英语人教版八年级上册Unit 7 Section A (1a-1c).docxVIP

Unit 7 Will people have robots? The First Period Section A(1a-1c) Teaching aims and demands: Aims of basic knowledge: 1. Key vocabulary: robot, everything, paper, use, tree, building, pollution, fewer, less 2. Key structures: 1) Will there be less / fewer / more…? No, there won’t. There will be more/less/fewer... 2) Kids won’t go to school. 3) They will study at home on computers. Aims of abilities: 1. Be able to listen for specific information on what will happen in the future; 2. Be able to talk about what will happen in the future using the target language; Aims of emotion and evaluation: Encourage the students to work hard at their lessons preparing for their own future. Teaching Methods: 1. Listening and speaking. 2. Communicative approach. 3. Task-based approach Key Points: 1. Master the usage of the indefinite tense. 2. Talk about what will happen in the future. 3. Review the Simple Past Tense and the Simple Present Tense. Difficulties: How to use correctly the simple past tense and the present progressive tense. Teaching procedure: Step 1 Warm up 1. Greetings; 2. Duty report Step 2 Presentation 1. Draw a time line on the blackboard and mark the line as the following: ? 5 years ago now 1 year from now 5 years from now 2. Introduce the indefinite future tense 1) Teacher points to the now-point on the time line and says: “I am now in this school.” And then points to the 1-year-from-now, saying: “I will be in this school one year from now.” Point to the 5-years-from-now point, saying: “I will be in this school five years from now, too.” (Write the two sentences on the blackboard, the word will be written in red.) 2) Get the students to read aloud the sentences several times until they can say them correctly. 3) Prompt the students to say what they think the word will is used for. Teacher gives comments on the students’ work and tells the class: The word will here is used to tell the future actions and happenings. S