Using LanguageⅠppt专用说课稿内容

Learning & teaching plan------ Teacher: Qin Juan Class: Class 8 & Class 13, SeniorⅠ

Time: March 5th , 2012 Analysis about the students:

Students are familiar with computers. They have known some about computers, so it is not very difficult for them to talk about and learn the passage. Teaching aims: 1. Enable students to read and have a better understanding of the whole passage through finishing the reading tasks.

2. Enable students to grasp the progress of computers and state the progress of computers in chronology order. Teaching important and difficult points:

1. Well understanding of the whole passage. 2. Retelling the passage in chronology order. Teaching methods: task-based method; cooperative learning method Teaching aids: a computer and a TV Teaching procedures Step 1 Lead in ---

Task Talk about the pictures on the screen 1. What are they? 2. What they have in common? (用表达自我观点的句型讨论他们之间的共同之处)

I think that …

I believe that…

In my opinion, …

参考观点：

1. They can be used for calculating.

2. They can deal with maths problems. 3. They are our friends. 4. They are useful and helpful.

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Step 2 Warming up --- Just a free and short talk Task List what ways computers are used today. as possible as you can. 参考句型：

1. We can use computers to …

2. Computers can be used to …

3. Computers can help us …

参考观点：

1. help to do homework

2. play computer games

3. send e-mails

4. sisten to music

5. see movies

6. chat

7. search for information

8. do shopping

9.learn computer skills …

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Step 3 Reading and comprehending (Fast reading --- skimming and scanning) Task 1

Talk about the title to guess who the speaker is in this story?

The speaker in this story is a computer.

“I” refers to a computer.

Task 2 What is the passage about?

The passage is about the development of computers. Task 3 Find out the topic sentence of each paragraph. (Checking homework)

Paragraph 1: Over time I have been changed quite a lot.

Paragraph 2: These changes only became possible as my memory improved. Paragraph 3: Since the 1970s many new applications have been found for me.

Task 4 Try to finish exercise 1 in “comprehending” part on P19. (Checking homework) 1642 1822 1936 1940s 1960s 1970s now The computer began as a calculating machine．

The analytical machine was made by Charles Babbage. The computer grew rapidly both in size and in brainpower. Computers had grown as large as a room.

The first family of computers was connected to each other.

Computers were used in offices and homes.

Computers connect people all over the world together. Task 5 Read the text carefully and fill in the tables. (Careful reading) Development of computers Name A calculating machine Early days An analytical machine A universal machine Function Simplify difficult sums Poor

Think logically and produce

an answer quickly. Solve difficult mathematical

Strong Problems. 1.Tubes

Network times Memory stored in 2. Transistors 3. Small chips 1. Communication 2. Finance 3. Trade Applications 4. Robots 5. Mobile phones 6. Medical operations

7. Space rockets

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Small Narrow

Wide

Step 4 Practice Task 1 Changes of the machine

( 3 ) Universal machine

( 5 ) Machine with new transistor

( 2 ) Analytical machine

( 7 ) A family used by the Internet

( 4 ) Machine with artificial intelligence ( 6 ) A family connected by a network

( 1 ) Calculating machine

Task 2 Check the sentences are true or false.

1. In 1642 I began as a calculating machine and could solve any mathematical problem. ( F ) 2. My real father was Charles Babbage, who wrote a book and built me in 1936. ( F ) 3. After I got my new transistors in the 1960s, I became smaller but cleverer and quicker. ( T ) 4. I was brought into people’s homes in the 1970s. ( T ) 5. Since my birth I have been built to take the place of human race. ( F ) Step 5 Post reading

Retell the article we have read by filling in the following short passage.

I began as a _calculating__ machine in 1642 in France. In 1822, I was built as an analytical

machine. Then in 1936, Alan Turing wrote a book and built me as a universal machine. By the 1940s, I had grown as large as a room. As the years have gone by, I have been made smaller and smaller, but I got clever and clever, quicker and quicker. In the 1960s, they gave me a family connected by a network. Now people call it the Internet. I have been used in offices and homes in 1970s. Since my birth, I have been built to serve (服务) the human race.

Step 6 Homework

Try to finish exercises in Section One, Exercise Bar ---- English Learners Newspaper

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