Unit 4 reading 教案 - 2024-2025学年沪教版（2024）七年级英语上册

Teaching plan for Unit 4 The Earth (Reading 1) Topic: The amazing planet Teaching aims By the end of the class, the students should be able to 1. master the key words and expressions about the Earth 2. improve the ability to read for gist and details of a passage 3. share some amazing facts about the Earth 4. know more about what they should do to protect the Earth Important Points 1. understand the main ideas of the passage 2. establish the awareness of protecting the Earth 3. know the key features of an exposition Difficult points 1. help the students understand the passage 2. help students think what to do to protect the Earth Teaching Procedure Lead in Teacher’s Activity Students’ Activity Purposes Time 1.A quiz: How much do you know about the Earth? 1) Where is the Earth? 2) Which planet does the Earth travel around? 3) What can you see on Earth? 4) Where can you find the most plants? 1.Do the quiz 2.Check the answers 1.To arouse students’ curiosity 1min Pre-reading Teacher’s Activity Students’ Activity Purposes Time 1.Ask students to fill in the Earth fact file. 2.Show students a video about the Earth and ask them: What things are there on Earth? 1.Complete the fact file with the given words 2.Watch a video and answer the question 1.To know some interesting facts about the Earth 2. To elicit today’s topic 4mins While- Reading Post-reading 1st reading: skim the article and match the main ideas Teacher’s Activity Students’ Activity Purposes Time 1.Teach the reading strategy of identifying the topic sentence of a paragraph 2.Show the main ideas and the passage. Ask students to match the main ideas with each paragraph 3.Ask students to find more topic sentences of the paragraphs 4.Explain how topic sentences help to sum up the main ideas 1.Identify topic sentences of each paragraph 2.Skim the passage and match the main ideas 3.Learn to sum up main ideas by using topic sentences 1.To develop students’ reading techniques for getting the gist 2.To know the basic structure of the passage 5mins 2nd reading: read each paragraph in detail and answer some questions 1.Show students the structure of the passage and ask some questions about the text type 2.Scan Paragraph One & Two and answer: 1) What is the weather like in different places on Earth? 2) What types of landscapes are mentioned in the text? 3) How deep is the deepest part of the sea? 3.Scan Paragraph Three and answer: How are the plants on Earth different? 4.Scan Paragraph Four and answer: Where do animals live on Earth? 5.Scan Paragraph Five and answer: Why is the Earth important to us? 1.Learn the structure of an exposition. 2.Read Paragraph One & Two and answer the questions about ‘places on Earth’. 3.Read Paragraph Three and answer the questions about ‘plants on Earth’. 4.Read Paragraph Four and answer the questions about ‘animals on Earth’. 4.Read Paragraph Five and answer the questions about ‘home to people’. 1.To help students understand the details of the passage 2.To develop students’ basic reading skills like scanning and skimming. 14 mins 3rd reading: find the supporting evidence for some statements 1.Show some statements and ask students to find supporting evidence from the passage 2.Ask students to summarize the features of an exposition 1) Give examples 2) List numbers 3) Do comparison 1.Do the task and check the answers 2.Observe the passage and summarize the key features of an exposition 1.To form a deeper understanding of the text type of expositions 2.To generate students’ learning enthusiasm through different reading activities 6mins Teacher’s Activity Students’ Activity Purposes Time 1.Show a mind map and ask students to retell the text 2.Encourage students to think and answer: What do you think makes the Earth an amazing planet? 3.Play the video about protecting the Earth 4.Ask students to think what we must do and must stop doing to protect the Earth 1.Retell the passage 2.Think the answer to the question and make sentences with “there is/are”... 3.Watch the video 4.Think what we must do and must stop doing to protect the Earth and express the ideas 1.To review the passage 2.To form the foundation of the next grammar lesson 3.To raise the awareness of the beauty of our Earth 4. To build awareness of importance of protecting the Earth 10 mins Homework Content Purposes 1) Make a list of what we must do and must stop doing to protect the Earth 2) Do the vocabulary exercise on Page 55 3) Share your ideas of protecting the earth with your classmates 1.Prepare the writing and listening lessons 2.Consolidate what the student has learned today in different ways 3.Practice students’ oral English of this topic 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$