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Teaching aims: 1. Knowledge and skills 1) Improve the students’ speaking ability by talking. 2) Enlarge the students’ vocabulary. 3) Get the students to know about abstract nouns. 2. Process and methods 1) Talking to improve the students’ speaking ability. 2) Practice to get the students to master what they have learnt. 3) Discussion to make every student work in class. 3. Emotion and values The students are not only to expand their knowledge of abstract nouns and words related to computers but to use it skillfully as well. Important points: 1. Help students understand how to form abstract nouns from verbs and adjectives. 2. Help students learn more words related to computers and try to use them. Difficult points: 1. Enlarge the students’ vocabulary by remembering some words. 2. How to explain the word formation of forming abstract nouns from verbs and adjectives. Teaching procedures: Step 1 Greetings Greet as usual. Step 2 American slang Fat cat Ask students some questions related to the slang, like: Do you know the meaning of this phrase? Can you guess the exact meaning of it? Students may answer the questions freely. The right answer: someone quite rich and really successful. Step 3 Forming abstract nouns from verbs and adjectives 1. Compare the following two groups of words: Group 1: house, milk, driver, games; Group 2: revision, preparation, decision, production. Which part of speech is each word? Think about the similarities and differences between the two groups. After discussion, students must can find the answers by referring to the text book. Answers: All the words are nouns, but words in Group1 refer to physical things and those in Group2 refer to ideas, actions, and qualities. The nouns in Group2 are called abstract nouns, and we always use them to say something we can not see or touch directly. 2. Explanation An abstract noun is a noun that refers to an idea, an action, a general quality or something that we can not see or touch directly, e.g., excitement. Most abstract nouns are uncountable. Only a few of them are countable, e.g., a hope, an idea and a situation. We can form abstract nouns from some verbs and adjectives by adding suffixes. We sometimes need to change the final letter(s) of a word before adding the suffix. 3. Change the following words into nouns by adding suffixes. produce, decide, please, patient, necessary, real, safe, happy, important, refer, enjoy, admire, fail, read, connect, cold. The answers: production, decision, pleasure, patience, necessity, reality, safety, happiness, importance, reference, enjoyment, admiration, failure, reading, connection, coldness. 4. Read about the history of one of the word’s most successful online businesses. Complete the article by forming abstract nouns from the verbs and adjectives in brackets. Use plural forms when necessary. Jeff Bezos has played an important role in the (1)_____________(develop) of Amazon .com, an online shop selling mainly book and music. He decided to set up Amazon .com when he saw the growing (2) ________(popular) of the Internet. During the first few years, the company did not make a profit and Mr. Bezos thought that his efforts would end in (3) _______(fail). However, Internet (4)__________ (connect) became faster and a lot of (5) _____________ (improve) were made to home computers. Soon Amazon .com began to make money and now has the most impressive online (6) ____________ (present) in the world. Mr. Bezos’(7) ___________ (achieve) has encouraged many other people to start online businesses. He has now won the (8) ___________ (admire) of business people everywhere. The answers: development, popularity, failure, connection, improvements, presentation, achievement, admiration Step 4 Words related to computers 1. Name the different parts of a computer: mouse, screen, keyboard, hard drive, mouse mat, CD-ROM/DVD-ROM, printer, speaker, floppy disk, U-Disk, monitor, CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive, floppy disk drive, TIP: ROM means Read Only Memory. RAM means Random Access Memory. CPU is the Central Processing Unit. 2. Exercises on Page 47 Step 5 Useful phrases 1. play an important role in在……方面起重要的作用 2. set up建立，组建 3. the growing/increasing popularity of……的日益风行 4. make a profit盈利 5. end in以……为结果 6. home computers家用电脑 7. make money赚钱 8. send e-mails发电子邮件 9. keep in touch with与……保持联系 get into touch with与……取得联系 lose touch with与……失去联系 in touch with与……处于联系中；与……有联系 out of touch with与……没有联系 10. go to college上大学 Step 6 Homework 1. Revise what we have learnt today. 2. Finish the related exercises after class. 3. Preview the Task of this unit. |
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