Unit 1 Being a Teenager-Section 4 Expanding Our Horizons 教案-2025-2026学年高中英语冀教版必修第一册

Unit 1 Being a Teenager-Section 4 Expanding Our Horizons 教学目标和重难点 教学目标 Language competence: Master key words and sentences to express teenage life. Cultural awareness: Understand teenage life differences across cultures. Thinking quality: Develop critical thinking on teenage growth. Learning ability: Cultivate independent and cooperative learning skills. 教学重难点 Key points: Master core vocabulary (e.g., horizon, explore) and sentence patterns about expanding horizons; understand the text’s structure and main idea. Difficult points: Use learned language to talk about personal experiences of expanding horizons. 教学过程 Lead-in The teacher starts the class with an open question: “As teenagers, what do you do to enrich your life and see a bigger world?” Then, show some pictures and short videos about teenagers’ activities, such as reading English books, participating in international exchange activities, traveling to different places, and joining interest clubs. After showing the materials, invite 3-4 students to share their own experiences or ideas briefly in English. Finally, the teacher summarizes: “These activities help us expand our horizons and grow into better people. Today, we will learn Section 4 Expanding Our Horizons to explore more about how teenagers can broaden their perspectives and gain growth.” Design Intention: The lead-in is closely connected to students’ real life, which can arouse their learning interest and enthusiasm quickly. By asking questions and showing vivid materials, students can naturally enter the theme of “expanding horizons” and lay a foundation for the subsequent text learning. Meanwhile, it provides students with an opportunity to practice oral English briefly, helping them build confidence in language expression. Pre-reading Vocabulary and Phrase Learning: The teacher presents the core vocabulary and phrases of this section on the blackboard or PPT, including horizon, expand, broaden, perspective, explore, accumulate, experience, cultural differences, open-minded, stand by each other, through thick and thin. For each word and phrase, the teacher explains its meaning, pronunciation and usage with simple English, and gives typical examples related to teenage life. For example, “expand our horizons” can be explained as “make our vision wider and know more things”, and the example sentence is “Reading widely can expand our horizons.” For “through thick and thin”, the teacher can say “It means to support someone no matter what difficulties you meet, just like true friends do.” After the explanation, organize students to read the words and phrases twice in groups to ensure they can pronounce them correctly and remember their basic meanings. Background Introduction: The teacher briefly introduces the background of the text in simple English: “The text we will read today mainly talks about different ways for teenagers to expand their horizons, such as reading, traveling, making friends with people from different backgrounds, and participating in various activities. It also tells us the benefits of expanding horizons for our growth and how to deal with the challenges we may meet in the process.” At the same time, the teacher reminds students: “When reading, pay attention to the structure of the text and the key information about the ways to expand horizons.” Design Intention: Vocabulary is the foundation of text reading. By learning core words and phrases in advance, students can avoid difficulties in understanding the text due to unknown vocabulary, which helps improve their reading efficiency. The background introduction helps students have a preliminary understanding of the text content, clarify the reading focus, and lay a solid foundation for intensive reading. The examples closely related to teenage life make it easier for students to understand and memorize the vocabulary and phrases. While-reading Skimming: Ask students to read the text quickly and finish two tasks: (1) Find out the main idea of the text; (2) Divide the text into three parts and summarize the main idea of each part. After students finish reading, invite several students to share their answers. The teacher corrects and summarizes: The main idea of the text is to introduce different ways for teenagers to expand their horizons and the importance of expanding horizons for personal growth. The text can be divided into three parts: Part 1 (Paragraph 1): The importance of expanding horizons for teenagers; Part 2 (Paragraphs 2-4): Different ways to expand horizons (reading, traveling, making friends with people from different cultures); Part 3 (Paragraph 5): The benefits of expanding horizons and encouragement for teenagers to take action. Design Intention: Skimming is a basic reading strategy. Through skimming, students can quickly grasp the main idea of the text and its overall structure, which helps them form a macro understanding of the text and lays a foundation for intensive reading. Dividing the text into parts and summarizing the main idea of each part can cultivate students’ ability to sort out text logic and improve their reading comprehension ability. Scanning: Ask students to read the text again carefully and find out the key information according to the following questions: (1) Why is expanding horizons important for teenagers? (2) What are the three ways to expand horizons mentioned in the text? (3) What benefits can expanding horizons bring to teenagers? (4) What challenges may teenagers meet when expanding their horizons and how to deal with them? After students finish reading, organize them to discuss the