Unit 3 Computers Reading学案
学习目标:
通过本单元的学习,使学生了解计算机的发展历程及其在当今社会的广泛应用。
鼓励学生用英语表达自己的观点并进行简单的理由阐述和作出决定。
教会学生按时间的先后顺序描述一件事。
使学生了解和掌握现在完成时的被动语态的用法。
注意下列词组在文中的应用:
a calculating machine 计算机器 an analytical machine 分析机
a technological revolution 科技革命 artificial intelligence 人工智能
a universal machine 通用机器 the World Wide Web 万维网
语篇解读:
I. Fast reading: Read the passage and find out the topic sentence of each paragraph.
Para1: _____________________________________________________________________
Para2: _____________________________________________________________________
Para3: _____________________________________________________________________
II. Second reading. Read the passage for the second time and finish the following exercises.
Task 1. Choose the best answer to each question according to the text.
1. Look at the pictures and the title of the passage. Predict what it is going to be about._______
A. the importance of computers. B. the applications of current computers
C. the development of computers D. the future of computers.
2. What can you infer from the text? __________
A. the computer has artificial intelligence
B. the computer changes a lot over years
C. the computer was not connected by a network until in the early 1960s
D. now the computer can only be used to deal with information
Task 2. Read the passage and finish the timeline below.
1642: Computers began as a ____________ machine in _____________.
1822: The ___________ machine was made by Charles Babbage.
1936: Computers grew rapidly both in ____________ and in ___________.
1940s: A computer grew as large as a _____________.
1960s: The first ____________ of computers was connected to each other.
1970s: Computers were used in _____________ and in ______________.
Now:Computers connect people all over the ____________.
III. Analyze some important sentences and translate them.
① Over time I have been changed quite a lot.
② Over time my memory has developed so much that, like an elephant, I never forget anything I have been told!
③ I have been put into robots and used to make mobile phones as well as help with medical operations.
此三句中都包含了一个共同的时态是_____________________,它的基本结构是___________________
④I developed very slowly and it took nearly two hundred years before I was built as an analytical machine by Charles Babbage.
⑤At that time it was considered a technological revolution and the start of my “artificial intelligence”.
认为某人/某物…____________________________________
⑥From then on, I grew rapidly both in size and in brainpower.
⑦But I was always so lonely standing there by myself, until in the early 1960s they gave me a family connected by a network.
standing there by myself在句中作__________________ connected by a network在句中作_____________
⑧I was able to share my knowledge with others through the World Wide Web.
⑨Anyhow, my goal is to provide humans with a life of high quality.
10. I am now truly filled with happiness that I am a devoted friend and helper of the human race!
IV. Find out the following phrases in the passage and try to recite them.
1.有共同之处_________________________ 2. 把…和…相比____________________
3. 经过一段时间_______________________ 4. 从那时起______________________
5. 随着时间的推移_____________________ 6. 结果__________________________
7. 如此…以至于… _____________________ 8. 独自地,单独地__________________
9. 与…分享…_________________________ 10. 和,也_____________________
11. 为某人提供某物_____________________ 12. 高质量的生活___________________
13. 充满_________________________
V. Read the whole passage and fill in the blanks.
Over time I have been changed quite a lot. I began as a(n ) ______ machine in 1642 in France. Then in 1822 I was built as a(n) ______ machine. My real father, Alan Turing, built a(n) “______ machine” to solve any ______ problem in 1936. Since I was huge at that time, people thought I was ______. As the years have ______ by, I have been made smaller and smaller. There were times when my size was _______ changed. I became smaller and thinner but I got cleverer and cleverer. In the early 1960s, I was given a family _______ by a network. Since I was brought into people’s homes, my family and I have been used to _______ with information and communication each other around the world. I have ______ been built to serve the human race since my birth.
参考答案
I. :Para1: Over time I have changed quite a lot .
Para2: These changes only became possible as my memory improved.
Para3: Since the 1970s many new applications have been found for me.
II. Task1: 1. C 2. B
Task 2: calculating; France; analytical; size; brainpower; room; family; offices; homes; world
III. 1.现在完成时的被动语态;have/has been done
⑤ consider+ sb./ sth. +as /(to be) +n./pron./adj. ⑦伴随状语;后置定语
IV. 1. have …in common 2. compare … with …. 3. over time 4. from then on
5. as time goes by 6. as a result 7. so…that… 8. by oneself
9. share…with… 10. as well as 11. provide sh. with sth/provide sth. for sb.
12. a life of high quality 13. be filled with
V. calculating; analytical; universal; mathematical; simple-minded; gone; totally; connected; deal; truly