Unit One Technology in Reverse
Unit One Technology in Reverse
I.Teaching Aims: To get the students know the style of an exposition. To have the students understand the satirical words and sentences used in the essay. To get students grasp the key words and sentences structures
I. Teaching Aims: ◼ To get the students know the style of an exposition. ◼ To have the students understand the satirical words and sentences used in the essay. ◼ To get students grasp the key words and sentences structures
II.Teaching Importance and Difficulties: Understand the author's main purpose of writing the essay. Know the writing strategies of the text. Grasp the key language points in the text. III.Teaching periods:6 periods
◼ Understand the author’s main purpose of writing the essay. ◼ Know the writing strategies of the text. ◼ Grasp the key language points in the text. III. Teaching periods: 6 periods II. Teaching Importance and Difficulties:
IV.Teaching steps: 1.Warm-up Questions: 1)How has modern technology influenced our lives? 2)Some one once pointed out that modern men are becoming the slaves of the modern technology,what is your view?
1. Warm-up Questions: 1) How has modern technology influenced our lives? 2) Some one once pointed out that modern men are becoming the slaves of the modern technology, what is your view? IV. Teaching steps:
2.Information related to the text: 1)About the author:Robert J.Samuelson(1945-) Born Robert Jacob Samuelson on December 23,1945 is a contributing editor of Newsweek and Washington Post.Samuelson was named one of the "100 Most Influential Business Journalists"of 1998 by The Journalist and Financial Reporter newsletter.Robert Samuelson joined Newsweek as a contributing editor in 1984.One of the magazine's most recognized writers,his bi-weekly columns analyze and report socioeconomic issues. In addition to his Newsweek column,Samuelson writes a bi-weekly column, which appears in The Washington Post,The Los AngelesTimes,The Bosion Globe and other papers.His columns are sold in syndication by The Washington Post Writers Group.In 2001,a collection of his columns from Newsweek and The Washington Post was published in a book entitled,"Untruth:Why the Conventional Wisdom Is [Almost Always]Wrong,"by Random House. Samuelson is a graduate of Harvard University with a B.A.in government.Based in Newsweek's Washington bureau,he lives in Bethesda,Md.,with his wife Judith Herr,their daughter and two sons
2. Information related to the text: 1)About the author: Robert J. Samuelson (1945-) Born Robert Jacob Samuelson on December 23, 1945 is a contributing editor of Newsweek and Washington Post. Samuelson was named one of the "100 Most Influential Business Journalists" of 1998 by The Journalist and Financial Reporter newsletter. Robert Samuelson joined Newsweek as a contributing editor in 1984. One of the magazine's most recognized writers, his bi-weekly columns analyze and report socioeconomic issues. In addition to his Newsweek column, Samuelson writes a bi-weekly column, which appears in The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe and other papers. His columns are sold in syndication by The Washington Post Writers Group. In 2001, a collection of his columns from Newsweek and The Washington Post was published in a book entitled, "Untruth: Why the Conventional Wisdom Is [Almost Always] Wrong," by Random House. Samuelson is a graduate of Harvard University with a B.A. in government. Based in Newsweek's Washington bureau, he lives in Bethesda, Md., with his wife Judith Herr, their daughter and two sons