内容正文:
Go For It 8A Unit 7 Section A 1a-2d
Analysis of teaching material
What: The listening texts are daily conversations about people’s predictions about life in the future.
Why: These two listening texts belong to the themes of “person and society” and “person and nature” and mainly make students acquire the ability to make predictions so that they can imagine their lives in the future freely, face the changes in the future with a positive mindset, and raise their awareness of paying attention to the environment.
How: These two listening texts are both communications happening in daily lives between friends and among the teacher and students respectively. They mainly focus on the use of the simple future tense “will” and comparative quantifiers “more”, “fewer” and “less”. There are also several simple sentences, colloquial phrases or words, and complex sentences (mainly object clauses).
Teaching objectives
By the end of the session, most students will be able to understand and use correctly the simple future tense “will” and “there will be” and comparative quantifiers “more”, “fewer” and “less” (Learning and Understanding), make their own predictions about the future (Applying and Practicing), develop student’s positive attitude towards the future and raise their awareness of protecting the environment (Transferring and Creating). This will be achieved by:
1. teaching students vocabulary such as pollute, pollution, future, earth, environment, plant, etc.
2. teaching students sentence structures, including "What will the future be like?" "Will people use money in 100 years?" "Yes, they will." "No, they won’t." "There will be more/fewer/less...", etc.
Teaching focus
1. Listening: Understand the main idea of the conversation and speakers’ opinions.
1. Vocabulary: future, pollute, pollution, environment, planet, earth, plant, and so on.
Anticipated difficulties
Students may feel it difficult to make predictions about the future by using the simple future tense “wil