- Ask students to look at the questions in Before you read, page 80, working in pairs to discuss the question in Before you read: 1.. Before you read : - Ask students to look at the pict
Trang 1Unit 8 : LIFE IN THE FUTURE
- English textbook for students
- English textbook for teachers
- Pictures
C Methods : Communicative approach and learner - centered approach.
I Warm-up:
1/ What are the people going to do?
2/ Does it look like a normal airplane?
3/ How is it different?
4/ Do you think that life in the future will be like this?
Aims: to introduce the topic of the lesson and to raise
students' interest.
- Introduce the lesson
- Ask students to look at the questions in Before you
read, page 80, working in pairs to discuss the question
in Before you read:
1 Do you think life will be better in the future?
Why / Why not?
2 List three things that might happen in the future.
II Before you read :
- Ask students to look at the picture ask and answer the
questions
- Listen to teacher
- Look at the picture and answer the questions:
1/ They are going to fly.
2/ No 3/ It looks more modern than a normal airplane It has no wings.
4/ Yes, No
Possible answers
S1: Do you think life will be better in the future?
S2: YesS1: Why?
S2: Because of the development of science andtechnology
Trang 2III While you read :
- Ask students to look through the passage and read in
silence
- Help students read the passage
- Explain pronunciation and meaning of new words which
appear in the passage
- Corporation(n): a large business company
- Chore(n): a job that is not interesting but that you
must do.
- Burden(n): something that is heavy and difficult to
carry.
- Influence(v): to have an effect on or power over
sb/sth so that he/she/it changes.
- Methane(n): a gas without color or smell, that burns
easily and that we can use to produce heat.
- Responsibility(n): a duty to deal with sth so that it is
your fault if sth goes wrong.
Task 1 :
- Ask students to read through the text once to find out
some new words, guess the main idea
- Explain new words (give the Vietnamese equivalents),
guide the Ss to get the main contents of the reading text
- Ask students to work individually in 3 minutes to do
this task
- Guide students to read through the passage , then
focus on only the sentences surrounding the suggested
S1: List three things that might happen in the future
S2: I think in the future, people can live in the Mar, people will be healthy without any diseases, and they can travel by plane to work everyday.
- Look at the picture, listen to the teacher then askand answer the questions in the book
- Work in pairs
- Listen to the teacher then read the passages
- Ask some new words if necessary
- Give Vietnamese equivalents
- Read the words
- Read the passage in silence
- Work individually to read the text then choose thethe words and phrases in the passage:
- Share the key with other students:
Keys
1 Pessimists: những người bi quan.
2 Optimists: những người lạc quan.
3 Economic depression: suy thoái kinh tế.
4 Terrorism: khủng bố.
5 Wiped out: xóa sạch.
Trang 3words to do the task effectively.
- Give students some more words that may be new/
unfamiliar to them
- Guide the students to read the word in chorus and
individually
Task 2:
- Ask students to read the passage again then work in
pairs to ask and answer the suggested questions
- Walk around the class to give help if necessary
- Give suggested words, phrases or useful suggestions
- Correct the students’ work
Task 3:
- Ask students to read the questions carefully
- Ask students to read through the passage again
- Ask the class to do
- Call some students to give the answers
- Ask others students to correct
- Give the true answers
6 Space shuttle: tàu vũ trụ.
- Listen to the teacher then do the task
3 People will be living in much cleaner environment, breathing fresher air and eating healthier foods They will also be better looked after by a modern medical system Domestic chores will no longer be a burden thanks to the interventions of labor- saving devices.
4 They are developments in micro
technology-computer and telecommunication.
- Work individually to read the text then choose thethe words and phrases in the passage:
- Share the key with other students:
Keys:
1 Work: factories will be run by robots, offices will go electronic, many people will work from home.
2 Travel: travel by space shuttle very fast, at
15000 kms per hour; cars could run on
Trang 4IV After you read :
- Ask students to work in groups to scan the text again
- Ask them to work in small groups of three or four to
discuss the Advantages and disadvantages of Robots
- Encourage them to use their own words
- Ask some students to report
V Home work:
- Review the reading and prepare the speaking at home
electricity or methane gas and fitted with computers.
- Listen to the teacher then do the task
- Some students stand up to report their discussions
- Work in groups
Advantages: save labor, do difficult jobs so that men have more time to enjoy life or do more creative work.
Disadvantages: replace human beings in many fields so many people will lose their jobs or go jobless.
