内容正文:
Unit 1 Back to school
Reading (Ⅱ)
内容分析:
本板块话题为“发挥自我潜能”,语篇是一位校长在开学第一天对高一新生的演讲,旨在鼓励学生在新的环境中以积极的心态迎接挑战、发挥潜能。本文解释了高中阶段是学生发挥潜能的绝佳时机的原因,描述了个人潜能的本质与意义,介绍了充分发挥个人潜能的方法,同时点明了发挥自我潜能、实现自我价值在青少年成长过程中的重要作用。
本文以校长的视角给高一新生提供具体的入学建议,激励新生以高中为起点,树立远大理想,不断发挥潜能,让自己的高中时光充实而美好,为终身发展奠定良好的基础。
本文的语篇类型为演讲,此类型文本的特点是短小精悍,言简意赅,句式丰富多样,如此可以达到展现语言魅力、激励听众、实现演讲意图的目的。本文的句式结构特点首先是在演讲中多次使用平行结构,不但增加了节奏感和韵律感,营造出跌宕起伏的效果,还大大增强了感染力,调动了听众的情绪;其次,第一段介绍演讲主题时借助重复的修辞手法,起到了激发听众兴趣、渲染演讲话题、烘托演讲气氛的作用。
教学目标:
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
1. understand the usage of the following words and expressions: (rise to) challenge, acquire, effort, advance, take advantage of, equal, balance, responsible;
2. use the above words and expressions in new situations;
3. understand the suffixes of adjectives ending with -ful, -less, -al, -ous;
4. make sentences using parallel structure.
教学重难点:
1. Understand some new words and expressions.
2. Be able to use the new words and expressions correctly.
教学过程:
Step 1 Lead-in
This part is about the language points in the text. After the introduction to the usage of some important words and phrases and the analysis of the sentences, the students are supposed to master the usage of the important words.
Step 2 Building vocabulary
1. Word study: potential
Introduce the meaning of potential through different situations, first the context of the speech then other situations.
(1) Potential as a noun
(2) Collocations of potential
(3) Potential as an adj.
(4) Exercises of potential: practice makes perfect.
2. Word study: senior
Introduce the meaning of senior through different situations, first the context of the speech then other situations.
(1) Senior as an adj.
(2) Senior as a noun
(3) Exercises of senior: practice makes perfect.
3. Word study: promise
Introduce the meaning of promise through different situations, first the context of the speech then other situations.
(1) Promise as a noun
(2) Promise as a verb
(3) Exercises of promise: practice makes perfect.
4. Word an