摘要:
该初中英语教学设计聚焦“沟通的核心”,围绕技术改变沟通形式但情感连接本质不变的核心知识点展开。课堂导入通过复习Unit 2团队沟通等旧知,展示信鸽、邮箱等传统工具与视频聊天等现代工具对比提问,激活学生生活经验,搭建新旧知识衔接的学习支架,降低学习压力。
该资料特色在于融合任务型教学与核心素养培养,如Pair Interview提供句式支架助力学生完成口语输出提升语言能力,Group Brainstorming讨论未来沟通形式发展思维品质,同时通过分析作者观点强化文化意识中线下陪伴的价值。阅读环节训练skimming和scanning策略培养学习能力,分层作业适配不同水平。既帮助学生提升综合语言应用与批判性思维,也为教师提供可操作的活动设计与素养培养路径。
内容正文:
The core of communication
1. Teaching Objectives
1. Language Ability
Master key vocabulary and expressions related to communication technology; judge true/false statements by reading details; conduct surveys, discuss communication methods and predict future communication forms; use standard sentence patterns for oral and written output.
2. Cultural Awareness
Recognize how technology changes communication ways in different cultures; understand that face-to-face interaction and sincere emotional connection are always the essential core of human communication; value real offline companionship with family and friends.
3. Thinking Quality
Distinguish superficial changes (communication tools) and unchanging essence (emotional connection); compare advantages and disadvantages of old and modern communication methods; think critically about the limits of online communication; logically predict future communication trends.
4. Learning Ability
Master skimming and scanning reading skills; finish class surveys in pairs; brainstorm ideas in groups; connect textbook knowledge with daily personal life flexibly.
2. Key Points & Difficult Points
Key Points
1. Grasp key phrases: regardless of distance, social media platforms, instant messaging, physical meeting, real-time companionship, replacement for face-to-face gathering.
2. Finish True/False questions accurately by locating original sentences.
3. Complete the class survey about students’ favourite communication ways.
Difficult Points
1. Distinguish the changing forms and unchanged core of communication.
2. Express personal opinions on traditional vs modern communication; reasonably imagine future communication in simple English.
3. Understand the author’s viewpoint: technology cannot take the place of in-person gatherings.
三. Teaching Methods
Task-based Language Teaching, Scanning Reading Strategy, Pair Interview, Group Brainstorming, Critical Discussion, Situational Teaching
四.Teaching Aids
PPT, pictures of old and modern communication tools, worksheet tables, whiteboard
5. Detailed Teaching Procedures
Step 1: Warm-up & Lead-in
Teacher’s Activities
1. Review the whole Unit 2 theme: We have learned group communication, solving team conflicts and teamwork spirits. Today we will explore the core meaning behind all communication.
2. Show pictures: carrier pigeons, post boxes, landlines, mobile video chat. Ask guiding questions:
How did people talk to others long ago?
How do you chat with friends now?
3. Present the title The core of communication and state today’s learning tasks clearly.
Students’ Activities
Answer simple questions; share their daily chatting habits; preview the lesson theme.
Design Intent
Link previous unit knowledge to the new cultural reading lesson; activate students’ daily life experience; lower learning pressure for intermediate students and set a clear learning direction.
Step 2: Pre-reading
Teacher’s Activities
1. Explain key phrases combined with daily scenes, lead whole-class and individual reading:
regardless of distance 不受距离限制
social media platforms 社交媒体平台
instant messaging 即时通讯
physical meeting 线下碰面
real-time companionship 实时陪伴
replacement for 替代品
2. Give 3 simple matching exercises to check basic understanding. Students’ Activities
Read phrases repeatedly; finish matching practice to consolidate word usage.
Design Intent
Remove reading obstacles in advance. Students can absorb vocabulary easily with life-based examples, preparing for the subsequent reading tasks.
Step 3: While-reading
Task 1 Skimming
1. Ask students to skim the whole passage quickly and find two main ideas:
1 Technology changes communication styles.
2 The core of communication stays the same: connecting with people emotionally.
2. Invite volunteers to share the general idea.
Students’ Activities
Read the text quickly; summarize the central meaning of the article. Design Intent
Train skimming skill to get the general structure of the passage; help students grasp the author’s opinion at the very beginning.
