Unit 8 Road to success B Reading and critical thinking 教学设计 2024-2025学年沪外教版（2024）七年级英语下册

该初中英语教学设计聚焦“将爱好转化为成功职业”的主题，围绕阅读文本展开，通过导入图片激发兴趣，引导学生预测内容，再以略读抓主旨、扫读找细节、精读析结构层层推进，构建从感知到理解再到迁移的完整学习支架。 本设计亮点突出，融合语言能力、思维品质与学习能力三大核心素养。例如，在小组讨论中引导学生分析人物成功的关键品质，培养批判性思维；角色扮演活动强化语言输出，提升跨文化沟通意识；课后作业要求运用新词写个人规划，促进自主学习习惯养成。教师可直接套用此流程，既提升课堂实效，又助力学生实现从知识习得到价值内化的跃升。

Unit 8 Road to success-B Reading and critical thinking This reading passage in Unit 8 of the 2024 Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press (SFLEP) English textbook for Grade 7 focuses on the theme of "Road to success". It tells the stories of different people who turned their hobbies into successful careers. Through vivid descriptions and real - life examples, students will learn about the process and difficulties these individuals faced, as well as the qualities and efforts that led them to achieve their goals. The passage is rich in vocabulary related to hobbies, careers, and the journey of success, which provides students with a good opportunity to expand their vocabulary and improve their reading comprehension skills. 教学目标 A. Knowledge Objectives Students will be able to master key vocabulary and phrases related to hobbies and careers, such as "career", "hobby", "astronomy", "telescope", "host", "knowledge", "realize one's dream", etc. Understand the usage of some important sentence patterns in the passage, for example, "used to do sth.", "be interested in", "decide to do sth." Grasp the main idea and key details of the reading passage. B. Ability Objectives Improve students' reading skills, including skimming for the main idea, scanning for specific information, and inferring the meaning of new words from context. Develop students' critical thinking ability by analyzing the reasons for the success of the characters in the passage and discussing how to turn hobbies into careers. Enable students to express their opinions and ideas about hobbies and careers in English orally and in writing. C. Emotional Objectives Inspire students to explore their own hobbies and encourage them to pursue their interests with passion and perseverance. Help students understand that with determination and hard work, they can turn their hobbies into fulfilling careers in the future. 教学重难点 A. Key Points Key vocabulary, phrases, and sentence patterns as mentioned above. Understanding the main idea of the reading passage, which is about how different people transformed their hobbies into successful careers. Learning reading strategies like skimming and scanning to quickly and accurately obtain information from the text. B. Difficult Points Analyzing and summarizing the common qualities and steps that lead to the transformation from hobbies to careers. Cultivating students' critical thinking skills, such as evaluating the methods and choices of the characters in the passage and applying similar thinking to their own situations. Guiding students to use the learned language knowledge to express their own views on the topic clearly and fluently in both speaking and writing activities. A. Vocabulary Career - related: career (n. 职业), astronaut (n. 宇航员), scientist (n. 科学家), engineer (n. 工程师), journalist (n. 记者) Hobby - related: hobby (n. 爱好), astronomy (n. 天文学), photography (n. 摄影), painting (n. 绘画), reading (n. 阅读) Other important words: telescope (n. 望远镜), host (v. 主持；n. 主人), knowledge (n. 知识), vivid (adj. 生动的), actually (adv. 实际上), alone (adv. 独自地), training (n. 训练) Phrases: used to do sth. (过去常常做某事), be interested in (对…… 感兴趣), decide to do sth. (决定做某事), dream of (梦想), make up one's mind (下定决心), achieve one's goal (实现某人的目标), turn... into... (把…… 变成……) B. Sentence Patterns Used to do sth.: He used to play football after school. Be interested in: She is interested in learning foreign languages. Decide to do sth.: They decided to start their own business. Dream of: I dream of becoming a famous singer one day. 教学过程 A. Lead - in (5 minutes) Greet the students and show some pictures on the PPT, including pictures of people engaged in different hobbies (such as a person looking through a telescope, a painter painting a picture, a photographer taking photos) and people in various careers (an astronaut in a spacesuit, a scientist in a laboratory). Ask students: "Look at these pictures. Can you tell me what hobbies these people might have? And what careers do they seem to be in?" Encourage students to share their answers and have a brief discussion. Then introduce the topic of this class: "Today, we are going to read a passage about some people who turned their hobbies into successful careers. Let's see how they did it." B. Pre - reading (10 minutes) Vocabulary Teaching Present the new words and phrases on the PPT one by one. For each word or phrase, show its pronunciation, meaning, and an example sentence. For