(Nov,9th,2012)

Unit 3 Reading

teaching material

students

teaching objectives

key points and difficulties

teaching reflection

teaching procedures

blackboarddesign

Book I Unit 3 Reading

Section C American High School life

teaching & learningmethods

learn for work

learn for fun

English curriculum & Ss’ learning background

American high school life

School life Most students don’t have

good reading habits and are weaker in reading ability.

They are passive and seldom think and speak independently .

They can learn and use words to express.

They are active and eager to know something new.

American high School life

Analysis of the teaching material

topics

activities

CARRIER

1. enlarge Ss’ knowledge

2. develop Ss’ four skills

Company Logo

CommunicativeCommunicativeApproachApproach

CooperativeCooperativeLearningLearningMethodMethod

SituationalSituationalTeachingTeachingApproachApproach

Task-basedTask-basedMethodMethod

tasks:tasks:

Get to know American high school life

Shoot a film

Make a comparison

Help students understandthe new words, expressions and the passage.

Develop students’ reading ability and strategies.

Help students understandthe new words, expressions and the passage.

Develop students’ reading ability and strategies.

Emphasis Difficulty

Use the learnt words to talk about high school life

Develop students’communicative

competence.

Use the learnt words to talk about high school life

Develop students’communicative

competence.

Teaching objectives

◆ talk about the four aspects of American high school life

◆ can read & know their meanings

Knowledge objectives

Ability objectives

Cultural & Moral objectives

words: include, offer, besides …

phrases: take part in, such as …

◆ Be able to talk school life

◆ Can better develop reading skills

skimming

scanning

guessing the meaning of words

◆ Understand the similarities and differences of school life in America and China. Enjoy their school life.

Lead in (6 min)

output (10mins)

Homework

Teaching Procedures (40) Teaching Procedures (40)

input (23mins)

Self-check (1min)

free talk

Do you enjoy yourselfat school?

picture brainstorming

What grades does itinclude?

Step 1: Lead in

American high school life

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Aim: to deal with new words and

phrases and motivated for

reading

skimming

scanning

Input: Learning and practising

Step 2: Input

1.How many topics are mentioned in the text?

A.2 B.3 C.4 D.5

Task1:Input:

2. What are they?

A. Taking part in activities

B. Making friends

C. Taking courses

D. Having part-time jobs

Para.2

Para.1

Para.3

Para.4

Aim: To train the students’ ability of getting main ideas; Pay much attention

to verb phrases.The question

designed fits all the students.

Input:

Introduce some vocabulary learning strategies to students and ask them to guess the meaning of some words with the help of it.

Task 2: Get to know vocabulary study strategies and practise

Input:

Vocabulary learning strategies:

1. Guess the meaning of a word by its formation.

2. Guess the meaning of a word by making

contextual (上下文的 ) connections .

3. Try to find a synonym (近义词 ) of a word in

the same Para or passage.

a) Homecoming

home coming+

Exercise: Try to guess the meanings of the following words.

( Tell the students to look at the picture and pay attention to the formation of the words.)

b). Besides these, school also offer football, baseball, basketball, tennis and soccer.

The word “offer” means _______ .

A. include B. provide C. have D. hold

( Tell the students to look for the sentences before or after the word.)

c). Some may even have sports like golf, swimming and so on.

Can you find a synonym( 近义词 ) for “like” in the

passage?

( Tell Ss to look for the synonym in the passage.)

( Aim: To introduce some vocabulary learning strategies to Ss, help them understand the passage. )

Possible problem: It may be difficult for students. So cooperation is used

here.

Task 3: Shoot a film

Input:

• A film company wants A film company wants to to shoot (shoot ( 拍摄拍摄 )a film)a film about high school life in about high school life in China and America; China and America; suppose Kate were the suppose Kate were the American American screenwriter screenwriter (( 编剧编剧 )) of the film of the film , what , what should she write?should she write?

Exercise: Read the text again and find some information.

American high school students’ life

_______ courses ____ ____ ____ ____ _____

_______ courses ____ _____ ________

Activities ______ _______ ________

Sports _____ ______ _____ ______

Jobs _____ _____ ______ ______

Aim: To improve the students’

reading ability and help them

know the text well. The

designed questions should fit

students of different levels.

Output:

Is the information enough to shoot the film?

If you were the Chinese screenwriter, Would you like to write something different?

Chinese high school life

Courses __________________

sports __________________

activities __________________

clubs __________________

dormitory __________________

… __________________

Work in group of 4 and write as much as possible.

Courses: many majors …

Clubs: Singing Club, Basketball Club, English Club, Cosplay Club…

Activities: sports meeting, book reading New Year’ day; art festival, …

Sports: sports meeting …

Aim: To combine what they

have learnt with their life

experiences and add some new

teaching material.

Possible problem: It may be difficult for students to say

specific things. So teacher’s help & dictionaries are necessary

here.

Task 5 : DiscussionTask 5 : Discussion

★school years★courses★activities★jobs…

(After seeing the film)

Task 5 : DiscussionTask 5 : Discussion

★school years★courses★activities★jobs…

(After seeing the film)

words patterns

yearlyprom nightoffer babysitting Homecominglawns socialeducation

live a wonderful lifehave totake…courseslike to…take part in…make friendshipshave part-time jobsinclude…through

Aim: To help the students know the

differences and similarities of school life

in American and China from cultural way.

And practise their oral English.

Possible problem: It may be difficult for some students to say something about school life. So group work is necessary here.

I know the meaning of the following expressions: ( ) besides ( ) skill ( ) include ( ) through ( ) social ( ) education ( )yearly ( ) celebration ( ) offer ( ) babysit ( ) lawn

I can: ( ) understand the passage very well ( ) use the learnt words or expressions to talk about

school life.

I have learned ( ) some aspects of American school life.

After learning this lesson (tick)Step 4 Self-evaluation (1min)

1. Memorize the new words and phrases.2. Surf the internet to get more information about American high school life .3. Writing: Try to write a passage about my ideal(理想的 ) school life.

Step 5 Homework

Unit 3 Section C 　 American high school life

SectionⅣ Blackboard work

Courses

School activities

What awonderful school life!

Friends

Jobs

required courseselective courses

yearlycelebrationlawnbabysiteducation

Based on the analysis of this text, Ss’ study habits and the requirement of the English course reformation, I set teaching key points and difficulties. In order to reach them, I use the task-based approach combined with cooperation study and autonomous learning. In these steps, I promote Ss to memorize, think, analyze and discuss, and cultivate their reading strategies. Meanwhile through the way of “self-asking and answering questions” and the evaluation, the Ss as the subject of the class can be seen.

Section V Teaching reflections