Unit 3 Tomorrow’s world reading Not just watching a film课件（必修4 unit3）

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Module 4 Unit 3
Reading-1
Not just watching a film…
Teaching aims and demands
Text understanding, catch the main idea of the text.
To improve students’ reading ability.
To let students’ know scientific and technological developments.
Teaching important and difficult points
Help students know some knowledge about the development and functions of RealCine.
Enable students to adopt the reading strategy of reading a business presentation.
Welcome to Pandora(潘多拉星球) !
Can you imagine what you feel when you are actually in the film
Let’s learn some information about different kinds of films.
3D film
---It is a film people watch with a special pair of spectacles, which gives a three-dimensional effect （立体效果）with images in the dimensions of width, height and depth.
4D film
---It is a 3D film with an added environmental effect, such as water or wind in the cinema.
Virtual reality could change the way we watch films.
Skimming & Scanning
What is the name of the product
How many of the user’s senses does this product connect with
Who went on a virtual trip to Africa
RealCine
Four of the use’s senses: sight, hearing, smell and touch.
A seventy-year-old grandfather.
Detailed reading
What technology is behind the product
What do users wear so they feel that they are really in a new world
Why do some people think that users will be disappointed by RealCine
What might people use RealCine for
Virtual reality
They wear special VR headsets and gloves.
Because VR is not real.
They can use it in making films, treating people with social problems, training and education, and also urban planning.
Reading strategy
A business proposal should be:
A good proposal usually includes:
To make the proposal objective:
Clear and appealing
Specific information
Convincing facts
examples
Passive voice is frequently used
Examples in the text
Detailed information:
Convincing facts or examples:
(can be found in para3)
How can RealCine excite the viewers’ five senses
Sense Equipment needed Effects in RealCine
Sight Special VR headset Users can see in 3-D all around them
Sound
Smell
Touch
Special VR headset
Users can hear the sound clearly all around them.
Smells are given out.
Small openings in the headset
Special gloves
Viewers can touch people and objects in the film
Examples in the text
Convincing facts or examples:
(an unconfident boy, a disabled old man,
teaching by bring history alive,
firefighters’ safe training)
Structure
In which paragraphs Main idea
the brief introduction of the presentation
How RealCine works.
Why RealCine is better than a film.
How it can be used in other ways.
para1
Para2,3
Para 4,5
Para6,7
Consolidation
Listen to the tape and fill in the blanks of the task-based reading according to the text.
How
RealCine
1. The technology 2 it is VR.
It can connect with your five senses in
a(n) 3 way.
Special VR headsets move 4 the direction where the user wants them to go.
Special gloves can help you have 5 to people and objects that you see in the film.
Small openings in the headsets give out smells to 6 the environment.
Different opinions
Used in other ways Firefighters could use it to train in 10 .
Teachers could bring history alive.
___8___a shy boy to become more confident;
help a___9__old man walk and touch a lion.
opponents
Users will be disappointed because VR is not real.
______7____
works
behind
active
in
access
match
supporters
Encourage
disabled
safety
Brainstorming
RealCine
What do you feel about RealCine now
Group work2: Writing an advertisement
Write an advertisement for the film Avatar.
The film uses the latest technology---- RealCine.
Words in the advertisement should be persuasive, attractive and interesting. (Ss can refer to the expressions on the blackboard)
Homework
Write an essay about how RealCine works.
Underline some important phrases and sentences.