Unit 9 Technology
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?
questions to guide the students in paragraph four:
1) what is the main idea of this paragraph?
2) how many reasons are given in this paragraph? what words can be considered as clues to find out the main idea? ( answer, and, also, not only … but also)
questions to guide the students in paragraph five:
3) who is talked about in this paragraph?
4) what is his/her opinion of using cell phones?
5) why does he/she have such opinion?
6) what is the relationship between paragraph four and paragraph five?
7) what is the main idea of this paragraph?
iv. post-reading:
ask the students to do the exercises in this part on page 60.
writing on blackboard:
possible words:
cell phones, press, words, pictures, send, call…
outline:
viewpoint: today many chinese teenagers have a very fast-paced lifestyle and use cell phones.
paragraph 1: functions;
paragraph 2: comparison;
…
homework:
design your own cell phone and provide it with a description in english. in your description you should give the following items in detail:
1) color;
2) size;
3) shape;
4) material
5) feature
6) price
…
thought after class:
period iii mine is the best one ever
goals:
1) try to design a new cell phone by oneself with computer.