Module 6 The Internet and Telecommunications（精選2篇）
Module 6 The Internet and Telecommunications 篇1
module 6 the internet and telecommunications
cultural corner
teaching 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 they’ve 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:
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.
help students to take notes while reading.
teaching aid: computer
teaching procedure:
word study and warming up
activate 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.
direction: 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 corner
according 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:
group work to solve the difficulty from the textbook:
1.where have you been? i’ve been waiting hours for a call
2.do you want to go to the cinema tonight?
3.i ‘ve got a text mssge from my friend. she’s having a party on saturday. do you want to come? 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 loud
iow --- in other words
then 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.
extension
encourage 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 group’s 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.
homework:
write an argumentative composition which should be well organized:
para 1: put forward the topic of the composition;
para2: some think ……
para3: however, others think / disagree … …
para4: your point of view … …
Module 6 The Internet and Telecommunications 篇2
module 6 the internet and telecommunications
listening and writing
teaching aims:
1. students can understand the new words in the listening part either by explaining by themselves or by the teacher.
2. students can get the main information from the listening passage and finish off the related exercises properly.
3. students can write an argumentative essay about people’s opinions on using the internet for studies following the outline of such essays provided by the teacher, so as to form an objective and right attitude towards using the internet.
teaching emphases:
1. students can understand the new words and the listening passage with these new words.
2. students can form a right opinion on the use of the internet by discussing.
teaching difficulty:
it’s not very easy for the students to put all their opinions in logic and write an argumentative essay showing opposite opinions and their own opinion.
teaching method: task-based, communicative, cooperative
teaching facilities: computer, projector
teaching process:
i. daily report: about the internet or other telecommunications.
ii. lead-in
t: what do you think of the internet? do you know your teachers’ and parents’ opinions?
ss: free talk.
iii. listening and vocabulary.
1. vocabulary.
t: today, we’re going to listen to an interview. the interviewer will ask some people for their opinions on the internet. but, since there are some difficult words in the passage, we should first deal with the difficult words. look at the word in activity 1, try to find the words you know and try explaining them in your own words.
t: explain the rest that are not done by the students.
2.listening.
ss listen to the interview with the following questions:
1) how many people are being interviewed in the studio?
2) what do they concentrate on, good or bad things about the internet?
3) do they have the same or different opinions?
3. ss answer the questions.
4. ss listen once again and finish activity 2.
5. work in groups of four and discuss the questions in activity 3.
6. discussion: can students learn all they need on the internet instead of going to school?
ss show their opinions in groups and one member reports to the whole class.
(they should consider the following two points: the danger of using only the internet /the good of going to school ─ they should consider the importance of having a teacher, the importance of working together as a class and the danger of spending too much time looking at a computer.)
iv. writing. an argumentative essay.
1. contents: 1. show the topic or the phenomenon.
(recently, … is getting more and more widely-used in a variety of areas including schools, but people have different opinions on whether the internet can take the place of school.)
2. show opposite opinions.
(some think that we can learn all we need on the internet. there are a number of reasons for this: firstly,… secondly… besides,…)
(while others consider…very important. on the one hand, … on the other, …)
3. show your own opinions.
(in my opinion, i think … every coin has two sides. we’d better …)
2. other useful expression:
it’s very important to …
it would be very difficult to …
what’s more, …
however, …
i don’t agree with this opinion…
3.students write an essay following the outline.
4.ss read their essays to the whole class and let the others assess their work.
v. how to assess an argumentative essay:
1. a clear structure.
2. meaningful and persuasive reasons.
3. proper own opinions.
4. proper conjunctions and adverbs, such as firstly, secondly, besides, what’s more , however, on the one hand, on the other hand, in my opinion, etc.