Learning about Language获奖说课稿

Teaching Plan for Who Am I? Senior English Module 2, Unit 3 Teaching goals: After this period, students can: 1.

learn about the development and important expressions of the computer. 2.

practice mainly their reading ability as well as their speaking, listening and writing ability. 3.

apply the techniques learnt to their future reading. Important and difficult teaching points: 1.

Teach some difficult terms before reading to reduce difficulties in reading. 2.

Help the students to recognize important clues to have a better understanding of the passage. Teaching aids: multimedia Teaching Procedures: I.

Warming up – a guessing game II.

Teaching the new lesson Step 1. Fast reading Give students two minutes to go through the text quickly. Then answer the question and find out the main idea of each paragraph. Step 2. Careful reading 1.

Listening exercise (Para. 1) Ask students to do a listening exercise and fill in the blanks. 2.

True of false exercise (Para. 2) Give students two minutes to read the paragraph carefully and finish the True or False exercises. 3.

Comprehending (Para. 3) Give students three minutes to read the paragraph carefully and do the reading comprehension exercises.

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Summary

Go over the content of the text quickly and ask the students to speak out the important details. IV.

Homework

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Unit 3 Computers Who Am I?

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Listening exercise ______________ ______________ I began as a calculating machine in France.

The analytical machine was made by Charles Babbage. ______________ Alan Turing, wrote a book about how I could be made to work as a universal machine. 1940s ______________ I had grown as _______ as a room. First as a ______ and then as a _______, I have been used in offices and homes.

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True or false exercise (1) The memory of the computer was first on transistors.

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) (2) The computer totally changed its shape because it could share its knowledge through the WWW.

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) (3) I was given a family connected by a network before the early 1960s. (

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Reading comprehension (1) In what fields has the computer been used since the 1970s? (2) What role does the computer play now?

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