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UNIT 8: FUTURE LIFE 1 Stage Procedure Aims I. Warm- up II. Pre- writing III. While- writing Chit chat - Ask SS: Do you want to know your future in advance? (Students’ answsers) Do you often find a fortune teller for information about your future? (Students’ answsers) Did things happen to you as predicted? (Students’ answsers) - Ask SS: In the previous lesson, afuturologist made some predictions about life in the future. Do you remember any of his predictions? (Students’ answsers) - Ask: What did he say about th environment? Expected: (He said) The environment will be destroyed. - Ask: Will it? (SS answers may vary: Yes. / No. / It depends.) - Say: It depends. Depends on what ? (Students’ answsers) - Say: Yeah, it depends on our sence of responsibility, on our awareness of its importace, and on our actions. - Ask: Do you want to protect it ? What should you do to pretect the environment? Do you know? - Say: Good! So share your ideas with people around the world. Just write an essay to the Contest ‘ Friends of the Earth’. Transition: Today I’ll give you time to do this. But first let’s consider the requirements of the contest and the prize you may get if tou win. - Write on the board: Unit 8 Writing a paragraph about future life 1. About the writing contest (Task a, p. 104) - Tell SS to read the contest guidelines and the essay on the topic ‘ Friends of the Earth’. - Have SS answer the questions about the contest and the essay. - Call on SS to give answers to the questions. - Go over the answers with the class. - (See Teacher’s Guide for answers) 2. A general outline - From the sample, elicit the general outline of the essay: Action (First, I, will …) Reason Action (Next, I, will …) Reason … Conclusion / significance 3. Brainstorming ideas - Divide the class into small groups. - Have SS disuss and give opinions on what they could do to build a greener world for tomorrow. - Choose SS to present the opnions of their groups to the rest of the class. - Note down SS ideas on the board. - Give feedback and comments. Activity 1: Writing an outline - Tell SS they are going to write an essay to take part in the writing contest. - Tell SS to think of what they will do and write an outline for their essay. - Tell SS they can choose from the ideas listed - To engage SS, allow them to share experien- ce, to create interest, and to introduce the lesson - For SS to know about the require- ments of the contest and give a sample - To provide a general organiza- tion - To get SS to think and share ideas and to facilitate the writing tasks - To get SS to practise organi- zing ideas for ards c g'>a general organiza- tion - To get SS to think and share ideas and to facilitate the writing tasks - To get SS to practise organi- zing ideas for aeneral organiza- tion - To get SS to think and share ideas and to facilitate the writing tasks - To get SS to practise organi- zing ideas for an 2 . contest and give a sample - To provide a general organiza- tion - To get SS to think and share ideas and to facilitate the writing tasks - To get SS to practise. Conclusion / significance 3. Brainstorming ideas - Divide the class into small groups. - Have SS disuss and give opinions on what they could do to build a greener