内容正文:
Analyzing characters’ traits and Choosing reading strategies
Unit 12
The Wonderland of Literature
Learning objectives
通过本课时的学习,学生能够:
1. 通过阅读文本中人物的言行来分析人物的性
格特点,理解“通过言行,分析人物特质”方法;
2. 根据不同的阅读目的,选择恰当的阅读策略,掌握
“选择阅读策略”的步骤(目标→策略→帮助);
3. 通过分析人物特质和选择合适阅读策略来更好理解文本,来提升对作品人物的理解和共情能力。
重点
重点
Watch and answer
Watch the video and answer the question.
What type of literary work is this story?
It's a fairy tale.
Poor, lonely, kind, hard-working, helpless, hopeful
unlucky and pitiful.
What words can you use to describe the little match girl?
Look and fill
Look at the picture and fill out the character’s trait chart.
Character
What the character does
What the character is like
Xiao Ying likes to invent things. She often comes up with new ideas.
She is _____________.
Xiao Ying
creative
Look and fill
Look at the picture and fill out the character’s trait chart.
Character
What the character does
What the character is like
Amy always greets her teachers politely. She says "please" and "thank you" to everyone.
She is _____________.
Amy
polite
Look and summarize
Look at the picture and summarize how to analyze character traits based on examples.
Character traits are about what a person or character is like inside. We can learn about a character's traits through his/her actions or words.
Read and complete
Read the sentences and complete the sentences.
Li Mei loves reading very much. She reads books every day and always finishes her homework carefully.
Xiao Gang often helps his classmates with their homework. He is always ready to give others a hand.
__________ is _________________.
____________ is __________________.
Li Mei
hardworking
Xiao Gang
kind and helpful
The Little Match Girl
On a snowy and dark night, a little girl was selling matches in the street.
“Matches, matches,” she cried. The wind was blowing, and the snow was falling. She was cold and hungry. How she wanted to leave the place and go home! But she was afraid to do so. If she did not sell all the matches, her father would punish her. “Perhaps a burning match will warm me up,” she thought. Quickly, she lit three matches. In the light of the matches, she saw delicious food and a Christmas tree. However, they disappeared when the light went out.
The next morning, people found the girl lying against the wall, dead.
Read and circle
Read the text and circle the characters, their actions, and their words.
Read and complete
Read the text and complete the following chart.
Character
What the character does
What the character is like
“Matches, matches,”
she cried.
“Perhaps a burning
match will warm me
up,”she __________
_____________.
_____________.
The little match girl
thought
___________
___________
poor
hopeful
The Little Match Girl
On a snowy and dark night, a little girl was selling matches in the street.
“Matches, matches,” she cried. The wind was blowing, and the snow was falling. She was cold and hungry. How she wanted to leave the place and go home! But she was afraid to do so. If she did not sell all the matches, her father would punish her. “Perhaps a burning match will warm me up,” she thought. Quickly, she lit three matches. In the light of the matches, she saw delicious food and a Christmas tree. However, they disappeared when the light went out.
The next morning, people found the girl lying against the wall, dead.
Read and learn
Read the text and learn key words and phrases.
snowy /ˈsnəʊi/
adj.下雪多的;雪白的;
被雪覆盖的
hungry /ˈhʌŋɡri/
adj.饥饿的
punish /ˈpʌnɪʃ/
v.处罚;惩罚
punish sb. 惩罚某人
perhaps /pəˈhæps/
adv.也许;可能
go out
(火或灯光)熄灭
Pair work
What do you think of the little match girl?
Discuss the little match girl’s character traits based on her actions and words.
I think she is a poor little girl.
Why do you think so?
She was hungry, cold, and had to sell matches in the snowstorm. She didn't dare to go home because if she couldn't sell any matches, her father would punish her. What about you?
Pair work
I think she is hopeful.
Discuss the little match girl’s character traits based on her actions and words.
Why do you think so?
Although she was cold and hungry, she still felt that the small match could warm her.
She is a poor little girl, but she is still full of hope for life.
Look and answer
Look at the pictures and answer the question.
What can you see in the picture?
What do you think happened between them?
A fox and a stork. There is a jar with a long neck between them.
There is water or food inside the jar.
Maybe they are having a meal together, and the food is in the jar.
The fox looks a little angry because it can’t get anything from the jar.
Previewing and Predicting
fox /fɒks/
n.狐狸
stork/stɔːk/
n.鹳
jar /dʒɑː(r)/
n.(玻璃)罐子,广口瓶
preview /ˈpriːvjuː/
v.概述 n.预览
Read and answer
Read the text and answer your questions.
Where did the fox invite the stork?
What did the stork use to serve the meat?
One day, a fox invited a stork to his home for dinner. The fox served the soup in a small dish. While the fox enjoyed the delicious soup, the stork couldn’t eat anything because of his long beak.Feeling hungry and angry, the stork left for home.
A few days later, the stork decided to invite the fox to his home for dinner. The stork served delicious meat in a jar with a long neck. The fox’s small mouth prevented him from eating anything, while the stork enjoyed the meal easily by using his long beak. This time, the fox returned home, hungry and angry.
The fox invited the stork to his home.
The stork used a jar with a long neck.
Skimming and Scanning
soup /suːp/
n.汤
beak /biːk/
n.鸟喙
neck /nek/
n.(物体的)细长部分;颈部;脖子;颈
leave for
动身前往
prevent sb./sth.from doing sth.
阻止某人某物做某事
Read and answer
Read the text and answer your questions.
Have you ever had an experience like this?
