Giáo án Tiếng Anh 12 unit 8: Life in the future

Tiếng Anh 12 – Giáo án
Unit 8 : LIFE IN THE FUTURE
A: READING
A. AIMS:
- To help students improve their reading skills: scanning and skimming,
guessing the meaning of words in context.
B. AIDS:
- English textbook for students
- English textbook for teachers
- Pictures
C. Methods : Communicative approach and leaner- centered approach.
Teacher’s activities

Students’ activities

I. Warm-up:
1/ What are the people going to do?

- Listen to teacher.

2/ Does it look like a normal airplane?

- Look at the picture and answer the

3/ How is it different?
4/ Do you think that life in the future will be
like this?

questions:
1/ They are going to fly.
2/ No

Aims: to introduce the topic of the lesson and to 3/ It looks more modern than a normal
raise students' interest.

airplane. It has no wings.

- Introduce the lesson

4/ Yes,

- Ask students to look at the questions in Before No


you read, page 80, working in pairs to discuss Possible answers
the question in Before you read:
1. Do you think life will be better in the
future? Why/ Why not?
2. List three things that might happen in the
future.
II. Before you read :

S1: Do you think life will be better in the
future?
S2: Yes
S1: Why?
S2: Because of the development of science

- Ask students to look at the picture ask and and technology.
answer the questions.

S1: List three things that might happen in
the future
S2: I think in the future, people can live in

III. While you read :

the Mar, people will be healthy without any
diseases, and they can travel by plane to

- Ask students to look through the passage and work everyday.
read in silence
- Help students read the passage
- Explain pronunciation and meaning of new

- Look at the picture, listen to the teacher
then ask and answer the questions in the
book.

words which appear in the passage

- Work in pairs.

- Corporation(n): a large business company

- Listen to the teacher then read the passages

- Chore(n): a job that is not interesting but
that you must do
- Burden(n): something that is heavy and
difficult to carry

- Influence(v): to have an effect on or power

- Ask some new words if necessary
- Give Vietnamese equivalents
- Corporation(n): doanh nghiep
- Chore(n): chuyen vat vanh


over sb/sth so that he/she/it changes
- Methane(n): a gas without color or smell,

- Burden(n): ganh nang
- Influence(v): anh huong, tac dong

that burns easily and that we can use to

- Methane(n): chat metan

produce heat

- Responsibility(n): trach nhiem

- Responsibility(n): a duty to deal with sth so
that it is your fault if sth goes wrong

- Read the words
- Read the passage in silence

Task 1 :
- Ask students to read through the text once to - Work individually to read the text then

find out some new words, guess the main idea. choose the the words and phrases in the
- Explain new words (give the Vietnamese

passage:

equivalents), guide the sts to get the main - Share the key with other students:
contents of the reading text.

Keys

- Ask students to work individually in 3

1. Pessimists: nhung nguoi bi quan

minutes to do this task.

2. Optimists: nhung nguoi lac quan

- Guide students to read through the passage ,

3. Economic depression: suy thoai kinh te

then focus on only the sentences surrounding

4. Terrorism: khung bo

the suggested words to do the task effectively.

5. Wiped out: xoa sach

- Give students some more words that may be
new/ unfamiliar to them.
- Guide the students to read the word in chorus
and individually.

6. Space shuttle: tau vu tru


Task 2:
- Ask students to read the passage again then
work in pairs to ask and answer the suggested
questions.
- Walk round the class to give help if necessary.

- Listen to the teacher then do the task.
- Works in pais:
Keys:
1. Many large corporations will be wiped
out and millions of jobs will be lost.

- Give suggested words, phrases or useful 2. The security of the earth will be
suggestions.

threatened by terrorism, as terrorist
groups will become more powerful and
more dangerous.

- Correct the students’ work.

3. People will be living in much cleaner

environment, breathing fresher air and
eating healthier foods. They will also be
better looked after by a modern medical
system. Domestic chores will no longer
be a burden thanks to the interventions of
labor- saving devices.

Task 3:
- Ask students to read the questions carefully.

4. They

are

developments

technology-

computer

in

micro
and

telecommunication.
- Ask students to read through the passage

- Work individually to read the text then

again.

choose the the words and phrases in the

- Ask the class to do .

passage:


- Call some students to give the answers.

- Share the key with other students:

- Ask others students to correct.

Keys:

- Give the true answers

1. Work: factories will be run by robots,
offices will go electronic, many people
will work from home.
2. Travel: travel by space shuttle very fast,
at 15000 kms per hour; cars could run on
electricity or methane gas and fitted with
computers.
- Listen to the teacher then do the task.
- Some students stand up
discussions.

