Teachng Plan for Unit 3 Computers.docVIP

Teaching Plan for Unit 3 Computers Period 1: Warming up and Reading Learning Objectives Ability objectives 1. Improve students’ ability to describe pictures and express ideas. 2. Improve students’ ability to summarize. Knowledge objectives 1. Learn some important words and expressions: abacus, calculator, calculate, PC, laptop, robot, network, common, analytical, technological, revolution, universal, mathematical, simple-minded, artificial intelligence, truly 2. Learn some communicative expressions: I think that… In my opinion… I believe that… What is your reason? Why do you think so? 3. Students will know the development of computer by reading the text. Affective objectives 1. Cultivate the positive attitudes towards the progress of science and technology. 2. Take an objective view towards what computers bring to our lives. Focus Learn how to express opinions and share them with others. Improve reading skills—skimming and scanning. Teaching Methods task-based approach, cooperative learning Teaching Aids a projector, a computer, a blackboard Teaching Procedures Step 1 Warming up Task 1 Order the pictures 1. Look at the following pictures in PPT and put them in right order according to the time when they appeared. calculator abacus laptop PC huge computer robot PDA the right order: abacus-calculator-huge computer-PC-laptop-PDA-robot 2. Ask students what these things have in common. And guide them to find out these things can all process data and the development of computers brought tremendous change to our daily life. Questions: 1. What do they have in common? 2. What is a computer? Suggested Answers: (1) to be used to calculate; (2) operate by human beings; (3) they are all artificial; (4) show figures in a certain way. A computer is a machine which stores knowledge in its memory and does calculations on that knowledge. This knowledge is stored in symbols; it is called data. A computer usually has a monitor