Using LanguageⅠ教案1

Period 5th Reading and Speaking Teaching focuses: 1. Develop students’ reading skills by extensive reading. 2. Train students’

speaking abilities by using the expressions of giving opinions, reasoning and making a decision. Teaching difficulties: 1. Enable students to learn to use reading strategies such as skimming, scanning, and so on. 2. Get students to learn how to give opinions, reason and make a decision. Teaching methods: 1. Task-based teaching and learning. 2. Cooperative learning. 3. Discussion. Teaching tools: some normal teaching tools. Knowledge aims: 1. Get students to learn some important and useful new words and expressions in this part. 2. Let students know more about robots. 3. Have students learn the expressions of giving opinions, reasoning and making a decision. Ability aims: 1. Develop students’

reading skills by extensive reading and enable them to learn how to use different reading skills to read different reading materials. 2. Train students’ speaking ability and enable them to learn how to give opinions, reason and make a decision. Emotional aims: 1. Enable students to know more about robots and make them love to master advanced information technologies. 2. Develop students’ sense of group cooperation and teamwork. Teaching procedure: Step one: Revision 1. Check the homework exercises. 2. Ask students to talk about information technology. Step two: Warming up Turn to Page 56. Go through Using Words and Expressions. Make sure students can figure out each part of a computer, and have a basic idea about what these parts can do. Step three: Discussing and speaking 1. Show some pictures of football robots or other sporting robots. 2. Ask students to discuss in groups the advantages and disadvantages of having sporting robots take place of human players. 3. On the blackboard, write the expressions of giving opinions, reasoning and making a decision, to remind them of using these expressions to express themselves. Giving opinions: I think that …

In my opinion, …

I believe that …

Reasoning: I think this one is better, because …

I don’t like this one, because …

The advantage/disadvantage is …

Making a decision: Let’s make our decision to do/that …

I’ve decided …

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Ask some of students to report to the whole class.

Step four: Reading Task on Pages 58-59 Tell students: Turn to Page 58. We are going to read the passage The Sporting Robot.

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Ask students to look at the picture of the sporting robot—Hua Fei and let them describe what it is doing. 2.

Tell students that Hua Fei is a sporting robot of the 23rd century, he has some problems. 3.

Let students read the passage The Sporting Robot by themselves and then answer the following questions: 1)

Are robots competitions popular in the 23rd century? 2)

What is Hua Fei good at? 3)

What can it do? 4)

Did Hua Fei win any medal in the 79th Olympics? Why? 5)

What problem does Hua Fei have now? 4.

Let students read the passage The Sporting Robot again and then keep a record of his performances as Hua Fei’s programmer in group discussion. 5.

Check the answers with students. 6.

Ask some students to say something about how they feel after reading the passage. 1)

Do you think this will happen? 2)

Do you think Hua Fei can write such a good passage after a serious accident? 7.

Ask students to read aloud the second paragraph after the tape, and draw their attention to liaison and incomplete explosion. 8.

Sum up This passage is an imaginative one. It tries to make something that never happened or not yet happened sound like true. It is good for us to have fun, but sometimes we need to stop to think about whether they are true or not. Step five: Homework 1.

Finish off the Workbook exercises. 2.

Get some English newspapers to read and share with your classmates.