Listening and vocabulary教学实录及点评

Module 6

Cultural Corner 教案

Goals 1.

get some information about text messages emotiocons 2.

master some useful words and expressions 3.

master some important drills

Teaching important points:

1. How can we make the text messages cheaper?

2. guess the meanings of shortened phrases and sentences Teaching difficult point:

Summary—the structure of the passage Teaching methods:

Task-teaching, explaining, speaking, discussion

Step 1: Survey

Greetings

Show a picture of a mobile phone. What is this?

(It’s a mobile phone.) 1.Do you have a mobile phone? 2. Who do you often communicate with? Family ?

Friends?

3. How do you communicate with your family and friends when using mobile phone? ( make a call, text messages, e-mail, wechat,qq,) What ways do you often use when you use qq and wechat？

(voice chat, video chat, words)---

When we use qq and wechat,we often use moticons. They are vivid. They make it easy for us to understand other people’s feelings.

Do you often use text messages? No. Do you use text messages sometimes? Yes. Why don’t you want to use text messages?(it is troublesome/ not convenient , it takes us a lot of time. It is very slow.) Although text messages have many disadvantages. Slow, not convenient,

inconvenient, .but ten years ago, we did’t have wechat,. We

had qq, but qq didn’t have many functions, we seldom used qq. We didn’t have wifi everywhere. Therefore, we often made phone calls and sent text messages to communicate with others.

And many

people preferred

to send text messages.

But why did people prefer text messages? Step 2: Fast-reading Maybe we can find out the reason on p 57. Please turn to p57. Read the passage and then answer the questions. 1. What’s the passage about?

mobile phone text messages

2. Why do people use text messages?

Text messages are cheaper

Step 3: Careful-reading

There are some sentences about how to send text messages.

Please decide

whether they are true or false.

1.True or False statement. (1)Text messages are more expensive than talking on a mobile phone.

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) (2)We can shorten the messages by taken out the “unimportant” letters.

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)

(3)We can use 2 instead of “ate” in a text message.

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)

(4)Some punctuations can be avoid.

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) (5)If you want to tell a joke in a short message, you can follow it with a smiling face.

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) 2. Answer the questions. Ten years ago, people often sent text messages because they were cheap. The cheaper, the better.

(1) How can we make the text messages cheaper?

(2)What are the rules of shortening the words?

(3) these expressions are shortened by me . Do you know their meanings?

4ever_____________ B4

_____________ B t w .

_____________ J a m _____________ S U L _____________ Gd

lk _____________

Gld 2 s U. _____________ I L U _____________ I dt knw. _____________ Lng tme n s. _____________ CSL

_____________ 1)

I’m hm nw, why nt gv me a cll?

___________________________________________________________ 2)

Whr hv U bn? Iv bn wtng hrs fr a cll. ___________________________________________________________ 3)

Do U wnt 2 g 2 th cnma tnite? ___________________________________________________________ 4)

I gt txt mssage frm my frnd. Shes

hvng

a prty on strdy. Do U wnt 2 cm? ___________________________________________________________ 5)

Why nt gv me a cll? Iv bn wtng fr a lng tme? I’m so sd.

___________________________________________________________ 3. Questions: when we use qq and wechat, we often use emoticons.

What are the emoticons?

Emoticons are a series of symbols to show how people feel. when we use qq and wechat, we often use emoticons. In fact, when we send text messages, we use moticons too. But these moticons are very simple.

How can we read an emoticon？

To read an emoticon, we have to look at it sideways. :-)

:-(

:-<

︱-∣

:-v

:-o

8-I

\-O

Step 4: what does this text message mean?

here is a text message from my student, please tell me what she says in this text message.

Dear Miss Gu ,

How R U? I’m :-) that my English is gr8 . BTW, when our class get

together, Tom always

plays jokes ,we CSL. We miss U very much. Hope 2 CU !

Step 5:

Summary and Blank-filling

This is the structure of the passage. According to the structure and your memory. Fill in the blanks. Talking on a mobile phone is__________, so a lot of people send text_________. Text messages are much________. You can make it even cheaper by__________ the words you use.

You can do this by taking____ “unimportant” letters in the words and using________ instead of words. You can also______ using punctuations.

Mobile phone users have__________ a series of ________ to show how they feel. They are called__________. To read an emoticon, we should look at it ________.