Unit 3 Lesson 3 Owning a Car Period 4 教案
Learning Objectives: ·
Language focus
1. To understand the new words & expressions: assembly line（ production line），carrage,automobile( car),speed up,production,hero,wheel,pace
2. To get the general opinions of the speakers, and to learn how to use the right structure to build up opinions: in my opinion… first, second, what’s more, finally. ·
Ability focus
1. To develop reading skills: (skimming, scanning, contrasting, inferring, evaluating information)
2. To improve ability of expressing opinions clearly and logically. 3. To develop critical thinking on some social issues. ·
Character-building
To learn to express opinions in a positive, confident, and persuasive way.
Teaching Aid:
Multi-media facilities
Teaching Focus:
To help students understand the reading material and experience a talk show to express their opinions after reading.
Teaching Procedures:
Ⅰwarm-up:
1. Enjoy a short movie about cars.
2. Introduce the development of the cars with some pictures.
3. Introdece Henry Ford,the inventor of the first car assembly line.
ⅡPresentation:
1. Ford is the name of the company founder, Henry Ford. He invented the world’s first assembly line. Today we will learn how assembly lines change our lives.
Task 1:Do the fast reading of the whole article and match the main idea.
Para3: Assembly lines are widely used and will be improved with the development of modern science and technology.
Para2: The invention of assembly lines made cars cheap enough for ordinary people to afford.
Para1: Cars have changed the way of our lives.
Task 2: read Para1 and answer the questions
1. How did people travel before the invention of cars? They used to travel ________, __________ and _______, or _______. (On foot, by horse, carriage, by boat)
2. Compared with cars, what’s the disadvantage of these means of transport? What’re the advantages of cars? (They took much more time.)
With the help of cars, people can ____________ and are able to travel farther to _________ or __________. (travel much faster, go to work, go on holiday)
3. Who helped people travel faster and farther?
(Henry Ford.) Show the pic of Ford
Read Para2 and find more information by answering the questions.
1. Did Henry Ford invent the world’s first car? If not, who invented it?
When and where?
(Introduce the world’s first car and the designer Karl Benz.)
2. Did many people buy cars at that time? Why ?
3. In the sentence “ this situation did not change until 1913…”, what does the word “situation” refer to (指向、代表) ?
4. What happened in 1913? How did the assembly line change the situation?
5. Why could many more Americans, even workers and factory workers buy cars?
6. Why do we say Ford’s invention not only changed America but the whole world as well?
7. What do you think of Henry Ford? Clue 1 (线索1）
Clue 2 (线索2)
Find out key words in Para2 to help Ss understand well The assembly line (the invention) change
The production of cars( speed up )
The way of people’s lives( many more people could buy them )
American (put the nation on the wheel ) The whole world
Today nearly everything is made with the help of assembly lines: cars, toys, appliances, etc.
Read Para3 and answer questions
1. What are the advantages of assembly lines?
They help make things at a much faster _____ and a far lower ______. (pace, cost)
2. What are the disadvantages of assembly lines? Working on them may be _______.(boring) 3. What’s the future of assembly lines?
They will be …
Post-reading:
1. Listen and read: Read the passage with the tape
2. Free talk:
How much do you know about assembly lines after the lesson?
Try to give a brief introduction to assembly lines.
Homework
1.Copy all the words twice 2.Finish Task III on SB P93
3.Finish off Skill Focus II &III on WB P55
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the world’s first car assembly line It helped to make the car production speed up. The cars were too expensive ……to buy.make fasterTask 1. Do the fast reading of the whole article and match the main idea of each paragraph:ParagraphMain idea
Para1
Para2
Para3Assembly lines are widely used and will be improved with the development of modern science and technology.The invention of assembly lines made cars cheap enough for ordinary people to afford.Cars have changed the way of our livesP92: Reading Assembly linesTask 2: read Para1 with 3 questions and try to answer them. 1. How did people travel before the invention of cars?2.What’s the disadvantage of the old travel ways ?
What’re the advantages of cars?3. Who helped people travel faster and farther?They used to travel ________, __________ and _______,
or _______.on footby horsecarriageby boatThey took ____________
Henry Ford.1863-1947 American With the help of cars, people can ____________
to _________ or __________.travel much faster and fartherget to workgo on holidaymuch more time.Task 3: Go to your partner and read Para2 with the questions together,then ask and answer: 1. Where was the world’s first car invented? 2. Why could few people afford to buy cars before 1913? 3. Who invented the world’s first car assembly line?4. Why could many more Americans, even farmers and
factory workers buy cars?5. What do you think of Henry Ford?Henry Fordhardworkingcleverbrilliantwiseput the nation on wheelsheroWhat do you think of Henry Ford?America the whole worldchangedNothing is difficult to the man who will try.Read para3 ,then choose the proper words to fill in the blanks. Go to tell your group leader .assembly lines, pace, cost, boring, disadvantagesToday nearly everything is made with the help of
_______________:cars, toys, appliances and so on. Each coin has got two sides. The assembly lines have got advantages and ______________ as well.They help to make things at a much faster _____ and a far lower ______.But working on them may be _______.pacecostboringassembly linesdisadvantagesTask 4:We have learned something about the development of .d
They will be improved and more will be designed with the development of .
Summary：We have learned something about the development of the cars and assembly lines.
They will be improved and more will be designed with the development of modern science and technology.
Summary：There is no end to progress.Nothing is difficult to the man who will try.Homework:* Surf the Internet to find more kinds of assembly lines,and get ready to introduce to your classmates next class.SEE YOU
