Lesson 34

Lesson 34

　　Teaching Objective: Read a passage about the memory robot invent.

　　Properties: Tape recorder, pictures

　　Language Focus: bad memory all the time = always watch sb. do

　　Teaching Procedures：

　　I. Revision

　　Ask the students to recall Mr. Mott’s robot: its appearance, functions, etc.

　　II. Leading - in

　　1. In the last period, we learnt something about Mr. Mott’s robot, today we’ll know more about it.

　　2. Talk about students’ writings. In the last period, Ss were assigned a writing. After correcting, the teacher summarizes the Ss’ writings.

　　What can robots do and why are they useful?

　　III. Reading

　　1. Ask Ss to read the text by themselves and finish Ex. 2

　　2. Check the answers

　　3. Chain reading the text again

　　4. Language points

　　(1) invent v - invention n.

　　Light is invented by Edison. Light is Edison's invention.

　　(2) had memory/poor memory

eg. My brother has a poor/bad memory, but I have a very good memory.

　　(3) all the time = always

　　eg. It seems that she's studying all the time.

　　(4) watch sb. doing

　　eg. Every morning, I can hear my neighbour sing in the kitchen.

I saw him running on the playground when I came into the school.

　　All the students watched their chemistry teacher doing the experiment carefully in the lab when the bell rang.

　　5. Retell the lesson

　　IV. Exercise in class

The Memory Robot

　　Susan 1 the memory robot, because her husband, Mr. Mott 2 a very 3 memory. The memory robot followed Mr. Mott 4 . It listened to everything he 5 and saw everything he 6 It watched him 7 to his students, 8 his meals, and 9 at night. In a word, the memory robot know 10 about Mr. Mott, 80 did Mr. Mott’s wife.

　　1. A. invents B. invented c. inventing

　　2 .A. have B. had C .having

　　3. A. good B. bad C. well

　　4. A. all the time B. at times C. sometimes

　　5. A. says B. said C. saying

　　6. A.does B. did C. doing

　　7. A.talk B. talked C. talking

　　8. A. eat B. ate C. eating

　　9. A. sleep B. slept C. sleeping

　　10. A. nothing B. anything C. everything

Key: 1B 2B 3B 4A 5B 6B 7A 8A 9A 10C

　　V. Homework

　　1. Wb

2.Retell the lesson

VI. The design of the blackboard