Unit 20 New Frontiers

Lesson 1 Futurology

Teaching aims:

1. To go over the simple future

2. To familiarize with future perfect and future continuous

3. To do some exercises about the future, and just talk about past simple future and past future perfect

4. To develop the students' ability to express their imaginations and to cooperate by working in pairs and groups

Teaching procedure:

Step 1.Warm-up

A. To show some pictures of 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, to lead in the topic : the future is so bright

B. To suppose you want to see the games in Beijing in 2oo8, what is your plan for the future? (to see the cartoon, to go over simple future )

(1. 一般将来时表示将要发生的动作或出现的状态，由shall(will)＋原形动词；

(2. 或 am(is, are)+going to+原形动词构成

(3. 动词如go, come, leave, begin等可用现在进行时表示未来表示计划或安排的动作

(4. Am(is, are )+to+原形动词，表示计划或安排好的动作

(5. Am(is, are)+about +原形动词表示最近将发生的动作，一般不带时间副词或片语

(6. 动词come, go, arrive, leave, start, begin, return的一般现在时可以表示将来，主要用来表示在时间上已确定或安排好的事情

Step2. Learn the future perfect

A. To introduce some works the Beijingers are doing, and ask the students to suppose what will have been done before the games?

B. To introduce the new grammatical structure : sb will have done

To show more pictures of our school, and ask the Ss to make some sentences: