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Unit 5 Education
Lesson 1 Period 1
教材分析
本课阅读语篇介绍了海伦·凯勒早年的启蒙学习经历。在老师沙利文的帮助下,她第一次学会了doll这个单词。随后,从具象到抽象,文章又举出了她学习water,think和love的过程。过程缓慢而艰辛,不过沙利文老师用爱和耐心启蒙了海伦凯勒,故事十分感人。
教学目标
在本课学习结束时,学生能够:
1. 获取与梳理海伦·凯勒学习单词的过程;
2. 分析与判断海伦凯勒和沙利文老师性格和行为特征;
3. 推理与论证文章的linking devices精妙之处。
教学重难点
【教学重点】
1. 获取与梳理海伦·凯勒学习单词的过程;
2. 分析与判断海伦凯勒和沙利文老师性格和行为特征。
【教学难点】
推理与论证文章的linking devices精妙之处。
Step 1 Warming up
1. What’s the meaning of “enlightening”?
2. When did you have an enlightened moment?
3. Work with your deskmate. Place a blindfold (眼罩) over your eyes. Your deskmate tries to teach you how to read and write. Swap places after a few minutes.
4. Share your feedback of the experience with the class. Elicit the ways to teach someone who is blind to read and write.
设计意图:创设情境,引入主题,激活学生已有语言和知识,为阅读做好准备。
Step 2 Reading
1. Read paragraphs 1-2 of the story. Discuss Helen Keller and her teacher’s characteristics and personalities by answering the four questions.
(1) Who is Helen Keller?
(2) What makes her special?
(3) Why did she break things?
(4) What do you think about her teacher?
2. Read the rest of the story. Which paragraphs are the words in?
3. Try to answer the following questions.
(1) How many words were taught to Helen? What were they?
(2) Which words were easier to learn? Which were more difficult? Explain why.
设计意图:阅读文本,获取梳理文本基本信息。
4. Complete the diagram.
5. Complete the diagram about how the learning process affected Helen by choosing from the expressions.
设计意图:引导学生对信息进行分类整理和评价,并结合自己的看法提出建议。
6. How many parts can the story be divided into? What is each part mainly about? Underline the signal expressions that connect the description of Helen’s learning processes.
设计意图:运用所学,形成自己对本文的理解。
Step 3 Speaking
What qualities do you think Helen and Anne showed in the story? Choose from the list below. Find evidence to support your opinion.
设计意图:运用所学单词短语,重塑文本。
Step 4 Practice
Fill in the blanks with the words from the story.
设计意图:复习巩固所学词汇。
Step 5 Assignment
Write a story of how you learnt things w