Important points:

2. Important points: • 1）Learn to understand the advances of computer technology and their impact on human life through reading, discussion, and task-based activities.. • 2）Learn to and use the key words to retell the text. • 3) Learn to use appropriately the phrases and expressions in the reading passage

3. Difficult points: • 1）Learn to use the key words to retell the text. 2）Learn to divide the text into several parts according to the meaning and tell the main idea of each part. 3) Understand how to use the Structures and new words in the text

4. Teaching Steps • Step I Warming Up • Steps II Pre-reading Tasks • Steps III While-reading • Step IV Learn the language points • Step V Language work • Step VI Assignment

5. Step I Warming Up • 1.Game time. • 2. Act to be a teacher • 3.   Learn the Proverb

6. Learn the Proverb • The world gets better every day, but gets worse every evening. • What does the proverb mean? • Means: The world keeps changing, often in a cycle. • Chinese meaning:

7. 2) Discuss the changes that you have experienced and observed? •       in the school management •       in the way of food and eating

8. Steps II Pre-reading Tasks • Discuss the following questions. • 1) Have you ever worked with a computer? • 2) What can people do with computers? • List the things that computers can do in our lives:

9. List the things that computers can do in our lives: • In our school: • Computers are used to keep the academic records of the students. • Computers are used in the library to do many things, one of whichis to keep a record of the books lent to readers. • In business: Computers are used to record sales information. In banks: Computers are used for making payments. Computers are used to do calculations. Return

10. Steps III While-reading • Discuss: • 1)    How many parts? • 2) What is the main idea of the text?

11. Steps III While-reading • How many parts? Part I (Para. 1&2 ) The computer is a wonderful machine, it is a revolutionary invention. Part II (Para. 3,4 & 5 ) Computers can do all kinds of work. Para.3 Computer can works on the information from al the sales.---- shopping Para.4 Another computer programme has the information about several kinds of diseases. Para.5 In some factories computerized robots do the work that people used to do. Part III(Para. 6)With frightening development of the computer, the question has been arised that the young should kwon how to make good use of computer.

12. What is the main idea of the text? • The text tells us about a revolutionaryinvention----computer. It is a wonderfulmachine, it can do all kinds of work for people. Since computer can do most of the things human can do, people should not use it in the wrong way.

13. Useful Structures and Expressions • 1) A doctor can explain what is wrong with a patient,…what to do… • What is wrong with a patient is a noun clause • 2) It is like talking to another human being.---- If the doctor asks why, the computer can goes through its stored information and explain exactly why. The way just act like human communication. • 3)It was thousands of years later that people developed a writing system.---that people developed a writing system is the subject Return

14. Step IV Learn the language points • 1. Look up the words in the dictionary • 1) go through.: • 2) (have ) effect on: • a) have a difficult or painful experience • b) search through, examine carefully a) (have ) impact on something b) bad influence on

15. Step IV Learn the language points • 1. Look up the words in the dictionary • 1) go through.: • 2) (have ) effect on: • a) have a difficult or painful experience • b) search through, examine carefully a) (have ) impact on something b) bad influence on

16. a) show relationship to an event or people b) have interpersonal skills i.e They valued her ability to emphasize and connect with other people. 3)  connect. 4)bother. 5) browse: a) take the trouble to do something b) upsetting, annoying i.e Is anything bothering you? a) look, read or see in a casual way in the hope of finding something useful b) feed on leaves, twigs, etc Return

17. Step V Language work • Finish the language work (A /B/ C) on page 107-108 • A • 1. terminals 2. down-load • 3. connect 4. browse on the screen of your • home computer • 5. store information 6. revolutionary • 7. a programme(program) 8. making reservations

18. B. • 1. be filled with 2. touch • 3. rarely 4. Imagine • 5. what is wrong with the patient • 6. go through 7. bothered • 8. developed 9. humanity • 10. at your leisure

19. C • Guidelines for grammar 1. If one wants to indicate that something is possible, he uses “can” 2. If one wants to indicate that something is possible, but he is not very sure, he uses “could”, “may” or “might”. There isn’t much difference between “may” and “might” in this sense. 3. If one wants to indicate that something was possible in the past, but he is not quite sure if it was so, he uses “could have”, “may have”or“might have”. There is almost no difference between “may have/might have” in this sense.

20. . • 4. “Could not have”can be used to indicate that it is not possible that something happened in the past • 5. “Could have” is also used to mean that there was a possibility for something to have happened in the past. But actually it did not happen. • E.g. • 1) Cooking can be a real pleasure. • 2) That could be a reason./ He might come./ They may help. • 3) It could have been tomato soup./ They may have noticed this advertisement./ He might no have seen me. • 4) He didn’t have a boat. So he could not have rowed away • 5) It could have been awful.(But it wasn’t awful)/ You could have got a job last year. Return

21. Step VI Assignment • Activity : Work individually to complete the worksheet Return