内容正文:
Unit 4 Interests and Abilities-Reading Club1&2
This teaching content comes from Reading Club1&2 of Unit 4 Interests and Abilities in the English textbook for Grade 7 of Beijing Normal University Edition (2024). Reading Club1 mainly introduces the interests and abilities of different people, involving various fields such as music, art, and sports. It helps students understand how to describe one's own and others' interests and abilities through vivid examples. Reading Club2 focuses on how to discover one's own interests and talents, guiding students to think about their own potential and how to develop their abilities. Through these two reading materials, students can not only expand their vocabulary related to interests and abilities but also improve their reading comprehension skills and English expression ability.
教学目标
1. Knowledge Objectives
Students will be able to master the key vocabulary and phrases related to interests and abilities, such as "interest", "ability", "hobby", "talent", "be good at", "be interested in", etc.
Students can understand and use the grammar knowledge in the text correctly, such as the usage of simple present tense to describe habits and abilities.
2. Ability Objectives
Improve students' reading comprehension ability, including skimming for the main idea, scanning for specific information, and inferring the meaning of words from context.
Develop students' oral and written expression abilities, enabling them to describe their own and others' interests and abilities accurately and fluently.
3. Emotional Objectives
Cultivate students' interest in English reading and stimulate their enthusiasm for exploring their own interests and abilities.
Foster students' sense of cooperation and communication through group activities, and enhance their confidence in using English.
教学重难点
1. Teaching Key Points
Master the key vocabulary, phrases, and sentence patterns for expressing interests and abilities.
Improve students' reading skills, especially the ability to quickly understand the main idea and extract key information from the text.
Enable students to use the learned language knowledge to express their own interests and abilities in real - life situations.
2. Teaching Difficult Points
Help students understand some complex sentence structures and long - difficult sentences in the reading materials, and improve their ability to analyze sentences.
Guide students to think deeply about how to discover and develop their own interests and abilities, and promote the internalization of knowledge.
Overcome students' psychological barriers in oral expression, and encourage them to actively participate in classroom communication.
1. Key Vocabulary
Interest - related: interest (n. 兴趣), hobby (n. 业余爱好), favorite (adj. 最喜欢的), enjoy (v. 喜欢), love (v. 热爱), be interested in (对…… 感兴趣)
Ability - related: ability (n. 能力), talent (n. 天赋), skill (n. 技能), be good at (擅长), be talented in (在…… 方面有天赋), can (modal v. 能,会), could (modal v. can 的过去式)
2. Key Phrases
play the guitar (弹吉他)
play basketball (打篮球)
draw pictures (画画)
make models (制作模型)
on weekends (在周末)
3. Key Sentence Patterns
What are your interests/abilities? (你有什么兴趣 / 能力?)
I am interested in... (我对…… 感兴趣。)
I am good at... (我擅长……。)
He/She can... (他 / 她会……。)
教学过程
1. Warming - up (5 minutes)
Activity: Show some pictures of different activities, such as singing, dancing, reading, and playing sports, on the PPT. Ask students to look at the pictures and quickly say out the activities they see in English. Then, randomly choose some students to share one of their own hobbies briefly.
Purpose: This activity can quickly arouse students' interest and enthusiasm, activate their existing knowledge of related vocabulary, and create a relaxed and pleasant classroom atmosphere.
2. Pre - reading (10 minutes)
Vocabulary Introduction: Present the new words and phrases related to interests and abilities on the PPT one by one, such as "interest", "ability", "be good at", etc. Explain their meanings and usages through examples and let students read after the teacher several times to ensure they can pronounce them correctly.
Prediction: Divide students into groups of four. Show the title and some pictures related to Reading Club1 on the PPT and let students discuss in groups what the text might be about. Each group selects a representative to share their prediction results with the whole class.
Purpose: The vocabulary introduction helps students lay a foundation for reading comprehension. The prediction activity can stimulate students' curiosity and make them more actively involved in the following reading process.