IV. After you read :
- Ask students to work in group to scan the text

- Work in groups
Advantages: save labor, do difficult jobs so

again.
- Ask them to work in small groups of three or
four

to report their

to

discuss

the

Advantages

and

disadvantages of Robots
- Encourage them to use their own words.
- Ask some students to report.
V. Home work:

- Review the reading and prepare the speaking

that men have more time to enjoy life or do

more creative work.
Disadvantages: replace human beings in
many fields so many people will lose their
jobs or go jobless
- Listen to the teacher
- Write down the homework to do at home.


at home.


Unit 8 : LIFE IN THE FUTURE
B: SPEAKING
I. Aims
- Students can ask and answer about changes of people and the world in the
future.
II. Aids
- English textbook for students
- English textbook for teachers
III. Procedures
Teacher’s activities

Students’ activities

Warm-up: (5 minutes)
Tell a short story to prove that the renovation Listen and give one’s own ideas or story if
measures has apparently changed the social and being asked.
people’s lives positively.

Pre-speaking : (12 minutes)

Task 1
- Guide students how to practise.
- Ask students to work individual.
- Walk around and help them.
- Call students to say.

- Pair work.
- Practice answering the toppic:
By the end of the 21st, chinese astronaunts
…… ………


- Correct their mistakes.

By the end of the 21st, a new moon city will
have been opened….
……………

While-speaking : (15 minutes)
Task 2
- Guide students how to practise.
- Ask students to work in pairs.
- Help the students with new structures.
- Walk around and help them.

- Listen to the teacher then practise.
- Workin pairs.
Ex:
I think it is likely that by the end of the 21st
century …………

In my opion, it is unlikely that by the end of
the 21st century …………

- Call some student to stand up and report ……………………
before the class.
- Correct their mistakes.
- Free practices
- The students who are called stand up to talk
to the class about their ideas.

Post-speaking : (10 minutes)
Task 3
- Guide students how to practise.

- Listen to the teacher.


- Ask students to work in gruops

- Write down the homework to do at home.

- Call some pairs of student to stand up and
practise.
- Correct their mistakes.

Homework: (3 minutes)
- Ask the students to prepare the listening at
home.

Teacher’s activities

Stages

Warm
up
( 2 min.)

- Tell students a riddle

Students’ activities
- Listen to the riddle

+ Ask students the question:

- Answer the question

How can we get some clean
water?
+ Give the answer: Bring the water
from the river and wash it.

+ We buy clean water from the shop
+ We ask our parents for it.
+ ……………..
- Listen to the teacher and write the title
in their notebooks.

- Introduce the lesson:

Whilespeakin
g
(28 min.)

- Listen to the teacher.
- Introduce some new words
(eliciting , give the definitions in

- Guess the meaning of the new words.

English then ask students to translate
them into Vietnamese to check their
understanding)
- to be declared open: to be stated
publicly and officially
- holiday resort: a place where a lot

-

of people go to on holiday
- a cure for: a medicine or

to be declared open: đợc công bố
rộng rãi

-

holiday resort: nơi nghỉ mát

treatment that can cure an illness,

-

a cure for: phơng thức chữa

etc.

-

holiday maker: khách đi nghỉ

-

running on:

-

cold war: cuoc chien chong lai

- holiday maker: a person who go
on holiday.
- running on: the action or sport of
running
- cold war: the war against common
cold.

benh cam

- Let the whole class read the new
words twice or three times.

- Call 2-3 students to read new words
again.
- Read the new words
- Ask students to look at Task 1
- Ask students to do Task 1:


Look at these newspaper cuttings
from the future, They were written on
st

1 of April. Say what will have
Task 1

happened and what people will be

- Look at Task 1
- Do Task 1

st
(13 min.) doing by the end of the 21 century

- Revise the use of future tense:
+ When we want to say about an
event going on at a particular time or
over a period of time in the future,
which tense do we use?
+ When we want to talk about
something that will be ended,
completed or achieved by a particular

point in the future, which tense do we
use?
Look at the example, this action will
be completed by the end of the 21st
century, so we use will+ have+ P.II.
- Ask one student to read the example
- Ask Ss to work in pairs to say what
will have happened and what people
will be doing by the end of the 21st

We use “will+be+V_ing.”


century.

- Read the example

- Walk around the class to guide or

- Do Task 1 in pairs

supervise them and give them help if
necessary.
- Ask some pairs to report what they
have talked

- Work in pairs

- Give comments; correct the common
mistakes after they finish.

