<p>本单元的话题是The internet，reading and thinking部分,阅读文本标题“Stronger together:How we have been changed by the internet”讲述了网络对人们生活的积极影响：互联网如何使我们的生活变得更加的方便，在线社区和社交网络，也改变了人们的生活，促使人与人直接的相互帮助，使人与人直接的联系变得更为紧密。</p><p>该文本主要讲了英国伯明翰的一位英语老师简因为身患重病被迫辞去工作后失业在家，只有电脑陪伴的情况下，通过网络缓解了孤独和无聊，获得了网友的支持和建议，她意识到互联网最大的好处是消除通常存在于人和人之间的距离感，受到网友启发激励的简，成立一个俱乐部来教年长一些的人学习使用电脑和互联网，来帮助需要的人，甚至还建立慈善募捐网站，来帮助需要的人，简的生活因互联网而得到了极大的改善。</p><p>全文共5段，结构清晰，分两部分。第一部分是第一段，引入简和本文的中心。第二部分，2-5段讲诉了互联网改变人们生活的例子。2简从互联网中获益，网络消除了人与人之间的距离感，3简创立IT俱乐部帮助了许多人，4简的在线教室和他的下一个目标，5简的生活因互联网得到了极大地改善。</p><p>本节课的设计通过标题切入，stronger,together,change等词，展开教学，通过问答提取文本信息，处理与话题的相关的词汇，鉴赏学习人物优秀品质，获取写作语言。 </p><p>教学设计思路与步骤：</p><p>1.浏览28页的图片，表达了什么，引出本文的话题internet</p><p>2.浏览文章标题，Q what has changed us according to the title?通过标题打开学生的思路</p><p>3.安排学生skimming the passage，让学生自己去理解文本内容。</p><p>4.分段解读，Detail reading ，文章是通过main idea和例子examples，关键词change,3方面的改变，职业，感受，以及社会角色的改变，了解简的生活变化过程。理顺变化的起因过程和结果之间的逻辑关系，复述故事。</p><p>1.read paragraph1, find out two key words to support “the wonders”in the first sentence of paragraph1. Answers: convenient (what convenience does the internet bring us)and change(whose life has been changed?)</p><p>2.Read paragraph2,Jan was changed</p><p>At first:develop a serious disease,quit her job,found herself out of work and stuck at home</p><p>(ask students to pay attention to the change of her career)</p><p>Her feeling:</p><p>With the help of internet:feel less lonely and bored,also joined an online group</p><p>She realised that one of the greatest benefits of the internet was the ability to remove the distance that usually exists between people.</p><p>(ask students to pay attention to the change of her feeling)</p><p>3.read paragraph,find the changes in the lives of the two old men</p><p>(ask students to pay attention to the change of her social role-helper)</p><p>4.read paragraph4,find out Jan’s belief and next goal</p><p>5.Read paragraph5 </p><p>(ask students to pay attention to the change of her feeling)</p><p>Her feeling:inspired</p><p>what kind of person do you think Jan is according to her speech?</p><p>6.retell the passage</p><p>5.处理语言，鼓励学生收集网络的语言进行收集，整理为相关话题的表达做准备。</p>