Learning about Language名师教学视频（文字实录）

Unit3 Computers Reading：who am I 卢政平

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Teaching aims: Knowledge objects：

1.

Let students learn about history and basic knowledge of computers. 2.

Get students to learn the useful words and expressions in this part.

Ability objects: 1.

Develop students’ Reading Comprehension Ability and let them learn different reading skills. 2.

Enable students to learn to express their opinions. Emotion objects: 1.

Arouse students’ great interest in learning computers and let them learn to use computers in their daily life. 2.

Develop students’ sense of cooperative learning. II.

Teaching important points: 1.

Let students learn about history and basic knowledge of computers. 2.

Get students to learn different reading skills. III.

Teaching difficult points: 1.

Develop students’ reading ability. 2.

Let students know different types of writing (description, narration, exposition, argumentation). IV.

Teaching method: Task-based teaching and learning；Multimedia Teaching V.

Teaching procedures: Step1 Lead-in Guess the riddles to get the information about the development of computers.

Step2 Fast reading Read the passage and finish the following tasks: 1.

Summarize the main idea of the whole passage. 2.

Which style does the text belong to? 3.

In what order is this passage developed? Chronology (means to describe things in the order of time.)

Step3 Careful reading

Para1 (change) Time

In 1964 In 1822 In 1936 By the1940s Since the 1970s Para2 (memory)

First, it was stored in

.Then, on

.And later on, very small

. In the early 1960s, I was connected by a

. I share knowledge through_____. Para3 (applications) 1.

In which fields are computers used？

2.

What do you think of the computer? 3.

What is the goal of the computer?

Step 4 Summary

I, the computer, began as a _________ _______ in 1642 in France. In 1822 I was built as an ________ _______. Then in 1936 Alan Turing wrote a book and built a _________ ______.As time___ ___, I was made ______ but my memory got ______ and _____. In the 1960s they gave me a family connected by__ ______. Now people call it the Internet. I was used in ______ and ______ in the 1970s. Since my birth I have truly been built to serve the human race.

Step 5 Homework 1.

Discuss advantages and disadvantages of computers. 2.

Read and retell the passage. Machine A

machine An

machine A

machine as large as

First as

and then as

Function