必修4《Listening and vocabulary》新课标优质课教案设计

必修4《Listening and vocabulary》新课标教案优质课下载

■Procedures

Step 1: Before you read

Please go over the word list for this module, paying attention to the pronunciation of the word, the relationship between its pronunciation and its spelling.

Step 2: While you read

Cut/ the sentences into thought groups, blacken the predicates, underline the useful expressions and darken the connectives.

Step 3: After you read

Copy all the useful expressions into your Expression Book. You may make sentences with these expressions.

Useful expressions from Famous Last Words

come true, a few of the bad predictions, make predictions, in the twentieth century, flying machine, fly from New York to Pairs, a world market for…, thirty years from now, wear clothes made of paper, throw away, with the first moon colonies predicted for the 1970’s, in progress, require…to stay in …, on the moon, on the way out, by the year 2000, have a robot, be shaped like a box, with one large eye in the top, with several arms and hands, and long narrow pads on the side, move about, by the mid-1980’s, hide a key under the doormatStep 4: Talking about last words

You are going to put the article into a dialogue in pairs. The following can be an e.g. for you.

A: Not all predictions come true.

B: You are correct. Many of them are wrong and some are very wrong.

A: I found in a book a few of the bad predictions.

B: When were then made? What time were they made for?

A: They were made in the twentieth century about the twenty-first century.

C: I’d like to hear about some of the wrong predictions.

A: Orville Wright predicted in1908 that no flying machine would ever fly from New York to Pairs in the twenty-first century.

D: And Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, predicted in1943 that he thought there would be a world market for maybe five computers.

C: What? We all have our own computers now!

E: Changing Times Magazine, in 1957 reported that thirty years from then people would be wearing clothes made of paper which they would be able to throw away after wearing them two or three times.

A: That is true. My have seen such clothes on sale in the malls now.

E: In the Changes to Come, in 1962 Arnold B. Barach imagined that with the first moon colonies predicted for the 1970’s, work would then in progress on the types of building required for men to stay in when they would be on the moon.

B: It is a pity we have no permanent citizens on the moon. I’d like to go to the moon some day.

A: The spokesman for Decca Recording Co. , while rejecting the Beatles in 1962, said that “We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.”

E: It’s funny to say that. We still like guitar music now.