Unit 11 Science and Technology Lesson 5 Skills 1

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Unit 11 : Science and technology Period 94 : Lesson : skills I) Objectives : Educational aim : - Read for general and specific information about the role of the science and technology in the future - Talk about the role of the science and technology in the future Knowledge: - Vocabulary : - Grammatical structures : - Future tenses II) Teaching aids : Text books, cassette, chalk, pictures and some boards III) Procedure : Steps & ttime Learning activities Language Models focus A Warm up Write these headings on the board: class work ( 5’) Travel Health Homes Brainstorm with the class some predictions for future developments in these three fields Encourage Ss to use their imagination Now open the book and the reading tasks B Reading Quickly read the passages Match the individually headings with the passages Ask Ss to read the passages quickly looking for key words and then match them with the headings Key: B A C To Underline the flowing words and explore phrases in the text Match each of them Mars/ To individually with its explanation find out if Have Ss the task individually Then Ss there is, or can check their answers in pairs Elicit the ever has answers from Ss been, life Key: D A E there/ To B F C explore the Answers the questions possibility Ask Ss to read the passages again and of being answer the questions Ss can ask and answer able to live in pairs T corrects the answers as a class If there time allows, have Ss show where they found They the answers help people Key: live longer To explore Mars/ To find out if there is, 70 or 75 or ever has been, life there/ To explore the years possibility of being able to live there Solar individually They help people live longer panels and C Speaking D Performing 70 or 75 years Solar panels and solar windows They can chose such as cleaning, cooking, washing, and organizing things Speaking Set up the SPEAKINGstage by getting Ss to think about the pros and cons of advancement in science and technology Explain that nothing is ‘black and white’; there are always advantages and disadvantages For example, say: More and more robots will be invented and used in the future One of the advantages of this is that robots will be able to dirty or dangerous jobs that humans don’t want to At the same time, there are disadvantages - robots will replace people in some areas so there will be unemployment 4.Think about your ideas about scientific advances in these fields Look at the example and make notes Ss work in pairs to think about these pros and cons Encourage Ss to think of as many ideas as possible Move around to give some cues and observe Nuclear energy: - convenient, clean, available… - expensive, unsafe, environmentally unfriendly… Nutrition pills: - people can live longer, convenient,… - expensive, create an ageing population, create overpopulation… Smart phones: - convenient, quick, entertaining… environmentally unfriendly, discourage face-to-face communication, people can be tracked at all times… Space travel: exciting, adventurous… - expensive dangerous… Work in groups Express your agreement and disagreement about how scientific advances can help us solve solar windows They can chose such as cleaning, cooking, washing, and organizing things pair work Pair work Group work Group work Whole class E Homework problems in the future Divide the class into groups of five or six Each group talks about one of the fields in Tell Ss to read the example before they start Encourage them to use the phrase give in the Look out! box While Ss are talking, T goes around to give assistance if necessary If time allows, have Ss summarise their group’s ideas and present to the class Write the Ex4 in notebooks