Period 3 Reading(1)
Teaching Aims :
1. Train the students’ reading ability .
2. Learn and master the following words , phrases and sentence structure:
Throughout the world; more than; add …to …; remind sb about ; no matter wh - ; dare ; In case of ; break down ; room ; come up with;
Teaching Important Points :
1. Learn and master the words , phrase and sentence patterns above
2. How to make the students understand the text better .
Teaching Difficult Points:
1. Master the difference between the following phrases:
No matter wh- / wh-ever in case / in case of
2. How to Understand the texts completely .
Teaching Methods:
1. Fast reading to let the students get the general idea of the text .
2. Question-and-answer activity to let the students get the detailed information in the text.
3. Making sentences to have the students master some language points .
Teaching Aids:
1. a tape recorder 2. a blackboard
Teaching Procedures:
Step I . Greetings.
Step II. Presentation
Part Two Reading Who am I?
I. Read the text quickly again and do the true or false questions.
1. In 1642, I began as a calculating machine and could solve any mathematical problem.
2. My real father was Charles Babbage, who wrote a book and built me in 1936.
3. After I got my new transistors in the 1960s, I cecame smaller but cleverer and quicker.
4. I was brought into people’s homes in the 1970s.
5. Since my birth I have been built to take the place of the human race.
II. Choose the best answer according to the text.
1)From the passage, “I” refers to _________.
A. a son of Alan Turing w.w.w.k.s.5.u.c.o.m
B. a “universal machine” which can solve any mathematical problem
C. a person who b uilt an Analytical Machine
D. a machine which is simple-minded
2) From the change of computers, we can infer(推断出)that ___________.
A. little by little computers can really think and feel like the people
B. in the future computers may refuse to serve the prople
C. science and technology develop rapidly
D. sooner or later computers may take the place of human beings
3) At that time it was considered a technological revolution and the start of my “artificial intelligence”, the underlined word means_______.
A. natural B. mathematical C. clever D. man-made
III. Fill in the blanks with the information from the text of WHO AM I?
I, the _____________, was a calculating machine in 1642 in _____________. Then I was built as an analytical machine in 1822, which was a technological ______________. I became a “_________ machine” in 1936 to _________________ any mathematical problem. I was not evry big at first. Then I became huge, the _______ of a large room before I was made smaller and smaller. I was ______________with other computers and turned out to be part of a ____________ in the early 1960s. I was able to _____________my knowledge with others ____________the World Wide Web. Since the 1970s I have been used first as a ____________ and then as a _____________ in officers and ________________. w.w.w.k.s.5.u.c.o.m
Many changes have happened to my ______________. First it was ___________in tubes, then on ___________and later on very small _____________. So my _________ totally changed. As I have grown older I have also grown ______________.
I have been widely used in many fields, such as in communication, _______________, trade and medical _____________. I have also been put into robots and space ______________ to _______________ the Moon and Mars. I’m glad I am a ______________ friend and helper of the human race.
Homework: Prepare the key and difficult points of the text.
Period 4 Reading(1)
Teaching Aims :
1. Train the students’ reading ability .
2. Learn and master the following words , phrases and sentence structure:
Throughout the world; more than; add …to …; remind sb about ; no matter wh - ; dare ; In case of ; break down ; room ; come up with;
Teaching Important Points :
1. Learn and master the words , phrase and sentence patterns above
2. How to make the students understand the text better .
Teaching Difficult Points:
1. Master the difference between the following phrases:
No matter wh- / wh-ever in case / in case of
2. How to Understand the texts completely .
Teaching Methods:
1. Fast reading to let the students get the general idea of the text .
2. Question-and-answer activity to let the students get the detailed information in the text.
3. Making sentences to have the students master some language points .
Teaching Aids:
1. a tape recorder 2. a blackboard
Teaching Procedures:
Step I . Greetings.
Step II. Presentation
Part four ANDY----------THE ANDROID
I.Read the text in 5 minutes and choose the best answer for each question.
1. According to the passage, Andy is _________.
A. a singing robot B. a dancing robot
C. a real football player D. a sporting android
2. From the text, we can infer EXCEPT that _______________.
A. Andy was controlled by the computer chips.
B. Andy competed in Japan this year.
C. Andy’s intelligence wasn’t improved before it competed.
D. the team might not win if they didn’t have a new program
3. What makes an android football team win?
A. Brave android strikers. B. Stronger android players.
C. Android players with higher intelligence.
D. Android players with quick move.
II. Language study
1. I’m ________________(一个成员)of android football team.
2. __________________(在足球队里) I am a striker so I have to be able to run very fast.
on prep. 属于…, 参加…,是…的成员. 译一译:
1) Tom in on our school basketball team. __________________________
2) Which side are you on in the game? ____________________________
3) His brother is on China Daily. __________________________________
3. I have learned to__________________________(向队友示意) __________________ (用计算机语言) to give me the ball when I am open and ______________________ _________ (好好射一个球) w.w.w.k.s.5.u.c.o.m
4. We ___________________________(获得了第二名).___________ (我个人认为),I think the team that won first place ____________(作弊了). They __________________(研制出) a new type of program _________________ (恰在比赛前夕)
5. We _________________________________ (决心创造出) an ________________(更好的) system.
6. __________(从某种程度上看) our programmer is like our coach.
7. She programs us with ____________________________(一切可能的动作) she has seen while _________________________(观看人类比赛).
1) move在这里用作______词, 意为“_________________”。翻译:
one careless move loses the whole game. ________________________
2) while watching human games这是一种省略形式,省略了主语和be动词 = while she was watching human games。这种形式的省略必须要符合两个条件:①主从句主语一致②从句谓语动词中含有be动词。Eg:
You must be very careful while (you are)crossing the street.
练一练:
1) He is always absent-minded while he is having classes.
_________________________________________________
2) Don’t leave while you are listening to the lecture.
_____________________________________________________
8. Then she prepares _________________________(可靠动作) to use if a new situation __________ (发生,出现).
arise ----appear 呈现、出现、发生 eg: A storm arose during the night.
arise from/ out of 因…而造成、产生、引起
eg:problems arise out of/ from lack of communication.
arise -----stand up; get up 起床,起身 eg: I always arise late on Sunday morning.
9. In this way I can____________(编制出)new moves _________________用我的人工智能).
拓展:make 的相关短语w.w.w.k.s.5.u.c.o.m
make use of 利用 make out 分辨出,看出,理解
be made from 由…制成(看不出原材料) make… into … 把…做成
be made of由…制成(看得出原材料 be made up of 由…组成;由…构成
make for 有助于,有利于;朝…移动 be made in 在(某地)制成
I.)用上面恰当的短语填空:
1)73 students________________________our class. That is to say, our class ______ _______________________73 students. 高.考.资.源.网
2) The table is _______________wood. Besides, wood can be _____________ paper.
3) It’s getting late; we’d better turn and ____________________home.
4) We could just _____________the buildings through the fog.
A. check out B. figure over C. look out D. make out
5) Everybody in the village likes Jack because he is good at telling and_______jokes.
A. turning up B. putting up C. making up D. showing up
Homework :Recite some key sentences and key paragraphs.