1、Unit 4 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGYLesson 2 APPSTheme of this week:appsA series of activities:Teen Tech Talk Advertising on the electronic bulletin boards on campus App-designing competition Promote your app in the school magazineInformation Technology Month Have you used these apps?What do you use them f
2、or?to chat with friendsto share ones life/informationto pay onlineto entertainto retouch photosto book tickets/accommodationto order foodto find directionto learn a languageto check the weatherto look for popular restaurantsto subscribe to newspapers and magazines Teen Tech TalkTopic:App DevelopingG
3、uest:Li Xing an app developerTime:Monday night at 7 p.m.Place:the Lecture HallIts Monday night.You and your classmates are waiting outside the lecture hall before the talk starts,talking about the interviewTry to predict:What questions might the interviewer ask Li Xing in the interview?*Listen to th
4、e tape,check your predictions and divide the dialogue into several parts according to the interviewers questions.1.Why are apps so popular?2.Could you tell us something about educational apps?3.But developing an app must be difficult right?Questions in the interviewAppsBeing popularEducational appsD
5、ifficulties*Listen to the tape again*Note down the key information according to the questionsReasons:Functions:Skill BuilderListening for key wordsListening for key words helps you understand the conversation better and find the answers to questions more quickly.Before listening,read the questions c
6、arefully.While listening,pay attention to the words related to the questions,e.g.popular,educational apps,difficulties,etc.Listen for words that are stressed.AppsBeing popularEducational appsDifficulties*Check your answers with your group mates firstAppsBeing popularReasons:very usefulhelp us find p
7、opular restaurants,call tor taxis,find directions to different placesmake our life much easierEducational appsFunctions:allow students to choose their online teachers and subjects according to their personal interests and needsensure that students can all enjoy the same learning materials Difficulti
8、esfind out what people needsolve real-world problemsvery usefulhelp us find popular restaurants,call tor taxis,find directions to different placesmake our life much easierallow students to choose their online teachers and subjects according to their personal interests and needsensure that students c
9、an all enjoy the same learning materials find out what people needsolve real-world problemsHow to describe functions?*read the transcript on p99StructureanalysisBeing popularEducational appsApps are very useful.Educational apps are becoming increasingly powerful!They help us find popular restaurants
10、,call tor taxis,find directions to different places,and so on.1.For example,some apps allow students to choose their online teachers and subjects according to their personal interests and needs.2.They also ensure that students can all enjoy the same learning materials,even when theyre not sitting in
11、 the same classroom together!argumentsupporting sentencesApp-designing Competition Each group designs an educational app based on the given situations(on the information card)Design a poster to promote the appNameTarget usersFunctionsLogo(optional)Try to finish in FIVE minutesGroup WorkS1:leader&pre
12、senterS2:idea organizerS3:language supervisorS4:poster drawerS5:note taking&time keeperGroup 1&2:Alice is going to pay a visit to Britain with her parents(in their 40s)who dont know any English.She wants to recommend an app for her parents to learn some daily-used oral English.Group 3&4:Mike(9 years
13、 old)has difficulties in memorizing the spelling of English words.Gradually,he lost confidence in learning English.Group 5&6:Grace(15 years old)went to America last summer vacation and found people there could hardly understand her pronunciation.She feels worried and wants to improve her speaking.Gr
14、oup 7&8:Alan(16 years old)finds understanding English grammar difficult,which results in his weaknesses of reading and writing.He is in great need of improving his grammar.Information CardsGroup WorkPresentation S1:present your posters to another group one by one as a circle.(each presenter presents
15、 7 times in total)S2-5:stay in your own groups and listen to other groups presentation;evaluate other groups posters according to the given prompts;each student has 4 stickers which can be given to the apps(4 different apps from other groups)better meet the tasks needs.G3G2G1G4G5G6G7G8Group WorkPres
16、entationEvaluation PromptsPerfectGood but to be perfectedSorry,not at allDoes the app meet the target users need?210Is the design(app and poster)creative?210Is the content well-organized?210Does the group use the expressions learnt this class correctly and properly?210Does the presenter speak English loudly and fluently?210Group WorkPresentationMost Popular App the app which won the most star stickerstarget usersfunctionsmore detailsAssessment and SummaryHomework:Promote your app in the school magazine.Turn your poster into a short passage.Thank you
