内容正文:
Unit 4
Why don’t you talk to your parents?
SectionB 2a-2e
教学目标
1. 语言能力:能够在阅读语篇创设的情境中,正确理解和掌握课文中的新词汇,增加词汇量;利用语境猜测词义,提升语篇理解能力;2. 学习能力:能够通过阅读有关中西方家长对待孩子参加课外活动和课外学习班的态度与做法的文章,保持英语学习兴趣;通过略读、跳读、猜测词义等阅读策略的感悟、体验和学习,提升阅读理解能力。3. 思维品质:能够在老师的帮助下,通过思维导图、辩论等活动,增进对语篇的分析和理解能力,提高思维的逻辑性、批判性和创新性;文化意识:了解中国及其他国家中学生们普便存在的问题;学会放松,缓解压力。
Free Talk
1.Do you have some after-school classes to take?
2.What kind of classes do you have?
3.Do you get a lot of pressure from them?
do homework
use the Internet
have after-school lessons
hang out with friends
watch movies
play sports or exercise
To get into a good high school and university;
to compete and win.
Read and answer
Read Para 1.
Why do Chinses children have so many after-school classes?
While reading
Reading Tip
compete: try to be the best or the first to finish something (p.31 2c)
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Read and fill
Read Para 2. Complete the time schedule for kids. in Cathy’s home.
While reading
What do you think of the mom—Cathy?
Cathy is busy, too. She cares about the success of her kids.
tired
busy
Are all the parents similar to Cathy?
Time Activities
after school
after 7:00 p.m.
after a quick dinner
get home
basketball/football/piano
important
homework
Look at the schedule, what do you think of the kids?
Why does Cathy let her kids take so many activities?
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Doctors say too much pressure is not good for a child’s development.
Read and answer
Read Para 4. 1. What is the doctors’ opinion?
While reading
2. What is Dr. Green’s advice?
Kids should have time to relax and think for themselves. For parents, to have happy children is more important than successful children.
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1. Chinese children have to take so many after-school classes on weekends these days.
2. Cathy Taylor really wants her three children to be successful, so she believes these after-school activities are important for them.
T
T
2b
Read the article again. Judge T or F.
3. Linda Miller thinks parents should send their small kids to all kinds of classes.
4. Lind