hawking教案.doc

Teaching Plan for Unit 4, Book 3
1.Background information:
Students: Senior high school students, Grade 1
Lesson duration:40mins
2. Teaching contents:
Reading: A Great Man in a Wheelchair
3.Teaching Objectives:
By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
1.Learn about Hawking's life and new words by reading.
2. Know how to get the main idea and the key information by scanning.
3. Learn to deal with difficulties bravely by inspired from Hawking’s experience and spirit.
(1.Knowledge Objective; 2.Ability Objective; 3.Moral Objective.)
4.Important Points:
1. Help the students learn Hawking’s story and new words;
2. Develop the students’ reading skills.
5. Difficult Points:
1. Instruct students to understand the difficult words and sentences ;
2. Help students use the words to describe a person and the information to make a summary.
6.Teaching Methods: Task-based Teaching and Situational Language Teaching methods.
7.Teaching Aids: PPT, blackboard, chalk
8.Teaching Procedures:
◆Lead-in (5 mins)
The teacher asks students to look at the learning goals first and let students know what they are going to learn in this lesson. Then the teacher begins with a guessing game to arouse students’ interest and introduce the topic.
Questions: Who is the person? What is it? Who is he?
◆While reading (20 mins)
Step1. Fast-reading
The teacher shows main ideas to the students and asks them to find the key words and then students will read the text quickly and match each paragraph with its correct main idea.
Para1 The development of Stephen Hawking's disease.
Para2 A short introduction of Stephen Hawking.
Para3 Stephen Hawking's education in St.Albans.
Para4 Stephen Hawking's education in Cambridge.
Para 5 The work and interest of Stephen Hawking

School and Oxford

Step2. Careful-reading
Task
1）Students will read paragraph2-3 to finish the timetable of Hawking’s education.
year
event
1942
Stephen Hawking was born in England.
1953

1964
He went to Cambridge to do research in__________.
1973
He held the post of Professor of Mathematics
1979

1979—
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Member of the US National Academy of Sciences.

2) Students will read paragraph2-3 and do True or False exercise.
1.Stephen Hawking attended the same college that his father attended.
2.Although his father wanted him to choose medicine as his major, Stephen wanted to study Physics.
3.Stephen Hawking went to Cambridge to do research in cosmology because no one wanted to work with him at that time.
4.Stephen Hawking was the first person to hold the post of Professor of Mathematics.

3）Students will read paragraph4 aloud to fill in the blanks.
Stephen Hawking has worked on ________that govern the universe and is particularly interested in unifying the_________________ and _____________to study black holes.

4) Students will read paragraph5 to answer the following two questions.
1.What did he do after he caught the disease?
2.What kind of person do you think he is?

◆Post-reading（12mins)
Step1 The teacher leads the students in groups to have a discussion:
If you were Stephen Hawking, how would you spend the rest of your life?

Step2 The teacher lets students pretend to be Hawking and asks them to make a speech about Hawking’s life and future plan with the help of the timetable as well as the words and sentences showed.

Step3 The teacher leads the students to read the following words loudly together:
“I believe in the possible. I believe small though we are, unimportant though we may be, we can still reach full understanding of the universe. You are right when you said you felt small looking up there. We are very very small. But we can also do very very big things.”
“Can you hear me?”
“Can you hear me?”
“Can you hear me?”

◆Homework
Ask students to find another person like Steven Hawking from their books or the Internet and tell the person’s story to the class in their words.

9.Blackboard Design

A Great Man in a Wheelchair

10.Reflection: (to be written immediately after the lesson).
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