江苏省江阴市成化高级中学高中英语 Unit1 Building the future Welcome to the unit教案 牛津译林版选修10 (2).doc

module 10 unit 1： building the futurewelcome to the unit【teaching aims】1. get to know something about the development of the world, the issue of poverty, the causes of poverty as well as the possible solutions to the problem.2. practise listening and speaking by sharing information.3. get ready for the learning of this unit.【teaching difficult points】 how to develop students speaking ability?【teaching important points】develop students speaking ability; different types of discussions.【teaching aids】1. the multimedia 2. the blackboard【teaching procedures】step 1 brainstormingfind out the causes of poverty and the possible solutions to the problem by means of pair work.the cause of hunger solutions：wars stop wars diseases give medical care and trainingnatural disasters improve local environmentlocal environment provide educational trainingwrong policies and strategies donate food and moneygrowing population develop renewable energylimited natural resourcesstep 2 sharing informationwork in groups of four and discuss the four pictures on page 1.picture 11. what is in the picture? (children in hunger are given food.)2. what can food aid do to help solve the problem of poverty? food aid can help feed people who have no food. 3. do you think food aid is a a short-term or long-term solution to the problem of poverty ?picture 21. what is the man doing in the picture? vegetables grown with modern technology.2. whatre the advantages and disadvantages of modern agriculture? we may feed more people with the modern agriculture and create new jobs, but on the other hand it may cause pollution.3. do you think developing agriculture with modern technology is a short-term or long-term solution to the problem of poverty? picture 31. what has happened to the village? ( it has become a city. ) 2. do you prefer living in the city or in the country? why?3. what problems may developing too fast cause? developing too fast might harm the natural environment. for example, many trees have been cut down in order to build factories, roads and bridges. also, almost everything we do in our modern lives, be it cooking or traveling, requires the use of earths natural resources, which we may run out of one day. picture 41. what do you think the things are used for? these machines are used to generate electricity by using wind power.2. what might happen to natural resources in a thousand years? the supplies of coal, oil and other natural resources might run out in a thousand years.3. what is renewable energy? renewable energy is energy that comes from a source that will not run out. solar, wind and hydroelectric or water energy are all sources of renewable energy that could be used in the future.step 3: discussion: work in pairs and have a discussion about the questions below the pictures.step 4 language focus1. (p1) rate n. (1)比例，比率 the birth rate 出生率 the rate interest 利率(2)速度，进度(speed) at the rate/speed of (3)at any rate (adv.)不管怎样 at this/that rate 照这/那样情形看来vt./vi. (被)评价,(被)估计为 rate sb./sth.+a