ReadingTv-turnoff-Week.ppt

1、Unit6 Watch for Fun!,Reading: TV-turnoff Week,Step1: Lead-in,Answer the questions.,1. Do you watch TV a lot? 2. How many hours do you spend on TV every day?,据统计，全美儿童平均一年花在电视上面的时间 为1023小时，比在学校的时间（900小时）还要长。 美国家庭平均每天开着电视时间：7小时40分钟 美国人平均每天看电视时间超过4小时 6岁以下儿童每天看电视时间约为2小时 45%的家长表示，如果自己有事，就会让孩子去看电视 再来看看电视对人

2、们生活造成的影响： 美国父母与孩子谈心的时间平均每周只有38.5分钟 在校儿童平均每年看电视时间超过每年在课堂上度过的时间 一个18岁的少年在其成长过程中在电视上看到的暴力打斗场面达到20万次，其中谋杀场面达到1.6万次。,Step1: Lead-in,A survey on TV,Task1:Scan the passage and answer the question. What can people do in a week without TV?,Step2: Reading (Scanning):,They can read, talk, play games, hike, thi

3、nk, or do any number of other activities.,Task2: Listen and circle the correct answers.,Step2: Reading (Skimming),1.According to the passage, people who watch a lot of TV_ . a. succeed in school b. harm their children c. are likely to become fat 2.TV-Turnoff week _ . a. start in 2010 b. has more tha

4、n 44 million participants since 1995. c. is getting everyone involved 3. Which of the following is true about TV-Turnoff Week ?_ a. Its great but its effect lasts only a week . b. Most of its participants choose to watch less TV c. Its participants find it hard to re-engage in real life.,c,b,b,Task3

5、: Read the para2-3, and then fill in the form.,Step2: Reading( Intensive reading),TV-turnoff week activity,Participants tell us that life is more enjoyable without television,Vespe,Create an chance for children and adults to live a life without television,Over 44 million people have participated sin

6、ce 1995. children and adults, rich and poor, black and white- people from every background and all walks of life,Task3:Read the para4 together, and fill in the form. The impact of TV-turnoff week,Step2: Reading( Intensive Reading),changed their TV-viewing,said that these change may last forever,watc

7、h less TV,including 20 percent who watch no TV,re-engage in real life, and they read, talk, play games, hike, think, or do any number of other activities,is much easier than they expected,Step2: Reading (Outline),Para1 Para2 Para3 Para4,Task4:Match the correct sentences with each paragraph.,The deve

8、lopment of the TV-Turnoff Week The popularity of the TV and its bad effect on our lives The impact of the TV-Turnoff Week The concept of the TV-Turnoff Week,Mobile Phone /Cell Phone,Step3: Extension,Advantages? Disadvantages?,Task5: Work in groups. Talk about mobile phone.,Step3: Extension,Task5: Ta

9、lk about mobile phone.,Advantages: We can contact people at any time and in any places It has many functions: send short messages listen to music, watch videos take photos surf the Internet look up the words buy things online play games read electric books ,Disadvantages: Expensive to buy and costly

10、 to pay the bills Bad for our health ( mobile radiation) Affect our learning and working We have fewer chances to communicate with each other face to face ,Every coin has two sides .,Do you have nomophobia ? (no-mobile-phone phobia无手机焦虑症),Step3: Extension,For about 66 per cent of us, being with your

11、 phone at all times is an obsession that occupies every waking minute. If you think you may suffer from nomophobia - or no mobile phone phobia then the warning signs are: An inability to ever turn your phone off; Obsessively checking for missed calls, emails and texts; Constantly topping up your bat

12、tery life; Being unable to pop to the bathroom without taking your phone in with you. The number of people afflicted with nomophobia revealed in a recent study shows a rise from a similar study four years ago, where 53 per cent of people admitted the fear of losing their phone. 我们中大约有66%的人，时时刻刻都离不开手

13、机只要眼睛睁着，就得和手机形影不离。 如果你有以下“症状”，你可就得提高警惕，看看自己是否得上了这种“无手机焦虑症”： 从来都不关手机； 时不时地查看有无漏接的来电、邮件和短信； 频繁地为手机充电； 上厕所、洗澡，都得要把手机带在身边。 据最近公开的一项研究显示，患上“无手机焦虑症”的人数相比四年前的一次类似调查，已有所上升。在四年前的那次调查中，就已有53%的人承认自己很担心会丢失手机。,Step3: Extension,Task6: An offer on “ Mobile phone-turnoff week”,Step3: Extension,Task6: An offer on “

14、mobile phone-turnoff week”,Do you think its time for us to do something about the peoples dependency upon the mobile phone? Have you ever thought about how to spend your time if you turn off your mobile phones?,Discuss in groups:,Mobile phone has become one of the most popular technologies all aroun

15、d world. It brings us a lot of convenience. At the same time, Mobile phones waste people too much time. we heavily depend on the mobile phone that it deeply rooted in our daily life. In conclusion, there are some benefits and drawbacks to mobile phones. The most important thing is how to use the phones in a right way. Yet since the major task of students is study, it is advisable that we should focus on the teachers and our subjects. In this case, all techn