教学基本信息
学科	English		学段	初中	年级		八年级
单元	Unit 7		课题	Will people have robots?	总课时数		6
课时	Section B (2a-2e)		课型	阅读课	授课时间
教学目标及教学重点、难点
教学目标： At the end of the class, the students will be able to: 1. describe personal life in the future with the simple future tense. 2. learn to summarize the article. 3. predict the robots in the future with the words and expressions correctly.
教学重点： 1. Key vocabulary: human, dangerous, already, factory, Japan, believe, disagree, even, agree, shape, fall, inside possible, impossible, side... help with the housework, over and over again, the same... as, be able to, wake up, disagree with, hundreds of, for example, fall down, look for... 2. Key sentences: a. They help with the housework and do jobs like working in dirty or dangerous places. b. Fewer people will do such jobs in the future because they are boring, but robots will never get bored. c. Scientists are now trying to make robots look like humans and do the same things as we do. d. It will be difficult to make them really think like a human.
教学难点： To describe how robots will help human beings in the future.
教学过程(表格描述)
教学环节		主要教学活动				设置意图
Step 1 Lead-in (PPT 3-19)		Guide Ss to preview the new words and phrases. Work on 2a. Read the instruction in 2a. Tell your partner what you know about robots. What do they look like and what can they do? Make Ss answer the questions and describe the robots’ looks and their abilities. Call some Ss to say something about their prediction.				设计了几幅关于机器人的图片，激发学生的学习兴趣，意欲了解文章中关于机器人的预言。
Step 2 Pre-reading (PPT 20-24)		Fast reading 1. Read the instructions to the class. Give Ss 5 minutes to read the passage, tick out the new words. Ask Ss to put a mark in contents that are unfamiliar to them. 2. Ss match each paragraph with the question it discusses. 3. Check the answers. 4. Reading practice.				通读全文后，找出每一段的中心思想。
Step 3 While-reading (PPT 25-29)		Careful reading. Ask Ss to read the passage carefully, then answer the questions. Check answers in class. 2. Work on 2c. Make Ss read the article again quickly. Before that, Ss look through the four sentences. Skip it when meeting a blank line.Ss complete the task individually.Choose 1 or 2 Ss to present the answers.Check the answers. Practice reading. 3. Work on 2d. Call Ss' attention to 2d. Look at the picture and scan the passage for the main idea.Fill in the blanks in this paragraph with words from the article in 2b. Choose 2 or 3 Ss to give the answers. Check the answers together.				本部分是课文细读部分。阅读之后回答问题、完成填空。通过问题设计，让学生带着问题阅读，使他们学会提取文章的重要信息。
Step 4 Post-reading (PPT 30)		Work on 2e. 1. Choose a student to read the instructions to the class. 2. Pair-work. Discuss with your partner about the following questions: What kinds of animals might robots look like in the future? What do you think these robots will be able to do? Write down your ideas in the chart. 3. Choose 2 or 3 Ss to read their answers out. 4. Make short comments on what the Ss wrote.				根据自己的想象力，设计一个机器人，设计机器人能干的事情，以此训练学生们想象能力。
Step 5 Language points (PPT 31-42)		1. Explain the usage of the following: get bored, be able to, disagree with, fall down, keep a bird 2. Ask Ss to read the language points so that they can understand the language points deeply.				通过举例、对比等方式讲解知识点，使学生加深对等单词用法和结构的理解。
Step 6 Exercises (PPT 43-48)		1. Practice the language points by these exercises. 2. Read the sentences.				通过首字母、单选、词形填空、汉译英等形式练习所学的语言点。
Step 7 Homework (PPT 49)		1. Go over the article on Page 53. Practice reading it. 2. Write your own sentences with the phrases below. over and over again, get bored, wake up, hundreds of, be able to, fall down, look for, seem impossible.				设计该作业主要使学生们巩固所学的词汇，由阅读输出写短文。
板书设计		Unit 7 Will people have robots? Section B( 2a-2e) 1. They help with the housework and do jobs like working in dirty or dangerous places. 2. Fewer people will do such jobs in the future because they are boring, but robots will never get bored. 3. Scientists are now trying to make robots look like humans and do the same things as we do. 4. It will be difficult to make them really think like a human.
教学反思		1. 本节阅读课要培养学生快速阅读、有效阅读的能力，学会总结每段段落大意。 2. 鼓励学生充分想像未来机器人的形状和作用。