- Listen to the teacher
- Write down the homework to doat home
Trang 5Unit 8 : LIFE IN THE FUTURE
B: SPEAKING
I Aims:
- Students can ask and answer about changes of people and the world in the future
II Aids:
- English textbook for students
- English textbook for teachers
III Procedures:
Trang 6- Tell a short story to prove that the renovation
measures has apparently changed the social and
people’s lives positively
+ Ask students the question:
How can we get some clean water?
+ Give the answer: Bring the water from the river and
wash it.
- Introduce the lesson:
- Introduce some new words (eliciting, give the
definitions in English then ask students to translate
them into Vietnamese to check their understanding)
- to be declared open: to be stated publicly and
- holiday maker: a person who go on holiday.
- running on: the action or sport of running.
- cold war: the war against common cold.
- Let the whole class read the new words twice or three
- Listen to the riddle
- Answer the question
+ We buy clean water from the shop
+ We ask our parents for it
+ ………
- Listen to the teacher and write the title in theirnotebooks
- Listen to the teacher
- Guess the meaning of the new words
Trang 7- Guide students how to practise.
- Ask students to look at Task 1
- Ask students to do Task 1:
Look at these newspaper cuttings from the future, They
were written on 1 st of April Say what will have
happened and what people will be doing by the end of
the 21 st century.
- Revise the use of future tense:
+ When we want to say about an event going on at a
particular time or over a period of time in the future,
which tense do we use?
+ When we want to talk about something that will be
ended, completed or achieved by a particular point in
the future, which tense do we use?
+ Look at the example, this action will be completed by
the end of the 21 st century, so we use will+ have+ P.II.
- Ask one student to read the example
- Ask Ss to work in pairs to say what will have
happened and what people will be doing by the end of
the 21 st century.
- Walk around the class to guide or supervise them and
give them help if necessary
- Ask some pairs to report what they have talked
- Give comments; correct the common mistakes after
Trang 8- Guide students how to practise.
- Ask students to work in pairs
-.Introduce some new words (eliciting, give the
definitions in English then ask students to translate
them into Vietnamese to check their understanding)
- Living standard: the quality of life
- Fatal disease: disease causing or ending in
death.
- Let the whole class read the new words twice or three
times
- Call 2 - 3 students to read new words again
How can we say if we want to make prediction?
What else?
-> We often base on something to make prediction, you
have to give reasons for your prediction.
Could you tell me how we say to give reason for
something?
If we mean that the reasons are negative, what should
we use
If the reasons are positive, what should we use?
Give some expressions of reasons:
-…because living standards will be/ have been
improved.
- …the cures for fatal diseases will be/ have been found.
-… it’s (Jupiter/Mars/moon) too far.
-… It’s (Jupiter/Mars/moon) too cold/ hot there.
-… there’s no water there./ The atmosphere is too thin
- Report what they have talked
- Listen to the teacher and correct the mistakes
- Listen to the teacher
- Guess the meaning of the new words
- Read the new words
It is likely that+ clause
It is unlikely that+ clause
It is possible that+ clause
It is impossible that+ clause
Trang 9-…It’s too costly/ just impossible to do that.
- Ask one student to read the example
- Ask some Ss to recall the way to show opinion
- Give example:
In my opinion, it’s unlikely that by the end of the 21 st
century people will be living to the age of 150 because
there will be more and more diseases.
- Ask students to do Task 2 in pairs, discussing which of
the predictions are likely/ unlikely to happen Give at
least two reasons for each.
- Call one student to repeat the instruction to check
whether they are clear about what they have to do
- Go around to supervise them Note down serious and
common mistakes
Post-speaking :
Task 3
- Guide students how to practise
- After about 3 minutes of discussion, call some pairs to
report what they have done
- After students finish, give them comments: correct
some pronunciation mistakes they have made
- Read aloud the words and ask the whole class to
repeat
Because + clause Because of + Noun phrase Since/As + clause
For + Noun phrase
As a result of
Thanks to + Noun phrase
In my opinion from my point of view
Trang 10- Ask students to do Task 3: making some more
predictions about what life will be like one hundred
years from now.( work in groups of 4)
- After about 3 minutes of discussion, call some groups
to report what they have done
- After students finish, give them comments: correct
some pronunciation mistakes they have made
- Read aloud the words and ask the whole class to
- One student repeats the teacher’s instruction
- The others listen to their friends to make clearabout what they have to do
- Some pairs report
- Repeat after the teacher
- Work in groups to do Task 3
- Some groups report what they have discussed:
I think it is likely by the end of 2106, scientists will have found a cure for AIDS thanks to the developments of science and technology.
