课题：Book 5  Unit 3  Life in the future
课时 1
课型

Reading

教学目标
1.Talk about Life in the future.
2. To improve the ability of reading and speaking.
重点难点
How to improve students’ reading skills
教学准备
CAI equipment with a multimedia classroom and other normal teaching tools.
教学过程
特色备课区域
Step1. Warming up 
1.Show pictures
Compare life in the past and life at present.
The changes of life
(means of transportation,communication,houses,shopping…etc)
free talk:What will future life be like?
Step2 .Pre-reading
Make a list of the problems human beings are facing today
Step3. Fast-reading
Task1: Read the whole text, then put the following sentences into correct order:
a. The journey.
b. My impressions of life in one thousand years into the future.
c. How I came to take a time travel journey.
d. Staying in Wang Ping’s home.
Task2: Judge whether the following statements are True or False.
1. I was very nervous although I have traveled several times.
2. Wang Ping owns a company named “Future Tours”.
3. Before the trip, we had a calming drink which made us sleepy.
4. The air 1000 years later was as thick as today’s.
5. I lost sight of Wang Ping because there were too many carriages.
Reading strategy（阅读技巧）: Go through the passage for specific information. Don’t read sentence by sentence.
Step3.Careful reading
Answer the questions
Task1:Go through the first two paragraphs quickly, then answer the following questions:
1. What is a “time lag”?
“Time lag’’ means a person gets flashbacks from his previous(先前的) time period.
2. How did I feel when I was in the capsule ?
The seats in the capsule are very comfortable.
Task2:Read the fourth paragraph quickly, then answer the following questions:
1. What did Wang Ping’s house look like?
  His house is strange-looking and it has a large bright, clean room. It has a green wall, a brown floor and soft lighting.
2. What was the green wall made of ? What’s the purpose of building this kind of green wall?
  The green wall was made of trees. The leaves of the trees will provide much-needed oxygen to the house.
Task3:Now try to find out what happened to Li Qiang before, during and after the journey.
Before the journey  
Li felt _______ and ________at first, as a result he suffered from _______.
During the journey (1)   
Li was transported safely into the future in a ___________.
During the journey(2)
  _______by the new surroundings, Li was hit by the ____ of fresh air and his head ______.
After the journey (1)        
Arriving home Li was ____into a large bright, clean room with a ___wall, a ___floor and ___ lighting.
After the journey (2)
_______, he slid into bed and ___ fast ___.
Step4. Summary 
Discuss:What problems do you think people in the future will have overcome? Which ones do you think will still exist in AD 3008?