Learning goals

1. Talk about traveling in the future or in the past using the time machine, thuswe can cultivate the students’ imagination.

2. Talk about the current situation of tourism in our country, so that the student will concern nature and the environment3. Practise useful sentence patterns.

1). What will…be like in the future?

What was….like in the past?

2). Which year would you like to go to?

3). Where / why would you like to go?

4). I think we should……?

5). It’s better if we……

Learning methods

group work,pair work and individual work

Learning procedures

Step1 Lead in

一、Greetings as usual

二、Talk about a cartoon film(談?wù)搶W(xué)生喜愛的卡通片《機(jī)器貓》中主人公大雄利用machine time 了解自己成人后的生活和他媽媽小時候的事)來介紹以下兩個句型：

1) What will his life be like in the future?

2) What was his mother like when she was a little girl?(naughty)

Step2 Activity Ⅰ

一 Individual work

Suppose you have a time machine.

1) which year would like to go to?

2) Where would you go?(此處would為情態(tài)動詞)

3) Why would you go?

二 Group work

1. Get the students to use the sentences above to make a survey in their group.

2. Fill the chart on P16 in the SB

3. Get several individual leaders to report the survey.

Example:

In our group, S1 would like to go to the moment he was bron. He would like to know what was he like at that moment. S2 would like to go to Beijing in 2008 because she would like to see the 29th Olympic Games It will be exciting.

……

Step 3: Talking (workbook)

1) T: Just now we talked about traveling in the future or in the future.

National Day is coming. would you like to travel? where would you like to go during national holidays?

2) T: Tourism are developing quickly in our country.

Do you think whether it is good or bad to develop tourism? Why ?(Individual work)

Suggested answers:

Good Bad

making money wasting money

for pleasure destroying nature

getting knowledge causing traffic jam

…… ……

Activity Ⅱ

Situation: Imagining that your village is next to a beautiful lake. Some people want to turn it into a tourist resort. Do you support it?

Make a dialogue with your partner(Pairwork)

Providing the following sentences.

1) I think that’s a good idea

2) I think we should……

3) But what about you?

4) I’m afraid I don’t agree.

5) Why? Why not?

6) It’s better if we……

2. Get several pairs to act out their dialogue.

Step4:

Homework:

1. Each pair write down their dialogue in the teachers’ exercisebook (be cooperated )

2. Preview the next period “Reading”.