Using LanguageⅠ名师课堂实录

Teaching Plan Teaching Contents: Reading: Andy-The Android Teaching aims: A.

To learn these words and phrases in the context: signal, personally, arise, in a way, with the help of, make up, etc.

B.

To practice students' reading abilities, such as skimming, scanning and

summarizing. C.

To finish tasks by working individually or cooperatively.

D.

To get students involved in discussing robots and arise their interests in IT accordingly. Difficult& Important Points: A.

To get the character of the android. B.

Get the students to finish tasks by using different reading skills.

Teaching& Learning Methods: A. Task-based teaching and learning method

B. Cooperative or individual learning Teaching And Learning Aids: A. The projector and blackboard B. The textbook Teaching And Learning Procedures: Step 1. Lead-in To play a video of a robot running out of battery uses its last power to save a girl. And after watching the video, the teacher asks the students to have a share with the class. Question 1( for Q1): What happened to the robot? Q2: How do you like the robot? Why?

Step 2. Warming-up Free Talk: What do you think android can be? The teacher shows various pictures to the whole class, and the students answer the identities of different robots after their observations. The teacher then leads the students to the reading material Andy-The Android naturally. Step 3. Pre-reading Before reading the context, the teacher leads the students to preview some important words and expressions in the context by matching to the correct definitions. Step 4. While reading Task 1. Fast reading The teacher asks the students to read the whole context quickly and fill in the form of Andy’s profile.

Name :AndySizeWhat it can do (Ability)What it looks like(Appearance) Character job

Task 2. Careful reading The students are asked to answer the given questions after a careful reading of the context. Q1: Who is Andy? What is he good at? Q2: What helps him to move and think like a human?

Q3: What is Andy’s opinion about the match in Seattle?

Q4: What did Andy think they should do? Q5: What did their programmer do to help them?

Q6: What is Andy’s wish?

The teacher encourages the students to answer questions independently.

Task 3. Scanning The students are going to read the text carefully, and decide whether the given sentences are true or false. If it’s false, a rectification is necessary. 1. Andy looks like a human.

(T) 2. Andy can communicate with his teammates by using the human language.

(F) 3. Andy first competes in Nagoya, Japan.

(T) 4. Andy thought his opponent cheated, because they had a new kind of program, which had just been developed before the competition.

(T) 5. The programmer programs moves so that Andy can use them in games.

(T) 6. Andy is an android, so intelligence is all of him.

(T) Step 5. After reading Speaking activity and presentation. The teacher creates a situation of a seminar on new android development with design of a robot as topic. Students are asked to work in pairs, say, student A works as a host to ask questions and student B works as an engineer to answer questions. Students give presentation to the whole class after their discussions. Before the students start the speaking practices, the teacher gives some related sentence structures and topic sentences to them as below. Students are encouraged to employ these structures and sentences in their speaking.

Ask:

answer:1.

What does it look like? •(appearance)2.

What would you like it to •do?•

What can it do? (ability)•3.

What character

does it •have?4.

Do you want it to be like •a man or a woman? (sex)5.

How much would it cost? •(price)6.

What’s your reason?I want to design an android whose name

is …look like (appearance)be able to\canPatient,

kind…(character)as…as;

…meters tall\long ;

(size)work as(job)It costs…

Step 6. Summary. A. Review the words and expressions learned in this lesson. B. Summarize the text by filling the blanks:

The text introduces us an ___________ named ___________who can ____________like a _____________with the help of his ______________.

Step 7. Homework A. Review the words and phrases we’ve learned today. B. Write your own robot with about 100 words . You can refer to the passage on

page 24.