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

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

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


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


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

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 …………


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:




-

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.

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.

- 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


- 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

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,

(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


- 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.)

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,

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


- 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

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