Unit 3 Project Doing Research on the Internet
Teaching aims:
Encourage students to practise their English by completing a project.
Important & difficult points:
1. Read an information sheet about Internet research.
2. Language points in the text.
3. Students use what they have learnt to finish a project by working together.
Teaching procedures:
Step 1 Revision
Step 2 Lead-in of the reading passage
1. Ask students to work in pairs to siscuss the steps they follow when they research information on the Internet. Ask them to write down what they do step by step.
2. Ask two or three pairs to present their ways of researching information to the class.
Step 3 Reading
Ask students to read the article in Part A with the help of the following table.
Comparison of the two search services:
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Search engines |
Subject directories |
|
﹒ a type of computer program
﹒ based on the key word(s) you type in
﹒ choose pages for you which contain the word(s) you ask for
﹒ prevent unevaluated contents
﹒ present the full articles or pages |
﹒ built by humans
﹒ selected by a person and divided into ﹒﹒ specific subject categories
﹒ present a bunch of titles of articles or
pages, sometimes a short summary
﹒present evaluated, relevant and correct information, |
Step 4 Language points
1．guide
n．领路人，导游者，引导者，指南
a guide book导游指南 A guide led us around the city．向导带我们到市内各地去游玩 |
