内容正文:
《高中英语(上外版)》必修第三册 Unit 4 Life and Technology
课时:第 1 课时
课题:Life with a Robot Dog
课型:阅读课
一、教学设计与说明
1. 教学目标
本课为本单元的第 1 课时,核心目标为引导学生理解并运用描述科技新事物特征的词块、表达对科技新事物态度的词块,能够批判性地看待科技与生活的关系。
2. 设计思路
本课为本单元的第一课时,旨在帮助学生理解文本内容,了解机器狗的特征以及作者的情感态度,并形成对科技与人类关系的思考。在理解文本的同时,就生词、有助于文本主旨理解的词进行讲解探讨,帮助学生在主题语境下习得词汇。导入部分通过情景引入,让学生通过教师的个人经历和图片了解到生活中不同的机器人,让学生用形容词初步描述机器人,对文本话题产生兴趣并初步感知。课文的理解围绕机器狗的特征、机器狗与宠物狗的异同、作者的情感态度变化展开,学生在阅读、问题的思考与讨论中理解文本主旨,并加深对部分单词的理解。通过文本的学习,学生对科技与生活的关系有一定的思考,批判看待科技对生活带来的利弊。最后,通过层层递进的作业,学生在主题语境下巩固复习描述科技新事物特征和表达对科技态度的词块,并在主题语境下自主查找话题资料,丰富词块内容,完成演讲产出。
3. 教学重点及难点
分析比较机器狗和宠物狗的异同,通过一些表述推断作者情感态度,思考科技与生活的关系。
Lesson Plan
By the end of the period, the students are expected to:
1.summarize the similarities and differences between the robot dog and a pet dog and understand the vocabulary describing the features of the robot dog by answering and discussing questions about the text.
2. analyze and make inferences about the writer’s feelings towards the robot dog and discuss the reasons for the change of attitudes by reading each paragraph in detail.
3. critically think about the relationship between human beings and robots in the age of technology.
Procedures:
Lead-in
*T: Describe the teacher’s own experience with a robot guide. Ask students to describe the robots in the pictures with some adjectives.
*Ss: Describe the robots with some adjectives.
Purpose: To elicit the topic and help students to link their personal experiences with the topic to arouse their interest.
Reading activity 1
*T: Ask students to read paragraph 1 and find how dog-like the robot dog is.
*Ss: Read paragraph 1 and find that the robot dog is similar to a pet dog in appearance, movement and size.
*T: Ask students to think about why the robot dog can be flexible and what feelings the writer wanted to express with the words ‘sleek’ and ‘polished’.
*Ss: Make inference about the writer’s feelings towards the robot dog through the words.
*T: Ask students to find the expressions in paragraph 1 and summarize the writer