- Introduce some new words

- Report what they have talked.

(eliciting , give the definitions in
English then ask students to translate
them into Vietnamese to check their

- Listen to the teacher and correct the

understanding)

mistakes.

- Living standard: the quality of
life
Task 2

- Fatal disease: disease causing
or ending in death.

(16 min.)

- Let the whole class read the new
words twice or three times.
- Call 2-3 students to read new words
again
How can we say if we want to make
prediction?

- Listen to the teacher.
- Guess the meaning of the new words.


What else?

- Read the new words

-> We often base on something to
make prediction, you have to give
reasons for your prediction.
Could you tell me how we say to give
reason for something?
If we mean that the reasons are
negative, what should we use

It is likely that+ clause

If the reasons are positive, what

It is unlikely that+ clause

should we use?
It is possible that+ clause
Give some expressions of reasons:
It is impossible that+ clause
-…because living standards will be/
have been improved.
- …the cures for fatal diseases will

Because+ clause

be/ have been found.

Because of+ Noun phrase

-… it’s (Jupiter/Mars/moon) too far.

Since/As + clause

-… It’s (Jupiter/Mars/moon) too cold/

For+ Noun phrase

hot there.

As a result of

-… there’s no water there./ The
atmosphere is too thin there.
-…It’s too costly/ just impossible to
do that.

Thanks to+ Noun phrase


- Ask one student to read the example
- Ask some Ss to recall the way to
show opinion

- Give example:
In my opinion, it’s unlikely that by
st

the end of the 21 century people will

In my opinion
from my point of view

be living to the age of 150 because

As far as I am concerned.

there will be more and more diseases.

I think

- Ask students to do Task 2 in pairs,

I believe

discussing which of the predictions
are likely/ unlikely to happen. Give at

- Listen to the teacher

least two reasons for each
- Call one student to repeat the
instruction to check whether they are
clear about what they have to do

- Go around to supervise them. Note
down serious and common mistakes
- After about 3 minutes of discussion,
call some pairs to report what they
have done

- Do Task 2 in pairs


- After students finish, give them

- One student repeats the teacher’s

comments: correct some

instruction.

pronunciation mistakes they have
made

- The others listen to their friends to
make clear about what they have to do

- Read aloud the words and ask the
whole class to repeat
- Some pairs report

- Ask students to do Task 3: : making
some more predictions about what life
will be like one hundred years from

now.( work in groups of 4)
- Repeat after the teacher
- After about 3 minutes of discussion,
call some groups to report what they
have done

-

Work in groups to do Task 3

- After students finish, give them
Postspeakin
g
( 15
min.)

comments: correct some
pronunciation mistakes they have
made
- Read aloud the words and ask the

- Some groups report what they have
discussed:


Task 3:

whole class to repeat

I think it is likely by the end of 2106,

scientists will have found a cure for
AIDS thanks to the developments of
science and technology
- Listen to the teacher

- Repeat after the teacher


UNIT 8 : LIFE IN THE FUTURE
C. LISTENING
I. Aims
- Students can improve their listening skill : they can understand the passage
about life expectancy.
II. Aids
- English textbook for students
- English textbook for teachers
- Tapes and cassette
- Handouts
III. Procedures

Stages
Warm

Teacher’ activities
- Let students play a game

up

- Introduce the game rule:

(7
min.)

This is Lucky number game. We have
four teams. I will give a definition, and
you have to give the word it refers to.
You have to raise your hand to answer
the question.
Who raises the hand first will have the
right to answer the question.
If your answer is right, you will get one

Learners’ activities

- Listen to the instruction


point. If not, the other team will answer
the question. The team which gets the
true answer can choose the next
question, if it is a lucky number, that
team will get 2 points.
- Let Ss play

Pre-

- Ask students to do Task 1:

- Do Task 1 in pairs

listenin Discuss the question: Which of the
g
following factors do you think might
help people have a long and healthy
life?
+ No smoking? Why?
+ Love a lot? Why?
- Ask one pair to report what they have
discussed.

S1: Which factors do you think
might help people to have a long
and healthy life/
S2: I think they are no smoking,
eating healthy food, laughing a
lot, and doing exercise because
by doing so, we can improve our
health.


