文档介绍：Unit 9 Improvement in Appliances
Teaching Focus
Text A
Text B
Theme
I’m Toast in the Battle Against
“Smart” Appliances
A High-tech Woman
Vocabulary
likewise, effective, disturb, feature, probably, equip,
helpful, press, urge, improvement
apart, organize, traffic, relax, skillful, nowhere, schedule, alarm
Phrases and
Expressions
be faced with; figure out; give
up; prehension
apart from; work out; call up; break
into; warm up; go through; a couple
of; plenty of
Grammar
1) How to use the structure “be about to do” and “it has/is been…
since”(“Focusing on Sentence Structure”)
2) How to reduce wordiness (1) (“Basic Writing Skills”)
Writing
Understanding and writing notices (2) (“Practical Writing”)
Teaching Plan
单元
主题
Improvement in Appliances
课时安排
8
教育
教学
目标
(学生)
To find the advantages and disadvantages of a “smart” appliance and see how to make the most of its advantages and diminish its disadvantages.
To design an ideal “smart” appliance for yourself.
To be familiar with the context meaning and the use of those vocabulary of the two texts listed in the above table.
To be familiar with the collocation of those phrases and expressions listed in the above table.
To be able to make sentences with figure out, beyond one’prehension, come to, and what’s worse.
To be able to rewrite sentences after models, using the structure of “be about to do” o