Unit 1 Career talks 第五课时Reading for Writing 教学设计 2025-2026学年外研版八年级英语下册

Unit 1 Career talks 第五课时Reading for Writing From mouse catcher to space tour guide Teaching Aims： 1. Understand the passage and get specific information. 2. Learn and use key phrases to describe a job. 3. Use the passive voice to describe a disappearing job. Teaching Points： 1. Understanding of the passage. 2. To express your opinion about a job (Difficult point). Teaching Method：Interactive approach Teaching Aids：Seewo；Digital textbook. Teaching Procedures: Step 1. About Jobs 1. Show the pictures and the jobs: pilot, cashier, tour guide. Ask students to match the pictures with the words. 2. Ask: What do you think might happen to these jobs in the future? 3. Show more sentences. Ask students to complete them with the words from A1. Step 2. Pre-reading 1. Ask students to read through the title and look at the picture. Predict what the passage is going to talk about. Ask: What can you see in the picture? 2. Talk about the title:What is the title about? Step 3. While-reading 1. Fast Reading 1. Read through the text and tell the text type. 2. How many parts can the passage be divided into? 2. Careful Reading 1. Read Para 1 and answer the questions. Q1. What jobs were reported centuries ago? Q2. What are the two main reasons that cause jobs to change nowadays? 2. Read “Jobs of soon to be history” and answer. Q1. Why might cashier no longer be necessary in the future? Q2. What does the writer suggest could happen to human pilots in the future? 3. Read “Jobs of the future” and answer. Q1. What jobs are mentioned? Q2. What is the main reason that space tour guides will be needed in the future? 4. Read and answer (Part 3) Q1. What does Cynthia 263 mean by “Will pilots’ jobs go up in smoke”? Q2. What does Jhang go mean by “sit at our desk”? Q3. What does Jerry Mc’s comments mean? Step 4. Post-reading 1. Complete the research report (A3, P14). Ask students to finish the exercises individually and then check with the whole class. 2. Think and share (A4) Ask students to work in pairs, answer the questions, then show the answers together. Step 5. Language Points 1.Read and find key points, then learn to use them. 2.Write a short passage about “a job soon to be history”. Step 6. Writing 1. Think of a job. Use the chart to help. 2. Compare the differences and make a passage to compare. 3. Show some examples. Step 7. Summary Summarize what we have learnt in this class. Step 8. Homework  Must: 1. Read and remember key words and phrases. 2. Write a passage to compare jobs.  Can: 3.Make a mind map to compare jobs. Blackboard Design： Unit 1 Reading for Writing From mouse catcher to space tour guide 1. A job soon to be history  Key phrases & structures 2. A job of the future 3. Human pilots 4. Taxi driver 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $