Unit 2 Lesson 1 The Underdog教学设计-2023-2024学年高中英语北师大版（2019)必修第一册

Teaching Plan Unit 2 lesson1 The Underdog Textbook Analysis: The article is a story about Paul, a replacement player on his school basketball team. Through hard work and perseverance in training, he earned himself a chance to play in an important game and helped his team turn failure into success finally. The key words in the article are mainly about basketball and the game, for example, do jump shots, make shot after shot, etc. Such spiritual cores was conveyed to the students through the story: Inherent deficiencies do not mean inherent failures. Later efforts will make up for the inborn deficiencies. Teaching Objectives: Language ability object: 1. Students can guess the meaning of underdog through context and teacher's guidance; 2. Students can obtain and sort out factual information in the text that describes Paul himself and the basketball game; 3. Students can simply retell the story with the help of the mind map; Thinking qualities object: 4. Students can realize the reasons for Paul's successful transformation from an "underdog" to a "big guy" and learn from Paul's good qualities like persistence and struggle; Learning ability object: 5. Students can share their views on Paul and his sportsmanship through group work, peer discussion and individual reflection. Cultural awareness object: 1. Students can know how to talk about the topic of basketball in social communication of English countries. Key&Difficult points Key Point: To comprehend the reasons for Paul's victory and success from "an underdog" to a "big guy"; Difficult Point: To summarize and retell the story in their own words. Teaching Tools: Blackboard. Textbook. PowerPoint Teaching Methods: TBLT. Situational Method. Communicative Approach Teaching Procedures: Pre-Reading (1) T shows Ss the picture of Paul (2) T asks Ss: Why we call Paul the underdog? Do you want to learn more about him? （Purpose: To arouse Ss' curiosity to read the story.） While-Reading 1. T asks Ss to read Ss to read the fir