英语教学设计原雪风.doc

BOOK7 Module 2 Highlights of My Senior Year
Period One
Intrduction and Reading and Vocabulary
山西省左权中学 原雪风

Teaching contents
本模块以Highlights of My Senior Year为话题，介绍了美国中学生的学校生活，描述了他们的学校俱乐部以及从事的课外活动，学生通过本模块学习，可了解其他国家中学生的学习生活情况，进行中美学校文化的对比，并学会描写自己高中的生活。
Introduction 部分首先通过表格的形式介绍了美国中学的学制、学习年限和学生年龄等情况，然后通过问答的方式引导学生对比中美学生生活的差异，为阅读部分的学习做好知识背景的铺垫。
Reading and Vocabulary (1) 部分介绍了一位美国中学生的高中生活，要求学生学习相关的词汇，培养略读和查读的能力。
Teaching Goals:
1. To get Ss to learn some words to describe the life of senior year.
2. To get Ss to know something about American school system and something about American senior high school life.
3. To let Ss master how to summarize a passage.
4. To get Ss to talk something about the highlights of their school life.
Teaching important points and difficult points
1. Important points
(1) 掌握一些与学校生活相关的词汇。
(2) 学习如何表达想法和意见。
(3) 学习主语从句和表语从句。
2 Difficult points
(1) 通过阅读培养学生概括和略读、查读的能力。
(2) 学会介绍学校生活，进行评论学校生活和各种活动，并学会写关于高中毕业班的精彩生活的文章。
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1. Introduction
1. Look at the title: Highlights of My Senior Year. According to the pictures, say something about highlights of my senior year. What happened? Then ask them to look at the chart on page 15 and answer the following questions .
(1) How old is an American student when he or she enters middle school?
(2) How many years do they study in middle school?
(3) How old is an American students when he or she enters senior high school?
(4) How many years do they study in senior high school?
(5) What is the final year of senior high school called?
Suggested Answers:
(1) 11-12. (2) Three. (3) 14-15. (4) Four. (5) Senior year.
2 work in pairs to draw a chart of the Chinese school system and compare it with the American school system. Get them to try to tell some differences between them.
For your reference:
(1) American students go to middle school earlier than us.
(2) There are four years in American senior high school, while we just have three years
.3.Talk about highlights of your school years
Step 2. Reading and Vocabulary (1)
1. Fast reading
Ask Ss to read the passage quickly and try to find out the highlights of the writer’s senior year. Then present a chart in order to let Ss know clearly what they should do now. Underline the new words and phrases in order to let Ss pay more attention to them.
(1) Working as an arts editor for the newspaper;
(2) Working as a peer mediator;
(3) Having fun in a skiing trip;
(4) Getting good grades in her final exams;
(5) Receiving the senior prize for English Literature;
(6) Being elected to the student council;
(7) Being elected prom queen.

Read again to find out the answer to the question:
Why did Joanna enjoy the prom so much?
2. Intensive reading
Ask Ss to read again and answer the following questions:
① What’s her first planning after leaving school?
② What kind of training was given to students when school began?
③ Why did she have fun racing each other down the ski slopes?
④ Before going to the prom, what preparations did she make?
⑤ Why did Joanna enjoy the prom so much?
Suggested Answer:
① She’s going to take a long vacation.
② They were given training in how to be a peer mediator.
③ She is competitive. So she did enjoy it whenever she won the race.
④ Because she went with Daniel, looked elegant, had a good time with her friends and was elected prom queen.
⑤ She found a dress that suited her perfectly and had her hair specially done. ( It took 2 hours but it was worth it. )
3. Post-reading
Ask Ss to discuss the following question:
What kind of person is Joanna? Describe her.
Do you like Joanna? Say why / why not.
For your reference:
Joanna is an outgoing person who likes to be involved in student life. She enjoys positions of responsibility. She is also competitive. She likes to have a good time with her friends, too.
4.Language Points
1). Ask Ss to underline some important and difficult language points in groups. Then give them some explanation and make sentences with them
2). Present the phrases underlined just now in order to let Ss master them well. (Translate the Chinese phrases into English.)
(1) ……感 a sense of
(2) 参加……；与……有关 be involved in
(3) 学生会 student council
(4) 以…身份做某种工作 work as
(5) 文艺编辑 arts editor
(6) 解决问题 settle / solve problem
(7) 值……(钱) be worth
(8) 很值得干…… It’s well worth doing ….
(9) 度假 r take a vacation
(10) 选……做…… elect sb (as) …
3. Ask Ss to finish Activities 2and 3.
Retell the part of the prom .Key words: with a boy, dress, hair, elegant, rent ,delicious, share…with, queen,
Step 3. Homework
1. Ask Ss to try to memorize the useful phrases in the passage.
2. Ask Ss to finish Reading Exercises in the Workbook on pages 99~100.
3. Ask Ss to prepare for the Reading Practice and Cultural Corner.
反思与评析
通过本节课的学习，同学们进一步了解了美国的学校生活,进一步增强学生对学校的热爱。
本节课采用“任务型”教学模式，通过让学生在创设的语境中进行大量语言实践活动，提高了学生对英语知识的学习、语言技能的发展以及语言实际运用的能力，使学生的思维能力和与人沟通的能力以及创新精神等综合素质得到了发展。

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