Learning about Language优秀公开课教案

教材分析

The emphasis of this period will be placed on the important new words expressions and sentence patterns in the parts Warming Up, Pre-reading，

Reading and Comprehending. In order to make students understand these important points thoroughly, we can first get students to understand their meanings in the context，

then give some explanations about them，

and later offer some exercises to make students master their usages. Some words and expressions，

such as common，

anyway in common，

in ones opinion，

deal with，

etc，

are very useful and important. So are the sentence patterns＂As the years have gone by，

I have been made smaller and smaller. ＂＂And my memory became so large that I couldnt believe it. have truly been built to serve the human race since my birth. ＂

and so on. we ought to pay more attention to them and design special exercises.

At the end of the class，

the teacher can make students do more exercises for consolida- tion. In doing so，

they can learn，

grasp and use these important language points well. 知识目标

1. Get students to learn and grasp the important useful new words and expressions in this part: calculating，

calculator，

PC，

laptop common，

simplify，

simple-minded，

artificial intel- ligence，

anyhow，

totally，

network，truly，

race，

birth，

go by，

deal with，

human race 2. Let students learn the following Important useful sentence patterns:

1）I began as a calculating machine in France in 1642

2）As time went by，

I was made smaller and smaller.

3）And my memory became so large that even I couldn＇t believe it. 能力目标

1. Get students to use some useful new words and expressions correctly.

2. Enable students to make sentences after the useful sentence patterns.

Unit 3 ow the 情感目标

1. Stimulate students＇interest in learning English.

2. Develop students＇

spirit of cooperation and teamwork 教学重点

1. Enable students to grasp the usages of such important new words and expressions as common，

anyway，

in common，

in ones opinion，

deal with，etc

2. Get students to master the pattern＂And my memory became so large that even I couldn’t believe it.”

教学难点

1. Let students learn the usages of the important expressions.

2. Enable students to tell the difference between gerunds and present participles when used as attributives. 思意

3. Get students to understand some difficult and long sentences. 教学方法

1. Task-based teaching and learning

2. Cooperative learning

3.Discussion 教学过程

Step I Revision

1.Check the homework exercises.

2.Ask some students to retell the development of computers.

Step 2 Reading and finding

Get students to read through Warming Up，

Pre-reading，

Reading and Comprehending to

underline all the new words and useful expressions or collocations in these parts.

Read them aloud and copy them down in the exercise book after class.

-Step 3 Practice for useful words and expressions

I Turn to page 20. Go through the exercises in Discovering useful words and expressions with students and make sure they know what to do.

2. Give them several minutes to finish the exercises. They first do them

individually; then discuss and check them with their partners

3.Check the answers with the whole class and explain the problems they meet where necessary.

Step 4 Vocabulary study