Teaching Plan
Lecturer
Guoliangyan
Course
English for
Telecommunications
Lesson Number
9(Unit 9)
Time
Grade
Teaching Mode
Lecturing
Content
Cellular Mobile Telephone System
Class Hours
2 Periods
Teaching
Objectives
to know Cellular Mobile Telephone System
to understand the construction of cellular mobile telephone system
to master some important new words and attributive clauses
Focal &
Difficult
Points
Focal Points:the construction of cellular mobile telephone system
Difficult Points:some important new words and attributive clauses
Teaching
Methods Applied
multimedia demonstration and speech interacting are applied to achieve the most understanding of the text intended.
Discussion, Exercises and Assignments
Discussion:comparison of the mobile telephone system in the past and nowadays
Exercises:共5道题
Assignments:
1. to collect the materials related to mobile telephone system.
2. to apply long clauses’ translation skills to the practice
Bibliography
Zhang Daozhen, ed. Practical English Grammar (the 3rd Revision).Shanghai: the Commercial Press,1992
Shanghai Translation Publishing House, ed. New English-Chinese Dictionary. Shanghai: Shanghai Translation Publishing House,1988.
Posts and Telecom Press, ed. English-Chinese Telecommunications Technology Dictionary. Beijing: Posts and Telecom Press,1997
Zhang Xiaohua and Shi Fangwen, ed. English for Telecommunications (the 4th Version).Beijing: Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications Press,2004
Xu Xiulan. English for Computers and Telecommunications (the 3rd Revision) .Beijing: Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications Press,2004
Teaching Content
Contents
Time
Teaching Apparatuses
I. Revision
上节课主要学习了第8单元关于paging system的知识。
II. Pre-reading Activities
第9单元
传统的移动电话系统有那些缺点?
理想的移动电话系统有什么特点?
本次课将给大家讲cellular mobile telephone system有关方面的知识。
III. While-reading Activities
i. New Words And Phrases
deploy v. use something effectively
e.g. deploy one’s arguments, resources etc.
mobile adj. that can move or be moved easily and quickly from place to place; mobility n.
conventional adj. following what is traditional or customary
allocation n. 配给, 分配, 拔出
allocate v. allocate something to somebody or something: assign something to somebody or something for a special purpose
e.g. He allocated tasks to each of us.
Approach v. come near or nearer to somebody or something in space or time 在时间或空间上靠近
e.g. The time is approaching when we must think about buying a new house.
n. 接近; 方法
vicinity n. in the vicinity of something : in the surrounding district; in the neighborhood
e.g. There isn’t a good school in the vicinity.
Radius n 半径 diameter n. 直径
本单元主要涉及到上述列出的几个重要词汇,请大家认真牢记。
读音
拼写
含义
在专业上的使用
ii. Passage-reading Activities
Step 1:Ask students to preview the text for several minutes.
Step 2:Let students discuss the communication approaches in the past and nowadays.
Step 3:Analyze the language points in the text.
Language points
第9单元
Cellular Mobile Telephone System
语句:A major problem facing the radio communication industry is the is limitation of the available radio frequency spectrum.
分析: A major problem……frequency spectrum (para. 2)句子的V-ing形式facing的逻辑主语是 the radio communication industry 与problem无被动关系,故用V-ing 形式
语句:These achievements were a few of the requirements for developing advanced mobile phone systems and encouraging engineers to pursue this direction.
分析:These achievements were ……pursue this direction (para 4)句中的for developing advanced mobile phone systems and encouraging engineers to pursue this direction 是个介词短语,在句中作定语。
语句:It can be any one in the entire band assigned by the serving area ,with each site having multichannel capabilities that can connect simultaneously to many mobile units .
分析:It can be any one in the entire band ……many mobile units.(para. 10)过去分词assigned作band的定语,that引导的是个定语从句修饰capabilities.
语句:Why 800 MHZ ?
分析:Why 800 MHZ ?省略形式的疑问句。Why is 800 MHZ ?
语句:The cellular switch, which can be either analog or digital, switches calls to connect mobile subscribers to other mobile subscribers and to the nationwide telephone network.
分析:The cellular switch ……telephone network.(para12)主句the cellular switch 后跟了个由which 引导的非限制性定语从句。谓语是switch .宾语是calls.三个不定式作call的定语
IV. Post-reading Activities
1. Review the important expressions , phrases, sentences and translation skills learnt in the study of the text.
2. Guide students through some exercises in class.
V. Further Development of the Theme-related Specialized Knowledge
第9单元
http://www2.zzu.edu.cn/
Cellular mobile telephone system
VI. Assignments
Translate the following phrases into English.
Translate the following phrases into Chinese.
Fill in the blanks with proper answer.
Choose the best answer according to the text.
Translate the following passage into Chinese.
3 mins
2 mins
60 mins
2mins
4 mins
1 mins
computer,
projector,
loud speaker,
audio-visual language teaching system,
blackboard,
recorder,
DVD,
radio,
hanging chart,
model.