Reading(1)：Not just watching a film…特级教师教学实录

课题：M4U3 Reading Not just watching a film 课程标准：《普通高中英语课程标准》（2017年版）

教学目标：By the end of this lesson, students will be able to

1. master the strategy of reading a business presentation, 2. get a relatively comprehensive understanding of virtual reality,

3. improve students’ overall abilities of listening, speaking, reading and writing.

重点难点：How to help students analyze the features of a business presentation. 教学方法：Double activities teaching method, task-based language teaching. 教学媒介：The multimedia, a record and a blackboard. Teaching procedures: Step 1. Brainstorming Discussion: “The world is big and I want to see it.” But how can you achieve this when you’re lacking in time and money?

Step 2. Skimming and reading strategy Definition: an introduction of a new product or business idea

Product: ________________________ Audience: ________________________ Question: Does the passage have a key sentence that serves as a “guide” to tell us how the passage is developed? Divide the whole passage into several parts according to the key sentence.

Step 3. Detailed reading Activity 1. Comparison between a film and RealCine

Film RealCine

Activity 2. Equipment needed in VR and the connected human senses

Equipment Senses

Activity 3. Other ways to employ VR Para 4

Para 5

Para 6

Para 7

Activity 4. A task-based reading: The theme RealCine– virtual reality for everyone

How VR works

It tries to make users feel feel they’re really in a new world with

the (1) ________ of computer programs.

Special (2)________ like VR headsets and gloves is fixed to allow users to see in 3- D, hear the sound all around them and even touch the people or objects they see. (3)__________ A VR user can not feel every step of climbing Mount Qomolangma of how VR is but have the (4) ________ experiences and feelings of a real used

climber. A timid boy can gain more (5)________ by becoming the captain of the Brazilian football team and scored the winning goal. An old (6)________ man can make a trip to Africa though he cannot work.

Approval& disapproval

Supporters believe VR is much (7)________ than a film, putting users into the action and connecting them with their senses of sight, hearing, smell and touch. Opponents argue that VR can bring (8)____________ to users since it is not real.

Other uses

Firefighters make use of VR technology in training to (9)________ possible dangers. VR technology used in urban planning has greater (10)__________ over the traditional way of planning.

Step 4. Features of a business presentation Example 1 Example 2 Example 3 Example 4 Example 5 Purpose

Step 5. Writing

Topic: Should RealCine be introduced to school education?

Step 6. Homework: Practise reading the business presentation

and polish the article.