to find some vocabulary used to describe environment and building materials.To begin this part the teacher may show the students the pictures in the book and carry out an activity of asking and answering questions using the questions the book provides.The teacher may also have a brainstorm in the class with the help of the questions given.In Activity 2 the teacher may show the students such words as “brick”“concrete”“mud” and so on.Explain some if necessary.After that the teacher may encourage the students to talk about the pictures they bring to the class in groups using the words they learned in this part.At the end of this lesson the representatives will be asked to act out their dialogue. Reading and Vocabulary The teacher may list the new words or ask the students to find the new words in the course of previewing the text.By guessing from the whole context they will have a good sense of enlarging their vocabulary and this is very important in learning a language.The main idea of this passage is about the City of the Future.While reading this passage,some reading strategies are necessary:skimming—fast reading to find out the general idea of the passage as well as the answers to one or two questions;scanning—careful reading to look for important facts;guessing—try to guess unknown words from the context,understand the author’s attitude and ideas from the context and understand the intention. In the teaching of the reading,the teacher can organize different reading activities according to the content of the text on purpose to train the above reading strategies and help them develop good reading habits from the very beginning. Function The function of this module is