UNIT 8

- Asks Ss to look at the pictures, discuss in groups and answer the questions.. Task 1: - Asks Ss to read the passage silently, stop when they meet a new word or a phrase and find words

Date of preparation : Unit: 8

Date of teaching : Period: Lesson: READING

I AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:

+ Language content:

- To help Ss develop reading skill.

- To help Ss read and understand a passage about life in the future

+ Language function:

- To develop Ss’ reading abilities and enable Ss to talk about life in the future

- Express their ideas about advantages and disadvantages of robots.

+ Educational aim:

- To educate Ss to be aware of our present life and plan our life in the future

1 Language:

a Vocabulary:

b Structure: Simple Future, Prepositions

2 Skills: Reading, Speaking, Writing

3 Educational factor: - Educate Ss to know how to plan their future life

II TEACHER AND STUDENTS’ PREPARATION:

1 Method: Communicative approach

2 Techniques: Scanning, Skimming, Repetition, Pairwork, Asking and answering, Translation

3 Materials needed : Textbook, pictures, handouts

4 Students’ preparation: Read the passage, look up new words and do the Tasks in advance.

5 Previous exercises:

III PROCEDURES IN CLASS:

1 Stabilization : (2’)

Warm up : Greeting

Checking absence : Who’s absent today ?

2 Checking up previous knowledge: No (checks while teaching)

3 Presentation of the new material:

Time Teacher’s activities Students’ activities The content of the lesson

6’ I Pre – reading:

- Shows two pictures of

the past and the present

- Asks Ss to look at the

pictures, discuss in groups

and answer the questions

+ What was the life in the

past like?

+ What was the life at our

present like?

(focus: travel, roads,

houses, education, living

condition…)

 Do you think life will

be better in the future?

Why / Why not?

Asks Ss to list three

things that might happen

in the future

Leads to the lesson

- Look at the pictures and discuss

in groups and

questions

- Answer the T’s question

- Listen to the T

Unit 8: LIFE IN THE FUTURE Period: READING

I Pre – reading:

* In the past:

• Traveling on foot

• The roads were narrow

• The houses were small and covered with thatch

• The children didn’t go to school

* At the present:

• Traveling by motorbikes, cars, planes…

• The streets are very large

• Tall buildings

• The children go to school

 Yes, I do Life will be better in the future thanks to modern technology

II While reading :

1 Task 1:

9’

8’

II While reading:

1 Task 1:

- Asks Ss to read the

passage silently, stop

when they meet a new

word or a phrase and find

words or phrases in the

passage which have the

following meaning given

in the Task 1

- Gives feedback

2 Task 2: Answer the

questions

- Asks Ss to read the

passage silently and

answer the questions

individually

- Asks Ss to work in pairs

to compare their answers

- Calls on some Ss to

write the answers on the

board

- Checks with the class

- Gives feedback

3 Task 3:

- Asks Ss to work in

groups to discuss then

complete the chart about

LIFE IN THE FUTURE

- Read the passage and

do task 1

- Read the passage again and answer the questions in task 2

- Individual work then pairwork

- Write the answers on the board

- Groupwork

1 pessimists

2 optimists

3 economic depression

4 terrorism

5 wiped out

6 space shuttle

2 Task 2:

1 Many large corporations will be wiped out and millions of jobs will be lost

2 The security of the earth will be threatened by terrorist groups will become more powerful and more dangerous

3 People will be living in much cleaner environment, breathing fresher air and eating healthy foods They will also better looked after by a modern medical system

Domestic chores will no longer be a burden thanks to the inventions of labour -saving devices

4 They are developments in micro

telecommunication

3 Task 3:

LIFE IN THE FUTURE Fields optimists pessimists

technology, factories run

by robots, offices go electronic, work at home, computers linked to head office

Economic depression , large corporatio

ns wiped out, jobs lost

Food More delicious

and healthier

Not enough food because of population Travel Traveling by

space shuttle at 15,000kph;

cars could run

on electricity

or methane gas and fitted with computers

Cars, trains give smoke

Enviro Fresh air pollution

2’

III Post – reading:

* Advantages and

disadvantages of robots

- Asks Ss some questions:

+ Have you ever seen a

robot?

- Shows the picture of

robot or toy robot

- Asks Ss to work in

groups and discuss the

disadvantages of robots.

- Gives comments

IV Consolidation:

- Asks Ss to say about the

main ideas of the reading

passage

- Say about the main

ideas of the reading passage

nment securit y

d by terrorism

III Post – reading:

* Advantages and disadvantages of

robots

- Save labor, lighten our work

- Do difficult / hard jobs co that men have more time to enjoy life

or do more creative work

- Replace human being in many fields so many people will lose their jobs or go jobless

- People become more

independent on robots we can’t work properly when the power

is off or when

working

IV Homework:

- Write a short paragraph about the

advantages and disadvantages of robots.

4 Home work: (5’) Asks Ss to:

- write a short paragraph about the advantages and disadvantages of robots

5 Preparation for the next lesson :

- Asks Ss to prepare Speaking section of Unit 8: Do the Tasks in advance

6 Self-evaluation :

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