Reading(1)：Not just watching a film…教学实录及点评

Unit 3

Tomorrow’s world Reading

Not just watching a film…

Teaching Aims: 1. To learn some information about how RealCine works, why it is better than ordinary cinema, and how it can be used in many other ways. 2. To teach students the basic characteristics of a business proposal. 3. To enable students to master the reading strategy and become more competent in reading a business proposal. Teaching Important and Difficult Points: 1. Make the students understand the reading material better. 2. Master the vocabulary of virtual reality. 3. Improve the students’ reading ability.

4. Know the structure and language for a proposal. Teaching Approaches: 1.

Appreciation before reading to make the students interested in what they will learn.

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Fast reading to get a general idea of the text. 3.

Reading in detail to get the detailed information of the text. 4.

Pair discussion and group discussion to get students to participate in the classroom activities. Interaction Patterns:

Teachers -class, individuals, pairs Teaching Aids: The multimedia, a record and a blackboard. Teaching Procedures: Step 1 Lead-in Show the videos of Chaplin and Avatar and ask students: Which film do you like better? Why? Which way of seeing films do you prefer? Why?

With the development of science and technology, people nowadays can have a quite different experience of watching films. We can feel or act as if we were put into the film and make some adventures together with the characters.

The technology used to achieve this effect is called VR (Virtual Reality)

Step 2 Skimming Students are expected to skim the text and find out the answers to the following 2 questions: 1.

What is the article about? -------It’s a business presentation for RealCine. 2.

What information about RealCine does the writer give? The writer will give you some information about

How it works?

Why it is better than a film?

How it can be used in other ways? Step 3 Scanning Students are asked to scan the text and analyze the structure.

Para 1

A brief introduction

Para 2

Why RealCine is better than ordinary cinema

Para 3

How RealCine works

Para 4,5,6,7

How RealCine can be used in other ways Step 4 Detailed-reading

Task 1 Read Para 2 carefully and answer the following question:

Why is RealCine better than a film?

-------__________a film, where a _______audience watches and hears what is happening on a screen, RealCine ________________ and ________ you’re your

senses of sight, hearing, smell and touch in an ______way. Task 2 Listen to the video about paras2-3 and answer the following questions: 1.

How does RealCine work? 2.

How can RealCine excite the viewers’ four senses? They are asked to fill in the chart according to the proposal

Sense Sight Hearing Smell Touch Things needed

Effects in RealCine

Task 3 Read paras4-7 and find more information

1.

In what other way can it be used? 2.

Any examples to support it? Step 5 Consolidation

Group competition:

Ask students to compete for the chance and answer the questions. Step 6 Reading strategy Ask students to read the strategy and fill in the blank. 1.

How to make a good presentation? --Clear and appealing language/passive voice.

--Specific information and convincing facts or examples. 2. How to read a business presentation? -Read the _____ paragraph to find the theme(对象).

-Analyse the__________ of the text.（总分、分总、总分总）

Find out__________________ -.Answer. Exercises: 2017全国一卷D篇阅读

Step 7 Brainstorming

In your opinion, what will our life be like in the future? Step 8 Group work 1.Create one thing that may exist in the future, using your imagination. (You can draw this thing ) 2.You should use two or three sentences to explain this thing.

(Presentation/specific information and facts)