Learning about Language教案设计

高中英语人教2003课标版

Book2

教学设计

Unit3

Computers

Learning about language

辽宁省抚顺市第二中学英语组

陈淑芝

Unit3

Computers

Period 3

Learning about language LEARNING ABOUT LANGUAGE Teaching contents and aims: This passage is a short history of the development of computers over the last 100 years．It introduces a lot of new and technical words, which are only used for computers （such as “artificial intelligence” or

“network”）. 1

Teaching new words and structures

2

Understanding ideas Teaching Procedures: Step1

Draw on the blackboard a diagram to illustrate the influence of the computer and the Internet over the school education．Below is a diagram you may like to use．

Step 2

Ask students to look at the diagram and consider, ”What changes have computers and the Internet brought to schools? What changes will they bring to schools in the future?”

Step 3 Ask them to work in groups and to make a list of the possible changes they can think of．

Step 4 When most of the groups have their lists ready, the teacher can hold a class discussion．Write down the major changes the students think of under / beside the diagram．The teacher can add one or two changes that may affect their own teaching．For example, “Computers and the Internet can help busy parents contact teachers by email．”

Step 5

The teacher can end the task with a brief summary, or hold a further discussion to find out students' personal opinions about the changes．For example, ask them, “Do you like all these changes? Why and why not? What changes do you like / dislike?”

Teaching activities: Activities: Review key words and phrases in this part:

Totally, revolution, artificial intelligence, birth, simple-minded , go by ,deal with , network, truly, anyway, in this way. Discovering useful words and expressions

Answer key for Exercise 1:

1 totally

2 revolution

3 artificial intelligence

4 birth

5 simple-minded 6 go by 7 deal with 8 network

9 truly

10 anyway Answer key for Exercise 2:

revolution; network; went by; totally; truly; simple-minded; Anyway; deal with

Answer key for Exercise 3:

1 totally 2 amazed 3 exciting 4 excited 5 cheaply 6 unlucky Discovering useful structures

Answer key for Exercise 1:

1

... my family and I have been used by billions of people to deal with information ....

2

I have truly been built to serve the human race ....

Answer key for Exercise 2:

1

A new personal computer has been bought by us．

2

Many problems have been found with our new computer．

3

A PC has been built the way we wanted．

4

Our computer has just been joined to the Internet．

5

The computer has been used every day by us since we bought it．

6

A lot of e-mails have been written on the computer in the past year．

Exercises : Summary: Homework: A review after class: