Unit7 New Waves of Technology教案 reading to learn this section includes three articles on technological achievements and on problems arising from technological achievements. NASA ROVER WAKES UP ON MARS Without the books open, write the title of this text on the board. Have Ss predict what the text is about from the title. Questions: What’s the subject in this title? What do you think a NASA Rover could be? What is the verb? Give other examples that wake up. What is the object? What is Mars? How can you travel to Mars? Would this be a person or thing that would travel to MARS? What type of technology will we read about in this text? Does anyone is the class know something about Mars that they could share with the class? There is a lot of new vocabulary in this text. Assign the reading for homework and have the Ss categorize the new vocabulary into the following groups Find all the words or phrases related to the Rover Find all the words or phrases related to the Mars Find all the words or phrases related to NASA Discuss post –reading activities with the class TECHNOLOGY FOR A NATION Again, without the book open discuss the title .Have the Ss make predictions about the text. Questions When did china send a person to space? Who was that person that traveled into space? How did China succeed in send a person into space? What is involved in sending a human being into space? When did china begin to develop space technology? What have Chinese scientists achieved over the years? Ask the Ss to imagine or predict what will happen in two years from now in space technology. will one of then will travel into space in the future? Teaching tip Predictions encourage the sS to relay on prior knowledge and interpretations of the title words. Assign the reading for homework. Discuss post –reading activities in the following lesson Check students’ predictions with information in the text. MOTHER SUES NESTLE OVER LACK OF GM MILK LABEL SCMP stand for south china morning post, a major English newspaper based in Hongkong Nestle: nestle with headquarters in Vevey, Switerland was founded in 1866 by Henry Nestle, a pharmacist, who developed a food for babies who were unable to breastfeed. His first success was a premature infant who could not tolerate his mother’s milk or any of the usual substitutes. People quickly recognized the value of the new product, after Nestle’s new formula saved the child’s life ,and soon, Farine Lactee Henri Nestle was being sold in much of Europe. Nestle is today the world’s biggest food and beverage company. The number of it s employees is about 253 000. it has factories or operations in almost every country in the world. before introducing the text have a discuss about labels. Bring in several items with labels, for example: a can of bamboo shoots, dried noodles, dried soup, tomato sauce, ketchup, etc. divide the sS into groups and hand out an item to each group. Introd ... ...
