高中外研版 (2019)Unit 1 Looking forwards教案

Topic

The Road Not Taken

Teacher

Teaching

Aims:

1.Get the students to understand the whole passage.

2.Improve students’ ability of reading information .

3.Master some usage of key sentences.

4.Guide the students to understand the connotation of the poem"The Road not Chosen".

Teaching important

Points:

1.Help the students to get the main idea by reading the passage.

2.Guide the students to comprehend the theme of the poem  so as to deepen the understanding of the unit theme.

Teaching difficult points:

1.Training the students to grasp the skills of fast-reading and getting the text’s structure..

2.Stimulate the students’ reading interests of learning English by reading the text.

Teaching methods:

Task-based Language Teaching

Teaching type:

Reading

课 时

one

Teaching procedure:

Teaching contents:

Step1:Greeting

Step2:

Pre-reading

Step3:

Fast-reading

Step4:

Careful-reading

Step5:

Post-reading

Summary:

Homework:

Greet the whole class as usual.

Task1:Guide the students to read the introduction of author Robert Frost to Learn about the life and achievements of Robert Frost.

Questions:

1. What are the special features of Frost's poetry?

2. Have you read any poems written by Robert Frost? Share one with the class.

Answers:

1. There are four special features of Frost's poetry: first, it has been praised for its natural themes mostly set in the rural areas of New England; second, it has been praised for his colloquial approach to American language; third, it generally has a regular rhythm and rhyme and is easy to read aloud and remember; and finally, he often used simple settings in his poems to explore complex personal and social themes.

2. Students' own answers.

Task2:Ask some students to read a favorite poem by Robert Frost first.Then let the students introduce or share the sentences they are interested in to the class.

Task1:Ask the students to observe the background pictures of the text independently and think about the meaning of the pictures.

Task2.Find out the main idea of the passage.

Task3.Let the students read the text quickly and then answer the following questions.

1. What can we know from the first paragraph?

A.The poem The Road Not Taken is the most famous American poem of all time.

B. The poem The Road Not Taken often appears on television commercials.

C. People seldom quote lines of the poem The Road Not Taken in their speeches.

D. The poem The Road Not Taken is well known for its thoughtful insights into nature.

2. What is the author's opinion about the

choice we make according to the text?

A. We can go back although we have made a choice in all circumstances.

B. All the choices we made can lead to a specific consequence.

C. All we can do after making a choice is look forward without regret.

D. We should never doubt the choice we have already made.

3. Which of the following is RIGHT according to the whole text?

A. Partly, the art of decision making is learning to make the most of our decisions.

B. We should never look back on our decisions with regret.

C. Once we have made a choice between the two offers, we should never think of the other one.

D. We should never choose the“less traveled”road.

参考答案：1-3 BBA

Ask the students to read the text carefully and finish the following tasks.

Task1:Play the tape and guide the students to read the original text of the poem again to further understand the general idea of the poem and feel the beauty of the rhyme.

Task2:Guide the students to read the interpretation part at the end of the poem in sections to have a deep understanding of the artistic conception of the poem and the feelings conveyed by the author through the poem. Task3:Ask some students to share their understanding and feelings.

Task4:Ask the students to complete the table on page 12 with information from the passage.

Answers:

1. being unable to take both roads
2. is grassy and wants wear

3. the passing there has worn the two roads really about the same

4. he will take the first road

5. if he should ever come back

6. made all the difference

7. how our lives progress and change

8. whether we made the right choice

9. be facing our future with energy and optimism,for the choices are ours only

Task5:Play the recording of the poem again.Ask the students to listen to the recording and imitate reading the poem.

Guide the students to read another interpretation of the poem and prepare a report comparing it with the one in the passage.

Task1:Ask the students to discuss the two inter

-pretations from the following aspects. Do further research if necessary.

①What points do the two interpretations share?

②What are the major differences between the two interpretations?

③Which interpretation seems more convincing to you? Why?

④Can you think of yet another interpretation of the poem?

Answers:

① The two interpretations share the following

points: the poem The Road Not Taken is one of America's most famous or best-loved poems and it is about choice.

②The major differences between the two interpretations are: the one in the passage interprets the poem as a call for facing the future without regret, while the second interpretation(Robert's) maintains that the poem is really about accepting the consequences of our choices many years in the future, when it is too late to change them.

③Students' own answers.

④Students' own answers.

Task2:Let the students prepare their reports, including their understanding of the poem.

Task3:Ask the students to share their reports with the class.

This lesson successfully completed the pre-set tasks

and achieved good effects.

Review this lesson and complete some exercises.

Finish the following questions.

1. Why do you think the writer looks back on his decision "with a sigh"?
2. What are the rhyming words in this poem? What effect do they have?

3. What is the most difficult choice you have ever had to make? What did you choose to do?

4. What effect will the poem have on you when you face decisions in the future? Give your reasons.

5. In what different ways do the two reading passages in this unit improve your understanding of the choices you make and how they impact your future?

Answers:

1. The writer looks back on his decision“with a sigh", because he is wondering whether he made the right decision.

2. The rhyming words in this poem are:wood stood, could; both, undergrowth; fair, wear there; claim, same; lay, day, way; black, back; sigh, l, by; hence, difference.

Rhyming words may make it easier to read and recite the poem, because they make the rhythm of the poem fairly obvious.

3. Students' own answers.
4. Students own answers.
5. Students' own answers.

Blackboard design

The Road Not Taken

1. alternative n.可供选择的事物

 have no alternative but to do sth.=have no choice but to do sth.= can’t help but do sth.除做某事外别无选择

2. range v.（在一定范围内）变化

        n.种类；范围

a range of一系列…

range from… to… 从…到…变动

3. arise v.由…引起

arise from=arise out of 由…引起

4.状语从句的省略：