外刊阅读与练习 6（教案）
Smartphone vs the classroom
智能手机 vs 传统课堂
语篇导读
你现在通过什么途径学习英语？老师面对面教授的课程？手机应用程序？很多人认为手机应用程序给学习者提供了一种可以替代在教室里学习的选择。让学习者按照自己的节奏，在日常生活之余随时随地学习外语。但手机应用程序是学习的最佳工具吗？本文讨论用智能手机学习的利弊，以及它是否预示着传统课堂教学模式将从此一去不返。
Step 1 Vocabulary词汇表

open doors 打开（各种机会的）大门
linguistic 语言的
evening class 夜校
textbook 课本，教科书
accessible 容易获取的，可得到的
virtual teacher 虚拟教师
cash in 从……中捞到钱财
course 课程
Esperanto 世界语
classroom 教室，课堂
get your head round (something) 理解、弄懂（复杂的事情）
peer support 同学之间互相支持
spell the end 预示某事结束
teaching 教学
degree 学位
resource 资源
committed （态度）坚定的，投入的
motivation 积极性，动力
stick with it 坚持下去

Step 2 原汁原味享受阅读
We know it’s good to learn another language. It opens doors, makes you more employable, helps you make new friends, and it’s fun too. But to improve our linguistic skills, many of us have to endure hours of school lessons or evening classes, with our heads buried in textbooks. It’s no wonder then that technology appears to be providing a better and more accessible way of learning.
There is certainly a huge demand for language learning, and having a smartphone means you can have a virtual teacher with you wherever you go. Many app developers are keen to cash in on the demand, and there are numerous learning apps available – including our own, free, BBC Learning English app! One of many popular apps, Duolingo, offers 91 courses in 30 languages and has more than 300 million users.
Some educational apps offer languages not popular enough to be taught at evening classes, or at most universities. And others offer ‘invented’ language courses in Esperanto, Elvish and Star Trek's Klingon – lessons you might not find in a traditional classroom. Whatever you want to learn, apps allow you to go at your own pace and fit learning around
other commitments. But they’re not perfect – you might not get your head round the grammar and will lack the peer support you could get in a classroom environment.
So, does technology spell the end of traditional classrooms and teachers? Guy Baron, head of modern languages at Aberystwyth University, thinks not. He told the BBC that apps should be used alongside classroom methods, not to the exclusion of traditional teaching. And he adds: "The apps are they're not designed for degrees, but they could be additional resources."
Certainly technology is going to help in and outside the classroom. But attending a real lesson, facing a real teacher, probably forces you to be more committed.
Motivation can be a problem when using an app. But if you have a genuine and practical reason to learn another language, you will no doubt stick with it.
Step 3 备战高考测验与练习
Task 1 阅读课文并回答问题。
1. According to the article, where can you take a ‘virtual teacher’?
If you have a smartphone, you can have a virtual teacher with you wherever you go.
2. Name a language you might not be able to learn in a traditional classroom.
Esperanto, Elvish and Star Trek's Klingon, are lessons you might not find in a traditional classroom.
3. What might motivate you to keep on using a language-learning app?
If you have a genuine and practical reason to learn another language, you will probably be more motivated to keep using an app.