- Introduce some new words (eliciting ,
give the definitions in English then ask
students to translate them into
Vietnamese to check their

- Listen to the teacher.
- Guess the meaning of the new
words.

understanding)

- incredible(adj. ): impossible or
very difficult to believe
- centenarian(adj. ):belong to the
century, 100 years
- eradicate(v): to destroy or get rid
of sth completely
- life expectancy(n): the number of
years that a person is likely to
live
- eternal life(n): life without
beginning or end; existing or
continuing for ever
- mushroom(v):rise quickly
- curable(adj.): (used about a
disease) that can be made better
- Let the whole class read the new
words twice or three times.
- Call 2-3 students to read new words
again.

- Read the new words


Whilelistenin
g
( 28
min.)
Task 1
( 16
min.)

- Ask students to read the statements in
Task 1.
- Ask students to listen to the passage
the first time:
Listen to an interview about people’s
life expectancy in the future, listen and

- Read the statements in Task 1.
- Listen to the passage and
answer the questions

decide whether the statements are true
or false.
- Play the tape or read the passage
twice
- Ask some students to give their
answers. Ask them to give reason for
their answers. If their answers are right,
repeat them; if not give the correct
answers.

1. F(Some scientists can
predict)
1. F(Because we look after
ourselves, eat more
healthily, cut down on
things like butter, alcohol
and cigarettes)
2. F(80)

3. T
4. T

Task 2

- Ask them to listen again the second

- Listen again the third time to


( 12
min.)

and the third time to finish Task 2:

finish the Task.

answer the questions
- Ask students to discuss the answers to
the questions in pairs.
- Go around to supervise students if
necessary.

- Discuss the answers to the
questions in pairs.
- Answer the questions, and
correct the wrong answers.

- Call some students to give the
answers. If their answers are right,

repeat the answers, if they are wrong,
give them the answers:
- If most students do not catch the
information for the questions, let them
listen again to the passage once more.
1. What are factors that help people
have longer life expectancy

1. Eating more healthily,

according to Dr. Davis?

cutting down on things

2. Which factor is the most

like butter, alcohol and

important one? Why?

cigarettes.

3. What will we have been able to do

2. The development in

about AIDS in ten years’ time?

medical science.
3. In ten years’ time AIDS

will also be brought under

Postlistenin
g

control. / We’ll have been
- Ask students to do After you
listen in groups

able to bring AIDS under


( 10
min.)

Work in groups and the advantages and

control.

disadvantages of having a very long
life.

- Do After you listen in groups

- Eliciting some ideas from the students:
What are the advantages of having a
very long life?
Advantages:
- Do many things they want
to do/ enjoy life more

- See their children and
grandchildren grow up
- Help their children and
grandchildren
What are the disadvantages of having a

- Children and

very long life. (write the answers on the

grandchildren are happy

board)

with them
Disadvantages:
- Too weak to do things and
often ill
- Feel lonely when children

- Go around to supervise them. Note
down serious and common mistakes.
- Ask one group to report what they
have discussed

have grown up and busy
with their own lives, and
friends are dead.
- Do the task in groups

- Give comments after they finish
- Call another group if there is enough

- Report what they have

time

discussed

- Give feedback and correct serious or

- Listen to the teacher and

common mistakes

correct the mistakes

Games
Lucky number

1. Pessimists: a person who always thinks that bad things will happen or that
sth will be not be successful
2. Lucky number
3. Economic depression: a period when the economic situation is bad, with
little business activity and many people without a job
4. Terrorism: the killing of ordinary people for political purposes
5. Lucky number
6. Wipe st out: to destroy sth completely
7. Corporation(n): a large business company

8. Lucky number
9. Chore(n): a job that is not interesting but that you must do
10.Burden(n): something that is heavy and difficult to carry


11.Influence(v): to have an effect on or power over sb/sth so that he/she/it
changes
12.Lucky number
13.Methane(n): a gas without colour or smell, that burns easily and that we can
use to produce heat
14.Responsibility(n): a duty to deal with sth so that it is your fault if sth goes
wrong


Unit 8 : LIFE IN THE FUTURE
D. WRITING
I. Aims
- Students can write about the ideal world in which they would like to live in
the year 2020.
II. Aids
- English textbook for students
- English textbook for teachers
III. Procedures
Students’ activities
Stages
Pre-

Teacher’s activities
- Write on the board the title of the

writin lesson: Unit 8: Life in the future.
g
( 10
min.)
Task
1:

- Write down in the notebooks
the title.

Part D. Writing
- Introduce some new words and
expressions
- Under the threat of terrorism:
- Live in harmony:
- Live in clean healthy environment:
- My main desire is …:
- Materialistic (a):
- - Let the whole class read the new
words twice or three times.

- Listen to the teacher