Unit 10 Lending a Helping Hand Exploring the Topic Thinking Skills教学设计 2024-2025学年仁爱科普版（2024）七年级英语下册

Unit 10 Lending a Helping Hand-Exploring the Topic-Thinking Skills This lesson is from Unit 10 "Lending a Helping Hand" of the Ren'ai Science Edition (2024) English textbook for Grade 7. It focuses on two main aspects: thinking skills and reading strategies. In the thinking skills part, students will learn to analyze the plot of a story, understanding how to break down a story into its beginning, middle, and end, and how these parts contribute to the overall narrative. In the reading strategies section, students will be introduced to the technique of previewing and predicting. By looking at the title and pictures of a text, they will learn to make educated guesses about what the text might be about, which helps improve their reading comprehension and engagement. 教学目标 Knowledge Objectives Students will be able to understand the three elements of a plot (beginning, middle, end) and their functions in a story. Master the reading strategy of previewing and predicting through titles and pictures. Learn relevant vocabulary and expressions related to story - telling and reading comprehension. Ability Objectives Analyze the plot development in texts and present their own stories using a plot chart. Use previewing and predicting skills to understand the main idea of a text before reading. Improve reading comprehension, logical thinking, and oral communication skills through various activities. Emotional Objectives Foster students' interest in reading English stories. Develop students' sense of cooperation and teamwork through group activities. Enhance students' confidence in expressing themselves in English. 教学重难点 Key Points How to effectively analyze the plot of a story and use a plot chart to represent it. Mastering the previewing and predicting reading strategy and applying it to different texts. Using English to describe stories and experiences, such as sharing stories during the holidays. Difficult Points Accurately analyzing the plot of a story, especially in more complex texts, and sorting out the logical relationship between plot elements. Improving the accuracy and rationality of predictions, making well - founded speculations about text content based on existing information. Vocabulary Plot: the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence. Preview: look at (written or printed matter) before dealing with it fully. Predict: say or estimate that (a specified thing) will happen in the future or will be a consequence of something. Reading Strategies Previewing: Before reading a text, look at the title, subtitles (if any), pictures, headings, and any other visual elements. Try to get a general sense of what the text might be about. Predicting: Based on the preview, make guesses about the content, characters, problems, and solutions in the text. Use your prior knowledge and the information from the preview to make these predictions. Plot Analysis Beginning: Introduces the characters, setting, and the initial situation. It hooks the reader's attention and sets the stage for the story. Middle: Develops the conflict or problem in the story. It includes a series of events that build tension and lead to the climax. End: Resolves the conflict, shows the outcome of the events, and may leave the reader with a sense of closure or a thought - provoking idea. 教学过程 Warming - up (3 minutes) Show students a set of disordered pictures related to a simple story (for example, the story of "The Three Little Pigs"). Ask students to work in pairs and try to put the pictures in the correct order. After they finish, invite some pairs to share their order and briefly explain why they arranged the pictures in that way. Purpose: This activity aims to activate students' prior knowledge of story - telling and get them thinking about the sequence of events in a story, thus leading to the topic of plot analysis. Teaching Thinking Skills: Analyzing Plot (18 minutes) Activity 1: Understanding the Plot Elements (5 minutes) Present a simple story (either orally or in written form, such as "The Tortoise and the Hare") on the blackboard or through a PPT. Divide the story into three parts and label them as "Beginning", "Middle", and "End". Guide students to read or listen to the story and then fill in the blanks in a plot chart on the PPT. The chart can have columns like "Part of the Story", "What Happened", and "Characters Involved". Explain to students how each part of the plot contributes to the whole story. Activity 2: Analyzing a New Text (6 minutes) Distribute a short passage to each student. The passage can be a simple narrative about a student's first day at a new school. Ask students to read the passage silently and then draw a plot chart on a piece of paper on their own. They need to identify the beginning, middle, and end of the story and briefly describe what happened in each part. Walk around the classroom to monitor students' progress and offer help if necessary. Activity 3: Sharing Summer Holiday Stories (7 minutes) Ask students to think about a story from their summer holiday. Let them draw a plot chart to represent the story on a piece of A4 paper. They can use simple words and pictures if they like. After they finish, ask students to work in groups of four. In the group, each student shares their summer holiday story according to the plot chart. The group members can ask questions and give comments. Select one or two groups to share their stories in