Unit 2 Looking Into The Future Assessing Your Progress + Project 教学设计-2025-2026学年高中英语人教版选择性必修第一册

Teaching and Learning Design 选择性必修Book1 Unit2 Looking Into The Future 教学设计 Period 8 Teaching and learning contents: Assessing Your Progress + Project Comprehensive teaching and learning objectives: By the end of this period, the students will have been able to: 1) Present and evaluate their writing; 2) Consolidate the vocabulary and grammar item learned in this unit; 3) Talk about future careers and write a letter to yourself from the future; 4) Reflect on what has been learnt in this unit. Teaching and learning important points: 1) Writing presentation and evaluation; 2) Consolidating the vocabulary and grammar item learned in this unit; 3) Talking about future careers and writing a letter to yourself from the future; 4) Reflecting on what has been learnt in this unit. Teaching and learning difficult point: 1) Consolidating the vocabulary and grammar item learned in this unit; 2) Talking about future careers and writing a letter to yourself from the future. Teaching and learning procedure: Step 1 Leading in Activity 1 Leading in Introduce the learning objectives of this period. Activity 2 Writing evaluation and presentation 1. Work in pairs to evaluate each other’s writing, using the checklist. √ Does the essay say what the writer thinks about the topic? √ Does the body discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the advance? √ Are signposts used to help the reader understand the purpose of each paragraph? √ Does the conclusion state the writer’s position? 2. Choose a few (2-3) students to read their writing to the class and give feedback. 3. Get the students to make some revision to improve the writing (after class). Step 2 Assessing Your Progress Activity 3 Vocabulary review and exercises 1. Revise the meaning and usage of the words in the box. 2. Complete the dialogues with the correct forms of the words in the box, check the answers and give some explanations if necessary. Answers: absence, predictions, emphasis, essay, network, rural, prospect, luxury. New word: accurate adj.精确的；准确的 an accurate description/account/calculation准确的描述/叙述/计算 accurately adv.精确地；准确地 accuracy n.精确；准确 e.g. My watch is not very accurate. 我的表走得不很准。 Now scientists can forecast the weather accurately. 现在科学家们能准确地预报天气。 They questioned the accuracy of the information in the file. 他们怀疑档案中信息的正确性。 Activity 4 Grammar review and exercise 1. Revise the form and usage of the future progressive tense briefly. 2. Read an introduction to the Future Library project. Fill in the blanks using the correct forms of the words in the box. Answers: used; will write/will be writing; will keep/will be keeping; will cut down/will be cutting down; will read/will be reading. New word: librarian n. 图书馆馆长；图书管理员 3. Read the text again and answer the following questions to reconstruct the text. 1) When, where, and how the Future Library project begin? 2) What will be happening to the Future Library in 2114? 3) Why do you think Katie Paterson initiated the Future Library project? 4) What’s your attitude towards the Future Library? 4. Free talk: Imagine you have the opportunity to design a future library. Describe what it will be like. (Including your aim of starting the library, who are your potential readers and what may be their needs.) Step 3 Project: Writing a letter to yourself from the future Activity 5 Discussion and sharing Imagine that your 50-year-old future self has sent you a letter about your future career. What would that letter contain? Work in pairs or groups, discuss the questions and share your answers with the class. 1. Which careers are you interested in? 2. How might future advances in technology change those careers? 3. What are the advantages and disadvantages of these future careers? 4. How might you best prepare for your future careers? Activity 6 Reading the letters for inspiration 1. Read the letter in the textbook and complete the table to comprehend its content and structure. Before the students read the letter, explain the meaning of the following words and phrases. 1) put your mind at rest 使你安心/放心 2) jet pack 喷气(式)背包 3) traffic controller交通管制员 4) virtual reality headset虚拟现实耳机 5) tense 紧张 The outline of the letter: Para 1 Writing purpose Future career. To put your mind at rest. Para 2 A description of the future career A jet pack air traffic controller: control the people who use personal jet packs so they don’t have accidents in the sky. Para 3 The advantages of the career He doesn’t have to leave home. The disadvantages of the career He will be talking to people all day. It can be kind of tense because of too many jet packs in the sky. And some people don’t like to obey the rules. Para 4 Ending. Stop worrying. Comfort. 2. Read another letter for inspiration. Dear Past Ben, Hi! I’m Ben, your future self! I know that you are really worried about your future career, so I wanted to write this letter to put your mind at rest. In the future, unfortunately (or should I say “fortunately”?), while computers are incredibly smart and can do many things, they still lack creativity. They cannot write novels, paint interesting pictures, or come up with recipes for new and exciting kinds of dishes. And this is where you come in—in the future, you will be a chef working at a fancy restaurant. Of course, it won’t be the kind of job like chefs have now. You will mix and cook virtual ingredients on a heads-up display while a robot does all the real work for you. Since the system remembers everything for you, if you are satisfied with the new dish you can immediately have the dish added to the restaurant menu so that the kitchen chefbots can cook it for customers. All in all, you will be happy with your new job, because we both like to eat! So stop worrying. Your future will be great. Trust me! Best regards, Future Ben Activity 7 Practice writing a letter to yourself from the future 1. Tell the student to put their ideas into the organization of the above letters to write a letter to themselves from the future. Make sure to include: a greeting (writing purpose), a description of the future career, the advantages and disadvantages of the career, (the preparations that are /are not needed for the career), and a closing (to comfort). 2. Practice writing. (If time is limited, the students can complete it after class.) Step 4 Reflecting Activity 8 Reflecting what has been learned in this unit What new advances in technology introduced in this unit interested you? How have your opinions about advances in technology changed because of this unit? What advances in technology would you like to learn more about? Overall, I thought this unit was cool useful so-so difficult Step 5 Evaluation and summary Activity 9 Self-evaluation Guide the students to reflect on their learning of this period by considering the following aspects. 1. How is your performance in discussion and sharing? (Good/Fairly good/Moderate/Just so so/Poor) 2. How is your writing performance? (Good/Fairly good/Moderate/Just so so/Poor) 3. What will you do to improve your writing after class? Activity 10 Summary Summarize what has been learned in this period briefly. Homework: 1. Complete the writing. 2. Complete the vocabulary and other exercises in the reference book 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$