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　　module 6 the internet and telecommunications
　　cultural corner
　　teaching objectives:
　　*help students to do a class survey about the use of mobile phones in the form of group work;
　　*guide the students to know about text messages and emoticons and introduce the rules of shortening words by reading comprehension; besides, make sure the students can use what they’ve learnt to communicate with persons by sending text messages;
　　*encourage the students to talk about the advantages and disadvantages of the use of these kinds of words and emoticons by comparing the changes of chinese character and english words.
　　difficulty:
　　*how to guide the students to perform a good debate.
　　strategy:
　　by doing a survey, students are able to conclude on a certain topic, and in the way of exploring, students share what they have observed or found through teamwork. besides, in the form of debate, the advantages and disadvantages of the changes of languages will be discussed.
　　help students to take notes while reading.
　　teaching aid: computer
　　teaching procedure:
　　word study and warming up
　　activate the students to list the names of some new things about telecommunications. then focus on one item of them – mobile phone.
　　direction: the way of activating the students to list the new things about telecommunications is to pide the students into two groups and choose a student from each group write down the words his/her group members mention on the blackboard in the form of competition. the more, the better. and the words must be correct.
　　motivate the students to do a survey about the use of mobile phones after some warming-up activities. then text messages become the topic.
　　direction: encourage the students to choose five classmates to talk to, and they can stand up and talk around as long as they can finish the survey. and then they should draw a conclusion about the main use of mobile phones.
　　cultural corner
　　according to their survey, ask them how to write text messages, and then lead in the passage on page 59.
　　reading comprehension with the help of some questions on the students’ page. questions are listed as follows:
　　group work to solve the difficulty from the textbook:
　　1.where have you been? i’ve been waiting hours for a call
　　2.do you want to go to the cinema tonight?
　　3.i ‘ve got a text mssge from my friend. she’s having a party on saturday. do you want to come? direction: guide the students to work in groups to solve the problems together.
　　more examples to show to the students about the special ways of text messages.
　　lol ---- laughing out loud
　　iow --- in other words
　　then tell the students there is another way of communication --- abbreviation with more examples.
　　students’ show time – to show their own text message with the ways of shortening the words with emoticons , shorthand, and abbreviation after reading.
　　extension
　　encourage the students to find out whether the chinese mobile phone users use this similar way of text messages or not, and list some examples in the form of discussion.
　　encourage the students to discuss in groups about the advantages and disadvantages of using this kind of way to communicate with others.
　　direction: students discuss in a group, but the shy person should be the reporter to report the group’s opinion in public.
　　encourage the students to debate, and guide the students to realize that the best way to keep us up to date is to study and read books.
　　direction: explain the rules of debate first, then encourage them to state their own opinions.
　　homework:
　　write an argumentative composition which should be well organized:
　　para 1: put forward the topic of the composition;
　　para2: some think ……
　　para3: however, others think / disagree … …
　　para4: your point of view … …