Date of preparation : 5.12.2008 Unit 8 : LIFE IN THE FUTURE
Date of teaching : 9.12.2008 Section: Listening
I AIMS AND OBJECTIVES :
 Language content:
To help Ss listen for general ideas and specific information
To introduce some new words relating to the topic
- Vocabulary : incredible, centenarian, life, expectancy, fatal, eradicate, eternal life
- Structure : the simple past tense, the simple present
 Language function:
- listen for the understanding of the passage.
Educational aim :
- Students should know about the factors help people have a long and healthy life.
Skill : Integrated skills : listening
II. TEACHER AND STUDENTS’ PREPARATION:
1. Method : Communicative Approach.
2. Techniques: Repetition, explanation, group work, asking – answering.
3. Materials needed : Textbook, pictures, real thing.
4 Students’ preparation : Reading the lesson at home, prepare the new words
5 Previous exercises:
III. PROCEDURE IN CLASS.
1. Stabilization : (2ms)
a. Warm – up : Greetings.
b. Checking absence : Who’s absent today ?
2. Checking up previous knowledge:
Time needed: (5ms)
Questions
Key to questions:
3. Presentation of the new material :
Time Teacher’s activities Student’s activities The content of the lesson
3ms
10ms

+ incredible (a)
+ centenarian (n)
+ life expectancy (n)
10ms
10ms
3ms
+ eradicate (v)
+ eternal (a)
- Correct.
While-listening:
Task 1:
Ask students to read the
statement at least once first.
Ask them to guess the answers
Play the tape once then check
how many answers can students
find.
Play the tape again.
Check and give remarks.
Call some students to say out
their answers and the evidences
they get to prove their answers.
Keys:
1 F 2F 3 F 4 T 5 T
Task 2:
- Ask them to guess the answers.
Play the tape once then check
how many answers can students
find.
Play the tape again.

Work in pairs
Copy down
Work in groups
+ fatal (a)
+ eradicate (v)
+ eternal (a)
Task 1:
True or false
1 F 2F 3 F 4 T 5 T
Task 2 :
Answer the questions
1. Eating more healthily food,
cutting down on things like
butter, alcohol and cigarettes.
2. The development in medical
science. Because nobody dies
from old age, just from
diseases that affect people
when they get older.
3. In ten years’ time AIDS will
also be brought under control.
+ help their children and
grandchildren
Disadvantages
+ too weak to do things
+ feel lonely when their children
are busy with work
.5. Consolidation
Confirms the content of the
lesson.