Unit 9 Technology
贵州省都匀市民族中学　558000　赵培桃

Period I Listening
Goals:
1)to know the expressions used to describe an object;
2)to guess the objects described in the listening materials.
Assistant tools:
1)a cassette tape and recorder
2)a ball-pen
3)a key
4)an eraser
Procedures:
1)Preparation
The teacher will show the students an object as an example to the students. Ask them to think about the expressions used to describe an object. Then write their answers on the blackboard.
The teacher tells the students that she/he has had something in her/his pocket and ask them to guess what it is. They may use the expressions listed on the blackboard.
Find two students and ask them to do the same thing. The rest of them will do the guess.
2)Play the cassette tape for the students to listen twice. The students will do the exercises in this part.
Writing on blackboard:
Expressions used to describe an object:
1)What do we call it in English?
2)What color/size/shape is it?
3)How do people use it?
4)How does it work?
5)What does it look like?
6)What is it made of/from?
7)Who usually use it?
8)When do they use it?
9)Where do we usually see it?
Keys:
1) Toothpicks; eating, opening a bottle, teaching babies a lesson and so on. 2) Cell phones; making phone calls, sending pictures, playing games and so on.
3) Refrigerators; keeping food fresh, keeping drinks cool, storing things.

Homework:
The class is divided into four groups in which each student must prepare more than three riddles. The riddles are about objects in our daily life.
Thought after class:
Period II Life on the go
Goals:
1)Try to find the main idea of each paragraph;
2)Try to guess new words from the context;
3)Try to express one’s opinion.
Assistant tools:
Procedures:
I.pre-reading:
Get the students to discuss the questions listed in Pre-reading on P59;
Questions:
1)Have you ever used a cell phone? Do any of your classmates have cell phones?
2)How is the way we live today different from life in the past? How have inventions and new technology changed our way of life?
3)Why are things like cell phones, computers and TV so popular?
4)How did people keep in touch with each other in the past? How about nowadays?
II.Guessing the outline of the passage.
Questions to guide the students:
1)By the title “life on the go”, what does the writer try to talk about?
2)What kind of people and things does the writer try to talk about?
3)What is the main idea of Paragraph One? Ask the students to read Paragraph One quickly and look at the picture on the right side. (Today many Chinese teenagers have a very fast-paced lifestyle and use cell phones.)
4)If you are the writer, what words will you use in your article? How many paragraphs are you going to write? And what are you going to talk about in each paragraph? Give an outline of your article:
III.Reading: ask the students to read each paragraph quickly and find out the main idea of each of them.
Questions to guide the students in Paragraph Two:
1)How many things can we use cell phones to do?
2)Can you think of any other things that the writer doesn’t mention in the text?
3)What does the writer try to tell us in Paragraph Two?
Questions to guide the students in Paragraph Three:
1)How many kinds of people are mentioned in this paragraph?
2)Why does the writer talk about them in this paragraph?
3)Do they have the same attitude to cell phones being used in school?
4)Do they have the same reasons? What are their own reasons if they have different reasons?
5)What is the relationship between the fist sentence and the second sentence?
6)What is the main idea of this paragraph?
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