example, for the word "telescope", show the picture of a telescope, read the word /ˈtelɪskəʊp/, and give the sentence "He used a telescope to observe the stars last night." Let students read the words and phrases after the teacher several times to practice pronunciation. Do a quick vocabulary quiz. Show some words or phrases on the PPT without their meanings, and ask students to raise their hands and tell the meanings. Prediction Show the title of the reading passage "Road to success" and the pictures related to the passage (if there are any in the textbook). Ask students to predict what the passage might be about. Guide them to think about questions like "Who might the people in the passage be?", "What hobbies did they have?", "How did they turn their hobbies into careers?" Let students share their predictions in pairs and then invite some pairs to report to the class. C. While - reading (15 minutes) Skimming Ask students to quickly read the passage within 2 - 3 minutes. While reading, they should try to find out the main idea of the passage. After they finish reading, ask them to answer the question: "What is the main idea of this passage?" Invite several students to share their answers. The main idea is that different people turned their hobbies into successful careers through their efforts and certain steps. Scanning Present some detailed questions on the PPT, such as "What was Patrick Moore's hobby when he was young?", "What did he do to develop his hobby?", "What career did he finally achieve?" Let students read the passage again carefully and scan for the specific information to answer these questions. Give them about 5 minutes to read and answer. Check the answers with the whole class. Ask students to read out the relevant sentences in the passage to support their answers. In - depth Reading Divide the passage into several paragraphs. Analyze each paragraph with the students. Explain the important vocabulary, sentence structures, and the meaning of each paragraph. For example, in the paragraph about Patrick Moore, explain the phrase "used to" in the sentence "He used to go outside with his mother on clear nights and look at the sky." And discuss why he was so interested in astronomy. After analyzing each paragraph, summarize the key points of each part. D. Post - reading (10 minutes) Group Discussion Divide students into groups of 4 - 5. Give each group a discussion topic: "What qualities do you think are important for turning a hobby into a career? And can you think of any examples in your life or around you?" Let students discuss in their groups for about 5 minutes. Walk around the classroom to listen to their discussions and offer some guidance if necessary. Then invite some groups to share their discussion results with the whole class. Role - play Set up a scenario: Suppose there is a career fair. One student in the group acts as a career consultant, and the other students act as students who want to turn their hobbies into careers. The "students" should describe their hobbies and ask the "career consultant" for advice on how to achieve their career goals. Give students a few minutes to prepare. Then let them start the role - play. After each group finishes the role - play, ask other groups to give some comments. E. Summary and Homework (5 minutes) Summary Summarize the key points of this class with the students, including the new vocabulary, important sentence patterns, the main idea of the reading passage, and the results of the discussion. Emphasize the importance of following one's interests and working hard to achieve career goals. Homework Ask students to write a short passage about their own hobbies and how they hope to turn them into careers in the future. They should use at least 5 new words and phrases learned in this class. Let students search for more information about a person who turned their hobby into a successful career and share it in the next class. 教学反思 After this class, I need to reflect on several aspects. Firstly, in vocabulary teaching, although I used various methods like showing pictures and example sentences, some students still had difficulty remembering the words. Maybe I should add more interactive games in the future, such as word - building games or vocabulary bingo, to make the learning process more engaging. Secondly, during the reading process, some students had trouble understanding long and complex sentences. I should provide more sentence - analysis exercises in class and teach them some skills to break down complex sentences. Thirdly, in the group discussion and role - play activities, some students were a bit shy to speak English. I need to create a more relaxed and supportive atmosphere to encourage them to express themselves bravely. 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