|
|
Unit 3 The Internet
Reading and Thinking
【学习目标】
1. To talk about how to use the Internet properly.
2. To combine one’s own life experience of using the Internet with one’s real life.
3. To improve reading skills of understanding a passage deeper by using the mind map and listing examples.
4. To contribute individuals’ strength, help the people around to explore the virtual world online, and experience the magic of the Internet.
【学习重难点】
1. To consolidate the reading skills like skimming and scanning for details.
2. To work out the main ideas and outline of a passage.
3. To retell the text.
【学习过程】
Step 1: Warming up and prediction
Read the title and try to guess what the text will be about?
Go through the Learning tip.
Read headlines
Headlines usually include not only key ideas or information from the text. They often do not follow strict grammar rules, because writers use as few words as possible to catch the attention of the readers.
|
Step 2: Skimming for general ideas
1. What’s the main idea of the passage? ______
A. Jan developed a serious illness. B. Jan decided to start an IT club.
C. Jan started a charity website. D. Jan’s life has been changed by the Internet.
2. Jan’s attitude to the Internet is ______.
A. negative B. neutral C. grateful D. not mentioned
3. What’s the purpose of the author by referring to the 59-year-old man and the 61-year-old woman? ______
A. To introduce two old people.
B. To explain how to apply for jobs online.
C. To prove they are successful.
D. To give two examples helped by Jan’s club.
Step 3: Scanning for details
Read the passage quickly to solve the following questions.
Read the text and answer the questions.
1. Why did Jan quit her job?
2. How did the people in the online community help her?
3. Why did she start the IT club?
4. What is the “digital divide”?
5. What's Jan's next goal?
6. What can we learn from her experiences?
Step 4: Careful reading for main ideas of each paragraph.
1 Read carefully and figure out the main idea of each paragraph.
Paragraph 1: _____________________________________________
Paragraph 2: _____________________________________________
Paragraph 3: _____________________________________________
Paragraph 4: _____________________________________________
Paragraph 5: _____________________________________________
Paragraph 6: _____________________________________________
Paragraph 7: _____________________________________________
Step 5: Critical thinking
(1) How do you arrange your time spent on study and the Internet? Is it reasonable?
(2) What are your online activities? Are they safe?
Step7 Homework:
Review what we have learned and find out the key language points in the text.
|
|
川公网安备51152402000101号 )|网站地图
发表于