Unit 4 Living with Technology Integrated skills 教案- 2023-2024学年高中英语牛津译林版（2020）选择性必修第二册

主备人： 审核人： 年级教学组长： 年 月 日 总第 课时 单元、课题 课时数 教学目标 By the end of this section, students will be able to: 1. understand the purpose and content of time capsules; 2. interpret Einstein’s message to future generations in the 1939 time capsule; 3. discuss detailed information about their time capsule for 2050; 4. Write a letter to people in 2050. 教学重点、难点 1. Knowing about and understand the detailed information about time capsule; 2. Writing an article. 教法、学法 Step 1 Lead-in Watch a clip of video Questions: What do you think the machine is ? What is it used for in the video? what does it look like? Possible answer: 1. Time machine . 2. To travel in time 3. A capsule 【设计意图：快速引入单元话题。】 Step 2 Reading B1. Ask students to read the introduction to the time capsule and answer the following questions.(page51) 1. What were the purpose and contents of the 1939 time capsule? 2. What was Einstein’s message to future generations about? 3. Why do you think he wrote the message with mixed feelings? Suggested answers: 1. To show the people living in the year 6939 what life was like in America at the time the capsule was created. The time capsule contained a wide variety of objects, like a toothbrush, a fountain pen, microfilm rolls and a message written by Albert Einstein. 2. It was about the technological progress man had made and Einstein’s predictions that future generations would read his message with feelings of pride and justified superiority. 3. He felt a mixture of pride and worry probably because on the one hand, America had achieved many great things unimaginable to people in the past, but on the other hand, serious social problems were developing in his time. Useful words and expressions 1. world fair 世界博览会 2. a variety of 各种各样的 3. be rich in 在...很丰富 4. inventive minds 有创造力的头脑 5. relieve people from... 把人们从...中解放出来 6. be colored by 受到...的影响 7. justified superiority 合理的优越感 Step 3 Listening A1. Ask students to