高中英语外研版 (2019)选择性必修第四册Unit 1 Looking forwards教案

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这是一份高中英语外研版 (2019)选择性必修第四册Unit 1 Looking forwards教案，共8页。

Topic	Facing the future		Teacher
Teaching Aims:	1.Get the students to learn some useful new words and expressions in this part. 2.Develop the students’ reading skills and enable them to learn how to use different reading strategies to read different reading materials. 3.Enable the students to understand the whole passage.
Teaching important Points:	Lead the students to obtain the general idea of the text through skimming and intensive reading. Let the students master the key words and phrases in this part. Ask the students to complete the questionnaire.Then guide them to summarize the past and look into the future based on the content of the questionnaire.
Teaching difficult points:	1.Let the students learn to analyze and solve problems ,and improve their reading level. 2.Guide the students to understand the meaning of the title. 3. Guide the students to describe the growth process of the two writers in the text, their different experiences in the growth process and their representative works.
Teaching methods:	Task-based Language Teaching
Teaching type:	Reading	课时		one
Teaching procedure:	Teaching contents:
Step1: Pre-reading Step2: While-reading Step3: Post-reading Summary Homework	Leading-in Guide the students to summarize the past and look into the future based on the content of the questionnaire .Then let them predict the content of the text. Task 1: Encourage the students to preview before class and learn about the lives and achievements of the two authors. Task 2: Let the students complete the questionnaire quickly and then discuss it in groups. Task3:Lead the students to predict the content of the text by looking at the pictures and reading the title and topic sentence. Task4: Ask the students to read the text quickly with questions to verify their prediction . Activity 1: Skimming:Let the students go through the whole passage quickly to get the main idea. Activity 2: Scanning:Encourage students to read the passage again and work together to finish the following tasks. Task1.Read the text carefully and choose the best answers according to the text. 1. What do we know about Ernest Hemingway according to the passage? A. He once worked as a trainee reporter in a newspaper in Cuba. B. The Old Man and the Sea got him to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953. C. He was fond of writing ever since his early boyhood. D. His novels were based on the Second World War and the Spanish Civil War. 2.What do we know about Arthur Conan Doyle? A.He was born in Scotland in 1899. B.He was best known for his historical novels. C. His main ambition was to become a writ er of detective novels. D. He began to write his detective novels when he worked as a doctor. What can we learn from the last but one paragraph? A.Doyle gave up medicine and devoted himself entirely to writing once he began to write novels. B.The public thought highly of Doyle's detective novels and were fond of Sherlock Holmes. C.Doyle's historical novels made him a household name. D. Doyle's achieved his ambition of writing historical novels successfully. 4. What can we infer from the passage? A.Whatever difficulty we meet with in our life, we should be prepared for the unexpected. B. Having plans in place for the future is a guarantee that they will become reality. C. Both Ernest Hemingway and Arthur Conan Doyle were fond of writing detective novels. D. Ernest Hemingway is more successful than Arthur Conan Doyle. Task2. Fill in the blanks according to he text. Facing the future, can we take action to shape it, 1 should we just accept whatever comes our way? As many of us already know, 2 (have) plans in place for the future is no guarantee that whey will become reality. In this respect, some people are 3 (fortunate) than others, as can 4 (illustrate) by comparing the lives of two famous authors - Ernest Hemingway and Arthur Conan Doyle. Hemingway, born in 1899, was single minded in his ambition 5 (write)from early boyhood. In order to achieve his goal, he did many different 6 (job) and used his own experiences to inform his writing. 7 (eventual) his hard work paid off, winning the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Nobel Prize in Literature. 8 contrast,Doyle wasn't so lucky.He longed to become known for his historical novels among other academic works, but his success in other fields was nothing, 9 (compare) to his fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes. Though both of them were ultimately successful, their paths to success were quite different. So, whatever twists and turns you might encounter, be prepared for 10 unexpected. 参考答案：Task1:1.C 2.D 3.B 4.A Task2:1.or 2.having 3.more fortunate 4.be illustrated 5.to write 6.jobs 7.Eventually 8.By 9.compared 10.the Activity3:Lead the students to further understand the content of the text.Inspire the students to think deeply and explore the meaning of the topic by summarizing the main ideas. Guide the students to pay further attention to the structure and main information of the text and understand the author's writing intention. Task1:Ask the students read the text closely,understand the content of the text,and complete the information about Ernest Hemingway and Arthur Conan Doyle in the chart. Answers: Ernest Hemingway ·was single-minded in his ambition to write ·novels and short stories based on his personal experiences of the First World War the Spanish Civil War, bullfighting and deep-sea fishing, among others ·the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953 and won the Nobel Prize in Literature later Arthur Conan Doyle ·a doctor; Doyle's main ambition was to become a writer of historical novels ·the fictional detective ·his historical novels among other academic works; the public couldn’t get enough of Sherlock Holmes Task2:Lead the students to discuss the similarities and differences between the two writers.Then ask them to complete the information about the similarities between the two writers in the middle of the chart. Answers: Similarities ·were ultimately successful ·the same ambitious and energetic approach to life Task3: Let the students read the sentence from the passage and answer the questions. So, whatever twists and turns you might encounter, take a leaf out of the books of these two authors and be prepared for the unexpected. What is their understanding of “take a leaf out of the books”? What effect is the author aiming to achieve by using it? 3. What other expressions do they know that share the same meaning? Answers: 1. Students' own answers. 2. The author aims to maintain the reader's interest by using this figure of speech, and perhaps to end with a lighter note by using a pun. 3. Students' own answers. This lesson successfully completed the pre-set tasks and achieved good effects. Review this lesson and complete the following questions. 1. What is your understanding of Steve Jobs's words at the end of the passage? 2. What can you learn about facing the future from the two authors? 3. What will you do to prepare yourself for the future? 4. Do you know any stories about Chinese writers and their plans for the future? What lessons can you learn from their experiences? Share your opinions with the class. Answers: 1. You cannot make sense of your life by looking forward, because the future has not happened yet, and the meaning of future events is therefore uncertain. However once future events have occurred, you may be able to see how they fit into the pattern of your life.Things which you did not expect to be important may turn out to be very important. You must face the future by believing that everything will work out in the end, and that your life will make sense and have meaning. 2. Students' own answers. 3. Students' own answers. 4. Students' own answers.
Blackboard design	Facing the future in the face of面临，面对 be faced with面对=face v. approach n.接近；通道；方法 v.接近 an approach to… 做某事的方式 take action采取行动 put…into action 將…付诸实施 inform v.通知，告知 inform sb.of sth.通知某人某事 information n.信息（u.） long vi.渴望 long to do… 渴望做某事 long for 渴望，怀念