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Unit Four Book Four The Telecommunications Revolution Teaching Objectives: 1. Help students to familiarize with how to make predictions of the content, outline and writing devices of a new passage based on its title. 2. Help students to get familiar with the structure of the type of pleading passage. 3. Help students to know and make use of the language points, especially expressions, learned from the text. Focal points: 1. Help students to learn to make predication based on titles. 2. Help students to learn to generalize the structure of a new passage. 3. Help students to grasp some key words, expressions and sentence patterns for expressing ideas on related topics. Difficult points: 1. To learn to generalize the structure of a new passage. 2. To make use of key words, expressions and sentence patterns for expressing ideas on related topics. Procedures Stage 1: pre-teaching activities Step 1: design some activities to activate students’ background knowledge related to the passage. telecommunications optical fiber information age information superhighway BellSouth Corporation Step2: Ask students to predict the layout of “The Telecommunications Revolution” and writing devices used in developing the passage Stage 2: While-teaching activities—structure and writing device analysis Step 1: Ask students to read Paras. 1-2 quickly for the general idea and how the general idea is conveyed; ask students to read Para. 3 quickly for the general idea; ask students to read Paras. 4-10 quickly for the general idea and writing devices used in these paragraphs; ask students to read Para. 11 quickly for the general idea. Step 2: Ask students to summarize the passage by filling blanks with proper words and phrases based on Step 1. Many developing countries are planning to invest vast sums of money in their telecommunicatins networks to allow them to compete, in respect of the transfer of information, with developed countries. They believe this will promote foreign and do