Unit2 Video Time & Assessing Your Progress 名师教学设计
课时内容
Video Time & Assessing Your Progress
主题语境:人与社会
主题群:科学与技术
子主题:科技发展与信息技术创新
语篇类型:视频、文字、习题
文本分析:
本节课分两部分:第一部分为 Video time,介绍了哈佛大学研究团队所研发的微型仿生机器人 RoboBee。第二部分为 Assessing Your Progress,围绕本单元主题设置对话填空、语篇填空,练习重要词汇及本单元语法将来进行时,并对本单元进行总的反思和评价。
课时目标
1.通过观看视频,了解哈佛大学研究团队所研发的微型仿生机器人 RoboBee的相关信息
2.讨论微型机器人的优点和用途。
3.阅读未来技术和环境的相关信息,复习本单元的词汇和语法项目。
重点难点
重点:
本单元重点词汇和语法的恰当使用。
难点:
使用恰当的语言讨论微型机器人的优点和用途。
教学准备
教师准备:
一段介绍哈佛大学研究团队所研发的微型仿生机器人 RoboBee 的视频和播放设备。
学生准备:
复习本单元重点词汇和将来进行时的用法。
教学过程
Video Time
Step Ⅰ 学习理解
活动一:感知与注意(Brainstorm)
Before watching,ask students to discuss what they know about the RoboBee and read the brief introduction on Page 24.
【设计意图】在观看视频之前,让学生讨论仿生机器人,激活学生的已有认知和学习兴趣,有助于提高观看视频的注意力。
活动二:获取与梳理
1.Before You Watch
Predict what you are going to see. Think and circle the correct word(s)for each sentence.
① RoboBees are like bees in that they fly independently/together,but all work independently/together. ② Robert Wood is an explorer/a roboticist. ③ In the future,RoboBees could help explorers/policemen and doctors/photographers. ④ All of the RoboBees have crashed/flown successfully. ⑤ Like bees,every RoboBee has a job to do/obeys a queen bee.
2.While You Watch
(1)Play the video for students to watch and get the answers in Before You Watch.
Suggested answers:
① independently;together
② a roboticist
③ explorers;doctors
④ crashed
⑤ has a job to do
(2)Go through the sentences on Page 24 in While You Watch with students and make sure they understand their meanings.
① …robotics is the _______. It’s the next big thing to _______ in areas from medicine to even things likes _______. ② We use nature to _______ that we build. ③ …they can be quite useful for applications where you wouldn’t _______ or an animal… ④ If you don’t fail,you _______. ⑤ If you want to make something fly,_______ in nature.
(3)Play the video again for students to watch and complete the quotes by Robert Wood with words they hear in the video.
(4)Share the answers with the whole class,and if necessary,play the video again for students to check the answers.
Suggested answers:
① next Internet;impact our lives;space exploration
② inspire the robots
③ want to put a human
④ don’t learn enough
⑤ a solution already exists
【设计意图】在观看视频之前,预测微型仿生机器人的功能,描述微型仿生机器人的特征;在观看视频的过程中,获取微型仿生机器人的相关信息,完成句子。
Step Ⅱ 应用实践
活动三:分析与判断(Discussion)
After You Watch
Ask students to work in groups of four and discuss the following questions.
·What might be some advantages of having many small robots that work together rather than one large robot?
·Specifically,how might RoboBees be used in a future application?
·What other kinds of robots can be created from nature(e.g.,a robotic lion or snake)?How might these robots be used?
Suggested answers:
·A large robot often takes up too much space and has difficulty in moving. Small robots working together can easily enter a small space and move around.
·They might be useful in rescue after a disaster. For example,if a building was blown down in a storm,they could fly into the wreckage and check for survivors.
·A robotic spider could be useful as it could carry things across difficult uneven surface where wheeled vehicles can’t go.
【设计意图】在观看视频后,让学生用所获取的信息进行讨论,在讨论的过程中,发挥同学相互鼓励、启发的教育作用,让学生在主动参与的活动中提高合作意识与协作能力。
Assessing Your Progress
活动四:词汇复习(Complete)(Part1,P22)
1.Go through the words in the box and make sure students understand their meanings.
luxury prospect rural absence prediction essay network emphasis
2.Ask students to complete the dialogues with the correct forms of the words in the box.
①A:Why are you so concerned? B:We can’t win the case in the _______ of relevant evidence. ②A:It’s difficult to make accurate _______ about the effects on the environment. B:I couldn’t agree more. We should place more _______ on environmental protection. ③A:What are you working on? B:I m writing an _______ on how to integrate individuals’ values and society’s needs. ④A:How do you find working in your new office? B:It’s great! The office _______ allows users to share files and software,and to use a central printer. ⑤A:I don’t quite understand your choice. What might be the advantages of living in remote _______ areas? B:The _______ of getting a high-paying job is low,but I find it more meaningful to help people there. In addition,I have the _______ of breathing fresh air every day.
3.Share the answers with the whole class.
Suggested answers:
①absence
②predictions;emphasis
③essay
④network
⑤rural;prospect;luxury
【设计意图】该活动为选择恰当的单词并用其正确形式填空,完成对话练习,属于词汇练习,旨在具体语境中提高词汇的运用能力。
活动五:语法再现(Read and fill)(Part2,P22)
1.Ask students to read an introduction to the Future Library project. Then ask them to fill in the blanks using the correct forms of the words in the box
cut down keep use write read
The Future Library is a project by the artist Katie Paterson. It began with the cutting down of trees in a forest north of Oslo,Norway,in 2014. The Future Library Trust ①_______ wood from these trees to build a special room—the Silent Room—in the Oslo Public Library. In place of the trees that had been cleared,1,000 new trees were planted. Every year from 2014 until 2114,a different popular author②_______ one original story,and the librarians ③_______ all the stories in the Silent Room,where visitors can look at them but not read them. In 2114,the organisers ④_______ the 1,000 trees that were planted back in 2014. They will then use the wood for publishing the 100 books in the Silent Room. So,in 2114,people⑤_______ books that were made from trees that are growing right now.
2.Share the answers with the whole class.
Suggested answers:
① used;
② will be writing/will write;
③ will be keeping/will keep;
④ will be cutting down/will cut down;
⑤ will be reading/will read
【设计意图】该活动把语法复习恰当地置于本单元的主题语境中,学生在语境中复习和运用语法项目,提高语法使用的实践性和应用性。
活动六:单元反思(Reflecting)
1.Go through the tasks with students and make sure they know what to do.
◎What new advances in technology introduced in this unit interested you? ◎How have your opinions about advances in technology changed because of this unit? ◎What advances in technology would you like to learn more about? ◎Overall,I thought this unit was□ col□ useful□ so-so □ difficult.
2.Let students do these tasks by themselves.
3.Ask students to work in groups and share what they write. The answers may vary from one student to another.
【设计意图】通过反思自己感兴趣的先进科技产品,阐释自已对科技产品新的认识和观点的改变,表达自己想要了解的科技知识,激发学生对单元主题“科技发展与信息技术创新”的兴趣,有助于主题意义的探究。
板书设计
Unit 2 Looking into the Future Period Ⅵ Video Time & Assessing Your Progress Video Time Ⅰ.学习理解 活动一:感知与注意(Brainstorm) 活动二:获取与梳理 1.Before You Watch 2.While You Watch Ⅱ.应用实践 活动三:分析与判断(Discussion) Assessing Your Progress 活动四:词汇复习(Complete) 活动五:语法再现(Read and fill) 活动六:单元反思(Reflecting)
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