内容正文:
The Internet
Unit3 Reading and thinking
Stronger Together:
How We Have Been Changed by the Internet
共同强大:我们是如何被互联网改变的
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Teaching objectives:
By the end of this period, you will be able to…
1. figure out the main structure of the passage.
2. judge the writing purpose and intended readers.
3. express your own ideas on the given topics.
Lead in
Do you know some vocabulary about the Internet?
Internet
vocabulary
World Wide Web
Search engine
blog
network
Wi-Fi
online group
online community
online class
IT club
database
hardware
software
Listen to music
Have class online
Task 1 Reading for prediction
Stronger together:
How we have been changed by the Internet
Read headlines:
Headlines usually include only key ideas or information from the text.
Pair work
Look at the title and discuss these questions in pairs.
What do you think the text will say?
How do you think the writer feels about the topic?
Prediction
Find out the main idea of each paragraph.
Task 2 Fast reading
Activity 2: Find out the structure and match
Part 1
(Para____)
Part 2
(Para_____)
Part 3
(Para____)
Jan’s feeling
The benefits of the Internet
Jan’s experience
1
2-4
5
Listen to the radio for the first time, and find out the main idea of each para and do the matching.
10
Q: What benefits does the Internet bring us?
Shopping without cash or waiting in line.
Get the most updated information from larger databases (search engines)
Download software,documents,images
Task 3 Careful reading
Para1:The wonders of the World Wide Web.
more
convenient
2.
3.
1.
Discuss the following questions in groups.
• Which sentence is the topic of the whole text?
• How does the writer explain the topic?
• What type of text it is?
The last sentence of Paragraph 1.
By giving examples.
It’s a narration, which tells a story, including its background, people, place, time, reason, process and effects (who/where/when/why/how/what).
Para2: The reason why Jan began to surf the Internet.
Which of the following is n