Unit 3 The world online
Integrated skills (I)
I. Learning objectives
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
know something about the history and development of Internet use through listening;
listen for years;
know something more about Internet use through viewing charts.
II. Key competence focus
1. Use listening strategies to get the right information.
2. Get some useful information to prepare for writing by listening and viewing charts.
III. Predicted area of difficulty
1. Understand the talk through listening.
2. Accumulate some useful words and expressions about Internet use.
IV. Teaching procedures
Step 1 Lead-in
T asks Ss the following question and lets them answer it one by one quickly.
T: What do you often use the Internet to do
S1: I use the Internet to search for information that helps me with my homework.
S2: I use it to read about the latest news on topics I am interested in.
S3: I use social networking softwares to keep in touch with my friends.
S4: I use different apps to listen to music, take photos or play games.
S5: I enjoy shopping online, so I sometimes order food or clothes from my favourite restaurants or stores.
S6: I watch films or TV shows to relax when I have free time.
...
T: Do you know when the Internet was invented Has it changed over the years And what do you think it will be used to do in the future
Ss: ...
T: Now, let’s listen to find out the answers to the questions and learn more about Internet use.
【设计意图:复习导入,头脑风暴,快速激活学生对于“互联网的使用”这一主题已有的知识和经验,同时导入听力环节。】
Step 2 Listen and answer
T asks Ss to share what to do before listening.
T asks Ss to read the questions in Part A1 and guess an answer to each question.
T asks Ss to listen to the talk given by Mr Tan and answer the questions in Part A1.
T asks Ss to discuss the answers in pairs.
T shares the answers with the students.
【设计意图:听前读题与预测让听音更有针对性,听后两两讨论答案,学会向同伴学习,交流听力内容、修正答案,最后老师给出参考答案。】
Step 3 Listen and complete
T asks Ss to read the following numbers referring to years and explains ways of saying them and the listening skill of paying special attention to the numbers related to time.
T asks Ss to listen to the talk again and complete the timeline in Part A2 on page 36.
T checks the answers and listens to the difficult points with the students again.
【设计意图:听前复习并指导朗读年份的方式,并指导学生在听音时抓住表示时间的信号词,根据表示时间的信号词把握文章脉络。训练学生抓取特定信息的能力。】
Step 4 View and answer
T asks the Ss to view the charts about Internet use on page 37 shown by Mr Tan and answer the following questions.
● What are the three charts about
● What do the different colours in each chart represent, such as blue and red
T explains to Ss the tips on viewing charts.
T: To understand a chart, it is important to read the title and captions. There are different types of charts to show information. Bar charts are often used to show how something changes over time or to compare different things. Pie charts are used to show percentages. Line charts are often used to show trends.
T asks Ss to view the charts again and answer questions given below the charts.
4. T shares the answers with the students.
【设计意图:该环节先通过两个问题引导学生初看图表,首先关注表格的标题,然后说明文字,再进行查看图表的技巧指导,最后深度分析图表,回答问题。】
Step 5 Find and share
T asks the Ss to read the talk given by Mr Tan.
2. T asks Ss to find out useful words and expressions.
【设计意图:该环节让学生朗读听力文本后找出重要的单词词组进行巩固,培养学生自主探究能力并为下一课时的写作做铺垫。】
V. Homework
1. Search the Internet for more information about the history and development of the Internet.
2. Preview the content on page 38 and prepare some expressions for the article.
1865, 1998, 1900, 1800, 1809, 2000, 2008, 531 BC, mid-2008, the early 1980s, the late 1990s, 2021, ...
1865 (eighteen sixty-five), 1998 (nineteen ninety-eight)
1900 (nineteen hundred), 1800 (eighteen hundred)
1809 (eighteen o nine)
Ways of saying years
2000 (two thousand), 2008 (two thousand and eight or twenty o eight)
531 BC (five three one BC or five hundred and thirty-one BC)
Good morning, class. Today I'm going to talk about the Internet. I'm sure all of you use the Internet, but what do you know about it Now let me tell you about its history and development.
The first general-purpose computers came onto the market in the early 1950s, but it was only in 1969 that scientists invented a way for computers to communicate with each other. This meant that computers allowed people to pass messages along a network and talk to each other. To start with, only four computers were connected and the network was for military use. Public commercial use of the Internet began in mid-1989.
One of the main applications of the Internet is the World Wide Web. Pages on the World Wide Web are called websites and can be accessed through the Internet. They were originally used as a space for scientists around the world to share information. The world's first website was built in 1990 by Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist. He then taught others how to build their own websites, allowing the Internet to grow.
Within 24 years, there were more than 1 billion websites online. Two years later, in 2016, 3.6 billion people were using the Internet -about 48 per cent of the world's population at the time. And increasingly, people are using their phones to access the Internet. The future is definitely online and it's definitely mobile.