初中英语人教新目标 (Go for it) 版七年级下册Unit 12 What did you do last weekend?Section A教案设计

Content

Text Analysis

Teaching goals

Language skills

1. Students will learn some new words and phrases according to the context, such as blue, a piece of cake, available, waste, the apple of one’s eye, be all ears, nephew, battle, kick out, fight back, furious, and hard.

2. Students can use reading strategies to help read faster and understand better.

Reading strategies

1. Guess the meaning from the context. 根据语境推测意思
2. Read pictures or titles to predict. 读图或题预测内容
3. Get main ideas quickly.   巧妙获取中心思想
4. Scan for the information.   扫读文章寻找信息

Cultural awareness

1. Students’ enthusiasm for reading will be stimulated.
2. Students are expected to read a passage properly and with enthusiasm.
3. Students will be able to appreciate stories with twist endings and try to write a story ending reasonably with group members.

Ability of thinking

1. After class, students will get better in reading by using these reading tips.
2. Students will be able to appreciate the stories and make story endings logically and reasonably.

Teaching Aids

Multi-media, blackboard, exercise paper, envelope for a story ending, certificate

Procedures

Purpose

Step 1

Lead-in

1. Have the students watch a video about reading and ask questions.
2. Talk about the two main problems that students have in their reading.
3. Have the students listen to good reading strategies to help solve their problems by watching the reading star’s interview and listening to his advice.

To lead in the topic and list three useful reading strategies on the blackboard for farther learning.

Step 2

Challenge 1 -- Guess the meaning from the context.

1. Have students try guessing the meaning of 6 expressions according to the context.

① I lost my iPhone. I feel blue.

② English is a piece of cake for me.

③ Are you available tomorrow?

④ It’s a waste of time.

⑤ Daniel is the apple of his father’s eye.

⑥ Boys and girls, please be all ears.

2. Help students get better understandings of these new expressions by try using them in conversations with students.

To help students learn how to guess the meaning according to the contest.

Step 3

Challenge 2 -- Read pictures or titles to predict.

1. Have students predict the topic of the passage according to the titles or pictures.

2. Help students learn about the usual way to get the main idea of a passage quickly by trying on different passages.

 ① First sentences often tell the main idea.

② Last sentences often tell the main idea.

③ Repeated words often tell the main idea.

To master the predicting skill according to the titles or pictures.

To generalize the quick ways to get the main idea of a passage.

Step 4

Challenge 3 -- Scan for information.

1. Try scanning for information in an invitation, lost and found notices and a movie ad.

2. Try guessing the meanings from the context.

To master the scanning skill in reading.

To stimulate students to be curious about the story book Peter Rabbit and arouse their interest in reading it.

Step 5

Challenge 4 -- Overall Application

1. Read a story quickly and find the information with the help of the reading strategies learnt today.
2. Pay attention to the feelings of the father and brainstorm why the son needs so much money.
3. Make an ending for the story with group members.
4. Read the original ending of the story aloud.
5. Books recommended:
   The Last Leaf, The Gift of the Magi, The Cop and the Anthem by O. Henry

To improve students’ capacity for application of all the reading strategies.

To help students experience story ending writing based on their own understanding and expectation of the story development.

To have students read the story ending properly and with enthusiasm.

To arouse students’ interest in reading stories with twist endings and encourage students to read more.

Step 6

Homework:

1. Read a story Prepare for a Rainy Day.
2. Finish the exercises by using the reading strategies learnt today.

To enhance the reading skills learnt in class.

Step 7

Summary

Read popular quotes and famous sayings about reading.

① Reading makes a full man.

② By reading we enrich our mind.

③ Without reading, the mind will stop.

To be conscious of the importance in reading by reading out the famous sayings aloud.