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Lesson7高级英语课程教案第一册

TextBook

《高级英语》由张汉熙主编,外语教学与研究出版社

Title

Unit7

TheAgeofMiracleChips

TeachingAims

1.ImprovingReadingSkills----understandingsciencewriting

2.EnrichingVocabulary---enlargingvocabulary

cultivatingstudents’senseofwordbuilding

understandingthatsynonymshavefineshades

3.ImprovingWritingskills---Makingeffectiveuseofspecificverbsandadjectives

Employingvariousmethodstomakescientificwritingunderstandableandinteresting

TeachingActivities

Vocabulary

1hour

TextAnalysis

4hours

Discussion

3hours

Practice

2hours

TeachingProcess

I.Warmingup

II．IntroductiontoAdditionalBackgroundKnowledge

III.TextAnalysis

1.IntroductiontothePassage

2.EffectiveWritingSkills

3.RhetoricalDevices

4.SpecialDifficulties

IV.Questions

Assignment

Writeashortcompositiononthetopic:

Isthecomputerahumanizingordehumanizingfactor/

ReferenceBooks

1.LongmanDictionaryofContemporaryEnglish

2.AHandbookofWriting

3.EnglishRhetoric&Writing

4.OxfordAdvancedLearner’sDictionaryofCurrentEnglish

5.《英语修辞大全》

6.AGuidetoAdvancedEnglish

7.BritanniaEncyclopedia

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《高级英语》由张汉熙主编,外语教学与研究出版社

Title

Unit7

TheAgeofMiracleChips

Warming-upActivities

Elicitsomeinformationabouttheelectronicrevolutionfromstudents

Discusstheconveniencesandinconveniencesbroughtbycomputers.

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《高级英语》由张汉熙主编,外语教学与研究出版社

Title

Unit7

TheAgeofMiracleChips

AdditionalBackgroundInformation

AboutByzantineart

DesignationofworksoftransitionalstyleoftheByzantineEmpire,whichcameintobeingasaresultoftheadaptationofEarlyRomanarttotherequirementsoftheChristianfaithandwhichflourishedfrom328-1453A.D.INarchitectureitwascharacterizedbydomesonsubstructureswith4ormorecorners.Inpaintingitwascharacterizedbyapreferencefrobrightcolors（gold,blue）andaustere,slenderfigures.

AboutOxfordtutorial

AsystemofinstructionpracticedatOxfordUniversity,England,inwhichatutordirectsandsupervisesthestudiesofasmallgroupofstudentsassignedtohim.

AboutWellsianfantasy

Fantasyinthesciencefictionstories（TheTimeMachine,TheFirstMenintheMoon.Etc.）writtenbytheEnglishnovelistH.G.wells（1866-1946）

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《高级英语》由张汉熙主编,外语教学与研究出版社

Title

Unit7

TheAgeofMiracleChips

TeachingActivities（Vocabulary）

Inenrichingstudents’vocabulary,focusesaretobeonthefollowingaspects:

SpellingandPronunciation

Synonyms

Opposites

Similarwordsandexpressions

Cultivatestudents’sensitivenesstoworld-building

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《高级英语》由张汉熙主编,外语教学与研究出版社

Title

Unit7

TheAgeofMiracleChips

TeachingActivities（Discussion）

Specialdifficulties

1.understandingsometermsconcerningcomputer

2.paraphrasingsomedifficultsentences

3.propernamesandtradenamesareusedascommonnouns.

Questions

1.Whatwasthecomputerof25yearsagolike?

Whatisthemiraclechipoftodaylike?

2.DescribeadayofMr.Aandhiswife.

3.Whatrolewillcomputersplayineducation,motor-manufacturing?

4.Whatisthesignificanceofthecomputerrevolution?

Themethodstheauthoremployedtomakehiswritinginteresting

1.thepronoun“it”isusedforseveraltimeswithoutrevealingwhatitrefersto,withtheintentionofarousingreaders’curiosity

2.theapplicationofsomefigureofspeech

3.thesimplepresenttense

4.theuseofwell-knownfiguresofsomeliteraryworks

5.propernamesandtradenamesareusedascommonnouns.

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《高级英语》由张汉熙主编,外语教学与研究出版社

Title

Unit7

TheAgeofMiracleChips

TeachingActivities（TextAnalysis1）

IntroductiontothePassage

Thetextisascientificpieceofwriting,takenfroma15-pagespecialsectionentitled“TheComputerSociety”presentedbytheAmericanmagazineTime,February20,1978.Inthestorythewriterpredictsintheageofmiraclechips,whatourliveswillbelooklike.

RhetoricalDevices

Personification,synecdoche,metaphor,metonymy

EffectiveWritingSkills

1.Makingeffectiveuseofspecificverbsandadjectives

2.Employingvariousmethodstomakescientificwritingunderstandableandinteresting

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《高级英语》由张汉熙主编,外语教学与研究出版社

Title

Unit7

TheAgeofMiracleChips

TeachingActivities（TextAnalysis2EnglishVersion）

1.Miraclechips:

Amiracleisaneventoractionthatapparentlycontradictsknownscientificlawsandishencethoughttobedutosupernaturalcauses,especiallytoanactofGod.Achipisatinysquareofamaterial,suchassilicon,processedtohavespecificelectroniccharacteristics.Therefore,miriclechipsarethesessiliconsquarescapableofaccomplishingincredibletasks.

