Unit 3 My School Section 6 Reading Plus教案- 2025-2026学年人教版（2024）英语七年级上册

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Unit 3 My School Section 6 Reading Plus

Content analysis

【What】 In this lesson, the author introduces the operation principle of the “water school” in Bangladesh, the classroom facilities, location and function, teaching participants and feelings under the title of My Floating School.

【What】 By introducing the “Water School” in Bangladesh, this section enriches its thematic content, aiding in the exploration of the unit’s theme. It helps students accumulate knowledge about school cultural backgrounds in other countries, encouraging them to engage in cross-cultural comparisons. This process fosters their awareness of intercultural communication and teaches them that despite challenging conditions, where there is a school, there is hope!

【What】This lesson is an expository text that follows a general-to-specific-to-general structure. It introduces the operation principles, equipment and functions, teaching participants, and students’ affection for the “Water School” in Bangladesh. The text adheres to logical principles and employs basic sentence patterns such as Our classroom is on the boat. There are several boats on the river. Additionally, it presents expressions like It’s+adj.+to do sth., pick sb. up, at the same time, teach sb. sth., and take sb. home to help students learn and expand their vocabulary.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this section, students will be able to:

1. Expand the text through skimming, sort out and summarize the structure and content of the text, learn about Bangladesh’s “water school”;

2. Understand that there are different conditions in schools in different parts of the world, but they are all places where people study and live, so we should cherish such learning opportunities.

Focal and Difficult Points

Focal Points

Obtaining, sorting out and summarizing the information of the article; analyzing the language characteristics of the article; exploring the meaning of the theme.

 

Difficult Points

Inferring the meaning of new words, understand long and difficult sentences; expressing more information about school in English.

 

Procedures

Teaching Activities	Learning Activities	Purposes
Step 1. Lead-in Lead Ss to talk about their school. Offer some useful words and expressions to help them.	Have a free talk about their school with T.	To activate the connection between students’ knowledge and experience with the teaching content of this lesson.
Step 2. Before-reading 1. Lead Ss to read the title “My Floating School” and the picture. Ask them some questions: Q1: What are they doing? Q2: Where are they? Q3: What’s the meaning of “floating”? 2. Play a video to help Ss understand the floating school.	1. Read the title and observe the photo to make some predictions. Sa: They are having a class. Sb: They are on a boat.       2. Watch a video to know more about the floating school.	To guide Ss to perceive the overall situation and understand the details.