Lesson 1 Tomorrow's World

Teaching aims:

To use the title of a text to predict the content.

To practise using vocabulary of cyberspace.

To practise using will and going to to talk and write about the future.

Teaching difficulties: To revise Present Simple and Present Continuous.

Teaching Aids: computer and cassette

Teaching procedures:

Ⅰ. Warming up

What computers and internet bring us?

convenient, high efficient

Compared to 20 years ago how do you think technology will change our lives?

For example:

Go shopping on line.

Needn't carry cash and use credit cards.

Instead of going to the bank you can use a computer and a telephone to pay for bills.

1. Imagine what happens in the next twenty years?

2. Is it possible that the computer gives us disaster?

II. Reading

Look at the title of the article.

Which of these topics do you think it will mention?

* the Internet * artificial human * time travel * robots * global warming * virtual reality

Read the article quickly and check your guess to question 2 above.

Read the article again and tell the sentences are True or False.

1. With the development of computers, our life may change in shopping and communicating ways

The text infers to us that worry is not necessary and computers and the Internet only do good to us.