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课 题
Unit 1:Reading and Thinking(1)
课 型
新授课口 习题课口 复习课口 实验课 口 试卷讲评课 口
教学目标(核心素养)
Students are expected to get insight into school life.The teachers would inspire students to skim the article.
学习目标
1. To read to learn American students ’ school life.
2. To compare senior high school life between China and foreign countries.
3.Train the students ’ ability to find main ideas of the article by skimming.
教学重点
1. Improve the students ’ ability to analysis the structure of the article.
2. Enable the students to understand how to skim.
教学难点
1.The understanding of difficult sentences.
2. Make the students identify the main ideas by skimming.
教 学 过 程
教师活动
学生活动
Activity 1 Pre-reading
Fill in the table about the subjects you have learned and the extra-curricular activities you have participated in during junior high school.
Activity 1 : Pre-reading
Work in pairs. Discuss the questions:
1.Which is your favorite subject? Why?
2.Which is the most boring subject? Why?
3.Which is the most difficult subject? Why?
4.What's your biggest challenge in junior high school?
Activity2 (While-reading)
Fast reading practice.
(TIPS:You can find main ideas by first taking a quick Look at the title, picture(s), key words and phrases, and topic sentences.)
Paragraph 1:
Paragraph 2:
Paragraph 3:
Paragraph 4:
Activity 3
Scanning
Subjects
Extra-curricular activities
Activity 2 (While-reading)
(Fast reading) Read the text quickly to find the main idea of each paragraph.
keys:
Paragraph 1: Senior high school is a challenge.
Paragraph 2: Adam had to think very carefully about which courses he wanted to take.
Paragraph 3: Adam had to choose extra–curricular activities.
Paragraph 4:Adam will have to study harder in the future and get used to being responsible for a lot more.
(Scanning)Complete the outline.
教 学 过 程
师活动
学生活
Read the text again and answer the questions.
(sample answers:)
1. Adam chose math, English, chemistry, world history, and Chinese. Advanced literature would be his favorite subject because he likes English and he is good at it.
2.“Make the team” means to try out and then be allowed tojoin a sports team.
3. He is worried about keeping up with the other students in his advanced course and getting used to all the homework.
Activity 3 (Post-reading) Discussion
In pairs, discuss the following questions.
keys:
1. Festivals most often revolve around building family and community ties. Festivals are rarely celebrated alone. And even when someone is alone during a festival, the festival reminds them ofpeople who used to be in their lives, but who are no longer present. This is important because people are at heart social creatures who desire to have relationships with others and to be apart ofthe group.
2. Some of the challenges I face are very
Activity 4:Read the text again and answer the questions.
(discuss with the partner)
1. What courses did Adam choose? Which one do you think would be his favorite? Why?
2. What does "make the team" in Paragraph 3 mean?
3. What is Adam worried about?
4. Is Adam confident that he will get used to senior high school life? How do you know?
Activity 5 (Post-reading)
Discussion
1. What kind of person do you think Adam is? Why?
2. Do you face the same challenges as Adam? What other challenges are you facing? How do you deal with them?
3.What are some differences
between Adam's school life and your school life?
much like Adam s,, while some are quite different. Unlike Adam, I don ,t have to choose my courses or my schedule. However, I am worried about my extra–curricular activities and trying to keep my hobbies. My solution to this challenge is to work harder at school so I can make more time for my extra–curricular activities and hobbies.
3. I don ,t have to choose my own courses. All day, I am in the same classroom with my classmates, and we all study the same courses.
教师通过以上问题让学生复习语篇内容,巩固一些重点词汇并学生完成活动 5 的填空练习,然后师生核对答案。教师可以在此基础上,让学有余力的学生用这些词汇造句。
Complete the sentences with the correct forms of the new words from the text.
I'm good at math, so my teacher ___________ that I should choose advanced math in my first year.Finding time for both studies and extra-curricular activities is a big ___________, so I need to make a workable schedule.It's a little
___________ to choose suitable courses. I
hope that my adviser can help me make a good decision.We can try a course for two weeks after we___________ up for it. After that, we cannot change it.The main purpose of the course is to help __________ each student's reading ability.Some of the students want to become writers or editors after they __________, so the teacher advised them to start a writing club.The school is __________ for the safety of all the students.Whenever I'm facing a difficulty, I always tell myself, "Don't let anything stop you. Don't ever __________.”
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keys:
Recommended
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challenge
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co
nfusing;sign;improve;gradu
ate;responsible; quit
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板 书 设 计
作 业 布 置
Write an essay about “My school life” .
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