Unit 1 Task Building the future Unit 1

Unit 1 Task Building the future 板块：教学设计—课件

Unit 1 课件描述： 1. Help students learn to use emotive language to express how they feel about something 2. Teach students to write an essay 3. Help students develop their listening, speaking, reading and writing abilities.

Aim Our task is to write an essay using objective language, providing facts and figures, giving examples and discussing future probability.

Analysis Skills Building 1: identifying emotive language Skills Building 2: discussing probability of the future Skills Building 3: writing an essay

How do you feel when you see the pictures?

Skills building 1: identifying emotive language People use emotive language to express how they feel about something. Emotive adjective hyperbole Tone of voice positive negative wonderful, glorious, exceptional terrible, ‘It horrifying, weighed a awful ton!’

Skills building 1 2. Hyperbole This is a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis, e. g. , “I could sleep for a thousand years!” and “It weighed a ton!”

句子匹配 （匹配原句和右列运用夸张法的句子) 1. Thank you very much. 2. She is very pretty. C A 3. He laughed heartily B 4. She is feeling much better today. E 5. She cried really bitterly. 6. He was making a loud noise in the house. D F A. She is prettiest girl in the world. B. He almost died laughing C. C. Thanks a million. D. She cried her eyes out. E. She’s feeling miles better today. F. He raised the roof.

Skills building 1: identifying emotive language People use emotive language to express how they feel about something. Emotive adjective hyperbole Tone of voice positive negative wonderful, glorious, exceptional angry, terrible, ‘It horrifying, weighed a sad, pleased, awful ton!’ amused

Step 1: asking about life in the past During the past twenty years, great changes have taken place in our country, especially in education, transport, buildings, jobs and environment. 1. Listen to an interview and take notes in the table.

In the past today walked or rode takes_____ transport _______ bus a bike or______ taxi ______ to school buildings ______ the _____ small houses new and a few shops; department _____ biggest building ____ store is far was the _______ school bigger

Jobs In the past today a lot of people big industries include the ____ tourism industry and the catering ______ industry sea is full of ____; rubbish air is polluted ____ were involved fishing in the______ industry enviro Air was nment _______ fresh

2. Listen to the conversation again and fill in the missing words. Hyperbole as cold as ____ ice sleep for ________ a hundred years as _____ big as a mountain big as a whale as _____

3. Listen to your grandfather’s talk and take notes, then fill in the blanks in the old newspaper article on Page 11 using the information from your notes. seafood catering type of restaurant: ____ industry location: _____ top floor jobs: waiters _______

fashion clothes being sold: made by industry designers _____ fashion show: to raise money for a local ______ charity Publishi ng author visiting bookshops to industry sign book: local _____ book club _____ agencies tourism types of business: travel tourist information office industry and a____________

answers to the article: (1) shopping centre (2) catering (3) seafood (4) chef (5) waiters (6) fashion (7) charity (8) authors (9) publishing (11) tourist (10) tourist

Skills building 2: discussing probability of the future What will happen in the future? If you are certain that something is or is not going to happen in the future, you can use the following phrases: It will (not) … It will certainly (not) … It is (not) going to … It will surely (not) … It will definitely (not) …

If you expect something to happy or not to happen in the future but are not very certain, you can use the following phrases: It will probably (not) … It is (not) likely to … It should (not) …

When something in the future is not a certainly but only a possibility, you can use the following phrases: It may (not) … It could (not) … It might (not) …

If you think that something has no chance at all of happening in the future and want to express this in strong terms, you can use the following expressions. However, you should be careful in doing so as this is usually considered very rude: no way out of question not in a million years

Step 2: interviewing the City Development Council Practice how to interview with your partner using predictions. e. g. (not) (very) certain possible no chance at all

Skills building 3: writing an essay When writing an essay, it is very important that you structure it in an ordered way. Otherwise, it will not make sense to readers. To do this, you should divide the information into sections---the introduction, the main body and the conclusion. Besides following the structure, you should also:

Use Provide objective facts and language figures Give examples The United In one village In my in Africa, opinion, Nations I think reported that there is a one out of family of ten. every five All of the children in family the world livemembers are in poverty. … Discuss future probability In the future, it will probably develop into the biggest industry in the area.

Homework: 1. Write an essay on the development of your town for the writing competition. 2. Preview the Project part.

Homework Write a letter to convince your friend that moving back to China is the best thing to do.

Period two Ask students to exchange their essays and correct the possible mistakes and then the teacher just give some examples.