Giáo án Tiếng Anh 12 Unit 8

Teacher’s activities

Students’ activities

I. Warm-up:

1/ What are the people going to do?

2/ Does it look like a normal airplane?

3/ How is it different?

4/ Do you think that life in the future will be like this?
Aims: to introduce the topic of the lesson and to raise students' interest.

- Introduce the lesson.
- Ask students to look at the questions in Before you read, page 80, working in pairs to discuss the question in Before you read:
Do you think life will be better in the future? Why/Why not?
List three things that might happen in the future.

II. Before you read:

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

III. While you read:

- Ask students to look through the passage and read in silence.
- Help students read the passage.
- Explain pronunciation and meaning of new words which appear in the passage.

• Corporation (n): a large business company
• 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 over sb/sth so that he/she/it changes.
• Methane (n): a gas without color or smell, that burns easily and that we can use to produce heat.
• Responsibility (n): a duty to deal with sth so that it is your fault if sth goes wrong.

- Listen to teacher.
- Look at the picture and answer the questions:
1/ They are going to fly.
2/ No,...
3/ It looks more modern than a normal airplane. It has no wings.
4/ Yes,...
No,..

Possible answers:

S1: Do you think life will be better in the future?
S2: Yes
S1: Why?
S2: Because of the development of science and technology.
S1: List three things that might happen in the future
S2: I think in the future, people can live in the Mar, people will be healthy without any diseases, and they can travel by plane to work everyday.

- Look at the picture, listen to the teacher then ask and answer the questions in the book.
- Work in pairs.
- Listen to the teacher then read the passages.
- Ask some new words if necessary.
- Give Vietnamese equivalents.

• Corporation (n):
• Chore (n):
• Burden (n):
• Influence (v):
• Methane (n):
• Responsibility (n):

- Read the words.
- Read the passage in silence.