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Unit 2 King Lear Part 1 Teaching Design 第一部分

教学设计

Period 3 A sample lesson plan for Using Language (A Biography of Isaac Asimov) Introduction Language is learned to be used in and for communication. So in this period we shall have the students read, listen, write and speak in English, making use of the focused words, collocations, structures and topic ideas covered in this unit. Warming up by making passive voice sentences is to be followed by reading for forms, copying collocations from A Biography of Isaac Asimov, writing your own story with the collocations from A Biography of Isaac Asimov and reading more about Asimov. The class ends by students discussing the 1940 Laws of Robotics by Asimov. Objectives

To help students read the passage

A Biography of Isaac Asimov To help students to use the language by reading, listening, speaking and writing Procedures 1. Warming up by making passive voice sentences

1. The new TV design will be tested out by the new engineers. 2. You are not wanted in her house. 3. She is being persuaded that the earth is becoming colder and colder. 4. We are offered help by a robot. 5. His social position will be improved greatly. 6. A pile of books have been borrowed from the library.

2. Reading for forms

Read the text

A Biography of Isaac Asimov to on page 16: cut/ the sentence into thought groups, blacken the predicates, darken the connectives and underline all the useful collocations.

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3. Copying collocations from A Biography of Isaac Asimov A collocation is two or more words that often go together. These combinations just sound "right" to native English speakers, who use them all the time.

While going over the text, try to recognize the collocations, treat them as single blocks of language and copy them out into your Collocation Book. Collocations from A Biography of Isaac Asimov science fiction stories, have both an extraordinary imagination and an amazing mind, give…the ability to explore …, search for explanations of …, in the present and the past, be born on 2 January, 1920, end in New York on 6 April, 1992, die as a result of an HIV infection, get… from a blood transfusion, nine years earlier, run…for the next 40 or so years, be pregnant with…, work there through one’s … years until …, gain a master’s degree at university in chemistry, work as a junior chemist, at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, get one’s PhD in chemistry, become a biochemistry teacher at …,

give up teaching to become a full-time …, one’s talent for …, became obvious, retell a story from a book, take oneself seriously as a writer, have…published in science fiction magazines, throughout one’s life, receive many awards for…, among his most famous works of science fiction, win an award,

the death and rebirth of …, in a galaxy of the future, be well known for one’s collection of short stories, develop a set of … for robots, research into artificial intelligence

4. Closing down by writing your own story with the collocations from A Biography of Isaac Asimov

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