Unit1 This is me. Reading for writing 教学设计-2025-2026学年外研版（2024）八年级英语上册

新外研版八年级上册Unit1 This is me. Reading for writing (Impossible-I’m possible)教学设计

 Analysis of the teaching material

- [What] It is a story about Su Bingtian constantly breaking his own records during training and competitions.

- [Why] By studying this passage, students can describe Su Bingtian’s story and take an active attitude to face challenges and achieve self-transcendence.

- [How] It is divided into two parts: Su’s story and the writing of a successful person.

 Analysis of the target students

Students have already known about Su Bingtian’s story/experiences/achievements, and they are familiar with other athletes, like Sun Yingsha and Wang Chuqin. They have the foundation of basic words and expressions.

 Teaching objectives

1. Language competence: Understand the main idea of this story and be able to use the target knowledge to write about another successful person.

2. Cultural awareness: have good qualities of self-confidence and a sense of nation.

3. Thinking capability: develop their abilities of analysis and summary.

4. Learning ability: improve their reading ability through activities and

methods.

 Key points and difficult points

1. Introduce the achievements what Su has got.

2. Express their own opinions on Su Bingtian correctly.

3. Master the key words and phrases, like impossible, doubt, fear, succeed, excellent, athlete, stick to…

4. Describe Su Bingtian’s challenges and the ways to overcome them.

 Teaching methods

The situational language teaching method and the communicative language teaching method.

 Teaching aid

Multimedia (seewo), blackboard, and chalk.

 Teaching procedures

 Step1 Lead in

Teacher shows a video about sport, and ask questions: Do you like doing sports? If so, what challenges have you faced while playing? (Group talk)

设计意图：通过展示体育视频并提问，激发学习兴趣，引导学生谈论自己运动中面临的挑战，为引入文本主题做铺垫，同时培养口语表达与小组合作能力。

 Step2 Pre-reading

1. New words (through pictures)

设计意图：通过图片教新单词，使单词学习更直观形象，助力学生记

忆与理解新词汇。

2. Show a picture (P12-P13) and ask questions:

   a. What can you see in the picture? (Six Runners)

   b. Do you know the Chinese athlete? (Su Bingtian)

   c. What do you think of him? (Brave, successful…)

设计意图：通过展示图片并提问，引导学生观察、识别内容，激活对苏炳添的已有认知，同时锻炼观察与表达能力。

3. Make a prediction

Pay attention to the title and think: What did Su Bingtian do? Why does it turn from “impossible” to “possible”? (the meaning of title)

设计意图：让学生通过标题预测，培养预测能力与对文本主题的初步思考，激发阅读文本验证预测的兴趣。

 Step3 While-reading

1. Fast-reading: Read the story and check your answers.

设计意图：通过快速阅读，训练学生快速获取信息的能力，同时验证预读阶段的预测，帮助学生把握文本大意。

2. Careful-reading

   a. Paragraph1: What does Audrey Hepburn say about the word “impossible”?

   b. Para.2-3: Who is a great example of facing doubts and fear? Was Su Bingtian satisfied with his competition results in 2011? How did he do? Why was it a risky decision?