3. While - reading (15 minutes)
Reading Club1
Skimming: Let students quickly read Reading Club1 for about 2 minutes and find out the main idea of the text. Then, ask some students to summarize the main idea in their own words. The teacher guides students to focus on the first and last paragraphs and the topic sentences of each paragraph.
Scanning: Ask students to read the text again carefully and answer some detailed questions on the PPT, such as "What are Tom's interests?", "What is Mary good at?". Students can underline the relevant information in the text. After that, check the answers together and explain some difficult points in the text.
Reading Club2
Skimming: In the same way, let students skim Reading Club2 to get the main idea. Guide students to think about the relationship between Reading Club1 and Reading Club2.
In - depth Reading: Divide students into groups. Each group is assigned several paragraphs of Reading Club2. Students in each group read their assigned paragraphs carefully, analyze the key sentences and new knowledge points, and then teach the content to the whole class. The teacher acts as a facilitator, helping students solve problems they encounter during the process.
Purpose: Through skimming and scanning, students can gradually master different reading strategies, improve their reading speed and comprehension ability. The group - based in - depth reading activity can not only cultivate students' independent learning ability but also enhance their sense of cooperation and communication.
4. Post - reading (10 minutes)
Group Discussion: Divide students into new groups. Pose a discussion topic: "How can we discover and develop our own interests and abilities?". Each group discusses for about 5 minutes, and then selects a representative to share their group's opinions with the whole class. The teacher encourages students to use the language knowledge they have learned in the text.
Writing Practice: Ask students to write a short passage about their own interests and abilities, including what they like to do, what they are good at, and how they plan to develop their abilities in the future. After students finish writing, they can exchange their passages with their deskmates for peer - review. The teacher walks around the classroom to provide guidance.
Purpose: The group discussion can promote students' thinking and communication ability, and help them internalize the knowledge in the text. The writing practice can further improve students' written expression ability and consolidate the learned knowledge.
5. Summary and Homework (5 minutes)
Summary: The teacher reviews the key vocabulary, phrases, sentence patterns, and reading strategies learned in this class with students, emphasizing the importance of expressing interests and abilities in English.
Homework:
Ask students to read Reading Club1&2 again and mark the key points in the text.
Require students to write a more detailed passage about their ideal club according to their interests and abilities, with at least 80 words.
Encourage students to search for more information about famous people's interests and abilities on the Internet and share it with the class next time.
Purpose: The summary can help students review and consolidate the knowledge of this class. The homework can not only further improve students' English learning ability but also expand their knowledge.
教学反思
After teaching this class, I have the following reflections:
1. Successes
The warming - up activity effectively attracted students' attention and made them quickly enter the learning state. The pictures of various activities stimulated students' interest and actively mobilized their participation.
In the while - reading process, through the step - by - step guidance of different reading strategies, most students were able to master the main idea and key information of the text. The group - based in - depth reading activity in Reading Club2 not only improved students' reading comprehension ability but also cultivated their cooperation and communication skills.
The post - reading group discussion and writing practice provided students with opportunities to apply the learned knowledge. Students actively participated in the discussion, and in the writing practice, they could use the learned vocabulary and sentence patterns to a certain extent to express their ideas.
2. Deficiencies
In the vocabulary teaching part, although I explained the meanings and usages of new words and phrases, the practice method was relatively single. Some students may not have fully mastered the usage of some key words, which affected their understanding and application in the reading and writing process.
When dealing with some complex sentence structures in the text, the explanation was not detailed and vivid enough. Some students still had difficulties in understanding, which affected their overall comprehension of the text.
In the classroom, there was not enough time to give individual feedback to each student. Some students' problems in oral and written expression may not have been discovered and corrected in time.
3. Improvements
In future vocabulary teaching, I will adopt more diverse teaching methods, such as using games, examples in real - life situations, and creating word - building exercises to help students better understand and remember new words and phrases.
When explaining complex sentence structures, I will use more visual aids, such as drawing sentence diagrams or making short videos, to make the explanation more vivid and easier for students to understand.
I will pay more attention to individual students' learning situations in class, increase the frequency of individual questioning and feedback, and adjust teaching strategies in a timely manner according to students' learning progress.
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