Reading and speaking教案2

教学设计: 教学目标: 1. Students’ reading ability to comprehend and analyze the passages can be further developed. 2. Students can output a short passage to introduce a cellphone application.

3. Students can be more aware of the impact of the Internet and smart phone on their daily life, and form a critical attitude towards them. 教学重难点：

１．重点：

（1）围绕因特网与智能手机话题开展听、说、读、写活动。

（2）利用skimming，scanning等阅读技巧，提高阅读效率，完成相关练习。

２．难点：

（1）运用相关词汇及句式结构，快速组织语言，用英语介绍一款手机应用程序。

（2）培养自己的批判意识及发散思维。

课前任务：

课前要求学生小组合作，画出自己最喜欢的一款手机应用程序图标，并提前预习阅读文章中的生词。

教学方法及手段：

运用任务性教学法，通过学生自主学习，小组互助学习等途径开展以学生为主体的教学任务，旨在培养学生的自主性、创造性、主动性和独立

性。围绕教学内容，设计单项选择、语法填空及七选五等活动，尽可能地提供训练学生阅读技巧的机会。

教学过程: Step1. Lead-in Ask students some questions about the close connection between our daily life and the Internet as well as smart phone to lead in the topic The Internet and Smart Phone. Step2. Reading and Filling in the blanks

Let students read a passage about the development of the Internet and fill in the blanks. Students can get a brief introduction about the Internet and learn some new expressions, such as be connected with, broadcast, truly…

The Internet is an amazing information resource. Students, teachers, and researchers use it as 1.

investigative(调查的;研究的) tool. Journalists use it to find information for stories. Doctors use it to learn more about 2.

(familiar) diseases and the latest medical development. Ordinary people use it for shopping, banking, bill-paying, and communicating 3.

family and friends. People all over the world use it to connect with people from other 4.

(country) and cultures. However, while there are many positive developments 5.

(connect) with the Internet, there are also certain fears and concerns. One concern relates to a lack of control over 6.

appears on the Internet. With the Internet there are 7.

(edit) to check the accuracy(准确性) or appropriateness（适当）

of the content of programs, and with the Internet there are limits on what kinds of programs can 8.

(broadcast). With the Internet, parents can check an introduction to determine what is suitable for their children 9.

(watch). The Internet is 10.

(true) helpful and useful when used properly. Step3. Reading and Comprehension Show students a passage about 4 famous foreign websites, and let them read then finish 4 questions. This step aims to train their reading skills of skimming and scanning, and develop their ability of searching for detailed

information quickly. 1. The purpose of this passage is to

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A. encourage people to surf the Internet

B. advise people to visit www.wikipedia.com C. tell people how to make their minds more powerful D. introduce some useful websites 2. If Mr. Black lives alone and he wants to make friends with other people via the Internet, he may log on to

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A. www.youtube.com

B. www.facebook.com

C. www.amazon.com

D. www.wikipedia.com 3. To become a member of Facebook, you must

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. A. have an e-mail address

B. have your own profile

C. be a high school student

D. offer main personal information 4. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Most people enjoy buying things on the Amazon. B. People entering the Facebook website can update their friends' personal profiles. C. Most of the news videos on YouTube are offered by CBS and the BBC. D. Anyone having access to the Wikipedia website can edit almost all of the articles in Wikipedia. Step4. Reading and Selection Read a passage about the Internet speed, and make student choose the best five sentences from the seven ones in the box. This exercise can train their ability of summarizing the main idea of each paragraph and grasping the detailed information according to key words in the context.

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Half a minute? A few seconds?

Google engineers have discovered that even 400 milliseconds—as short as the blink of an eye—is too long for most Internet users.

A millisecond is one thousandth of a second. People hardly notice such a small time difference, but it does cause them to stop searching, reported The New York Times.

Nowadays, millions of smart-phones and computers are constantly gathering and sending out information. 2.

you can get digital "traffic jams". Meanwhile, users are expecting faster and faster service.

Google found that if one website is 250 milliseconds slower than another website, then people will visit it less often. 3.

Google said people do expect different things from

different websites because they realize not all loading times are the same. For example, a person will be more patient waiting for a video clip to load than for a search result.

Even so, four out of five online users will click away if a video takes too long to load. This makes it difficult for video websites to choose between the quality of pictures and fast loading times.

Pursuing（追求）a higher speed has always been part of the history of the Internet.

In the 1990s, when the World Wide Web first started to become popular, 4.

; people called it the "World Wide Wait". But engineers managed to fight the problem with new inventions. They laid a lot of fiber optic cables for high-speed transmissions(传输); they improved software so it would work more smoothly; they placed computer servers（服务器）

all around the world to be nearer to users; all this increased speed.

Nowadays we can enjoy much faster Internet. 5.

But they will need to keep fighting to keep up with the developing demands of internet users.

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Internet is becoming faster and faster.

B. With so many people downloading maps, sports videos, news and restaurant recommendations,

C. We can not expect a faster speed about the Internet.

D. Major search engines such as Google and Microsoft's Bing usually find search results in less than a second.

E. How long are you willing to wait for a web-page to open before you start to lose your patience？

F. This is why technology companies are now competing to be the fastest. G. it was very crowded and slow; Step5. Group Work Lead in the concept of “App” in smart phones and introduce students an app called “foodie” in terms of the name, function and reasons why I like it. Ask students to discuss their favorite one in groups and then invite every group to give a presentation.

Step6. Summary

Ask students“Since the Internet and smart phone are extremely useful, and what do you think of them”to let students have a debate. Then the teacher summarizes the Internet has not only advantages but also disadvantages, and

as students, study always comes first. So the teacher advises the students to use the Internet properly and not to be addicted to it.

Step7. Homework 1. Write a short passage to introduce one of your favorite cellphone applications. 2. Search the Internet to read more passages about the Internet and smart phone to get more information.