Learning about Language公开课教案

Unit3 Computers

Learning about language教案

Ⅰ.Teaching project:

key words and language points of this unit.

Ⅱ.Teaching goals:

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Get students have a clear understanding about the usages of the key words and

language points of this unit. 2.

Help students enhance the words usages though exercises and passages. 3.

Motivate students to use language as possible as they can based on a topic. 4.

Encourage students to meet the challenge they are facing and remove their fears about a new language. Ⅲ.Teaching key points and difficulties 1.

How to divide sentence elements when doing exercise. 2.How to express their ideas about artificial intelligence and how to write an argumentative passage.Ⅳ.Teaching and learning procedures Step1. An discussion about artificial intelligence. 1.

What is artificial intelligence? 2.

In what ways do people use artificial intelligence? 3.

Do you think that artificial intelligence is important in our life? 4.

Do you think that my work will be replaced by the artificial intelligence robots? Step2. Your words tree(见背面)

Words bank 1.

calculate 15.

rocket 29.

mop 2.

universal 16.

explore 30.

niece 3.

simplify 17.

anyhow 31.

logical 4.

sum 18.

goal 32.

logically 5.

operator 19.

happiness 33.

technology 6.

revolution 20.

download 34.

technological 7.

artificial 8.

solve 9.

tube 10.

network 11.

web 12.

application 13.

finance

14.

mobile 21.

virus 22.

signal 23.

type 24.

coach 25.

arise 26.

electronic 27.

appearance 28.

character 35.

intelligence 36.

intelligent 37.

personal 38.

personally 39.

total 40.

totally 41.

from then on

42.

as a result

43.

so…that 47.

deal with

44.

human race 48.

watch over 45.

in a way

49.

have …in common 46.

with the help of

50.

apply for

key words ：

1. simplify

2. totally 3. as a result 结果

4. so…that 和

such…that (1)

so + adj + a(n) +可数名词单数+that = such +

a（n）+ adj +可数名词单数+ that (2）so +adj/adv + that (3) so + many/much/little/few+ 名词+ that (4）such+ a lot of +名词复数

Step3. Words exercises

Exercise 1 Complete the passage with the words below

artificial

technology

intelligence

application

explore

Web

reality

logically

When my brother was in high school, he was very interested in computers and enjoyed writing programs of his own. He used to download information from the Internet and made good use of it. He liked to ________ the World Wide _____ and used the Internet to communicate with computer programmers all over the world. When he went to university he studied IT ( information ____________

) and developed a special interest in ___________ intelligence. After developing special ____________ of the computer, he hopes to design an ____________ robot which can think __________ and look like a human being, but in ________ he has a long way to go.

Exercise 2 高考链接:单句语法填空

1.The nation will celebrate the research and ______ (apply) of advanced communication technologies. 2.Technologies such as artificial ________ (intelligent) and autonomous vehicles are obvious areas that need careful thought and clear policies. 3.The festival was launched to improve farmers’ sense of success, _________ (happy)

and pride. 4. We have introduced a number of measures which allow us to _________ (simple) the application process. 5.Given the trend in the country, there is a need to _______ (total ) ban alcohol

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Exercise 3 高考链接:改错

1. As the result, more and more participants left the sites. 2. In a way, I suppose I am afraid of failing. 3. Maybe he can give you some advice on how to deal this difficulty. 4. I have been to that restaurant such many times that they greet me by my first name. 5. She began to research the problem under the help of her husband. 6. I found I had a lot on common with these people.

Step6. Your composition 假如你是高三学生李华。最近你校学生就是否应该进一步开发人工智能机器人展开了讨论。请你用英语写一篇短文阐述自己的观点。要点包括：1. 表明观点；2.你的理由。

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Possible useful words 展开讨论

hold a discussion 开发人工智能机器人

develop AI robots 在我看来

as far as I am concerned/ in my opinion/in my view 支持研究

support the research 在…的帮助下

with the help of 空闲时间spare time 充分利用

make full use of

事实上

in fact/ as a matter of fact/in reality 没必要担忧

there is no need to

10.

替代

take the place of

11.

总之

to conclude/ in conclusion/ in short

Step7 Homework. 高考链接: 语篇语法填空

The computer ___1___(begin) as a calculating machine in 1642 in France. It could simplify difficult sums. At first, the computer developed very ___2___(slow),

and it took nearly 200 years to build the computer as an analytical machine. In 1936 Alan Turing wrote a book about how computers could be made___3___(work) as a "universal machine" to solve any mathematical problem. From then___4___, the computer grew rapidly both in size and in brainpower. ___5___ really worried the designers was that the computer had frown as large as a room. With time ___6___(go) by, it became smaller and smaller. And with__7____ help of artificial intelligence, it is getting much ___8____(clever) and quicker.

In the early 1960s, computers could be connected by a network, which enables their users to share information with others. Since 1970s, computers have had many new___9__(application ) and became very important in communication, finance and trade. They have even been put into space rockets and sent to explore the moon and mars. Anyhow, we human beings hope that computers could always bring us __10___(convenient) and a life of high quality.