2012年湖州市市直属学校高三英语复习教案:Unit3《Computers》(3)(新人教版必修2)
Who am I?
Teaching Aims:
To help the students review some useful words and expressions.
Enable the students have a command of the usage of the words.
Enable the students to find out what an important role computers play in our daily lives.
Teaching Important Points:
Enable the students grasp the usage of the words and phrases.
Teaching methods:
Task-based teaching methods.
Cooperative learning.
Group discussion to make every student take an active part in class.
Step 1. Check the answer of the preview work..
1. intelligent 2. application simplified 3. logical 4. calculator calculate calculations 5. technological 6. totally 7. explore 8. solve 9. artificial 10. Anyhow
Step2.
1, Reading the passage
2. Retelling the passage according to the key points.
Over time I have changed quite a lot
Begin as, I was young, after I was programmed, at that time, in 1936, from then on, by the 1940s, as time went by
All the changes depend on the improvement of the memory
Memory improved
First…then…later… as a result totally became so large that
Applications
Communication, finance, trade; Put into robots …be used to make… as well as…; Put into space rockets, explore…
Step 3. Please use other words to replace the underlined words.
Over time I have changed quite a lot. I started from a calculating machine . When I was young I could make difficult sums more easier. After I was programmed by a person who operated me. I could “think” reasonably . At that time it was considered a great change in technology and the start of a man-made intelligence. In 1936, a book written by Alan Turing said that I could work out any difficult mathematical problem. From that time on, I grew rapidly in size and in brainpower. By the 1940s I had grown the same size as a room. As time went by my memory improved, so I completely changed my shape. My memory became too large to make me believe it. since the 1970s I have many new usages. I have been used to make mobile phones and help with medical operations. I have been sent to learn about the Moon and Mars. Anyway, my aim is to give human race a life of high quality.
Answer: began as ,Simplify difficult sums, operator, logically, technological revolution, artificial, solve, From then on, as large as, as a result, totally, so large that I couldn’t believe it, applications, as well as, explore, Anyhow, goal, provide humans with
Step 4 Now let’s focus on some difficult points.
as large as
as well as
as…as 和……一样
show students a sentence: A is twice as large as B.
Then ask the students to say the other two sentences with the same meaning.
A is twice the size of B.
A is one time larger than B.
Then show students some pictures to practice the three sentences.
as well as 也,和
Tube as well as the transistor, chip was the container of the memory of computers.
Ask the students to tell the other words following the same principle as as well as.
For example: but, except, besides, like, including, with, no less than, along with, in addition to, rather than, together with
(1).John, rather than his roommates, ____ to blame.
(2). Nobody but two students ____ in the classroom.
Then lead to another principle 就近原则
Words like: there be句型; or ; either …or;nor; neither…nor;whether…or;not…but; not only…but also
(1). 你和我都没有错。
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(2). 不仅是我担心这个现实,我的设计者们也担心。
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Ask the students finish the task on the paper.
2. As a result my designers explored all the possibilities to make me smaller.
Show students a picture about a boy named Henry. Henry worked very hard, so he always got high mark at school. Could you fill in the blanks with the phrases with “result”?
(1) Hard work ____________ high mark.
(2) High mark _____________ hard work.
(3) He was ill. ____________________, he didn't go to school. (4)___________________________ his illness, he didn't go to school.
3. So our students should have a good health and work hard, so that we can acquire a good mark.
Eric is ____ intelligent a boy _____ he could solve any problem.
Eric is ______ an intelligent boy ______ he could solve any problem.
so+adj. +a/an+单数可数名词+that
Such+a/an+adj.+单数可数名词+that
There are _______ many cars in the street _____ I couldn’t get through.
There are _______ beautiful views in XiaMen ______ so many people crowed in.
So+many/few/much/little…+n.+ that
Such+adj. 复数可数名词/不可数名词+that
4. Eric provided Henry with help.
As time went by, his score went up. As a result, he was filled with happiness.
As time went by =( ) time going by
sentence noun properties
_________the walked north from the harbour area, Li Daiyu said, “LinFei, one of my mother’s old schoolmates, lives here.
______ the improvement of science, more and more robots with artificial intelligence have been produced.
5. It also took him nearly half a year before he achieved his goal, the first place.
Translation
It will be a long time before we can finish the task.
It + be +时间段 +before 从句,意为“……不久就……”
John thinks it won’t be long before he is ready for his new job.
It +be +not +long +before 从句,意为“……之后才……”
He had hardly entered the room before he heard a loud noise.
It +be +not +long +before 从句,意为“……之后才……”
It is a long time since I saw you last.
It +be/has been +一段时间+ since… “自从……以来多久了”
Step 5. Speaking and writing
Now we know that Henry’s success mostly because of Eric’s help. Do you want to have a robot by yourselves. Now imagine you are in 2050, and you have a robot. Please describe your robot and your life with your robot.
Key words: application, solve,logically, artificial,intelligence,as a result, totally, as well as, explore, goal…