河北省辛集三中高中英语 unit3 Period 6 Writing教案 新人教版必修2

Period6 Writing
Teaching goals
1． Enable the students to take an active part in sear ching for information and discussion.
2． Enable the student to write a short group essay about an android and what it can do and improve the students’ ability of writing.
3． Enable the students to use what we have learned in this u nit.
Teaching important points
How to organize and write a short essay about an android.
Teaching methods
Research, cooperative learning and discussing
Teaching procedures:
Step 1 Discussion
1. Get the students to discuss with the other members of their group about an android and wh at it can do
2. Get the students to discuss their choices with other groups and make sure that each group will be writing about an android.
Here are some examples of useful words.
Words: mop, deal with, niece, watch over,
Step 2 Writing
The purpose of this exercise is to discuss together and then decide which kind of computer you would like to buy for you．Think about what the school needs as well as what you like．Let the students do the exercise in pairs and share their ideas with others．Finally they should write the report．Remember to say which computer you have chosen and give a reason．You should also say why you did not choose the other computers．
It is said that computers could be put into androids or robots. Read the text Andy—The Android, underlining all the expressions and think of the fun you could have!
Expressions from Andy—The Android
part of a football team, once a year, get together, play a football game, be as…as…, in fat, look like…, on the football team, run fast, think like a human, shout to…, in computer language, have a good shot for a goal, get second place, win the first place, have a new kind of program, improve one’s intelligence, create a better system, play against a human team, in a way, program…with…, make up…, after all, with the help of…
1. Show some important phrases and sentences on the blackboard for students to use in their passage. For example:
Words: model android, store all the books
2. Get the students to give each person in the group one of the topics from the list to write a paragraph about.
3. when everyone has finished, ask the students to read the paragraphs aloud in the correct order, making suggestions for improving each others’ writing and check each others’ spelling, punctuation and grammar.
4 Ask the students to write a clean copy of the whole essay.
The purpose of this piece of writing is to develop empathy in the students．They have to imagine they are androids looking after a family with one child．They need to imagine what problems and delights this android might have to deal with．Putting yourself in someone else's shoes is a very important way of understanding how other people feel．This is a very useful exercise
Sample writing1:
My robot’s name is Yanyan. It is a 32 model android. It works for me and looks after my library. Its job is to store all the books that I borrow from the library or from school. Of course Yanyan’s brain is as large as a mountain so work like that is no trouble at all.
I need Yanyan to remember all these books, so it can help me do my homework’ I want to go to a key university but finding the information o need is hard work. So Yanyan can help me. This leaves me more free time to play sports and talk to my friends.
My father says my robot may not be cheap but it really help me with my homework. Sample writing2:
Hello e verybody, my name is Liu Yan．I am a 321 model android．I work for the Li family and I look after their library．My job is to store all the books that they
borrow from their school or friends in my brain．Of course my brain is as large as a mountain so work like that is no trouble to me．I really eat books just like people eat food. If any family member gets ill, we can still stay in our apartment. Because, the robot is the doctor. Yes, robots may be everything except humans in the future。