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Unit 4, book 4 The Telecommunications Revolution Total Period: 6 First Period：2 periods Teaching Material： New Horizon College English (Reading and writing) Teaching Objectives: A: learn to gain a general idea of the passage through text structure analysis. B: learn to use some important words such as: condense, recession, revenue, desperate, promote etc. C: learn to use “rather than” and “twice as…as, three times as…as”; D: master the prefix “super-, auto-” Teaching Procedure: A. Pre-reading Activity (10minutes) Students listening to a short passage and answering the following questions 1. What telecommunications devices are available in your life and what do they mean to you? cell phone, telephone, fax, internet, radio, satellite benefits: conveniences in my life; possible to communicate with others at any time and any places; access to endless amount of information; 2. Brain storming— what can we do with Internet now? (Free talk) B. While-reading Activity I. Structural analysis of the text 1. Ask students to sum up the main idea of the text to train Ss skimming ability. and then analyze the writing techniques of the text. The reading passage deals with one of the popular and current topics of today — telecommunications revolution. The passage explores the topic from different aspects:?the advantages of telecommunications technologies, questions that should be considered in developing the new technologies for developing countries, different countries trying to solve different problems with different resolutions, and lastly the conclusions: Introduction + Question + Sample Solutions + Conclusion Look at the following chart and you will find:? 1. The first part is made up of 2 paragraphs, Paragraphs 1 and 2. The 2 paragraphs focus on the overwhelming advantages of telecommunications revolution, esp. for developing countries: boosting living standards and promoting internal and foreign investment; stepping directly into the information age and leapi