Unit 3 The world online Reading (II) I. Learning objectives By the end of the lesson, students will be able to: 1. understand the usage of the following words and expressions: access, to a certain extent, at one’s fingertips, majority, deliver, establish, get in the way, comment, aware; 2. use the above words and expressions in new situations; 3. think of collocations about online activities and put them in different categories; 4. write a short paragraph about a comparison of life before and after smartphones were invented. II. Key competence focus 1. Understand some new words and expressions. 2. Use the new words and expressions correctly. III. Predicted area of difficulty Use the new words and expressions correctly. IV. Teaching procedures Step 1 Lead-in Review the main idea of the article. T: Hello, everyone, nice to meet you! We’ve learned an article describing the advantages of the Internet. Today we shall review the text, discuss how to use some of the words and expressions, and practise using them in different situations. T: Would you fill in the form according to what you have learned We divide them into three parts: introduction, main body and conclusion. Parts Paragraphs Main ideas Introduction Para. 1 The Internet has become a world without _____ because it connects people across the world to a single shared community. Main body Para. 2 People have quick and easy _____ to a huge amount of information because of the Internet. Para. 3 The Internet has made our lives convenient with goods and services provided by _____. Para. 4 The Internet helps us _____ and maintain social ties. Conclusion Para. 5 We must be _____ of problems caused by the Internet. Keys: frontiers, access, e-commerce, establish, aware 【设计意图：回归课本，回忆文章。通过篇章结构的理解引领学生到词汇上面来。】 Step 2 Language comprehension and extension 1. Word study: access (1) Understand the meaning of access in the article and its collocations T: We can achieve almost anything online—with access to the Internet come some truly life-changing advantages. (para. 1, lines 4-6) What’s the meaning of access here T: It means the opportunity or right to use sth or to see sb/sth. Could you translate the sentence into Chinese S: 在网上我们几乎什么都能做到。接入互联网带来了一些实实在在改变我们生活的好处。 T: Well done. Let’s make a similar sentence: 使用智能手机带来了一些实实在在的、改变我们生活的好处。 S: With access to the smartphone come some truly life-changing advantages. T: The word access is used in another sentence. Can you find it T: One of the greatest advantages of the Internet lies in the quick and easy access to a huge amount of information. (para. 2, line 7-8) From the sentences above we can learn the word access is often followed by the preposition to. We use the phrase have/get/gain access to in sentences. e.g. Nowadays, with the development of the information industry, everyone can have easy access to the smartphone. (2) Access as a verb T: Do remember acc ... ...
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