Lesson 91 MOBILE PHONES

Teaching aims and demands 1.The students are asked to master the words and useful expressions in this lesson. 2. The students are supposed to use Noun Clauses correctly. 3. Improve the students’ ability of speaking English and reading comprehension. Key points: grammar and useful expressions Teaching methods: reading ---oral practice ---explanation

Step 1. Revision Revise Lesson 90 by answering some questions. 1. How was one telephone connected with another in the past? 2.How is one telephone connected with another today? 3.Why were telephones not popular at the beginning? 4.What are satellites used for? By thick heavy wires. By satellite.(By very thin glass pipes) It was difficult to hear people over long distances. For sending telephone signals over long distances.

Step 2. Lead in If you want to know whether your friend, John, is free to come to your birthday party on Saturday evening, what will you do? (Make up a dialogue)

Step 3. Listening True or False 1.A mobile phone has no wires and can only be carried about in your pocket. 2.If you want to call someone, you don’t have to press the numbers. 3.Someone can ring you wherever you go with a mobile phone. 4.A cordless phone is very useful in the office or the factory. 5.A new model of phone can recognize the name and dial the correct number. F F T T T

Step 4. Read the passage quickly and find the key words of each paragraph. Paragraph 1 Paragraph 2 Paragraph 3 A mobile phone A cordless phone One new model Step 5. Read the passage again and answer the following questions 1. What is a mobile phone? 2. What is a cordless phone? 3. What can the new model do? Why can it do so?

1. What is a mobile phone? A mobile phone has no wires and can be carried about in your pocket or your bag. You can take it with you wherever you go. photo-taking and song- listening phone Mobile phones which can be used to listen to music. watch phones—a kind of mobile phones which look like a watch

2. What is a cordless phone? A cordless phone also has no wires. It can be useful in the office or the factory. You can walk to a distant part of the office or factory to check the information without putting the phone down.

3. What can the new model do? Why can it do so? You say the name of the person you want to ring, the telephone can recognize the name and dial the correct number. Because it has a small computer in it.

Step 6 Fill in the blanks with proper words and deal with the language points 1.You can carry a cordless phone with you and look up the information that your caller wants. ______________, you can walk to a distant part of the office to check the information without putting the phone down. 2.You can _________up to 20 different names with their telephone numbers on this kind of phone. 3.I want to _________you that we’ve got a meeting next Monday. 4.One question is how much money is ____ to be paid. In other words remind due record

Step 7 Revise Noun Clauses Complete the sentences with noun clauses: 1.____________________________________ ( 谁给他打来的长途电话 ) is not important. 2.One question is__________________________ _____ ( 预付多少钱 ). 3.This is _________________________________ ( 为什么他决定买移动电话 ). 4.The fact ________________________( 我们缺 少足够的电话 ) needs to be considered. 5.We need to think about ___________________ __________( 我们对顾客怎么交代 ). Who made the long distance call to him how much money is due to be paid. why he decided to buy a mobile phone. that we lack enough phones what we should say to the callers

More and more people are using the kind 1.________ of new-developed phone which is called mobile 2.______ phone. It has not wires and can be carried 3.________ in your pocket easy wherever you go. With 4.________ the phone you may accept or make phone 5.________ calls. People carry mobile phones are 6.________ most businessmen,. Now with the further 7.________ development of modern technology, it 8.________ serves like a secretary that is quite 9.________ fit the job. 10.________ a newly no easily receive ∧ who mostly √ as ∧ for Error correcting ∧ ∧