Unit 3 The world online
Project: Doing research on the Internet
Objectives:
l My students will read an information sheet about Internet research.
l My students will learn how to do research on the Internet to look for and find the information wanted.
l My students will be able to use the words and phrases appeared in the article freely
l My students will experience the group cooperation when they deal with the project.
Language focus:
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1. the fastest growing source of information
2. keep some things to keep in mind
3. sit down at a computer terminal
4. read this brief guide
5. use the Internet in the best way possible
6. choose a search service
7. aid you in your search
8. search engines and subject directories
9. give you direct links but the information is chosen and organized differently
10. be not classified by subject
11. type in the key words
12. contain the word or words you ask for
13. evaluate the contents they search
14. be written by a person without qualifications
15. have the solid facts
16. obtain from the search engine
17. decide whether it is related to what you are researching
18. a list of current search engines
19. comb through pages and links
20. be divided into specific subject categories
21. get a bunch of titles of articles or pages
22. a short summary of the information they contain
23. on that basis
24. be relevant and correct
25. equal being up to date
26. take several things into consideration
27. check the dates of the sites you find
28. state, at the bottom of the page, the date they were last updated
29. proofread their own writing and correct errors that they made
30. as a general rule
31. check the source of the information you find
32. pages managed by organizations and companies you trust are much better
33. be sure about
34. consult other web pages to confirm the information
35. be called cross-checking
36. put key words in double quotation marks
37. To copy the words just as you found them is not only cheating, but also not legal.
38. write an outline of the information you have found
39. attach a list of the sites you got your information from
40. follow these few tips
41. be much more rewarding
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1. 发展速度最快的的信息来源
2. 谨记一些注意事项
3. 坐在电脑（终端）前
4. 阅读这份简要指南
5. 以最好的方式使用电脑
6. 选择一种搜索服务
7. 帮助你进行搜索
8. 搜索引擎和主题目录检索
9. 给你直接的内容链接但所供信息的选择和分类方式是不同的
10. 并非按主题分类
11. 输入关键词
12. 包含你需要的字词
13. 鉴定他们搜索的内容
14. 没有资历的人写（提供的信息）
15. 有确凿的事实
16. 从搜索引擎中获得
17. 决定它是否与你正在搜寻的（信息）相关
18. 一个目前搜索引擎的列表
19. 梳理页面和链接
20. 被按照具体的主题分类
21. 得到一串文章或页面的标题
22. 他们包含的信息的一段简短介绍
23. 在那个基础上
24. 是相关的并且是正确的
25. 等同于是最新的
26. 把几件事考虑在内
27. 检查你找到的网站的建立日期
28. 在页面的底部声明他们被最后更新的时间
29. 校对他们自己写的东西并改正错误
30. 一般情况下
31. 检查你找到的信息的来源
32. 由你所信任的机构和公司的网页要好得多
33. 对……很有把握
34. 查阅其他页面去证实信息（的准确性）
35. 被称作“交叉核对”
36. 将关键词打上双引号
37. 抄袭你找到的词不仅是欺骗，而且是违法的。
38. 概括你找到的信息
39. 附上你信息来源的网站清单
40. 按照这几条提示
41. 带来更多的回报
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Activities:
1. What do you want to know and what do you know about doing research on the Internet?
Today, we’re going to talk about ‘doing research on the Internet’. What do you expect to know about this topic?
What do you know about this topic?
Suggested answers:
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What I want to know
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What I know
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- How to do research on the Internet?
- How to deal with the false information?
- Using the information in the essays
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- We can use the search engine.
- We can consult other web pages or books to confirm the information.
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2. Fast reading
Read the article on pages 46 and 47. See if you can find out the answers to these questions:
1) What is the writing purpose of this article?
2) What kind of search service is best for the topics you are interested in?
Answers:
1) This article provides tips for the readers to help them use the Internet in the best way possible and spend their time doing research on the Internet much more rewarding.
2) Subject directories.
3. Comparison of the two search services
Read through lines 5 to 30, Fill in the words or phrases in the table below.
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Search engines
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Subject ______(6)
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l a type of computer ______ (1)
l based on the key word(s) you ______ (2)
l choose pages for you which ______ (3) the word(s) you ask for
l present ______ (4)
l ______ (5) the full article or pages
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l built by humans
l selected by a person and divided into ______ (7)
l present ______ (8) titles of articles or pages, sometimes a short summary
l present ______ (9), relevant and correct information, not ______ (10)
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Search engines
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Subject directories
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l a type of computer program
l based on the key word(s) you type in
l choose pages for you which contain the word(s) you ask for
l present unevaluated contents
l present the full article or pages
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l built by humans
l selected by a person and divided into specific subject categories
l present a bunch of titles of articles or pages, sometimes a short summary
l present evaluated, relevant and correct information, not up to date
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4. Understanding the article
Read the article again and answer the following questions. While you are answering, do not refer to your book and try to express with your own words. Key words of each question are given.
1) How can you know if the information that you have found is new or old? (site, bottom)
2) Personal web pages are not good for doing research. Then, what kind of page is good for us to do our research? (manage, trust)
3) Why should we do cross-checking? How can we do it? (proofread, consult, confirm)
4) If you are asked to do some research on the title ‘transportation in the UK’, what will you put in the search bar of the search engine?
5) How will you check your information and decide which sites to trust?
Answer:
1) We can check the dates of the sites. Most sites will state the date they were last updated at the bottom of the page.
2) Government pages, or pages managed by organizations and companies you trust are good for doing research.
3) Not every person proofreads their own writing and correct errors that they made. So we should check the source of the information we find. If we find information we are not sure about, consult other web pages to confirm the information. This is called cross-checking.
4) “transportation” + “UK”
5) Government pages, or pages managed by organizations and companies you trust are much better. If you find information you are not sure about, consult other web pages to confirm the information. This is called cross-checking.
5. Language practice
Parts B1 & B2 on page 119.
Part D1 on page 121.
6. Project
Topics to choose:
1. The most popular mobile phone (21st Century – April 2, 2008)
2. The most important Chinese medicine / The use of Chinese medicine in the West
3. Transportation in the UK / USA
- In groups, my students will decide which topic to choose and then allocate the work.
- Students can only use the Internet for one hour at school.
- An English-Chinese dictionary is encouraged to use while searching.
- The groups will hand in their report. I will mark the report and ask some groups to present theirs to the whole class.
