Learning about Language教学设计实例

The third

period

Intensive Reading Teaching procedures & ways

Step I Warming-up T: How many of you have computers in your home? Please put up your hands. T: What do you usually do on your computers? Step II: Presentention 1.

These pictures are all technological inventions. 2.

From these pictures, we know computers has experienced a long development process, and the development will never stop. Step III Pre-reading Prediction Let students predict the content of the passage according to the pictures and the title. This will involve students in active thinking and exploring.

Then let them make a list of the ways computers are used today.

Step IV Reading

Skimming Get students read the whole passage and try to get the main idea of it. T: What does “I” in the title refer to? T: What is the main idea of the passage? Scanning T: Now read the passage and finish the timeline. With this timeline, you will have a clear idea of the development of computer.

Check the answers.

T: The passage has three paragraphs. Find out the topic sentence of each paragraph, and the details that are used to support the topic sentences. Then complete the chart in activity 2.

Teacher gives some explanations.

T: What can be “over time” replaced by? T: How do you understand the word “simplify”? Look! (on the board: simple+-ify). -ify is a suffix which means to turn into, make or become. For example, beautify.

T: What does “it” in line 9 refer to?

T: Why was Alan Turing called computer’s real father?

T: What does “this reality” in line 15 refer to? Step V Discussion Deal with activity 3 on page 19. Let students discuss how computers have changed

our lives?

Step V Homework (retelling) T: Suppose you work for an information technology magazine. Write a short passage which briefly introduces the history and development of computers. Don’t write in the first person.