高中英语 Module 6《The Internet and Telecommunications》cultural corner and task教案3 外研版必修1

Module 6 The Internet and Telecommunications Cultural CornerTeaching objectives:*Help students to do a class survey about the use of mobile phones in the form of group work;*Guide the students to know about text messages and emoticons and introduce the rules of shortening words by reading comprehension; Besides, make sure the students can use what theyve learnt to communicate with persons by sending text messages;*Encourage the students to talk about the advantages and disadvantages of the use of these kinds of words and emoticons by comparing the changes of Chinese character and English words.Difficulty:*How to guide the students to perform a good debate.Strategy:l By doing a survey, students are able to conclude on a certain topic, and in the way of exploring, students share what they have observed or found through teamwork. Besides, in the form of debate, the advantages and disadvantages of the changes of languages will be discussed.l Help students to take notes while reading.Teaching Aid: computerTeaching procedure:Word study and warming upActivate the students to list the names of some new things about telecommunications. Then focus on one item of them mobile phone.Direction: The way of activating the students to list the new things about telecommunications is to divide the students into two groups and choose a student from each group write down the words his/her group members mention on the blackboard in the form of competition. The more, the better. And the words must be correct.Motivate the students to do a survey about the use of mobile phones after some warming-up activities. Then text messages become the topic. Use NameOf Mobile PhoneStudent AStudent BStudent CStudent DStudentEDirection: Encourage the students to choose five classmates to talk to, and they can stand up and talk around as long as they can finish the survey. And then they should draw a conclusion about the main use of mobile phones.Cultural cornerAccording to their survey, ask them how to write text messages, and then lead in the passage on page 59.Reading comprehension with the help of some questions on the students page. Questions are listed as follows:Rules for shortening the words: 1. _2. _3. _What do we call smiley faces, such as ? _Direction: In this step, the students read the passage with the guidance of some strategies of taking notes: “You can write down a complete sentence, but it will need a longer time to finish your reading. Besides, you can begin your notes with “to do”or “doing”. But if time is limited, you can choose some single words or phrases that you think are important to be your notes.” Group work to solve the difficulty from the textbook:1.Whr hv U bn? Iv bn wtng hrs fr a cll2.Do U wnt 2 g 2 th cnma tnite?3.I gt a txt mssge frm my frnd. Shes hvng a prty on Strdy. Do U wnt 2 cm? Direction: Guide the students to work in groups to solve the problems together.More examples to show to the students about the special ways of text messages.LOL - laughing out loudIOW - in other wordsThen tell the students there is another way of communication - abbreviation with more examples.Students show time to show their own text message with the ways of shortening the words with emoticons , shorthand, and abbreviation after reading.ExtensionEncourage the students to find out whether the Chinese mobile phone users use this similar way of text messages or not, and list some examples in the form of discussion.Encourage the students to discuss in groups about the advantages and disadvantages of using this kind of way to communicate with others.Direction: Students discuss in a group, but the shy person should be the reporter to report the groups opinion in public.Encourage the students to debate, and guide the students to realize that the best way to keep us up to date is to study and read books.Direction: Explain the rules of debate first, then encourage them to state their own opinions.H