Section III Maintaining a Sharp Eye
授课时间：第十周
授课节次：3—4
授课内容：Section III Maintaining a Sharp Eye
Passage I For Conversation Press #1
教学目的：1. The students should be able to understand the whole passage.
2. The students are required to be familiar with and master the important
expressions and ntence structures in this passage.
3. Learn to u the strategy of scanning to locate specific information in a passage (reading skills development).
4. Know more about the good and bad of cell phones.
教学重点：Explain and elaborate this passage in an easy-understanding way.
Master the important expressions and ntence structures in this passage.
教学难点：language points in this passage; exerci 6 on page 44
教学步骤：
Step 1: Lead-in
1. Warm-up questions
1) What are the advantages of the cell phone?
2) What are the advantages of e-mail and voice mail?
2. The teacher provides some information related to the reading passage.
a cell phone: 手机，移动电话
ATM: 自动取款机
a voice mail锡师附小: 有声邮件
Step 2: Ask the students to skim the passage and be prepared to answer the comprehension questions on page 43.
Step 3: The teacher asks one question for each paragraph, the students read this passage paragraph by paragraph, and then give their answers to the questions.
Question 1: Why does the author feel lonely with a贾三灌汤包 cell phone, e-mail and voice mail in hand?
Question 2: Why does he become invisible and abnt from his conversation with his friend?
Question 3: Why does he think cell phones are preferable to human contact?
Q燕的形近字uestion 4: What are the advantages of e-mail and voice mail?
Question 5: What’s the conquence brought about by the围裙水仙 communications technology?
Question 6: What’s the author’s attitude towards the communications revolution?
Step 4: Ask the students to analyze the structure of this passage.
Step 5: The teacher analyzes this passage in detail, and explains the language points and difficult ntences.
1. Important words and phras
1) evidently adv. apparently
e.g. From the warm temperature and abundant flowers, it is evidently spring here.
2) preferable adj. better or more suitable, to be preferred
e.g. Gradual change is preferable to sudden change.
e.g. She found life in the city preferable to her quiet life in the country.
3) connect v. join together; to reach sb. by telephone
e.g. A new road connects the two small cities.
4) unable adj. not able, incapable
e.g. I am unable to cycle to school becau my bicycle is broken.
e.g. He is unable to walk becau of a bad ankle.
5) advance n. an improvement
e.g. There have been great advances in medicine in the last 50 years.
6) in advance phr. ahead of time
e.g. Everything had been fixed in advance.
7) deposit v. to put sth. Valuable, such as money, in a bank or brokerage account
e.g. Sam deposited ten dollars in his savings account.
n. a partial payment to hold goods or property until the buyer makes complete payment 押金，定钱
e.g.自傲的意思 She left a deposit on the coat.
8) inrt v. to put sth. into, between, or among
e.g. The old lady carefully inrted a letter into an envelope.
9) account n. money kept in a bank for prent or future u
e.g. He opened an account at my bank in your name.
10) conquence n. the result of doing sth.
e.g. I’m quite willing to accept the conquence.
e.g. He doesn’t consider the conquence.
11) check out phr. pay the bill and leave a hotel
e.g. Mr. Smith checked out from that hotel and then left.
2. Explanation of difficult ntences
1) (Para. 6) Why is it that the more connected we get, the more disconnected I feel?
Analysis: In this ntence, the antecedent it stands for the subject that-clau (that the more connected we get, the more disconnected I feel), where the comparative … structure is ud. Similar structure can be found in “What is it that …?”坚持做某事
Translation: 为什么我们联系得越多，我却越感到失去了联系呢？
Example: Why is it that you know so much?
2) (Para. 7) As almost every conceivable contact between human beings gets automated, the alienation index goes up.
Analysis: “As” is a conjunction, meaning “at 杨广死后谁当皇帝the same time that”.
墓碑样式Translation: 随着人们之间几乎每一种联系都变得自动化起来，疏远的指数就日益上升。