answers in groups of 4. Each group assigns a recorder to take notes and a speaker to share the group’s answers. The teacher walks around the classroom to guide students, helps them solve difficulties in understanding, and corrects their answers after each group shares. For example, for the first question, the correct answer is: “Being a teenager is a time of great change and growth, and expanding horizons can help teenagers know more about the world, form correct values, and grow into open-minded and responsible people.” For the second question, the three ways are reading widely, traveling to different places, and making friends with people from different cultural backgrounds. Design Intention: Scanning helps students find specific information in the text quickly, improving their ability to locate key points. Group discussion can stimulate students’ thinking, let them learn from each other, and improve their cooperative learning ability. The teacher’s guidance and correction can help students grasp the key content of the text accurately and avoid misunderstandings. Intensive Reading: Focus on analyzing key paragraphs and sentences to help students understand the text in depth. (1) Analyze Paragraph 1: The teacher asks students to read Paragraph 1 again and find out the topic sentence. Then, explain the sentence “Being a teenager is a time of great change and growth, and expanding our horizons is one of the most important things we can do to grow up.” The teacher emphasizes the structure “Being a teenager is..., and expanding our horizons is...”, and asks students to make similar sentences according to their own experiences, such as “Being a student is a time of hard work, and reading more books is one of the most important things we can do to improve ourselves.” (2) Analyze Paragraphs 2-4: For each way to expand horizons, the teacher asks students to find out the specific content and the author’s attitude. For example, in Paragraph 2 (reading), the author says “Reading is one of the easiest and most effective ways to expand our horizons. Through reading, we can learn about different cultures, histories and ideas without leaving our homes.” The teacher guides students to understand the advantages of reading and asks them to share their favorite books and how these books help them expand their horizons. In Paragraph 3 (traveling), the teacher emphasizes the sentence “Traveling allows us to experience different lifestyles, taste different foods and communicate with different people, which helps us understand the diversity of the world.” Then, invite students to talk about their traveling experiences and what they have learned from them. In Paragraph 4 (making friends with people from different cultures), the teacher explains the importance of cross-cultural communication and asks students to think about “How can we communicate well with people from different cultures?” (3) Analyze Paragraph 5: The teacher guides students to understand the benefits of expanding horizons: “Expanding our horizons not only helps us know more about the world, but also helps us become more confident, open-minded and responsible. It also prepares us for our future study and life.” Then, the teacher asks students to think about “What other benefits can expanding horizons bring to us?” and invites them to share their ideas. Design Intention: Intensive reading helps students understand the text in depth, master the key sentences and their usage, and improve their language analysis ability. By asking students to make similar sentences and share their own experiences, the knowledge learned is closely connected with their real life, which helps them consolidate the language points and improve their language application ability. Analyzing the author’s attitude and the deeper meaning of the text can cultivate students’ critical thinking and text appreciation ability. Post-reading Language Consolidation: (1) Sentence Pattern Practice: The teacher presents the key sentence patterns in the text, such as “One of the most important things we can do is...”, “Through..., we can...”, “It is important for us to...”, and asks students to make sentences with these patterns. Each student makes 2-3 sentences, then exchanges them with their deskmates to check each other’s mistakes. The teacher selects several typical sentences to comment on, correcting grammatical mistakes and improving the expression. (2) Vocabulary Exercise: The teacher designs a fill-in-the-blank exercise with the core vocabulary and phrases of this section. For example: ① Reading widely can ______ our horizons. (expand/broaden) ② We should ______ different ideas and cultures with an open mind. (explore) ③ True friends will stand by each other ______. (through thick and thin) Students finish the exercise independently, then the teacher checks the answers and explains the key points. Design Intention: Language consolidation is an important link to help students master the knowledge learned. Sentence pattern practice and vocabulary exercise can help students consolidate the core language points, improve their ability to use language flexibly, and lay a foundation for subsequent oral and written expression. Group Discussion: Divide students into groups of 5-6, and assign the discussion topic: “As senior high school students, what can we do to expand our horizons in daily life? Please list at least 3 ways and explain the reasons.” Before the discussion, the teacher gives some tips: “You can combine the text content and your own real life, such as participating in English corners, watching English movies, volunteering, etc.” During the discussion, each group member should