Module 9　Great  inventions

Unit 1 Will computers be used more than books

in the future?

Teaching objectives

Vocabulary

put up，website，mail，thousands of，page，electronic，full，fix，memory，instructions，lend，properly，put up，wait for，take good care of，lend … to …

Sentences pattern

1.They'll be put up on the school website.

2.And they can be seen on the Internet by other classes，even people living in other countries.

3.When I was at school，we waited for weeks to hear from our pen friends abroad.

4.… you must promise that you'll take good care of it.

5.If you have to lend it to anyone，tell them to use it properly.

key points and difficult points

1. 本单元词汇和重点句子。

2．一般将来时的被动语态

Teaching background

The main content of this unit is to use the passive voice of the general future tense to describe great inventions, including the invention of paper-making and printing, the emergence of computers and the wide use of the Internet. From the book, the module takes the first mock exam to learn and use the passive voice, and focuses on the use of passive voice in the future, so that students can master their usage through classroom activities.

Teaching Tools

blackboard, tape recorder , cards and multi-media

Teaching procedures

Step 1 Warming up & Leading in

1．Greetings.

2． Lead-in

The teacher uses questions to introduce today’s new lesson.

1. Do you often surf the Internet?

2. Do you read the e-books on the Internet?

3. Do you receive emails on the Internet?

Step 2 Presentation 

Vocabulary

1. The teacher leads the whole class to learn new words :

 website  mail  textbook  page  technology  memory  instructions

2.Let the students remember the words .

Listening

1.Let students to look at the pictures in activity 1 and work in pairs to describe the pictures.

① How have these inventions changed people’s lives?

②Which one do you think is the most important?

③What other important inventions can you think of?

1)  Ask students to show their answers.

2) Give encouragement and praise for good performance.

2.Listen and complete the sentences.

1) Listen to the tape and understand the main idea.

2) Let the students listen carefully and complete the sentences in activity 2.

3) Ask students to work in groups, discuss and give answers to see which group has a high accuracy rate.

4) Let students listen to the dialogue and pay attention to the words' pronunciation and intonation.

5) After listening to the dialogue, ask the students to answer the following questions according to the dialogue:

①What will Tony do on the school visit to the museum?

②Where did we get mainly information in the past?

Reading

3.Find out the sentences which belong to the passive voice in the dialogue.

1)Ask the students to check with a partner.

2) Check the answers.

 Now read the summary of the conversation. Underline the wrong information and correct it.

1) Ask the students to check with a partner.

2) Check the answers.

Language points

Let the students read activity 3 again, then find out the main language points and understand their meaning and usage in the text.

1. Can I borrow your camera?

    borrow表示借入，  borrow sth. from sb. ，

    表示向某人借某物。

    lend表示借出， 通常是lend sth to sb. ，  

    表示把某物借给某人。

    I borrowed a book from the library yesterday.

昨天我从图书馆借了一本书。

Tom lent his book to me last month.

上个月汤姆把书借给了我。

 2. They’ll be put up on the school website.

    put up   张贴，公布

    put down   放下               put off     推迟

    put on     穿上；上演      put away   收拾；放妥

    You can the notice on the noticeboard.

    你可以把通知贴在布告栏上。

3. In the past, we mainly got information from paper books.

    in the past表示“在过去”。

    mainly表示“大部分地，主要地”。是副词。它的形容词为main。例如：

    We mainly get food from the land and sea.

    我们主要从陆地和海洋获取食物。

4. Some were huge ones with thousands of pages.

    thousands of 表示“成千上万的”。

    Thousands of birds fly back to the north in spring.

成千上万的鸟儿在春天飞回北方。

拓展：hundred，thousand 及 million的具体用法

1). 用单数的场合

 当这些词与具体数字连用时, 习惯上用单数，而且其后也不接介词of 。

He was prepared to pay two million. 他愿意支付200万。

More than a hundred people were injured.有一百多人受了伤 。

但是，当这些词后面的名词有了the，these, those等特指限定词修饰时，或其后接的是us, them这样的人称代词时，此时必须用介词of。

About three hundred of them have left there.

他们当中约有300人离幵了那儿。

2). 用复数的场合

 当这些词不与具体数字连用，而是表示不确定的泛指概数时，则不仅要用复数，而且要 接介词of, 然后才能接名词。

The sun was shining. Thousands of people were lying on the beach.

阳光灿烂，数以千计的人躺在海滩上。

A careless mistake cost the company millions of pounds.

一个粗心的错误使公司蒙受数百万镑的损失。

5. And the memory card may be full.

    memory 表示“内存，存储器”。

    full adj. 满的；充满的  

    My suitcase was full of books.

我的提箱装满了书。

6. That can be fixed.

    此句为含有情态动词的被动语态。结构为情态动词+be+过去分词。

    fix v. 修补，挽救

The broken window need to be fixed. 这个破窗户需要修补。

辨析：repair, mend与fix

这三个动词都可以用来表示“修理”某一事物，使其能恢复到原来的形状或形态的意思。

1). repair的对象范围很广，从房屋、道路、机器到日常生活必需品，是使受到一定损失或失灵的东西恢复其形状或功能。

Who has repaired the broken leg of the table? 谁把桌子的断腿修好了？

2). fix用于需要重新“调整”物体的结构，把松散的部件固定结实，将分离的物体各部分装配起来。在美国口语中，它与repair无太大区别。

Can you fix the broken chair?

你能修理那把坏了的椅子吗？

fix指“修理”时，是个非正式的用语，它的基本含义是将某物“固定”在某一地方。 fix可用来指“修补”或“整理”任何出了毛病的东西，使用范围较repair广。

I am going to fix my bicycle tomorrow.

我准备明天修理自付车。

7. properly adv. 合适地，正确地

How much money do we need to do the job properly?

我们需要多少钱才能做好这件事？

8. we waited for weeks to hear from our pen friends abroad.收到国外笔友的来信需要好几周的时间。

hear from 收到…的来信；从…听到

I shall defer replying till you hear from home.

我将收到家信以后再给你回复。

I never saw him again, nor did I hear from him.

我再也没有见过他，也没有收到过他的信。

Step 3 Practice 

4. Find the sentences in the conversation which mean:

1) Ask two students to read and translate the sentences in activity 4.

2) Give students 3 minutes to find synonymous sentences in the dialogue.

3) Ask the students to check with a partner.

4) Check the answers.

5. Answer the questions.

 Let the students read the dialogue carefully and answer the questions in activity 5.

1) Ask the students to check with a partner.

2) Check the answers.

3) Lead the students to remember the words.

 Pronunciation & Speaking

6. Listen and mark the pauses.

1) Listen to the tape and mark the words after the pause.

2)Listen again and follow the tape.

7. Work in pairs. Talk about the advantages of these inventions.

1)  The teacher presents some pictures and keywords.

2)  Let students talk about the advantages of these inventions in groups.

3)  Ask some students to show their discussions.

4)  Give encouragement and praise for good performance.

Step 4 Homework

Introduce the greatest invention in your heart. Talk about its advantages and its impact on our life.

blackboard writing design

Unit 1 Will computers be used more than books

in the future?

Main phrases: 　　　　　

website  mail  textbook  page  technology  memory  instructions

Main sentences：

1.They'll be put up on the school website.

2.And they can be seen on the Internet by other classes，even people living in other countries.

3.When I was at school，we waited for weeks to hear from our pen friends abroad.

4.… you must promise that you'll take good care of it.

5.If you have to lend it to anyone，tell them to use it properly.