Learning about Language优秀教学设计

必修二

Unit three Computers

Period 2 Learning about Language The General Idea of This Period: This period includes revision of the text, learning about language. From this period the students will learn how to use some of the key words and expressions in the text and do some exercises for conclusion, and learn how to use the Present Perfect Passive Voice.

Teaching Aims: 1. Help the students to learn to use some useful words and expressions.

2. Enable the students to learn how to use the present perfect passive voice.

Teaching Important Points: The use of the present perfect passive voice.

Teaching Difficult Points: How to master the usages of some important words and phrases and the Present Perfect Passive Voice.

Teaching Methods: 1. Task-based learning. 2. Cooperative learning. 3. Explanation and practice.

Teaching Aids: 1. A tape recorder. 2. A multimedia.

Teaching Procedures: Step 1 Words and Expressions Task 1 T: Please turn to Page 19 and finish Discovering Useful Words and Expressions. At first, look at Ex.1 from the reading passage, find the words and expressions with the following meanings. Now, several students will be asked to give the words. And then check the answers together.

Task 2 T: well done. Now please look at Ex 2 and complete the passage with some of the words above. Pay attention toe the use and the forms of those words.

The possible answers: network , so that, went by, totally, truly, anyway, deal with.. Task 3 T: please finish Ex 3. Look at the sentences on Page 20. Tick the right word. Then some of you will be asked to read the sentences one by one.

The possible answers: 1. Life totally changed when I went to university.

2. I was amazed to find that I won the competition to design a new computer.

3. I competition was so exciting that we cheered all evening.

4. I was so excited at the thought of meeting Yang Liwei that I could not sleep.

5. Robots can be bought so cheaply that I gave one to each of my friends.

6. It was so unlucky that you lost your watch at the concert.

Step 3 Grammar- The Present Perfect Passive Voice T: Boys and girls, now please pay attention to the following sentences in the text:

1. As the years have gone by, I have been made smaller and smaller.

2. Since then, my family and I have been used by billions of people to deal with information and communicate with each other around the world by the Internet.

3. I have truly been built to serve the human race since my birth.

T: What verb tense is used in these sentences? And what verb voice is used in these sentences? Yes, the present perfect passive voice is used in these sentences.

Can you tell us the structure of the present perfect passive voice? Yes. The structure of the present perfect passive voice is “subject+ have/has been done + object”. The function of present perfect passive voice is indicating verbs’ the present perfect and the passive voice.

Step Four Homework T: Ok, it’s almost time for a break. Now look at Ex.2 on page 57. Translate the following g sentences into English after class. The words and expressions in brackets may help you.