Unit9 Technology6th PeriodSub Topic: Attitude towards TechnologyFocus Using EnglishTasks 1. A Debate To Be a Technology-driven Human or not to Be2. A Letter Love is the Everlasting Topic of the World3. A Short EssayTeaching Aims: 1. To use the following sentences to continue the debate (Absolutely.That’s exactly what I was thinking. That’s a good point. That’sjust how I see it. That’s worth thinking about. I disagree. I’mafraid I don’t agree. Well, it depends. Well, I don’t know. We ll,I am not sure about that Oh, I do so agree. Absolutely right.Definitely. I guess so. I can’t agree with you there. Not really.Not exactly. No way……)To express opinions in realsituations2.To learn to write an essayMoral Focus: Global SenseTeaching Aids: a tape recorder, a set of multi-media teaching systemTeaching Procedures:Step One Warming up1.Greetings2.ChattingCompare China and the western countries in terms of technology withthe help of the multi-media teaching system.●Talk about the relationship between the young generation and thefuture of China●Work out the qualities that the new generation should have in order tomake the nation more powerfulStep Two Investigation Report3. Announce the results of the investigation4. Personal comments on the results of the investigation5.Share opinions with other groups6.Read and refine the language of the report7.Submit the report to the related department of the local governmentStep Three A Design8.Work in groups of five.9.Work out some regulations for the communities to keep the teenagers awayfrom the Cyber Cafe.10.Contribute the regulations to the communitiesStep Four Thinking and judging11.. Prepare the students for the on-coming debate by asking them thefollowing questions.●What helps us a lot in our teaching and learning?●Did I use the multi-media teaching system in every class?●Should we use the multi-media teaching system in every class?Why yes or no?●How should we make good use of the advanced facilities?Step Five A Debate12. A Debate: To be technology-driven human or not to be13. Divide the whole class into two and debate whether humans should becontrolled by technology or not●Explain why humans should be technology-driven and why not●Cite examples to support the idea●Persuasive Language is strongly suggested● A final speech from each is expectedStep Six Discussing14. Discuss about the result of the ill use of technology15.Impress the students with the sharp contrast between the abusing useand hailing promotion of technology by showing some of thepictures like中国移动拯救海难主人翁照片，Heart-transplantingOperation, Antarctica Expedition, the Iraq War, the atomicbombing ,the nuclear weapon competition etc.Step Seven Reflective thinking16.What would happen if we go on abusing technology?17. Imagine a world that is controlled by robots?Step Eight Language Input18. Read the passage and think what is missing in this future worldStep Nine Imagination19. Imagine that you are one of the students chosen to solve the problem.Write a letter to Q 12 in which you explain love and friendship.Remember that Q12 is a computer that does not understand howhuman beings feel and what human life is like. Tell Q12 about howwe think, how we feel about each other, and try to give examples oflove and friendship20.Tell your classmates about the examples that you are going to use21.A Letter to Q12 Love is the Everlasting Topic of the World. The following may help you with the writing●Tell Q12 who you are and why you are writing this letter●Tell Q12 about love and friendship and explain how love andfriendship will make the world better●Tell Q12 what the world will be like with love and friendship22. Exhibit the writingsStep Ten Tips for Life23. Give remarks to cultivate some virtues that will be of practical valueto the students at school, for subsequent careers and in theirpersonal lives. e.g.●God helps those who help themselves.●Everything has two sides.●Love and friendship is the everlasting topic of th is world….Step Eleven Writing (Homework)24. Find out how to write an easy on the internet25. Write an essay in which you explain what the next “Big Thing” will be,and why you think it will be important26. Poster the essays on the back wall of the classroom。
