Reading(1)：Not just watching a film…优质课教学设计

华士高级中学自主学案

2012-2013年上半学期

高一英语备课组

M4 U2 Reading

Not just watching a film 教学设计

教学目标:

1. To read a business presentation and learn the basic characteristics of a business presentation.

2. To learn some information about RealCine.

教学重点：

reading strategy: how to read a business presentation 教学步骤：

Step1: Lead-in Talk about the development of the film by filling in the blanks: Movies develop from ______ to ______ Step 2:

1. Read the reading strategy on P43 and answer the following questions. 1) What is the aim of a business presentation? 2) What features(特点) does it possess? 1 What is a business presentation?

Step 3:Skimming Does the passage have a key sentence that serves as a “guide” to tell us how the passage is developed?

(the first sentence) This presentation will give you some information about RealCine: how it works, why it is better than ordinary cinema, and how it can be used in other ways. Then give the structure of the passage. Task4. Detailed reading

Read the article carefully and answer the following questions.

1. What technology is behind this product? _______________________________________________________________________________

2. What do users wear so they feel that they are really in a new world? _______________________________________________________________________________

3. What did the teenager experience in RealCine? _______________________________________________________________________________

4. How could firefighters be trained with this new technology? _______________________________________________________________________________

5. What might people use RealCine for?

_______________________________________________________________________________

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) 6. Some viewers feel disappointed at RealCine because they think________.

华士高级中学自主学案

2012-2013年上半学期

高一英语备课组

A. children will be so addicted to it that they will forget to do their homework

B. it will hold back the development of the cinema industry

C. virtual reality is not real after all

D. it will make lots of people homeless and out of work

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) 7. It can be concluded that ________.

A. RealCine will have a long way to go before it is popular

B. RealCine has an ill effect on the film-making industry

C. with the development of technology, RealCine will be certainly developed further

D. with time going by, RealCine will be replaced

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) 8. What is the writer’s attitude towards RealCine?

A. Objective

B. Supportive

C. Indifferent

D. Disappointed

Step5. Find the paragraph(s) according to the main ideas.

Para ________

How RealCine works

Para ________

How it can be used in other ways

Para ________

Why it is better than films

Step6. Fill in the blanks. Not just watching a film

Topics Brief introduction Why it is better than films Through RealCine, the users can feel that they are really in a 4_________ world —

How RealCine works a world that does not 5_________ except in a computer programme. Viewers wear special VR headsets and 6___________ so they feel they are actually in the film. Smells are given out through small openings in the 7___________. Virtual Realiy can be a good 8__________ for people with 9_________ problems. How it can be used in other ways With virtual reality, we are able to do things that could never be 10__________ in real life. Virtual reality can be used to 11__________ skills in a 12____________ environment that otherwise would be quite 13____________. Used in 14___________. 2_________ a film, the technology behind RealCine is 3___________ reality. Information

Introducing what this whole 1____________ will mainly talk about.

华士高级中学自主学案

2012-2013年上半学期

高一英语备课组

RealCine provides fantastic technology for 15___________ planning.

Step 7: Debate

Is Realcine good to people? reference answers: Opinion 1 Those who support virtual reality believe that, with this technology, people can do almost everything, even things that cannot be realized in normal life. We don’t need to travel any more or spend so much time with friends any more. Virtual reality can provide any necessary training that we need in our life. Opinion 2: Others insist that real life and interpersonal communication should never be replaced by imaginary scenes. People should take off the headsets and experience the real life themselves.