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UNIT 8: FUTURE LIFE

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Stage Procedure Aims

I

Warm-up

II

Pre-writing

III

While-writing

Chit chat

- Ask SS: Do you want to know your future in

advance? (Students’ answsers) Do you often find a

fortune teller for information about your future?

(Students’ answsers) Did things happen to you as

predicted? (Students’ answsers)

- Ask SS: In the previous lesson, afuturologist

made some predictions about life in the future Do

you remember any of his predictions?

(Students’ answsers)

- Ask: What did he say about th environment?

Expected: (He said) The environment will be

destroyed

- Ask: Will it? (SS answers may vary: Yes / No / It

depends.)

- Say: It depends Depends on what ?

(Students’ answsers)

- Say: Yeah, it depends on our sence of

responsibility, on our awareness of its importace,

and on our actions

- Ask: Do you want to protect it ? What should you

do to pretect the environment? Do you know?

- Say: Good! So share your ideas with people

around the world Just write an essay to the

Contest ‘ Friends of the Earth’

Transition: Today I’ll give you time to do this But

first let’s consider the requirements of the contest

and the prize you may get if tou win

- Write on the board:

Unit 8 Writing a paragraph about future life

1 About the writing contest (Task a, p 104)

- Tell SS to read the contest guidelines and the

essay on the topic ‘ Friends of the Earth’

- Have SS answer the questions about the contest

and the essay

- Call on SS to give answers to the questions

- Go over the answers with the class

- (See Teacher’s Guide for answers)

2 A general outline

- From the sample, elicit the general outline of the

essay:

Action (First, I, will …)

Reason

Action (Next, I, will …)

Reason

…

Conclusion / significance

3 Brainstorming ideas

- Divide the class into small groups

- Have SS disuss and give opinions on what they

could do to build a greener world for tomorrow

- Choose SS to present the opnions of their groups

to the rest of the class

- Note down SS ideas on the board

- Give feedback and comments

Activity 1: Writing an outline

- Tell SS they are going to write an essay to take

part in the writing contest

- Tell SS to think of what they will do and write an

outline for their essay

- Tell SS they can choose from the ideas listed

- To engage

SS, allow them to share

experien-ce, to create interest, and to introduce the lesson

- For SS

to know about the require-ments of the contest and give a sample

- To provide a general organiza-tion

- To get

SS to think and share ideas and

to facilitate the writing tasks

- To get

SS to practise organi-zing ideas for an

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