高一英语Unit9 Technology(The First Period) 人教版Ⅰ. Teaching Goals:1. Talk about science and technology.2. Describe things and how they work.3. Give advice and make suggestions.4. Use the Present Continuous Passive Voice.5. Present a project.Ⅱ. Teaching Time: Four periodsⅢ. Background InformationⅠ. The Development of Mobile phonesThere were 423 million mobile phones sold worldwide in 2002, up six percent from 400 million in 2001. The number of mobile phones sold in 2002 has doubled over the past three years. Gartner Dataguest, a key technology industry research group, reported Monday.Market shares of the five key mobile phone companies changed little from the third quarter（季度）, with Finland’s Nokia still firmly in the lead. It sold more than twic e the number of mobile phones than the second, Motorola of the US.The other three, according to market share, are South Korea’s Samsung, Germany’s Siemens and Japanese-Swedish Sony Ericsson.“We’ve seen extremely rapid growth in countries like Germany a nd the Asia Pacific region. ”said Gartner analyst Ben Wood.Growth, especially in nature markets, was dirven by users who replaced their old mobile phones with new ones earlier than expected. Subsidies（补助）by mobile operators were important to push users into getting a new phone. Attractiveness and marketing of the newly-designed mobile phones also played an important role in increasing the yearly sales.To maintain growth, phone makers are placing more importance on replacement sales because many users already have a phone—some one billion people around the world now use a mobile. This means phone makers need to offer new features to give users a reason to replace their old ones.Although a lot of attention is being paid to new colour screens and camera phones, most of the yearly sales increase was in basic mobile phones which now contain more features than before, such as voicedailing and musical ringtones.Ⅱ. Wonders of the Modern WorldI don’t believe that today’s wonders are similar in kind to the won ders of the Ancient World. They were all buildings and statues（雕像）. In the last two centuries we have seen uprecedented（前所未有的） technical and scientific achievements. These are surely our modern wonders. Here is my list.1. ComputersThey have already revolutionized the way we live and work. But it is early days for computers. We don’t know how much they are still changing the world. More computer wonders are yet to come.2. Space TravelOnly a few years before men were walking on the moon, reputable scientists declared that it was impossible. But in 1969 Neil Armstrong stepped out of his space capsule （航天舱）and made his famous statement: “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. ”3. Medical ScienceSurely nothing has done more for the comfort and happiness of mankind than the advance of medical knowledge! How many millions of people have benefited from the humble aspirin? How many lives has penicllin saved? Average life expectancy（预期寿命） in Europe has risen dramactically over the last hundred years, from about 50 years in 1906 to about 75 years today.4. HolidaysYes—holidays! In fact there have always been holidays—in ancient Rome there were more than 150 a year—but a holiday used to mean simply a day when you didn’t work. Now holidaymak ers travel to all parts of the world. Perhaps you don’t like so many tourists in your country, but you must agree that a phenomenon which sees the population of Greece treble（三倍的） in summer, and which sends office workers and shop assistants to Spain, Turkey, or the Caribbean is a wonder of the world.5. The Olympic GamesIt is true that the Olympic Games are now commercialized and there is greed and drug abuse. However, it is a competition in which every country in the world takes part. Every four years, for a brief moment, we see these countries come together in peace and friendship. We feel hope again for the future of mankind.6. AgricultureIn 1724, Jonathan Swift wrote, “Whoever makes two blades of grass or two ears of corn grow where only one grew before serves mankind better than the whole race of politicians”. In Europe our farmers have done this. In 1709, whole villages in France died of hunger. Now, in Europe we can’t eat all the food we produce. If only the politicians could find a way to share it with those parts of the world where there is still famine（饥荒）.7. We are still hereThe last wonder of the modern world is simply that we are still here. We have bombs that could destory the world but we have not used them. This is surely the greatest wonder of all!The First PeriodTeaching Aims:1. Do some listening and train the students’ listening ability.2. Learn how to describe objects.3. Learn to make suggestions and give advice.Teaching Important Points:1. Improve the students’ liste ning ability.2. Master the expressions for making suggestions and giving advice.Teaching Difficult Points:1. How to describe objects correctly.2. How to give somebody some advice.Teaching Methods:1. Free-talk