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)