Learning about Language教学设计(教案)

Teaching plan of Unit 4 Wildlife protection

Period 2 Warming-up and Reading 银川高级中学

蒋悦琦

Teaching aims:

·Knowledge aims: 1.

Get Ss to learn the useful new words and expressions in this part. 2.

Let Ss learn about the basic development of computers. ·Ability aims: 1.

Develop Ss’ reading ability and let them learn different learning skills. 2.

Enable Ss’ to learn to talk about the development and application of computers. ·Emotional aims: 1.

Arouse Ss’ great interest in computers. 2.

Develop Ss’ sense of cooperation. Teaching important points: 1.

Let Ss learn more about the development of computers. 2.

Get Ss to learn different learning skills to work with others. Teaching difficult points: 1.

Enable Ss to learn to talk about the development and application of computers. 2.

Let Ss learn to use correct words or sentences while discussing. Teaching methods: 1.

Task-based teaching method 2.

Cooperative learning

3.

Discussion

Teaching aids: Easi-note, white board, PPT, video, OHP Teaching Procedures: Step I: Check and revise

Check the words before the class.

Step II: Leading-in

Ask Ss to guess their names according to the listening of the description.

Step III: Fast-reading (独学)

Ask Ss to do this task by themselves 1. Who am I ?

I am a ________. 2. Get the main idea of the passage.

The ___________ and___________ of computers. 3. Match（连线）the topic sentences. Para 1

These changes only became possible as my memory improved. Para 2

Since the 1970s many new applications have been found for me. Para 3

Over time I have changed quite a lot. StepIV：Careful reading (群学)

Ask Ss to work with their group members together to finish the following tasks. Task1. Details of part 1:

1642 1822 1936 The computer began as a ____________________ in France. ______________________ was made by Charles Babbage.

Alan Turing wrote a book about how to make it work as a _________________ to solve any difficult mathematical problem. The computer grew rapidly both in size and in brainpower.

The computer had grown ____________________. The machine

developed as a _____ and then as a______. It has been used in __________________. 1940s 1970s Task 2. Details of part 2 How has my memory improved over time?

First it was stored in ______

then on

__________

and later ______

As a result I became ______

Over time my memory became _______

…until the early 1960s, I was connected by _________ and shared information with others through __________ Task 3. Details of part 3 Since the 1970s computers are applied to the fields including _______________, _____________, ____________, ______________, _______________, _________________ and _________________. StepV: Test

(独学)

根据课文内容以及首字母，用正确的单词形式填空。

I began as a 1___________ machine in 1642. It took nearly two hundred years 2_________ I was built as an analytical machine. I became a “universal machine” in 1936 to

3__________ any mathematical problems. I was very big at one time. However, as time 4__________, I was made smaller and smaller. I was given a family 5__________ by a network in the early 1960s. I was able to 6________ my knowledge

with others 7_________the World Wide Web. I have been widely used in many fields, such as in communication, 8_________, trade and medical 9___________. I have also been put into robots and space rockets to 10____________the Moon and Mars. I’m glad I am a devoted friend and helper of the human race.

Step V: Summary Make a short summary of this class, and ask the students what they have learned from this class. •

The development of computers. •

How did the computer’s memory become powerful? •

What is the application of the computers? Step VI: Homework 1.

Preview the following lesson. 2.

Try to use the information we learned today to retell the passage.