Topic： Unit 4 Lesson 3 Virtual reality
Presenters：Mr Zhang
Date： 2017-11-25
I.The analysis of the text:
The text is a dialogue between two students, Tom and Cathy, talking about virtual reality. Because they are future of the world and thus they surely will show a greater interest in the topic， I have an intention to give my students a chance to present the class on their own.
II. Main objectives:
Quality-oriented goals:
To inspire students’ independence and imagination;
To motivate students’ caring for the future of the world;
To cultivate students’ ability of organization and the sense of cooperation.
Ability goals:
Reading: To enable students’ to catch key information as soon as possible.
Speaking: To enable students’ to talk about virtual reality by discussing, interviewing or debating.
III. Language focus:
Key words and expressions:
Be up to depend on go camping offer imagine have anything planned In the flesh
Grammar:
First conditional and second conditional:(Unlikely and possible situations in the future)
1. If I don’t finish …, the science teacher will be….
2. If we had virtual reality holidays, we wouldn’t have….
IV. Teaching aids:
PC, newspaper and reading material.
V. Teaching approach and method:
Constructivism; group work.
VI. Teaching procedure:
Step I. Lead- in:
Welcome to the future world
1. Read the passage “Talk like an alien” from newspaper 21st Century and answer some questions such as: What’s the most important factor if we try to communicate with an alien?/How to understand what the aliens are actually saying?/What can you learn from the passage?
Task one: group discussion
Purpose: To create a different world leading to the future;
To arouse Ss’ interest in what they are going to learn;
To train Ss’ reading skill.
Step II. Text reading:
1.Pre-reading:
(T: I have a dream. One day we’ll talk with another kind of being from some planet. So what should we do now to make the dream come true?)
---Movie show.
---The meaning of “virtual reality”.
---How to create a virtual reality? In which case is it possible for virtual reality?
2.While-reading:
---Scanning the text for some questions.
---Practice the dialogue in pairs and then present in public.
---Discussion:
The advantages and disadvantages of a virtual university.(for and against)
3.Laguage focus: Second conditional
--------It is used to express something unlikely in the past, at present and in the future.
4.Post-reading:
---Writing: My ideal future
Requirement: Use second conditional
---Reading: Passage 2 (Week ten Thursday)