One day, a fox invited a stork to his home for dinner. The fox served the soup in a small dish. While the fox enjoyed the delicious soup, the stork couldn’t eat anything because of his long beak.Feeling hungry and angry, the stork left for home.
A few days later, the stork decided to invite the fox to his home for dinner. The stork served delicious meat in a jar with a long neck. The fox’s small mouth prevented him from eating anything, while the stork enjoyed the meal easily by using his long beak. This time, the fox returned home, hungry and angry.
Yes. If I am unkind to others, others may be unkind to me too.
Making Connections
No. I wouldn't treat my friends this way.
Read and answer
Read the text and answer your questions.
Why did the fox use a small dish?
Why did the stork use a long-necked jar?
One day, a fox invited a stork to his home for dinner. The fox served the soup in a small dish. While the fox enjoyed the delicious soup, the stork couldn’t eat anything because of his long beak.Feeling hungry and angry, the stork left for home.
A few days later, the stork decided to invite the fox to his home for dinner. The stork served delicious meat in a jar with a long neck. The fox’s small mouth prevented him from eating anything, while the stork enjoyed the meal easily by using his long beak. This time, the fox returned home, hungry and angry.
Because he wanted to make fun of the stork’s long beak.
Because he wanted to teach the fox a lesson.
Making Inferences
Read and answer
Read the text and answer your questions.
Why couldn’t the stork eat the soup?
Why couldn’t the fox eat the meat?
One day, a fox invited a stork to his home for dinner. The fox served the soup in a small dish. While the fox enjoyed the delicious soup, the stork couldn’t eat anything because of his long beak.Feeling hungry and angry, the stork left for home.
A few days later, the stork decided to invite the fox to his home for dinner. The stork served delicious meat in a jar with a long neck. The fox’s small mouth prevented him from eating anything, while the stork enjoyed the meal easily by using his long beak. This time, the fox returned home, hungry and angry.
Because he had a long beak and the dish was too shallow.
Because his mouth was small and the jar had a long neck.
Asking Questions
Read and answer
Read the text and answer your questions.
What can we learn from the story?
One day, a fox invited a stork to his home for dinner. The fox served the soup in a small dish. While the fox enjoyed the delicious soup, the stork couldn’t eat anything because of his long beak.Feeling hungry and angry, the stork left for home.
A few days later, the stork decided to invite the fox to his home for dinner. The stork served delicious meat in a jar with a long neck. The fox’s small mouth prevented him from eating anything, while the stork enjoyed the meal easily by using his long beak. This time, the fox returned home, hungry and angry.
Don’t play tricks on others. If you are unkind to others, others will be unkind to you.
Making Conclusions
Friends should help each other.
Read and answer
Read the text and answer your questions.
What does “long beak” mean?
What does “a jar with a long neck” mean?
One day, a fox invited a stork to his home for dinner. The fox served the soup in a small dish. While the fox enjoyed the delicious soup, the stork couldn’t eat anything because of his long beak.Feeling hungry and angry, the stork left for home.
A few days later, the stork decided to invite the fox to his home for dinner. The stork served delicious meat in a jar with a long neck. The fox’s small mouth prevented him from eating anything, while the stork enjoyed the meal easily by using his long beak. This time, the fox returned home, hungry and angry.
It means the long mouth of the stork.
It means a bottle with a thin and long mouth.
Monitoring and Clarifying
Talk and answer
Talk with your partner and answer the question.
How many reading strategies can we use to help understand the text?
Good readers will often use more than one strategy to help understand the text. It is important to know which strategies to use and when to use them.
Previewing and Predicting
Skimming and Scanning
Making Connections
Making Inferences
Asking Questions
Making Conclusions
Monitoring and Clarifying
Look and learn
Look at the picture and learn how to choose a reading strategy.
Think about what you want to understand or know.
√ I want to understand the meaning of “stork”.
√ I want to know what the story is about.
Decide which strategies you can use.
√ I can use monitoring and clarifying strategies.
√ I can use previewing and predicting strategies.
Think about how the strategies help you.
√ I can use the picture and a dictionary to get the meaning of _________.
√ I predict from the picture that the story is about ________________.
stork
a fox and a stork
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2
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Read and answer
Read the text and answer the questions.
1. What do you want to understand or know?
2. Which strategies can you use?
3. How did the strategies help you?
What is the feeling of a stork that hasn't been able to drink the soup?
Skimming and Scanning.
I skimmed through the text with key words, searching for answers.
Are the fox and the stork in the story really good friends?
Making Inferences.
I understand the text and make inferences.
strategy /ˈstrætədʒi/
n.策略;计策;规划
Pair work
Do you know how to use reading strategies?
Discuss this question with your partner and answer it.
Think about what you want to understand.
Decide which strategies to use.
Think about how the strategies help.
dead perhaps hungry punish stork fox
Exercise
1. The girl had sold no matches all day, so she was _________ and had nothing to eat.
2. Her father warned her, “If you don’t sell all the matches, I will _______ you.”
3. ________ a burning match could warm her frozen hands, she thought.
4. The next morning, people found the poor girl _______against the cold wall.
5. In the story, the ______ invited the ______ to dinner with a trick.
Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the given words.
hungry
punish
Perhaps
dead
stork
fox
Summary
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After learning this lesson,
I can
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enhance the ability to understand and empathize with characters in literary works.
analyze characters’ traits through his/her actions or words.
choose appropriate reading strategies based on different reading purposes.
1. Finish the exercise in this lesson.
2. Read "The Emperor's New Clothes" and analyze the characters' traits.
3. Search for more information about reading strategies.
Homework
Unit 12
八年级下册
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