The 275 students of the Katherine School live far away from traditional schools. For the students classrooms have beeed by using radios. The radios provide threeway unication from teacher to child, child to teacher and child to child. Besides having radio lessons, children also work through the mail and by phone.
In other parts of the world, television has been ud to create virtual classrooms. At a uy in America, video cameras have been ud to ect students to class at 46 different uies. The students and professors talk as if they were in the same room.
Some uies u teology to ect their different locations. In New York, videos and puters have been ud to create shared class on campus at different locations. In California, twoway video ects campus.
Some schools u puters to cut class sizes and to help their students take part in class activities. A college in Americe had a physics lecture with 400 students. Now groups of 60 physics students u puters to duct experiments and answer questions.
Iure more and more schools will u video cameras and puters to ect students and professors who live far away from one another.
1. Virtual classrooms are .
A. classrooms created by eg teachers and students at different locations by using teology
B. fal classrooms
C. traditional classrooms where students have class
D. classrooms on campus
2. The underlined word “locations” means “”.
A. schoolsB. placesC. classroomsD. tries
3. Australia’s remote try is .
A. a try far away from try
B. a try 500,000 square miles away from Australia
C. Australia’s distant tryside
D. Australia’s distant towns
4. The Katherine School of the Air calls itlf “the world’s largest classroom” becau .
A. it has 275 students
B. the school campus covers an area of 500,000 square miles in Australia’s remote try
C. it is not a traditional school
D. its virtual classrooms cover 500,000 square miles
5. Which of the following is NOT true?
A. In a virtual classroom students and professors talk with each other in the same room.
B. Some uies u video cameras of television ts to create the virtual classroom.
e uies in New York u puters to create shared classrooms on campus at different locations.
D. With the help of puters class sizes at some schools and colleges bee smaller.
第二課時
1. 鞏固Wh問句詢問對方“想看到什麼變化”。
e.g.What ges would you like to e in our school?
2. 鞏固would like to do sth.表示“我想要……”。
e.g.I’d like to have a swimming pool in our school.