Comic strip and welcome to the unit

By Xu Xianggu

1.Teaching aims and demands on knowledge and abilities

a. To get to know the main topic of this unit ---computer.

b. To learn to guess the meanings for each picture.

c. To get to know the basic use of a computer and learn to talk about them.

e. To gain a feeling of success through making up and acting out after the samples in English.

f.To develop our students’ society sense

2.Teaching focus:

To leaen to talk about what to use a computer for.

3.Teaching difficulty:

To get to know the new grammar –passive voice

4. The teaching methods

Teaching aids: multi-media

Teaching methods: Communicative Approach

Study strategies: autonomous learning; pair work & group cooperation

Part Three Teaching procedures:

Procedure

Step One Greetings

Step Two presenting

1.I’ll show a picture of a computer and ask:

What is this?

Do you have one at home?

What do you usually do in your free time ?

Do you enjoy computer games ?

2.Leading-in by asking

Do you only use your computer to play games?

What do you use your computer for?

Why?

How often do you use your computer to help your study or play games ?

(Here encourage students to give opinions as many as possible and present the expressions such as drawing and designing , playing games, sending receiving e-mails)

3.Show the pictures one by one and ask

Do you know any other uses of a computer?

What does your father use a computer for?(According to each picture present the words and expressions such as word processing ,search for information, writing computer programs)

4.Read them and try to make sentences with them.

Step Three practice

1. Check them on the words and phrases: Show the six pictures and ask them to give the computer use in English.

2. Work in pairs with the expressions: What do you use your computer for? I use it to-

3.And then ask two students to read the dialogue as Daniel and Simon and the others listen to them with the following questions

What does Simon usually use his computer for?

Why and how often?

4.Work in pairs of two after the model (Here more opinions encouraged)

Step Four Presenting

1.Listen to the tape with this question: Do Eddie and Hobo know well about computers ?

2.After listening, ask the students the following questions

What do Eddie and Hobo think the computer look like?

Do you know what the remote control really is?

3. Ask the students to read the part and act out in pairs

4. With the sentence: the TV is turned on now, introduce the sentence pattern-- passive voice

（Write it on the blackboard and explain the form and meaning with more samples: such as The blackboard is cleaned after class ,I am often asked questions by my teacher in class .）

Step Five Practice

More practice with the words and expressions such as online travel, online friends , Have no idea, look like …, the remote control, turn …on, turn –off, change the channel, show the different uses of …, play games, search for…search sb for , send and receive e-mails, write computer programs,

Step Six Homework

a. Read the comic strips and try to recite it.

b. Try to review the new words and expressions in this period.

c. Prepare for the reading part.

Teaching Designs

Online Travel

online Searching for information What do you use your computer for?

remote control Word processing I use it to---

turn on Writing computer programs The TV is turned on now.

have no idea The blackboard is cleaned after class.