内容正文:
A Teaching Plan for The Freshman Challenge
Book 1 Unit 1 Teenage Life
By Chen Zhuqing
Students’ levels:
1) Students have a better grasp of knowledge.
2) Students are not motivated enough to learn in class
3) Students have a good basic level.
Teaching aims:
At the end of the class, the students can
1) Have a good understanding of freshman challenge.
2) Develop the reading skills to acquire the main idea.
3) Learn to be positive about the challenge in life.
Teaching key and difficult points:
1) Enable the students to understand how to skim.
2) Improve the students’ ability to analysis the passage.
Teaching aids:
Multimedia, worksheet
Teaching procedures:
Step1: Pre-reading
1. Lead-in (3 min)
① Show photos of students’ lives since they started school. (1 mins)
(Since entering high school, I believe you must have experienced a lot of ups and downs. Here I have selected some representative photos for you.)
② Free talk (2 mins)
Q1: How do you feel about your senior high school life?
(Maybe feel happy, anxious, excited, annoyed, tired……)
Q2: What new difficulties have you met during your senior high school life?
(Please discuss with our partner and you can use the following words and sentence structure if necessary.)
2. Prediction (2 mins)
Look at the picture and the predict what the text is about?
Q: Who is the boy in the picture?
Q: What information can we get from the title?
Focus on the word “freshman” & “challenge”. Here the freshman refers to a student in the first year of college or the nineth grade in high school in the United States. In China, all of you can be called the freshman! The challenge means a new or difficult task. So let’s take a look at Adam’s life as a freshman. Maybe he has met some challenge.)
Step 2: While-reading
1. Fast reading (5 mins)
① Slim and try to find the main idea. (3 mins)
Main idea: how Adam dealt with the freshman challenge.
(Try to read the passage with questions.)
(Please give me your answer together.)
(Ok, let’s