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The teaching material is the reading part from Go for it Grade 8 unit 7. The topic of this passage is about the life in the future. This passage mainly introduces the development of robots and guide students to use simple future tense to talk about robots in the future. The topic is new to students and it may be difficult for them to say something about robots.
The students are from Grade 8 in junior high school. As junior high school students, they have achieved certain English level and they have the ability to get the basic idea of the reading. Since they are in Grade 8, they are easily activated and want to express their own opinions on the topic. Although they are not familiar with the topic of robots, I think they may be interested in this topic. In Section A of unit 7, They learned the usages and forms of simple future tense, so they are familiar with this tense. But they may find it difficult to express robots'abilities and shapes.
Teaching Objectives
Knowledge objects:
1) Talk about what robots look like and what robots can do.
2) Read and use the new phrases, such as be able to, hundreds of, over and over again, disagree with, fall down, look for.
3) Master the sentence patterns: “will do”,“there will be...”,“...believe/think that...”
4) Use the future tense to make predictions.
Ability objects:
1) Skim for the main idea，scan for the details and retell.
2) Understand the main idea of the passage and learn some important phrases and sentence patterns.
3) Ss can use the target language to talk about what robots will look like and what they can do in the future.
Emotional objects:
1) Improve the students'interest of learning English.
2) Encourage students to predict their future robots.
3) Everything is possible.
Key points.
1) Enable the students to use the new phrases and sentence patterns to talk about robots.
2) Get an overall understanding of the passage.
Difficult points
1) Develop their reading skills such as skimming, scanning, retelling and summarizing.
2) Try to write about their future robots.
Step 1 Warming up
Play a short video and guide students to talk about the robot in the video.
1. What do you think of the video?
2. What can you see in the video?
3. What does the robot look like?
Show students some pictures of different kinds of robots and guide students to talk about their shapes and abilities so that students can learn new words and expressions.
1. What do robots look like?
The robots have many different shapes.(animals,humans...)
2. What can robots do?
They can help with housework/cook/...
Look at the title and the picture,then predict.
1) What are robots doing in the picture?
2) What will you read in this article?
A.The history of robots
B.The robots in life and in the future.
C.A story of robots.
(Reading tip1:Before you read, look at the title and picture to predict. )
Step 4 Fast reading
Task 1 Find out the main idea of each paragraph. (work on 2b)
There are four paragraphs in this passage. Ask students to go through the passage quickly and find out what each paragraph talks about to lead in this task. According to this task, students can get an overall understanding of the passage.
It is a little difficult. So the teacher will give them 1 minute to discuss in groups and them check the answers. After checking answers, teacher will ask some students to tell how they get the main idea and the key words of each paragraph to summarize the reading strategies.
(Reading tip 2: “Topic sentence ”is usually the first sentence . And we can read quickly to find key words.)
Task 2 Read para.1 &2 and fill in the chart.
Robots in movies |
Robots in factories |
They’re like______________. They help with the housework and do ________ or _________ jobs. |
They work in factories. They can _________and never _________. |
Task 3 Read para.3
Answer the following questions.
（1）What can robots in Japan do?
（2）What can't robots do now?
Think about the question "Will robots think like humans in the future?"
Listen and figure out the different opinions.
Will robots think like humans?
Names |
Moon |
Mr. Wu |
ideas |
I believe that robots will be able to talk and think like humans. |
It will be difficult for them to really think like a human. |
-What’s your idea? -I think / believe that ... (Ask students to share their opinions.)
Then ask Ss to talk about the question "What will happen if robots can think like humans?"
Task 4 Read para.4 and ask questions according to it.
Step 6 Design your robot
1.Group work: talk with your group members about what does your robot look like and what it can do. Then draw a picture of your robot. And introduce your robot to your classmates.
2.Let's vote.
Each group sends one representative and choose 2 favorite works.
1) Summary: Everything is possible.
2) Homework:
You have to do the following:
1. Read the passage after the tape twice.
2.Write a short passage about the robot you have designed.
You can choose one of the following:
1.Finish 2c and 2d on Page 54.
2.Finish 2e on Page 54.
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