内容正文:
Unit 1 Laugh out loud
Starting out&Understanding ideas
教学目标:
By the end of this period, students will be able to:
1.Understand the working responsibilities and significance of a clown doctor;
2.Master the language points by sentence analysis and describe the experiences and feelings by using them;
3.Think deeply about the work of a clown doctor,and form a positive and optimistic attitude towards life.
教学重难点:
1. Lead students to understand the working responsibilities and significance of a clown doctor;
2. Lead students to form a positive and optimistic attitude towards life.
教学方法:
P- W-P教学法,Task-based teaching method
教学资源:教材、多媒体课件、学案、黑板和粉笔。
教学设计过程:
Step Ⅰ Lead-in
Activity 1 Brainstorm
What do you often do when you are upset?
Suggested answers:Students’ own answers.
Activity 2 Watch the video and answer the questions
1.What forms of comedy are mentioned in the video?
2.Have you ever been to a comedy show?Share your experience with the class.
Suggested answers:
1.Stage plays with happy endings,comedy acts with clowns,cross-talk,stand-up,sitcom and comedy film.
2.Students’ own answers.
Activity 3 Prediction
1.Where do we often see clowns?
2.Look at the title and the pictures and guess what the passage is about.
Now read the passage and check your prediction.
Suggested answers:
1.We can see clowns in a circus,on a busy street and in an amusement park.
2.Students’ own answers.
Step Ⅱ While-reading
Task 1 Read for the main idea
Activity 1 Check your prediction and answer the questions
1.What is the text about?
2.What is special about the clown’s job?
3.What is the genre of the text?
Suggested answers:
1.It is about a clown doctor and his experiences and responsibilities.
2.This clown works in hospitals or other health care facilities.His job is to comfort,entertain and cheer up patients,their families as well as the hospital staff in order to remove their nervousness and make them feel better.
3.Narrative.
Activity 2 Read for the main idea of each paragraph
Read the pas