英语阅读课教学设计张海燕.doc

初中英语阅读课教学设计
—— FESTIVAL
呼兰区实验学校：张海燕
一、教学目标
Teaching aims and demands
1. Master the new words and expressions:
(1).Words: beauty, harvest, starve, origin, religious, ancestor, feast, bone, belief, poet, arrival, gain, gather, independence, agricultural, award, admire, rooster, energetic, clothing, Easter, Christian custom.
(2).Expressions: take place, in memory of, dress up, play a trick on, look forward to, day and night, as though, have fun with.
2. Learn to describe festivals Ss know using the words and expressions learned in the lesson.
3. Develop their reading skills: skipping, skimming, scanning, word-guessing, close reading, summarizing, comparing.
4. Understand the useful sentences and the structure of the passage, and then be able to do some writing accordingly.
Step 1: Lead in (4 minutes)
(1):Brainstorming. First students find more words to describe festivals they know.(Individual work)
(2):Students work in group of 4 and make a list of four Chinese festivals they know. Discuss when they take place and what people do at that time. Then fill in the table.(Group work)
Step 2: Pre-reading (3 minutes)
Task 1: Predicting
(1):Students try to predict the general idea of the passage according to the title and the pictures in it. (Individual work)
(2):Skipping (Individual work)
Students read the passage quickly and the teacher help them check their work.
Step 3: While reading(25 minutes)
Task 2: Skimming or Fast reading (Individual work)
Students read the text fast and identify the topic of each paragraph. Then fill in form. Finally help students to understand the organizing of the passage: Introduction --- Body --- Conclusion
Task 3: Scanning or Careful reading (Group work)
Students scan the passage and fill the blanks based on it.
Task 4: Conclusion
(1):Although people have different festivals, most festivals have something in common, for these things might be important to people everywhere. Talk with partners and fill in the chart below. (Group work)
(2):Students conclude the main idea of the passage within 30 words. (Individual work)
The passage brief introduces the earliest kinds of festivals with the reasons for them, and then four varieties of festivals in most parts of the world.
Task 5: Guessing words. (Pair work)
Students read the passage again and then guess the meanings of the words in bold according to the context.
starve, ancestor, in memory of, belief, dress up, arrival, gain, gather, award, admire, look forward to, custom.
Task 6: Intensive reading.(Pair work)
(1):Help students to understand some difficult words ,phrases and sentences in the passage.
(2): Students read the passage again, and answer the questions in Exercise 2 on Page 3.
Step 4: Post reading(7 minutes)
Task 7: Discussion
Discuss in group which festivals are the most important and which are the most fun.(Group work)
Task 8: Talk show.(Team and Individual work)
Each group sends a representative to report their opinions on “which festivals are the most important and which are the most fun?”
Step 5:Homework (1 minute)
Write an article about the most important festivals you like best. The passage should include date, origin, meaning, food and clothing, people, and activities.
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