Unit 4 Information technology Lesson 2 Apps课件-2024-2025学年高中英语北师大版（2019）必修第二册

Unit 4 Information Technology Lesson 2 APPS Have you used these apps? What do you use them for? Warming-up 1. What apps do you often use? What do you use them for? Use the phrases below to help you talk with your partner. to book tickets to book accommodation to order food to find directions to learn a language to check the weather to look for popular restaurants to subscribe to newspapers and magazines Pre-listening 2. Before listening to an interview with an app developer, read the questions and predict the answers. Use the key words to help you. 1. Why are apps so popular? 2. What are the difficulties in developing an app? 3. What are the latest technologies used in apps? to become powerful to be useful to make life easier to solve real-world problems to enjoy learning activities to find what people need to use the latest technology VR (Virtual Reality) AR (Augmented Reality) MR (Mixed Reality) Pre-listening Listening for Key Words Listening for key words helps you _________________________ ______ and _______________________________________. • Before listening, __________________________. • While listening, _________________________________ the questions, e.g. popular, difficulties, latest technologies. • Listen for words ________________. understand the conversation better find the answers to questions more quickly read the questions carefully pay attention to the words related to that are stressed While-listening 1. Why are apps so popular? Listen to an interview with an app developer and find out: 2. What are the difficulties in developing an app? 3. What are the latest technologies used in apps? Because they are useful and make life easier. Finding out what people need and solving real-world problems. VR(Virtual Reality), AR(Augmented Reality) and MR(Mixed Reality). While-listening General functions Uses of educational apps Difficulties in developing an app finding popular restaurants calling for taxis finding directions to different places allow students to choose their online teachers and subjects according to their personal interests and needs ensure that students can all enjoy the same learning materials even when they are not sitting in the same classroom find out what people need solve real-world problems 3. Listen again. Complete the information. Post-listening 4. Answer the questions using the information in the table to help you. 1. What are some general functions of apps? General functions include: to find popular restaurants, call for taxis, find directions to different places, and so on. Students can choose their online teachers and subjects according to their personal interests and needs on educational apps. The difficult thing about developing apps is finding out what people need and solving real-world problems. 2. What can students do with educational apps? 3. According to Li Xing, what are the difficulties in developing an app? Post-listening 4. If you are able to develop an app to solve a real-world problem, what problem would you like to solve? And how? Create your own app. The following points are for your reference: ☆ Icon of your app ☆ What problem you want to solve ☆ Functions of your app ☆ Difficulties you met ☆ ... Activity 4: Listen and complete Asking for Help _____________________ with something? _____________________ set up an account. __________________and find out what’s going on? ________________ check again? Can you help me out I can’t figure out how to Can you do me a favour Would you be able to Activity 4: Listen and complete Offering Help ________________downloading it? No worries. ______________with that. ___________help you? _______ enquire about the order with the delivery man. ___________________anything else today? Do you need help I can help you How may I Let me Can I assist you with 106373.18 $$