express their own ideas, and the recorder should take notes. After the discussion, each group sends a speaker to share the group’s opinions. The teacher comments on each group’s performance, affirms their good ideas, and puts forward suggestions for improvement. For example, if a group mentions “watching English movies”, the teacher can add: “Watching English movies not only helps you expand your horizons, but also improves your listening and speaking skills. You can pay attention to the pronunciation and intonation of the characters while watching.” Design Intention: Group discussion can stimulate students’ thinking, let them apply the knowledge learned in the text to real life, and improve their oral expression ability and cooperative learning ability. The discussion topic is closely related to students’ daily life, which can arouse their enthusiasm and make them realize that expanding horizons is not far away from them. Reading Retelling: Ask students to retell the text in their own words. The teacher gives some key prompts: the importance of expanding horizons, three ways to expand horizons, benefits of expanding horizons. Students can retell the text individually or in pairs. The teacher invites 2-3 students to retell the text in front of the class, and comments on their performance, affirming their strengths and pointing out the places that need improvement, such as the accuracy of vocabulary, the fluency of expression and the completeness of content. Design Intention: Reading retelling can help students consolidate the text content, improve their ability to organize language and express ideas in English. The key prompts can help students recall the text content quickly, reduce the difficulty of retelling, and help them build confidence in language expression. Writing Practice Ask students to write a short passage with the title “My Ways to Expand Horizons”. The requirements are: (1) Use at least 3 core vocabulary and 2 key sentence patterns learned in this section; (2) List 2-3 ways to expand horizons and explain the reasons or benefits; (3) The passage should be coherent and logical, with correct grammar and spelling. Before writing, the teacher gives a sample passage to guide students: “My Ways to Expand Horizons As a senior high school student, I think it is very important to expand my horizons. There are many ways for me to do this. First, I like reading English books every day. Through reading, I can learn about different cultures and ideas, which helps me become more open-minded. Second, I often participate in the English corner in our school. It allows me to communicate with my classmates in English and learn from each other. Finally, I watch English movies on weekends. It not only improves my listening skills, but also helps me know more about the life of foreign teenagers. Expanding my horizons makes me more confident and prepares me for my future study. I will keep doing these things to become a better person.” After showing the sample, students start writing independently. The teacher walks around the classroom to guide students, helps them solve difficulties in writing, such as how to organize sentences, how to use vocabulary and sentence patterns correctly. After students finish writing, ask them to exchange their passages with their deskmates to check each other’s mistakes and put forward revision suggestions. Then, the teacher selects several typical passages to comment on, affirming the good points and correcting the mistakes, such as grammatical errors, wrong word usage and unclear logic. Design Intention: Writing practice is an important way to test students’ language application ability. By writing a short passage related to the theme, students can apply the vocabulary and sentence patterns learned in this section to practical writing, improving their writing ability. The sample passage can guide students to master the structure and content of the passage, reducing the difficulty of writing. Peer review and teacher’s comment can help students find their own mistakes and improve their writing level. Summary and Homework Summary: The teacher summarizes the content of this class in English: “Today, we have learned Section 4 Expanding Our Horizons. We have mastered the core vocabulary and key sentence patterns about expanding horizons, understood the main idea and structure of the text, and learned different ways to expand horizons. We also practiced oral expression and writing through group discussion, retelling and writing practice. I hope you can apply what you have learned today to your daily life, actively expand your horizons and grow into better teenagers.” Homework: (1) Recite the core vocabulary and key sentences of this section; (2) Revise the short passage written in class and hand it in the next class; (3) Talk with your family or friends about your ways to expand horizons in English; (4) Read an English article about teenage growth and write a short comment (about 50 words). Design Intention: Summary helps students sort out the knowledge learned in this class, consolidate the key points, and form a systematic understanding. The homework is designed to consolidate the knowledge learned, extend the learning content, and promote students to apply the language knowledge to daily life. Reciting helps students remember the vocabulary and sentence patterns firmly; revising the passage helps students improve their writing ability; talking with family or friends helps improve their oral expression ability; reading and writing comments helps expand their reading scope and improve their text appreciation ability. 1 / 1 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $