2019-2020年高一英语 Unit 9 Technology 1.doc

2019-2020年高一英语 Unit 9 Technology 1.Teaching Goals:1.Talk about science and technology.2.Describe things and how they work.3.Give advice and make suggestions.4.Use the Present Continuous Passive Voice.5.Present a project.Teaching Time:Four periods.Background Information.The Development of Mobile phonesThere were 423 million mobile phones sold worldwide in xx,up six percent from 400 million in xx.The number of mobile phones sold in xx has doubled over the past three years.Gartner Dataguest,a key technology industry research group,reported Monday.Market shares of the five key mobile phone panies changed little from the third quarter(季度),with Finlands Nokia still firmly in the lead.It sold more than twice the number of mobile phones than the second,Motorola of the US.The other three,according to market share,are South Koreas Samsung,Germanys Siemens and Japanese-Swedish Sony Ericsson.“Weve seen extremely rapid growth in countries like Germany and the Asia Pacific region.”said Gartner analyst Ben Wood.Growth,especially in nature markets,was dirven by users who replaced their old mobile phones with new ones earlier than expected.Subsidies(补助)by mobile operators were important to push users into getting a new phone.Attractiveness and marketing of the newly-designed mobile phones also played an important role in increasing the yearly sales.To maintain growth,phone makers are placing more importance on replacement sales because many users already have a phonesome one billion people around the world now use a mobile.This means phone makers need to offer new features to give users a reason to replace their old ones.Although a lot of attention is being paid to new colour screens and camera phones,most of the yearly sales increase was in basic mobile phones which now contain more features than before,such as voicedailing and musical ringtones.Wonders of the Modern WorldI dont believe that todays wonders are similar in kind to the wonders of the Ancient World.They were all buildings and statues(雕像).In the last two centuries we have seen uprecedented(前所未有的) technical and scientific achievements.These are surely our modern wonders.Here is my list.1putersThey have already revolutionized the way we live and work.But it is early days for puters.We dont know how much they are still changing the world.More puter wonders are yet to e.2.Space TravelOnly a few years before men were walking on the moon,reputable scientists declared that it was impossible.But in 1969 Neil Armstrong stepped out of his space capsule(航天舱) and made his famous statement:“Thats one small step for a man,one giant leap for mankind.”3.Medical ScienceSurely nothing has done more for the fort and happiness of mankind than the advance of medical knowledge!How many millions of people have benefited from the humble aspirin?How many lives has penicllin saved?Average life expectancy(预期寿命) in Europe has risen dramactically over the last hundred years,from about 50 years in 1906 to about 75 years today.4.HolidaysYesholidays!In fact there have always been holidaysin ancient Rome there were more than 150 a yearbut a holiday used to mean simply a day when you didnt work.Now holidaymakers travel to all parts of the world.Perhaps you dont like so many tourists in your country,but you must agree that a phenomenon which sees the population of Greece treble(三倍的) in summer,and which sends office workers and shop assistants to Spain,Turkey,or the Caribbean is a wonder of the world.5.The Olympic GamesIt is true that the Olympic Games are now mercialized and there is greed and drug abuse.However,it is a petition in which every country in the world takes part.Every four years,for a brief moment,we see these countries e together in peace and friendship.We feel hope again for the future of mankind.6.AgricultureIn 1724,Jonathan Swift wrote,“Whoever makes two blades of grass or two ears of corn grow where only one grew before serves mankind better than the whole race of politicians”.In Europe our farmers have done this.In 1709,whole villages in France died of hunger.Now,in Europe we cant eat all the food we produce.If only the politicians could find a way to share it with those parts of the world where there is still famine(饥荒).7.We are still hereThe last wonder of the modern world is simply that we are still here.We have bombs that could destory the world but we have not used them.This is surely the greatest wonder of all!The First PeriodTeaching Aims:1.Do some listening and train the students listening ability.2.Learn how to describe objects.3.Learn to make suggestions and give advice.Teaching Important Points:1.Improve the students listening ability.2.Master the expressions for making suggestions and giving advice.Teaching Difficult Points:1.How to describe objects correctly.2.How to give somebody some advice.Teaching Methods:1.Free-talk method to get the students to