Module1LifeintheFuturePeriodFour教案（外研版必修4）.doc

Period Four Writing; Everyday English Teaching Aims 1. To let the students know how to make predictions. 2. To train their writing and speaking skills. Teaching Important Points To motivate the students to work together. Teaching Difficult Points How to enable the students to write about the future things. Teaching Methods Induction and practice Teaching Aids A blackboard, a tape recorder and a multimedia Teaching Procedures Step1 Revision T: Good morning, class! Last period we have learned the future continuous. Today let’s do some exercises to consolidate it. (Show the following on the screen.) Underline the best verb form. 1. If we don’t find another planet to live on, we are dying / will die. 2. Computers are running / will run everything in the house in the future. 3. The plane leaves / will leave at ten o’clock. 4. New medical technology improves / will improve our lives. 5. In the year 2100, people are going to have / will be having holidays in space. T: More exercises. (Show the following on the screen.) Complete the sentences with the verbs in brackets in the most appropriate forms: the future simple, or the future continuous 1. I hope scientists _ will find_ (find) a cure for cancer. 2. By the middle of this century, more people __ will be living__ (live) in cities than in the country. 3. Ten years from now, people _ will be wearing__ (wear) smart clothes. 4. No one __ will__ ever __ live__ (live) on Mars. 5. Humans __ will be living___ (live) on another planet five billion years from now. 6. A Chinese astronaut__ will reach___ (reach) Mars by 2050. Step2 Writing T: So much for the check up. Before we begin to write first let’s read a passage, which is about the predictions of the future. Please work in pairs and answer the following questions. (Show the following on the screen.) T: Now please write about what you will be doing in ten years in 100 words. You may follow the following steps: first make an outline and write down some ke