牛津译林版七年级下册Unit 5 Amazing thingsReading教案

Unit 5 Amazing things

Reading

Teaching aims

Knowledge aims:   To predict meaning of specific words from context.

To practice the main language points of the context.

Ability aims:  To identify specific meaning by scanning the text.

            To summarize key points of a story by sequencing statements.

            To identify key events and infer general meaning.

Emotion aims: To let the students know there are no ghosts in the world.

Important and difficult points

1. The simple past tense

2. Some useful phrases

Teaching method

     Audio-visual method, interactive method

Teaching aid

     Multimedia Courseware

Teaching procedures

    Step one- Lead in

1. To revise yesterday’s dialogue by talking about the amazing pictures with several sentence patterns. Try to make the students familiar with some words and structures.

2. Revise some words by asking the students choose the correct meanings of some words.

Step two- Presentation

Listen to the tape and ask the students to answer the following questions

1. Did Millie and Amy go to Sunshine Park one Sunday morning?

2. Did they hear a song from the bushes behind the tree?

3. Who did they meet on their way?

4. What did Andy find in the bushes?

Step three-outline

 Fill in the blanks with the information learned

Step Four --details

Read the text carefully and answer some questions on details.

1. Why were Millie and Amy frightened?

  They heard a whisper from the bushes behind the tree.

2. Who did they meet on their way home?

  They met Andy.

3. Where did Andy find the “ghost”?

  In the bushes.

  How did he find it?

  He searched the bushes and found it.

4. Why did the cat sound like a ghost?

  Because it was very weak.

5. Where did they take the cat?

  They took it to the animal centre.

6. Do you think there are ghosts in the real life?

Step Five –put them in a correct order

Millie wrote some sentences about what happened, but they were not in the correct order. Help her put the sentences into the correct order. Write the numbers 1-7 in the boxes.

Step Six—True or false

Millie is telling her friend Wendy on the phone about what happened in the park, but Wendy can’t hear her clearly. Write a T if a sentence is true or F if it is false.

Step Seven—act out

Finish the dialogue between Henry and Andy

Step Eight -retell the story

Fill in the blanks to retell the story. Let them pay attention to the tense of the verbs and encourage the students to tell a story in their own words