Ss exchange their papers with at least three fellow Ss, noting down reasons given by the others as to why they wouldn 't drive T asks several Ss to report to class the reasons for not driving a car given both by him herself and by others ove to Text a by saying: Some scientists and engineers have come with the idea of a smart car. Let's read to find out what this smart car can do Questions: How to distinguish opinions and factual statements Answer Questions land2 How important was the automobile industry in the twentieth century? What will happen to cars and roads in the twenty-first century? While-reading tasks T leads Ss through the instructions for Text Organization Exercise 1, and tell them that the main ideas will be filled in as soon as they finish studying a part o explains the language points in Part I and has Ss practice them tell sentences that express opinions from factual statements in Part I. Later T explains that facts and opinions are often interwoven in expository writing and that one must learn to distinguish them Ss summarize the main idea of part i T explains the language points in Part II and has Ss practice them Ss summarize the main idea of part ll Ss do Text Organization Exercise 2 T explains the language points in Part lii and has Ss practice them Ss summarizes the main idea of part ill Post-reading tasks Finding out definitions Ss work in pairs and re-read the text to provide definitions for blind spot, global positioning system, atom Several pairs report to class T solicits answers to the following questions with Besides listing facts and using definitions, what other writing techniques re used in this expository piece of writing? Will you use these techniques in your own writing? T guides Ss through some after-text exercises T checks on Ss home reading Ss do Part IV: Theme-related Language Learning Tasks T asks Ss to prepare for the next unit do the pre-reading task preview Text A Text Analysis automated driver. What do they mean? How do we find out? An efficient reader knows. He / she can make a guess based on knowledge of word-formation or knowledge of the world or the context. For example, when the reader comes across"Should you make a serious driving mistake(e.g, change lanes when there is a car in your blind spot) the computer would sound an immediate warning,, he or she can guess from the ontext that a blind spot must be a portion of the road behind a car, which a driver can not observe from the rear-view mirror What is the Global Positioning System? From the sentence containing this term("We already have twenty four Navstar satellites orbiting the earth, making up what is called the global Positioning System. "I, we know it is a service linked with a satellite. From the following sentence we know its function("They make it possible to determine your location on the earth to within about a hundred feet. What is an atomic clock? The answer is found in exactly the same sentence. It vibrates at a precise frequency, according to the laws of the quantum theory We can guess the meaning of"telematics" from word formation. The prefix"tele-"means8 Ss exchange their papers with at least three fellow Ss, noting down reasons given by the others as to why they wouldn’t drive a car. T asks several Ss to report to class the reasons for not driving a car given both by him / herself and by others. 1. 3. T may move to Text A by saying: Some scientists and engineers have come up with the idea of a smart car. Let’s read to find out what this smart car can do. Questions: How to distinguish opinions and factual statements. Answer Questions 1and2 How important was the automobile industry in the twentieth century? What will happen to cars and roads in the twenty-first century? While-reading tasks T leads Ss through the instructions for Text Organization Exercise 1, and tell them that the main ideas will be filled in as soon as they finish studying a part. T explains the language points in Part I and has Ss practice them. Ss tell sentences that express opinions from factual statements in Part I. Later T explains that facts and opinions are often interwoven in expository writing and that one must learn to distinguish them. Ss summarize the main idea of Part I. T explains the language points in Part II and has Ss practice them. Ss summarize the main idea of Part II. Ss do Text Organization Exercise 2. T explains the language points in Part Iii and has Ss practice them. Ss summarizes the main idea of Part III. Post-reading tasks Finding out definitions Ss work in pairs and re-read the text to provide definitions for blind spot, global positioning system, atomic clock, telematics and automated driver. Several pairs report to class. T solicits answers to the following questions: --By what means did you come up with those definitions? --Besides listing facts and using definitions, what other writing techniques re used in this expository piece of writing? --Will you use these techniques in your own writing? T guides Ss through some after-text exercises. T checks on Ss’ home reading. Ss do Part IV: Theme-related Language Learning Tasks. T asks Ss to prepare for the next unit; do the pre-reading task; preview Text A. Text Analysis What jumps out first at a browser of this text may be those terms in quotation marks or with capitalized first letters—blind spot, global positioning system, atomic clocks, telematics and automated driver. What do they mean? How do we find out? An efficient reader knows. He / she can make a guess based on knowledge of word-formation or knowledge of the world or the context. For example, when the reader comes across “Should you make a serious driving mistake (e.g., change lanes when there is a car in your blind spot) the computer would sound an immediate warning”, he or she can guess from the context that a blind spot must be a portion of the road behind a car, which a driver can not observe from the rear-view mirror. What is the Global Positioning System? From the sentence containing this term (“ We already have twenty[four Navstar satellites orbiting the earth, making up what is called the Global Positioning System. “], we know it is a service linked with a satellite. From the following sentence we know its function ( “They make it possible to determine your location on the earth to within about a hundred feet. “) What is an atomic clock? The answer is found in exactly the same sentence. It vibrates at a precise frequency, according to the laws of the quantum theory. We can guess the meaning of “ telematics” from word formation. The prefix “tele-“means