- Listen to the teacher
- Repeat after the teacher
Trang 11Unit 8 : LIFE IN THE FUTURE
- English textbook for students
- English textbook for teachers
- Tapes and cassette
- Handouts
III Procedures:
Warm up:
- Let students play a game
- Introduce the game rule:
This is Lucky number game We have four teams I will
give a definition, and you have to give the word it refers
to You have to raise your hand to answer the question
Who raises the hand first will have the right to answer
the question
If your answer is right, you will get one point If not,
the other team will answer the question The team
which gets the true answer can choose the next
question, if it is a lucky number, that team will get 2
points
- Let Ss play
Pre- listening
- Ask students to do Task 1:
Discuss the question: Which of the following factors do
- Listen to the instruction
Trang 12you think might help people have a long and healthy
life?
+ No smoking? Why?
+ Love a lot? Why?
- Ask one pair to report what they have discussed
- Introduce some new words (eliciting, give the
definitions in English then ask students to translate
them into Vietnamese to check their understanding)
- Incredible (adj): impossible or very difficult to
- Life expectancy (n): the number of years that a
person is likely to live
- Eternal life (n): life without beginning or end;
existing or continuing for ever
- Mushroom (v): rise quickly
- Curable (adj.): (used about a disease) that can be
- Call 2 - 3 students to read new words again
- Ask students to read the statements in Task 1
- Ask students to listen to the passage the first time:
Listen to an interview about people’s life expectancy in
so, we can improve our health
- Listen to the teacher
- Guess the meaning of the new words
Trang 13the future, listen and decide whether the statements are
true or false
- Play the tape or read the passage twice
- Ask some students to give their answers Ask them to
give reason for their answers If their answers are right,
repeat them; if not give the correct answers
Task 2
- Ask them to listen again the second and the third time
to finish Task 2: answer the questions
- Ask students to discuss the answers to the questions in
pairs
- Go around to supervise students if necessary
- Call some students to give the answers If their
answers are right, repeat the answers, if they are wrong,
give them the answers:
- If most students do not catch the information for the
questions, let them listen again to the passage once
more
1 What are factors that help people have longer life
expectancy according to Dr Davis?
2 Which factor is the most important one? Why?
3 What will we have been able to do about AIDS
in ten years’ time?
Post- listening
- Ask students to do After you listen in groups
Work in groups and the advantages and disadvantages
of having a very long life
- Eliciting some ideas from the students:
What are the advantages of having a very long life?
- Read the new words
- Read the statements in Task 1
- Listen to the passage and answer the questions
1 F (Some scientists can predict)
1 F (Because we look after ourselves, eat morehealthily, cut down on things like butter,alcohol and cigarettes)
2 F (80)
3 T
4 T
- Listen again the third time to finish the Task
- Discuss the answers to the questions in pairs
- Answer the questions, and correct the wronganswers
1 Eating more healthily, cutting down onthings like butter, alcohol and cigarettes
2 The development in medical science
3 In ten years’ time AIDS will also be broughtunder control / We’ll have been able tobring AIDS under control
Trang 14What are the disadvantages of having a very long life.
(write the answers on the board)
- Go around to supervise them Note down serious and
common mistakes
- Ask one group to report what they have discussed
- Give comments after they finish
- Call another group if there is enough time
- Give feedback and correct serious or common
mistakes
Homework:
- Ask the students to prepare writing at home
- Do After you listen in groupsAdvantages:
- Do many things they want to do/ enjoy lifemore
- See their children and grandchildren growup
- Help their children and grandchildren
- Children and grandchildren are happy withthem
Disadvantages:
- Too weak to do things and often ill
- Feel lonely when children have grown upand busy with their own lives, and friendsare dead
- Do the task in groups
- Report what they have discussed
- Listen to the teacher and correct the mistakes
Trang 15Unit 8 : LIFE IN THE FUTURE
D WRITING
I Aims:
- Students can write about the ideal world in which they would like to live in the year 2020
II Aids:
- English textbook for students
- English textbook for teachers
- Introduce some new words and expressions
- Under the threat of terrorism:
- Call 2 - 3 students to read new words again
- Ask students to read the passage to analyze it
- Ask students to discuss the answers to the questions in
pairs
- Go around to supervise students if necessary
- Call some students to give the answers If their
- Write down in the notebooks the title
- Listen to the teacher
- Read the words