北师大版（2019）必修第二册Unit 4 Information Technology Lesson 2 Apps 教学设计课件(22张ppt)

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Unit 4 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Lesson 2 APPS
Theme of this week: apps
A series of activities:
Teen Tech Talk
Advertising on the electronic bulletin boards on campus
App-designing competition
Promote your app in the school magazine
Information Technology Month
Have you used these apps
What do you use them for
to chat with friends
to share one’s life / information
to pay online
to entertain
to retouch photos
to book tickets / accommodation
to order food
to find direction
to learn a language
to check the weather
to look for popular restaurants
to subscribe to newspapers and magazines
…
Teen Tech Talk
Topic: App Developing
Guest: Li Xing – an app developer
Time: Monday night at 7 p.m.
Place: the Lecture Hall
It’s Monday night. You and your classmates are waiting outside the lecture hall before the talk starts, talking about the interview…
Try to predict:
What questions might the interviewer ask Li Xing in the interview
* Listen to the tape, check your predictions and divide the dialogue into several parts according to the interviewer’s questions.
Why are apps so popular
Could you tell us something about educational apps
But developing an app must be difficult right
Questions in the interview
Apps
Being popular
Educational apps
Difficulties
* Listen to the tape again
* Note down the key information according to the questions
Reasons:
Functions:
Skill Builder
Listening for key words
Listening for key words helps you understand the conversation better and find the answers to questions more quickly.
Before listening, read the questions carefully.
While listening, pay attention to the words related to the questions, e.g. popular, educational apps, difficulties, etc.
Listen for words that are stressed.
Apps
Being popular
Educational apps
Difficulties
* Check your answers with your group mates first
Apps
Being popular
Reasons:
very useful
help us find popular restaurants, call tor taxis, find directions to different places…
make our life much easier
Educational apps
Functions:
allow students to choose their online teachers and subjects according to their personal interests and needs
ensure that students can all enjoy the same learning materials
Difficulties
find out what people need
solve real-world problems
very useful
help us find popular restaurants, call tor taxis, find directions to different places…
make our life much easier
allow students to choose their online teachers and subjects according to their personal interests and needs
ensure that students can all enjoy the same learning materials
find out what people need
solve real-world problems
How to describe functions
*read the transcript on p99
Structure
analysis
Being popular
Educational apps
Apps are very useful.
Educational apps are becoming increasingly powerful!
They help us find popular restaurants, call tor taxis, find directions to different places, and so on.
For example, some apps allow students to choose their online teachers and subjects according to their personal interests and needs.
They also ensure that students can all enjoy the same learning materials, even when they're not sitting in the same classroom together!
argument
supporting sentences
App-designing Competition
Each group designs an educational app based on the given situations (on the information card)
Design a poster to promote the app
Name
Target users
Functions
Logo (optional)
Try to finish in FIVE minutes
Group Work
S1: leader & presenter
S2: idea organizer
S3: language supervisor
S4: poster drawer
S5: note taking & time keeper
Group 1&2: Alice is going to pay a visit to Britain with her parents (in their 40s) who don’t know any English. She wants to recommend an app for her parents to learn some daily-used oral English.
Group 3&4: Mike (9 years old) has difficulties in memorizing the spelling of English words. Gradually, he lost confidence in learning English.
Group 5&6: Grace (15 years old) went to America last summer vacation and found people there could hardly understand her pronunciation. She feels worried and wants to improve her speaking.
Group 7&8: Alan (16 years old) finds understanding English grammar difficult, which results in his weaknesses of reading and writing. He is in great need of improving his grammar.
Information Cards
Group Work
Presentation
S1: present your posters to another group one by one as a circle. (each presenter presents 7 times in total)
S2-5: stay in your own groups and listen to other groups’ presentation;
evaluate other groups’ posters according to the given prompts;
each student has 4 stickers which can be given to the apps (4 different apps from other groups) better meet the task’s needs.
G3
G2
G1
G4
G5
G6
G7
G8
Group Work
Presentation
Evaluation Prompts Perfect Good but to be perfected Sorry, not at all
Does the app meet the target user’s need 2 1 0
Is the design (app and poster) creative 2 1 0
Is the content well-organized 2 1 0
Does the group use the expressions learnt this class correctly and properly 2 1 0
Does the presenter speak English loudly and fluently 2 1 0
Group Work
Presentation
Most Popular App
the app which won the most star stickers
target users
functions
more details
Assessment and Summary
Homework:
Promote your app in the school magazine.
Turn your poster into a short passage.
Thank you