3.aerialviewofarailroadswitchingyard:

Arailroadswitchingyardisanareawhererailroadtrainsaremadeupandcarsareswitched,stored,orserviced.Themiraclechiplookslikearailroadswitchingyardlookedatfromanairplaneorhelicopterflyingabove..

4.fortheso-calledmiraclechips…25yearsago:

Thistinyfleckcanstoreasmuchinformationasthehugecomputersofthepast.Thesechipshavesuchanextraordinarycapabilitythattheyalmostseemtoperformmiracle.

5.UnlikethehulkingCalibans…infinitelyversatileandconvenient:

Chipshaveevolvedfromcomputerswhichweremadeofmanyvacuumtubesandlotofwires.TheywereclumsyanduglylikeCaliban.（SeeNote4）.Sincetheymadeofsilicon,chipscanbeproducedeasilyandinexpensivelyonalargescale（cheapandeasytoproduce）.Theycandoalimitlessnumberofoperations（infinitelyversatile）anddothemrapidly（fast）.Theyareeasytohandleandoperate（convenient）.Thereforethechipsareamajoradvanceovertheearliermodelsofcomputers.

a）thebulkingCalibansof…:

vacuumtubesandtangledwireslikethehulkingCalibans,e.g.Sheisafineofawoman.Theywentintoacaveofaroom.Heisanidotofaman.

b）Tangledwires:

notliterallytangled;somanywiresthattheyappeartothecasualobserverasiftheyweretangled

Theworld’sfirstelectroniccomputermadein1946intheU.S.had18,000electronictubes,weighing130tons,occupyingafloorspaceof170squaremetres.

6.Themiraclechiprepresentsadevelopment…thediscoveryofthesteamengine:

…isagreattechnicaldevelopmentformankind.Itisasimportantasthedevelopmentofhandtoolsortheinventionofthesteamengine.Beforetools,peoplehadonlytheirhandstousefordoingandmakingthings.Asteamengineisanenginethatconvertsheatenergyofpressurizedsteamintomechanicalenergy.Beforethesteamengine,everythingwasoeratedbysourcesofenergyfounddirectlyinnature---human,animal,windandwaterpower.Therefore,thedevelopmentof“miraclechips”isatechnicalbreakthrough,justlikethedevelopmentof….

7.Withthechip,amazingfeatsofmemoryand…ababy’snurrury:

Bymeansofthechip,wearenowabletoperformwonderfulfeatsofstoringinformationandcarryingoutprogrammedinstructionsineveryfieldfrom…toababy’snursery.

memory:

INelectronics,itmeansthecomponentsofacomputer,guidancesystem,etc.designedtoaccept,store,andrecallinformationorinstructions

8.Living:

Pushbuttonpower:

Itmeanspushbuttonpowerwillplayanimportantpartinliving（dailyhouseholdchoreswillbeperformedbypushbuttonpowerintheageofmiraclechips）.

9.aselectiverundown（orderedupthenightbefore）ofallthe…political,monetary:

Thenightbefore,Mr.A.hadplacedhisorderforasummaryoftheparticularworldnewsthatinterestshim,namelynewsabouttheeconomy.Apersoncaninstructthecomputertoselectonlythosekindsofitemsheisinterestedin.

10.Thelatter-dayAladdin:

themodernAladdin.Notetheanalogy.HerethefuturemaniscomparedtoAladdininTheArabianNights,andthemiracleshipsaretothegenie.ForAladdin,seeNote8tothetext.

11.issuesastringofbusinessandpersonalmemos:

Hegivesforthaseriesofbothapersonalandbusinessnature.Sinceitdoesnotsayotherwise,hemusthavegiventhemessagesorally.Hereitisnotnecessarytowriteitsincethe“geniescreen”willrecorditforhim.

12.eyeball-to-eyeball:

similartoface-to-faceandeye-to-eye.Ofthethree,face-to-faceistheleastforceful;eye-to-eyeismoreforcefulthanface-to-face,buteyeball-to-eyeballisthemostforceful.Asimilarphraseisnose-to-nose,butitimpliesonthevergeofconflict,e.g.thetwoboyswerenose-to-nosewhentheteacherarrivedandpreventedafight.

13.memorybank:

computerscanreceiveandstore,andsortoutatremendousamountofinformation.Theycanalsogiveforthinformationthathasbeenreceived,storedandsorted.Thestorageofinformationiscalledamemorybank.Thebringforthofthatinformationiscalledinformationretrieval.

14.AlicethenjoinsateleviseddiscussiononByzantine:

ThecomputerhasinformationstoredonByzantineart（seeNote12tothetext）.Alicehasretrievedthisinformationfromthecomputer.Thecomputerteachesinthesamewayabookdoes.Nowshejoinsadiscussiongroupofpeopleindifferentlocationswhohearandseeeachotherthroughspecialtelevisionapparatus.

15.Al（Laddy）Jr.:

AlisusuallydiminutiveforAlbert,butinthiscaseitisforAladdin,whichcanalsobeshortenedtoLaddy.Jr.standsforjunior,whichmeansthesonhasthefirstnameashisfather.FatherwouldbeAlSr.（senior）.Thisisonlydonewithmen’snames.Ifthenamecontinuesforthethirdgeneration,Romannumerals（I.II.III.etc.）areused.Thishappensmainlyamongupperclassfamilies,e.g.JohnRockefellerI,II,III.

16.barringheadaches,tummyachesandheartaches:

withtheexceptionof…Theauthorhereimpliesthatthesearetheonlyproblemsthecomput