Task 2 Scanning
1. Guide students to scan the article and find evidence for each statement one by one:
A: With the development of technology, the core of communication has changed. (F)
Evidence: the core of communication has remained unchanged — connecting with others.
B: We can have face-to-face communication, even if we are unable to meet in person. (T)
Evidence: We can have face-to-face communication, even if we are unable to meet physically.
C: The author thinks it’s important for people to get together in the same place. (T)
Evidence: Technology will never be a true replacement for getting together in real life.
2. Check answers as a class, analyse why each choice is correct or wrong. Students’ Activities
Locate original sentences; mark proof in the textbook; answer and explain judgements.
Design Intent
Practise scanning for detailed information; guide students to base answers on text evidence; cultivate rigorous reading thinking suitable for students.
Task 3 Deep reading & viewpoint analysis
Ask targeted questions to dig the author’s attitude:
1.What good points does technology bring to communication?
2. Why can’t online chat replace family dinners and face-to-face talks?
Students’ Activities
Extract details from paragraphs and answer questions orally.
Design Intent
Lead students to think critically; understand the cultural value of real emotional communication, fulfilling cultural awareness goals.
Step 4: Post-reading
Task 1 Pair Interview: Survey classmates’ favourite communication ways (Exercise 2)
1. Introduce the two fixed interview questions and offer sentence frames for intermediate students:
A: How do you usually connect with your friends?
I usually talk with friends via WeChat / meet them face to face. B: Why do you like this way?
Because it is fast / warm and sincere.
2. Students work in pairs, fill in the survey table, then share results in class.
Students’ Activities
Conduct interviews; complete the table; present survey results.
Design Intent
Turn reading input into real oral output; provide sentence scaffolds to help less confident students speak smoothly; combine textbook content with real student lives.
Task 2 Group Work
1. Exercise 3: List old communication tools: carrier pigeons, mail, landline phones, emails. Students discuss their pros and cons in groups.
2. Exercise 4: Brainstorm future communication forms with guiding hints: smart hologram talks, brain message delivery, cross-time-space video meetings.
3. Invite several groups to share their ideas in front of the class. Students’ Activities
Discuss in groups; list historical communication methods; imagine future communication and share ideas.
Design Intent
Develop divergent thinking; realize knowledge migration from past-present-future; achieve comprehensive language application and thinking improvement.
Step 5: Summary & Homework
Teacher’s Activities
1. Brief recap: New communication tools are convenient, but the forever core is emotional connection and real companionship.
2. Highlight the theme sentence: Technology changes how we communicate, but never changes why we communicate.
3. Assign layered homework for different levels.
Students’ Activities
Review key knowledge; internalize the lesson’s cultural value.
Design Intent
Consolidate class content; complete value education; layered homework fits students with different learning abilities.
Homework
1. Basic compulsory task: Recite key phrases; finish textbook exercises 1–3.
2. Intermediate task: Write 3 sentences about your favourite way to communicate.
3. Extended optional task: Write a short paragraph (4–5 sentences) about communication in the future.
六. Blackboard Design
The core of communication
Key Expressions
regardless of distance
social media platforms
instant messaging
real-time companionship
Two layers of communication
✅ Changing: tools & ways (pigeons → letters → phones → online video)
✅ Unchanging core: connect people, build real relationships
Author’s opinion
Online talk cannot replace in-person gatherings with family and friends.
Exercise Answers
1. A (F) B (T) C (T)
2. Sample survey table 表格
Name
Way of communicating
Reason
Tom
Face-to-face meeting
It is warm and heartfelt
Amy
Online video chat
It is convenient and quick
3. Traditional communication methods: carrier pigeons, paper letters, public mailboxes, fixed telephones, emails.
4. Sample prediction for future communication: People will use holographic projection to talk face to face anywhere; messages can be sent directly via smart wearable devices.
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