Social media trends - Ember's blog

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On average, Chinese Internet users each spend two hours a day on sociamedia: a total of 730 hours each year.
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The average age of social media users in China in 2017 was 33.1 years oldas against 32.4 in 2016 and 31.2 in 2015.
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The top four negative aspects of social media as ranked by Chinese user!are:reduced time for reading printed books, poorer eyesight, privacy andinformation security concerns, and reduced sleep time.
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(1)朗读所给段落;(2)配合教学内容适当板书
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(3)根据材料所给内容，设计口语教学活动;
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(4)用英文试讲;
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(5)试讲时间:10分钟。

Teaching aims#

Key and difficult points#

Lead in#

Free talk What social medias do you usually use?(Wechat, doyin, QQ…) How long do you often each week?

Pre-speaking#

Today we’re going to talk about Social media. Let’s read a report together. What can we know from this report? Three main perspective:

1. Using time of each Chinese user
2.Average age from 2015-2017
3.Top 4 negative aspects

While-speaking#

activity: mini-debate,based on the report Expression: According to the report, we can find that… In my opinion,I think… From my point of view, I believe… On one hand…on the other hand… Besides… Group A: For team, your argument is social media is beneficial. Group B: Against team… is negative.

Post-speaking#

What can we do to keep a healthy using habit of social media?

Summary and Homework#

worksheet
Do a survey about our class social media usage