Unit 12 Life is full of the unexpected. Section B (2a - 2e)教学设计2025-2026学年人教版英语九年级全册

本文围绕Unit 12 Section B（2a - 2e）展开，聚焦愚人节相关词汇、关键句型及过去完成时的理解运用。承接之前时态学习背景，为后续复杂时态应用奠基，呼应单元“生活充满意外”主题。通过阅读、讨论等环节，培养学生语言、文化、思维及学习能力。 该设计创新点在于创设真实情境，采用交际、任务及合作教学法，借助多媒体辅助。能提升学生批判性思维，为教师提供清晰授课路径，增强课堂互动性，有效突破教学难点。

Unit 12 Life is full of the unexpected. Section B (2a - 2e)教学设计 I. Teaching Aims 1. Knowledge Aims Students can master the following new words and phrases: announce, spaghetti, hoax, sell out, discovery, lady, cancel, officer, believable, disappear, embarrassing, by the time, end up, hundreds of, thousands of, lose weight, etc. Students can understand and use the key sentences related to April Fool's Day stories, such as "By the time people realized that the story was a hoax, all of the spaghetti across the country had been sold out." Students can review and further understand the past perfect tense in the context of these stories. 2. Ability Aims Improve students' reading skills, including skimming for the main idea, scanning for details, and making inferences. Develop students' ability to use the past perfect tense to talk about past events and tell stories. Enhance students' oral and written communication skills through pair - work, group - work, and writing tasks. 3. Emotional Aims Cultivate students' interest in Western culture, especially in April Fool's Day traditions. Encourage students to think critically about information and not to be easily fooled. Help students understand that humor is an important part of life and learn to appreciate funny and unexpected situations in a positive way. II. Teaching Key Points and Difficult Points 1. Key Points The understanding and application of new vocabulary related to April Fool's Day pranks and hoaxes. Grasping the main idea and details of the reading passage about different April Fool's Day stories. Using the past perfect tense accurately to describe actions that occurred before a specific past time in the context of these stories. 2. Difficult Points Distinguishing between the past perfect tense and the simple past tense in complex sentence structures. Analyzing the cultural implications and the reasons behind the popularity of these April Fool's Day hoaxes. Expressing opinions and ideas clearly and fluently in English when discussing the stories and related topics. III. Teaching Methods Communicative Teaching Method: Create real - life - like communication situations for students to talk about April Fool's Day experiences. Task - based Teaching Method: Design various tasks, such as reading comprehension tasks, discussion tasks, and writing tasks, to help students achieve learning goals. Cooperative Learning Method: Organize students to work in pairs or groups to complete tasks, which can improve their cooperation and communication skills. IV. Teaching Aids Multimedia courseware (including pictures, videos, and audio about April Fool's Day) Blackboard and chalk Handouts with exercises V. Teaching Procedures Step 1 Lead - in Show students a short video clip from a movie or a TV show that involves an April Fool's Day prank. For example, a clip from "The Office" where one character plays a big prank on another on April 1st. After watching the video, ask students: "Do you know what day is often associated with such funny pranks?" Then introduce April Fool's Day. Have a quick free - talk: "What do you know about April Fool's Day? Have you ever played a joke on someone or been fooled on this day?" Invite several students to share their experiences briefly. Step 2 Pre - reading Present some new words and phrases on the PPT. For each word or phrase, show an image or give a simple example sentence to help students understand its meaning. announce: The teacher announced the results of the exam. (Show a picture of a teacher talking to students) spaghetti: I like to eat spaghetti with tomato sauce. (Show a picture of a plate of spaghetti) hoax: The news about the monster was just a hoax. (Explain that a hoax is a trick to deceive people) sell out: The tickets for the concert were sold out quickly. discovery: The discovery of a new planet excited the scientists. Then, ask students to predict what the reading passage might be about based on the title "April Fool's Day" and the new words they've just learned. Step 3 While - reading Skimming (3 minutes) Ask students to read the passage quickly (within 2 - 3 minutes) and match each paragraph with its main idea in 2b. Check the answers with the class: Paragraph 1 - An introduction to April Fool's Day Paragraph 2 - Examples of funny stories that happened on April Fool's Day Paragraph 3 - A sad story that happened on April Fool's Day Paragraph 4 - One of the most famous tricks played Scanning (10 minutes) Task 1: Read the passage carefully again and answer the questions in 2c. Why did the supermarkets run out of spaghetti? (A reporter announced that there would be no more spaghetti because spaghetti farmers in Italy had stopped growing spaghetti.) What did the TV show say the special water could do? (It said the special water would help people lose weight.) Why did the TV star's joke have a bad ending? (He lost both his girlfriend and his show.) When did Orson Welles tell people about aliens landing on the earth? (In October 1938.) Why did so many people believe Orson Welles? (He made it sound so real.) Task 2: Divide students into groups of four. Let them discuss and fill in a chart about the four tricks in the passage. The chart can include columns like "Who did it", "What was the trick", "What happened as a result". Intensive Reading (7 minutes) Analyze some difficult sentences in the passage, especially those with the past perfect tense. "By the time people realized that the story was a hoax, all of the spaghetti across the country had been sold out." Explain that the action "had been sold out" happened before "people realized". "By the end of the day, more than 10,000 people had phoned the TV station to find out how to get this water." Point out the usage of the past perfect tense to show an earlier action in the past. Ask students to find more sentences with the past perfect tense in the passage and analyze them in groups. Step 4 Post - reading Group Discussion (5 minutes) Pose the following questions for students to discuss in groups: Which of these April Fool's Day stories do you think is the most interesting? Why? What kind of April Fool's Day pranks do you think are acceptable? And what kind are not? Have you ever heard of any other interesting April Fool's Day hoaxes? Share them with your group members. Each group selects a representative to share their group's opinions with the whole class. Role - play (5 minutes) Ask students to work in pairs. One student acts as a reporter who is reporting one of the April Fool's Day stories in the passage, and the other acts as an interviewee who comments on the story. They can use the information from the passage and add some of their own ideas. Invite several pairs to perform their role - plays in front of the class. Step 5 Summary and Homework Summary Summarize the key points of this lesson on the blackboard, including new words, important sentence patterns, the usage of the past perfect tense in the context of April Fool's Day stories, and the main idea of the passage. Homework Ask students to write a short passage about an April Fool's Day experience of their own or someone they know. They should use at least three sentences with the past perfect tense. The passage should be at least 80 words. Encourage students to search for more information about April Fool's Day traditions in different countries and be ready to share it in the next class. 1 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$