高中英语Unit 3 The world of science教案

Unit 3  The world of science (developing ideas）2课时

教材

版本

2019外研版   必修三

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教学

目标

1. Guide students to understand the text and think about how true the story behind an invention may be.

2. Lead students to understand writing features and argumentation style of essays and help them form their own opinions and develop critical thinking.

3. Guide students to complete reading and writing activities so as to grasp the method of writing an experiment report.

教学

重点

1. Guide students to develop their reading comprehension of the essay and focus on how to develop the essay.

2. Lead students to think about how to express their arguments by listing supporting details.

3. Guide students to write an experiment report according to given instructions.

教学

难点

How to develop the students’ s ability of reading comprehension and express the opinions about new school.

教学

方法

Task-based learning  discussion

学情分析及学习方法

In this section, the reading passage is an essay, in which the author questions the authenticity of Franklin’s famous experiment with lightening. The first half part of the essay introduces the principle of the experiment and the educational significance of the story about the lightning experiment. The second half part argues that the story cannot be trusted from scientists’ point of view

素养

水平

Level 3 of language ability and level 2 of learning ability 

信息技术应用

PPT, application of video and pictures, and other information techniques

教学过程

环节

教学活动

学生活动

设计意图

素养提升点

问题

情境

导入

Step 1 Before reading

1. Have students read the brief introduction of Benjamin Franklin and learn about him.

2. Have students add more information about Benjamin Franklin to share with the class.

Watch the video and answer the questions

Lead in to the topic of this unit and serve as a warming up in this period. 1. Activate Ss' theme-re

background knowledge.

2. Predict the content of

passage through title and

pictures.

language ability

thinking quality

教学

过程

Step 2 While reading

1. Have the students read the passage quickly and answer the questions.

1) What did Franklin’s experiment aim to prove?

2) What does the new study say about the story of Franklin’s experiment?

3) Why does the author mention the story about the apple falling on Newton’s head in the text?

2. Read the text again and complete the exercise in Activity 3.

3. Have students think about the following the questions and voice their opinion.

1) How do you understand the statement “...we should not always believe everything we read or hear‒ even if it is a great story”?

2) What qualities do you think a great scientist should have?

Step 3 Post reading

Work in groups. Have students give a talk about their understanding of the saying “Seeing is believing.” Students complete the exercise step by step under the guidance of Activity 4.

Step 4 Before writing

Lead students to read the instructions for the experiment and answer the questions.

1. What will the results of this experiment be?

2. What can you learn from this experiment?

Step 5 Writing

1. Complete the table with the information in Activity 5.

 students to read the bar chart and think about what we should pay attention to when reading a bar chart.

Ss discuss the questions in groups and

share their opinions about the topic of the passages  in class.

Ss have a discussion with their group

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students to read the text   and understand the meanings and usages of the new words

students to think further about the last runner’s story and supplements and Ss share their stories with the class.

Improve students’ reading ability and train their reading comprehension ability.

Help Ss to learn more about the passage.

 Ss can improve their language ability through cooperation.

Help students to enlarge their vocabulary and enable them to improve their learning and language ability.

Train students English language ability.

Help students to express their own ideas and improve their English learning ability.

learning ability

language ability

critical thinking

culture awareness

thinking quality

culture awareness

learning ability

language ability

thinking quality

learning ability

language ability

language ability

thinking quality

learning ability

小结

Help Ss summarize what they have learnt in this class.

板书

设计

Unit 3  The world of science (developing ideas）

1. Franklin, along with many other scientists, has inspired us and taught us that scientific experiments are important in order to establish the truth and to contribute... inventions.

2. More than one account suggests that while Newton was certainly inspired by a falling apple, there is no proof that it hit him on the head.