Giáo án Tiếng Anh 12 unit 8: Life in the future

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 pas

Tiếng Anh 12 – Giáo án Unit 8 : LIFE IN THE FUTURE

- English textbook for students

- English textbook for teachers

- Pictures

C Methods : Communicative approach and leaner- 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

4/ Yes, No

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

III 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

S2: Because of the development of science and technology

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 teacherthen ask and answer the questions in thebook

- Work in pairs

- Listen to the teacher then read the passages

- Ask some new words if necessary

- Give Vietnamese equivalents

- Corporation(n): doanh nghiep

- Chore(n): chuyen vat vanh

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 sts 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 words 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

- Burden(n): ganh nang

- Influence(v): anh huong, tac dong

- Methane(n): chat metan

- Responsibility(n): trach nhiem

- Read the words

- Read the passage in silence

- Work individually to read the text thenchoose the the words and phrases in thepassage:

- Share the key with other students:

Keys

1 Pessimists: nhung nguoi bi quan

2 Optimists: nhung nguoi lac quan

3 Economic depression: suy thoai kinh te

4 Terrorism: khung bo

5 Wiped out: xoa sach

6 Space shuttle: tau vu tru

Task 2:

- Ask students to read the passage again then

work in pairs to ask and answer the suggested

questions

- Walk round 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

- 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

telecommunication.

- Work individually to read the text thenchoose the the words and phrases in thepassage:

- Call some students to give the answers.

- Ask others students to correct

- Give the true answers

IV After you read :

- Ask students to work in group 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

- 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 electricity or methane gas and fitted with computers.

- Listen to the teacher then do the task

- Some students stand up to report theirdiscussions

- 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 do at home

at home.

Unit 8 : LIFE IN THE FUTURE

- English textbook for students

- English textbook for teachers

III Procedures

Teacher’s activities Students’ activities

Warm-up: (5 minutes)

Tell a short story to prove that the renovation

measures has apparently changed the social and

people’s lives positively

Pre-speaking : (12 minutes)

Task 1

- Guide students how to practise

- Ask students to work individual

- Walk around and help them

- Call students to say

Listen and give one’s own ideas or story ifbeing asked

- Pair work

- Practice answering the toppic:

By the end of the 21st, chinese astronaunts

…… ………

- Correct their mistakes.

While-speaking : (15 minutes)

Task 2

- Guide students how to practise

- Ask students to work in pairs

- Help the students with new structures

- Walk around and help them

- Call some student to stand up and report

before the class

- Correct their mistakes

Post-speaking : (10 minutes)

Task 3

- Guide students how to practise

By the end of the 21st, a new moon city willhave been opened…

- The students who are called stand up to talk

to the class about their ideas

- Listen to the teacher

- Ask students to work in gruops

- Call some pairs of student to stand up and

- Write down the homework to do at home

+ Give the answer: Bring the water

from the river and wash it

- Introduce the lesson:

- 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 their notebooks

While-speakin

g

(28 min.)

- 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 officially

- holiday resort: a place where a lot

of people go to on holiday

- a cure for: a medicine or

treatment that can cure an illness, etc.

- holiday maker: a person who go

- Let the whole class read the new

words twice or three times

- Call 2-3 students to read new words

again

- Ask students to look at Task 1

- Ask students to do Task 1:

- Listen to the teacher

- Guess the meaning of the new words

- to be declared open: đợc công bố rộng rãi

- holiday resort: nơi nghỉ mát

- a cure for: phơng thức chữa

- holiday maker: khách đi nghỉ

Task 1

(13 min.)

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

- Look at Task 1

- Do Task 1

We use “will+be+V_ing.”

Task 2

(16 min.)

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 they finish

- Introduce some new words

(eliciting , give the definitions in

English then ask students to translate

them into Vietnamese to check their

- Let the whole class read the new

words twice or three times

- Call 2-3 students to read new words

- Report what they have talked

- Listen to the teacher and correct the mistakes

- Listen to the teacher

- Guess the meaning of the new words

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 there.

-…It’s too costly/ just impossible to

do that.

- Read the new words

It is likely that+ clause

It is unlikely that+ clause

It is possible that+ clause

It is impossible that+ clause

Because+ clause Because of+ Noun phrase Since/As + clause

For+ Noun phrase

As a result of

Thanks to+ Noun phrase

- 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

- After about 3 minutes of discussion,

call some pairs to report what they

have done

In my opinion from my point of view

- After students finish, give them

comments: correct some

pronunciation mistakes they have

made

- Read aloud the words and ask the

whole class to repeat

- 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

- One student repeats the teacher’s instruction

- The others listen to their friends to make clear about 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:

Task 3: whole class to repeat 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

UNIT 8 : LIFE IN THE FUTURE

- English textbook for students

- English textbook for teachers

- Tapes and cassette

- 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

- Listen to the instruction

Pre-listenin

g

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

- Ask students to do Task 1:

Discuss the question: Which of the

following factors do you 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

- Do Task 1 in pairs

S1: Which factors do you think might help people to have a long and healthy life/

S2: I think they are no smoking, eating healthy food, laughing a lot, and doing exercise because

by doing so, we can improve ourhealth

- 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 believe

- centenarian(adj ):belong to the

century, 100 years

- eradicate(v): to destroy or get rid

of sth completely

- 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 made better

- Let the whole class read the new

words twice or three times

- Call 2-3 students to read new words

again

- Listen to the teacher

- Guess the meaning of the new words

- Read the new words

- Ask students to listen to the passage

the first time:

Listen to an interview about people’s

life expectancy in the 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

- Ask them to listen again the second

- 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 more healthily, cut down on things like butter, alcohol and cigarettes)

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 doabout AIDS in ten years’ time?

- Ask students to do After you listen in groups

finish the Task

- Discuss the answers to the questions in pairs

- Answer the questions, and correct the wrong answers

1 Eating more healthily, cutting down on things like butter, alcohol and cigarettes

2 The development in medical science

3 In ten years’ time AIDS will also be brought under control / We’ll have been able to bring AIDS under