知识与技能：

1.To get the main idea of the passage and know more about the brain chip and the brain. 

2.Be able to write a how-to passage .

过程与方法： 

Learning by reading.

情感、态度和价值观：

 Ss will get the idea that putting the chips in people’s brains could be very dangerous 

Key phrases

How to write a how-to passage .

Direct method; audio-visual approach; cognitive approach; Task-based approach

Learning through cooperating and remembering.

Have a review about reading part A and the new words and expressions.

Look at the picture on the next page.

What do you think the square thing in the brain is?

Step I Pre-reading

     Ss listen to the tape for a better pronunciation.

Step II While-reading

Activity 1  Fast reading to finish Task 5

Activity 2 Careful reading to finish Task 6 & 7

Activity 3 Explanation of the passage

T helps to analyze the difficult points of the passage.

1.take over 

2.focus on 

3.create long-term memories

4.be incapable of doing

5.brilliant medical journalist

6.It is possible that

7.in a certain way

8.an expert on

9.negative effects

10.make a difference 

11.live a healthy life 

Step III  Post-reading

Ss try to finish Task 7.8 with the help of the teacher and learn to write a how-to passage 

Step IV  Additional exercises

Consolidation:

Ss read the passage aloud together.

Complementary reading on WB 

Important sentences of the passage

Important sentences of the passage

take over                           focus on 

create long-term memories             be incapable of doing

in a certain way                      make a difference