front of the whole class. Purpose: Through these activities, students can gradually master the skill of analyzing the plot of a story, from understanding the concept to applying it to different texts and finally using it to tell their own stories. Teaching Reading Strategies: Previewing and Predicting (16 minutes) Activity 1: Introduction to Previewing and Predicting (4 minutes) Show students a text title on the PPT, such as "A Day at the Zoo". Ask students to look at the title and think about what they might expect to read in the text. Write down their ideas on the blackboard. Then, show them a picture related to the text (for example, a picture of a child looking at a monkey in the zoo). Ask them how the picture can help them make more predictions about the text. Explain the importance of previewing and predicting in reading. It can make reading more interesting and help them better understand the text. Activity 2: Practice Previewing and Predicting (6 minutes) Provide students with a new text title and a picture. The text can be about a school sports meet. The title is "The Exciting School Sports Meet" and the picture shows some students running on the track. Ask students to work in pairs. They need to write down their predictions about the text in a few sentences, such as "There will be many running races. Some students will win medals. The school will be very noisy." After they finish, distribute the text to them. Let them quickly scan the text to check if their predictions are correct. Discuss with the class which predictions were right and which were wrong, and why. Activity 3: Independent Practice (6 minutes) Give each student a handout with a text title and a picture on it. The topics can vary, such as "A Camping Trip" or "My First Cooking Experience". Ask students to preview the title and picture, make predictions, and write them down on the handout. Then, let them read the text (which is on the back of the handout) to check their predictions. Walk around the classroom to check students' work and have a short conversation with some students about their predictions and reading results. Purpose: These activities are designed to help students understand and master the reading strategy of previewing and predicting, from guided practice to independent application. Consolidation and Extension (8 minutes) Group Activity: Creating Titles and Predictions (4 minutes) Divide students into groups of four. Give each group a set of pictures that are not related to the texts they have read before. The pictures can be about various topics like a birthday party, a trip to the beach, etc. Ask each group to discuss the pictures and create a title for a possible story. Then, based on the title and pictures, they need to make predictions about the story. Each group presents their title and predictions to the class. The other groups can ask questions and give suggestions. Homework Assignment (4 minutes) Ask students to choose a storybook they like. Before reading the story, they need to preview the title, pictures (if any), and make predictions about the story. Then, they write down their predictions in their English notebooks. After reading the story, they need to write a short summary of the story and compare their predictions with the actual content of the story. Purpose: The group activity helps students further strengthen their understanding and application of previewing and predicting skills, and the homework assignment can help them practice these skills after class and improve their reading ability independently. 教学反思 Positive Aspects The warming - up activity effectively engaged students at the beginning of the class, making them actively participate in the class from the start. The activities of analyzing plot and previewing and predicting were designed in a progressive way, from easy to difficult, which was suitable for the cognitive level of seventh - grade students. Most students were able to follow the teaching steps and master the relevant knowledge and skills. The group work in sharing summer holiday stories and creating titles and predictions promoted students' cooperation and communication skills. They actively expressed their opinions in the group, which enhanced their confidence in using English. Areas for Improvement In the activity of analyzing the plot of a new text, some students had difficulty in accurately identifying the middle part of the story, especially when the conflict was not very obvious. In the future, more examples with different types of conflicts can be provided for students to practice. During the previewing and predicting activities, some students' predictions were too general and lacked specific details. Teachers need to give more guidance on how to make more detailed and reasonable predictions based on the given information. Also, in the group activities, a few students were less involved. In the future, group roles can be more clearly defined to ensure that every student participates actively. Future Teaching Adjustments For the teaching of plot analysis, add more in - depth analysis of different types of stories, such as stories with multiple conflicts or non - linear plots. For previewing and predicting, design more targeted exercises, such as providing more complex titles and pictures to train students to make more accurate predictions. In group activities, set up clear evaluation criteria to encourage every student to contribute to the group work. 2 / 37 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$