method to get the students to know something about science and technology.2. Warming-up to arouse the students’ imagination.3. Listening activity to have the students go through the listening material.4. Speaking activity to make the students finish the speaking task and improve the students’ speaking ability.Teaching Aids:1. a computer2. a tape recorder3. some cards and some objectsTeaching Procedures:Step Ⅰ. GreetingsGreet the whole class as usual.Step Ⅱ. Free TalkT: As we know, science and technology are developing very fast, especially in the last ten years. Can you give us some examples?S1: Computers, cameras, mobile phones, …（Teacher shows some pictures of them on the screen and writes the words on the blackboard. ）T: Yes. Now please discuss in groups of four. Say something about them.（Teacher gives students five minutes to discuss and asks some students to talk about them before class. At the same time, he shows another few pictures on the screen. ）S2. Computers are widely used in many fields. It is used not only in medicine, industry, agriculture, space research but also in our daily life and work. If the computer system isn’t working, we can’t go to the bank to make a deposit. We can’t check some information, either. Now can we buy something in the supermarket or buy medicine in the chemist’s shop. We are now living in a computer world. Without computers, we are deaf, dumb and blind.S3: With the development of new technology, a new type of camera appears in the market and it is controlled by the compute r. We can’t imagine it if we don’t see one. You don’t need to put a roll in it and it can be used to take as many photos as you like. Everything can be controlled automatically. The pictures you’ve taken are very good and beautiful.S4: Mobile phones are changing fast. There are always new types in the market. A few years ago, we could only use them to communicate with friends, relatives, etc. Nowthey can be used as cameras and radios, or to send e-mail as well as surf the Internet. Besides, the latest cell phones have some other new features. We can play games or listen to music on them. I think there will be more and more new types of mobile phones in the near future.S5: …Step Ⅲ. Warming upT: Well done. In the highly-developed world, you need to have good knowledge and imagination. You should also be a creative person and be good at solving problems and thinking in new ways. How creative are you? Now I’ll give you some problems. You should try to solve them in new ways.（Teacher shows toothpicks, a pair of socks and a plastic bag to the students. ）Now look at the objects in my hands. We are familiar with them. They are toothpicks socks and a plastic bag（Write them on the blackboard. ）Do you know what they are usually used to do?S6: We usually use toothpicks to get bits of food out of the space between teeth.S7: We can wear socks to keep warm.S8: We often put things in plastic bags to carry them home or to a certain place.T: You are right. How many new uses can you think of for the things? Now use your heads and discuss them in groups of four. Try your best to think of as many new uses as you can.（Teacher gives students a few minutes to discuss them and asks some of them to give the answers. ）S9: Toothpicks can be used when we eat something smaller. And they can also be used to pin something.…S10: A sock can be used to clean things, hang things and fill something in. Besides, it can be used as a net fixed in the washing machine. …S11: A plastic bag can be used to cover the seat of a bike when it is raining. And it can also be used as a glove when we pick up something oily or dirty. We can cover our hair with plastic bags when we are dyeing it.T: You are creative. I think they have more other new ways. Now look at the boxon Page 57. We’l l do a word puzzle to see how many words you can make. You can move any side as many steps as you wish to make as many words as possible.（Teacher gives students a few minutes to prepare and then collects the answers from them. ）S12: Stop, side, coat, do or, poem, star, rate, …T: Next let’s do an even more interesting exercise. Read the sentences in the box on the right and tell us they are true or false. Who can tell me whether the first sentence is right or wrong?S13: It’s true, I think.T: Yes. We c an get the word “boat” from the word “automobile”（Write it on the Bb. ）What about the second sentence?S14: It’s wrong. 12 minutes past 5 o’clock is 48 minutes before 6 o’clock.T: Right. The third sentence, if you have a try, it’s clear. （Show a left-handed glove to the students. ）Who’ll come here to have a try before the whole class?