Learning about Language教学设计(第一课时)

Teaching Plan Subject： English Unit & Topic Teaching content Unit3, Computers: Learning about language Learning about language 1. Students will be able to consolidate some useful words & Teaching aims expressions in the text. 2. Students are able to make their stories according to time order. 1. Enable students to master useful words & expressions concerning Teaching computers. important & 2. Enable students to learn to organize stories according to time difficult points order. Teaching Textbook, PPT resources Teaching methods Explanation, discussion, questioning Teaching procedures

Step I. Revision Check students’ reciting task of the passage. StepⅡ. Learning about language Today we are going to review the useful words & phrases from the text. 1.

Learn the following words & expressions from the text: Simplify, calculate, solve, explore, totally, mobile, anyhow, finance, network, revolution. Guide students to review the meaning of the words above and ask students to make sentences by using them to help students review the usage. 2.

Find the words that mean the same from the text: Revolution, network, simplify, calculate, mobile, solve, explore, totally, anyhow, finance. 3.

Complete the passage with words and phrases from the box below and change the form if necessary:

Artificial, technology, intelligent, applications, explore, web, reality, logically When my brother was high school, he was very interested in computers and enjoyed writing programs of his own. He used to download information from the Internet and made food use of it. He liked to ________ the World Wide _____ and used the Internet to communicate with computer programmers all over the world. When he went to university he studied IT (information __________) and developed a special interest in ________ intelligence. After developing special ___________ of the computer, he hopes to design an ___________ robot which can think _________ and look like a human being, but in _______ he has a long way to go. 

Ask some students to present their answers and check the answers together with all the students. Step Ⅲ. Read the story below and then use the outline to create one of your own. My story When I was young I was crazy about radios. At the time my interest began, I was playing with radios at home. Over time I decided to build my own radio. As time went by I did research into how to make my radio. By the time I was sixteen, my dream had come true. I made my own radio. As a result I became interested in electronics and computers. From then on I worked hard to get into university. Now I am working in a computer company designing new programs for computers. As I grow older

I realize how much my life has been connected with my interest in radios! 

Ask students to read the story above and pay attention to the expressions of time. 

Ask students to discuss with their partners and share their stories with each other by using the expressions above. 

Ask some students to speak out their stories. Step Ⅳ. Assignment

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Review the expressions in this part. 

Preview the part of using language 

Prepare the dictation of the vocabulary.