英语选择性必修 第一册Unit 2 Looking into the Future教案

这是一份英语选择性必修 第一册Unit 2 Looking into the Future教案，共3页。
T learn t describe a picture and express ideas abut the infrmatin yu get frm the picture;
T read and learn hw smart hmes make life easier;
T learn t cllect infrmatin frm a practical writing;
T express yur pinins n advantages and disadvantages f smart hmes.
Lk at the picture n page 13 and discuss the fllwing questins.
1. What might the picture be abut?
2. What are yur predictins abut the future?
3. What might be sme f the advantages and disadvantages f life in the future?
Advantages
cnvenient
…
Disadvantages
high cst
The best way t predict the future is t create it.
— Peter Drucker
Befre yu read, discuss these questins in grups.
1. What des it mean when we say that smething such as a phne is “smart”?
Smething has a “brain” like a human being. It can “think” and d what its wner cmmands t d.
2. What d yu think a “smart” huse can d that ther huses cannt?
What can we learn frm the title?
Smart hmes t make life easier
Read the text quickly and get the main idea f the text.
tips:
The writer will tell readers’ the main idea f his passage at the beginning. S usually, we can get it frm the first paragraph.
These smart hmes will keep us secure, save ur energy, and prvide a mre cmfrtable envirnment t live in.
Draw the simple utline f the text.
This text has several sub-titles. They will help us get what the writer wants t tell us mre quickly. Frm the sub-titles, we can knw the structure f the text easily.
Cmplete the summary using the crrect frms f the wrds frm the text.
tips
Think ver the key infrmatin in the text and then read the summary, paying attentin t the beginning letter. The beginning letter can give yu a clue t chse the right wrd.
A smart hme is ne that i_________ cmputers int the structure f the building itself. In this way, many f the things that we nw d urselves will becme a_________. Fr example, the smart hme culd cntrl the air cnditining and lights s that yu wuld n lnger have t turn s_________ n and ff, making yur hme mre energy-e_________. The smart hme culd als m________ itself t make sure that everything is wrking as it
shuld, and send yu w_________ if there is a prblem. Such smart hmes culd even be prgrammed t d_______ yur health prblems, and then give yu r________ advice as t the fd yu shuld eat r if yu shuld see a dctr. S in a sense, smart hmes will lead us t living smarter lives.
Wrk in grups. Discuss these questins.
1. In what way is the hme f tmrrw already the hme f tday?
Yu can cmpare the hme tday and that f tmrrw. Then yu can find ut the things that have been in tday’s hme.
2. What might be sme f the disadvantages f smart hmes?
Des it have anything unsecure?
Will yur infrmatin be knwn by thers?
What if there is smething wrng with yur smart phne?
…
Think f the items yu use in yur hme nw and what they may be better used in the future. Shw yur ideas t the ther grup members.
Hmewrk
Read the passage several times and underline the language pints that yu are nt familiar with.
What may the future car lk like? Write a passage t describe it.