（A student has a try before the class. ）Ss: The third sentence is true.Step Ⅳ. ListeningT: Now let’s do some listening. First you should read the listening requiremen ts on Page 58.（Teacher gives students some time to read it and then plays the tape for them. ）T: Now let’s listen to the tape for the first time to get the general idea.（Teacher plays the tape twice. He may pause for the students to write down some information and repeat some parts of the tape if necessary. Finally teacher checks the answers with the whole class. ）Step Ⅴ. SpeakingT: So much for listening. From the listening material, we know how to describe things. Now let’s practise doing it and we’ll have a competition. One student thinks of a certain object used in our everyday life and describes it. The partner tries to guess what it is. Now I’ll give you four minutes to prepare this in pairs.（After a few minutes, teacher asks some pairs to act out before class to see which pair does best. ）Some examples:1. A: a group of strong hairs at the end of a handle that can be used for cleaning.B: brush2. A: a large metal or plastic container that people keep outside their houses and in which they put things they want to get rid ofB: dustbin3. A: a small piece of special paper that you stick on letters to show how much you have paid to send themB: stamp…T: Well done. In our daily life what should we do when we get into trouble or when we want t o buy something expensive and can’t make a decision?S: We should ask our friends or parents for some advice.T: Yes. When someone asks for some advice, how can you give any advice to him in English? We’ve learnt some expressions for making suggestions. Who’d like to tell them to me?（Teacher collects the expressions from some students and writes them on the blackboard. ）（Bb: You’d better（not）……You should （not）…You ought （not）to…You need to…Shall we…?Let’s…What about…How about…Why not…Why don’t you…）T: Now Jane wants to buy a cell phone. Before she can buy one, she wants her parents and best friend to give her some advice. Her father agrees with her, but her mother and her best friend don’t agree. Today we’ll discuss if she should buy one in groups.Please be seated in groups of four. I’ll give each group a card. First read the requirements carefully, then give the reasons after you have a discussion.（A few minutes later, teacher collects the students’ answers. ）Suggested answers: （Teacher shows the answers on the screen. ）1. I am Jane. I want to buy a cell phone. I think that a cell phone is very useful, because if I have one, I can talk to my parents or friends wherever I am. It is convenient for me to carry it when I’m out. What’s more, some of my classmates have one and it is a good way to have fun when I’m tired.2. I’m Jane’s best friend. I don’t think Jane should buy a cell phone, because we spend most of our time studying in class and don’t need the mobile phone. What’s more, we can’t control ourselves properly. If she has one, maybe she will spend much time in playing games or surfing the Internet. Perhaps she has more chances to make friends with boys, but her parents can’t find it easily. It’s not good for her study.3. I’m Jane’s mother. I don’t think Jane should buy a cell phone, because she is still a student, and she doesn’t need it much now. If she has one, maybe she can’t put her heart into her study and she will spend too much time and money on phone calls. Besides, it is forbidden to use it in class.4. I’m Jane’s father. I think Jane should buy a cell phone. If she has one, she can tell us whenever she has something important or she is in danger. And she is a nice girl, so she won’t spend much time and money in playing. B esides, she can understand much about the cell phone earlier.Step Ⅵ. Summary and HomeworkT: Today we’ve done some listening and learnt how to describe things. We have also practised describing objects and giving somebody some advice. After class, make up a dialogue with your partner, using these expressions for making suggestions （Pointing to the blackboard）and according to situations we have discussed in class. So much for today. Class is over. Goodbye.Step Ⅶ. The Design of the Writing on the BlackboardTechnologyThe First Periodcomputers, cameras, mobile phones, toothpicks, socks, plastic bag automobile→boatGive advice and Making suggestions: You’d better（not）…You should （not）…You ought （not）to…You need （to）…Shall we …?Let’s …What about …?Why not…?Why don’t you…?Step Ⅷ. Record after Teaching ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________。
