教学过程

主要教学内容

准备阶段

预习导航

指出电视在美国的普及以及看电视的危害。（Para.1）

介绍“不看电视周”的概念。(Para.2)

介绍“不看电视周”运动的开展情况。(Para.3)

深化主题，指出“不看电视周”运动的深远影响。(Para.4)

情境导入

Do you watch TV a lot ? Have you ever thought about how to spend your time if your TV is turned off ?

探究阶段

探索新知

Step I  Pre-reading   Skim the passage to finish Task 1

Step II  While-reading   Ss read the passage and finish Task 2&3

Step III  Discussion   Ss discuss then finish Task 4&5

StepⅣ  Learning the new part—text1

Let students try to master the main idea of idea of the whole text and try to retell it by using their own words.

  The main idea of this text:

  Encourage us not to watch TV, and to do some useful things.

Ⅰ Reading the text by themselves again. Then the teacher let the students pay attention to some language points.

1.cut into  占据

2. ability to do 做某事的能力

3. more than 超过

less than 比什么少

not more than 不超过

no more than 仅仅，只不过

4. live/ have/lead a …life 过着一个什么样的生活

5. year by year; 年复一年

6. survey on 关于什么的调查

7. the impact of … …的影响

ⅡRead the text again and ask them try to translate following important sentences:

1. Television cuts into family time, and harms our children’s ability to read and succeed in school.

电视占据了家人相处的时间，也损害了孩子的阅读能力和在校表现。

2. TV-Turnoff Week is an exciting chance for children and adults to live a life without television.

对小孩和成人而言，不看电视机周是一种没有电视而去生活的尝试。

3. Over 44 million people have participated since 1995, including over 6 million in 2010 alone.

自从1995年以来，4千4百多万的人加入了这个活动，仅2010年这一年，参加者就达到了6百万。

4. What they tell us year after year is that life is more enjoyable without television.

他们一年一年告诉我们的是没有电视生活可以更美好。

5. It’s clear that the impact of TV-Turnoff Week lasts much longer than seven days.

很明显不看电视机周的影响持续的时间远超过7天。

StepⅤ: Give students sometime to master the sentences we mentioned in this class. And try their best to recite these important sentences.

巩固练习

1. Household items made about twenty or thirty years ago are usually of better quality and _____ longer.

A. continue    B.last     C.keep     D.stay

2.____ different background, the two friends finally chose two different roads.

A. Result of    B.Result from    C.Result in    D.As a result of

3.The house was set on fire because he forgot to ___ the gas before going to work.

A. come over     B.turn on   C.turn off    D.close

4.Thousands of college students ___ the anti-Japan demonstration last Sunday.

    A.took     B.took part    C.participated in     D.attended

总结阶段

总结评价

本文介绍了一项抵制看电视的运动。作者通过活动的开展、电视的危害、以及抵制看电视为大家生活带来的益处，号召大家一起加入到该运动中来。通过该篇文章的学习，我们也会审视自己日常生活中对于电视的依赖，并意识到这样的危害，从而能够摆脱电视，使生活更有意义。

拓展提升

1.As a young man, he hopes to ___ a life filled with variety and 

adventure.

2.It’s dangerous for a woman to walk _ in the street late at night.

3.Since the publication of his novel, he has been far_ about writing.