内容正文:
Unit 3 Arts Enrich Our Life
课题
Lesson 5 The Fisherman and the Goldfish
课型
Project
一. Teaching Objectives
1. Language Competence
(1) Students can master the pronunciation, spelling, part of speech and specific meanings of the core words: wife, hat, prince, whatever, god, honey, marry, fool, ours, coast.
(2) Students can understand and use key phrases and sentence patterns in the text correctly, and grasp the tense changes and dialogue features of fairy tale texts.
(3) Students can skim and scan the passage to get main ideas and detailed plots, and retell the complete story of The Fisherman and the Goldfish with core vocabulary.
(4) Students can make sentences and short dialogues independently with the target words to achieve basic language output.
2. Cultural Awareness
(1) Students can understand the classic Western fairy tale theme and plot connotation, and know the educational meaning of traditional fables and fairy tales.
(2) Students can realize the negative influence of greed and insatiable desire through the story, and form the correct values of contentment and gratitude.
(3) Students can appreciate the artistic charm of literary fairy tales, and further understand the unit theme “Arts enrich our life”.
(4) Students can build the ability to understand moral stories in English and appreciate literary art across cultures.
3. Thinking Quality
(1) Students can sort out the changing process of the fisherman’s wife’s desires logically and clarify the development order of the story plot.
(2) Students can analyze the character traits of the fisherman and his wife, and think deeply about the cause of the final ending.
(3) Students can develop critical thinking by discussing whether people should be greedy and what real happiness is.
(4) Students can cultivate imaginative thinking by predicting the plot development before and during reading.
4. Learning Ability
(1) Students can proficiently use reading strategies of skimming for main ideas and scanning for specific details in narrative texts.
(2) Students can improve their abilities of independent learning, cooperative discussion and public expression through group tasks and vocabulary drills.
(3) Students can form the learning method of accumulating story-type vocabulary and analyzing the moral of literary passages.
(4) Students can improve their autonomous reading ability of English fairy tales and cultivate the interest in reading English literary works.
二. Key Teaching Points
1. Vocabulary Mastery: Grasp the usage and fixed collocations of all core vocabulary, especially the flexible use of whatever, marry, ours, coast in different sentence contexts.
2. Text Understanding: Clarify the complete plot of the fairy tale, grasp the changes of the wife’s demands and the ending of the story.
3. Skill Focus: Master the reading skills of narrative fairy tales; use target vocabulary to describe story plots and character behaviors.
4. Theme Perception: Understand the moral of the story: greed will lead to nothing, and contentment brings happiness.
三. Difficult Teaching Points
1. Distinguish and use easily-confused words and possessive words correctly, especially the accurate application of ours in sentences.
2. Understand the progressive changes of the wife’s greedy desires and analyze the internal logical relationship between her demands and the final result.
3. Use core vocabulary and complex sentences to retell the whole story coherently and express personal views on the story’s moral independently.
4. Transform language input into effective output, and correctly express personal opinions on greed and contentment in English.
四. Teaching Procedures (45 Minutes)
Step 1: Warming-up and Lead-in (5 mins)
1. Situational Lead-in
The teacher shows pictures of the sea coast, goldfish and simple fairy tale scenes, and asks students interactive questions:
· Have you ever heard of the story of a fisherman and a magical goldfish?
· What do you think will happen if a fish can help people realize their wishes?
2. Topic Activation
Briefly introduce that today’s lesson is a classic fairy tale. Good stories are precious art that enriches our life, leading students to enter the unit theme naturally.
3. Vocabulary Pre-view
Show the 10 core words with pictures and simple English explanations. Students read after the teacher to have a preliminary perception of word pronunciation and meaning, laying a foundation for subsequent reading.
Step 2: Pre-reading (8 mins)
1. Core Vocabulary Breakthrough
The teacher explains key and difficult words combined with scene examples to help students master usage:
wife: the female partner in a marriage
marry: to take someone as your husband or wife
prince: a male member of a royal family coast: the land next to the sea
whatever: anything or everything honey: a sweet sticky food; a sweet way of calling someone
fool: a silly person; to trick someone
god: a being believed to control the world
hat: a covering for the head
ours: belonging to us (possessive pronoun)
2. Word Basic Drill
Finish quick matching exercises of words and meanings in class to consolidate memory.
3. Plot Prediction
According to the title The Fisherman and the Goldfish, students predict: What wishes will the fisherman’s wife ask for?
Step 3: While-reading (18 mins)
Activity 1: Skimming for Main Idea (5 mins)
Students read the whole text quickly within 3 minutes, and answer the general question:
· What is the main idea of this fairy tale?
Teacher summarizes: The story tells us a fisherman catches a magical goldfish, and his wife keeps asking for more wishes because of greed, and finally gets nothing.
Activity 2: Scanning for Detailed Information (8 mins)
Students read the passage carefully and complete detailed tasks:
1. Sort out the changing wishes of the fisherman’s wife (a new hat → a better house → become a princess → more power)
2. Find out how the goldfish responds to her different demands
3. Confirm the final ending of the story
The teacher guides students to mark core vocabulary in the text and experience the contextual usage of target words.
Activity 3: In-class Vocabulary Consolidation Drill (5 mins)
Carry out pair work: Students make original sentences with each core word in pairs. Randomly select students to show their sentences, and the teacher corrects and standardizes the usage in time to break through vocabulary difficulties.
Step 4: Post-reading (10 mins)
1. Group Discussion
Divide students into 4 groups to discuss the profound questions:
· Why did the goldfish finally take away everything the wife had?
· What can we learn from this story? Is greed good or bad for us?
· If you were the fisherman’s wife, what would you do?
2. Class Sharing & Commenting
Each group sends a representative to share opinions. The teacher integrates students’ answers to conclude the moral: Greed is endless. Never be a fool for desire. Contentment is the greatest happiness in life.
3. Knowledge Summary
Review all core vocabulary, sort out the story plot structure (beginning-development-climax-ending), and emphasize the writing and language features of English fairy tales.
Step 5: Classroom Evaluation (4 mins)
Evaluate students’ reading efficiency, vocabulary application ability and group discussion participation. Praise students with excellent performance, and guide all students to master key knowledge and understand the story theme.
五. Homework
1. Basic Mandatory Homework
(1) Copy, read and recite all 10 core vocabulary words, and write one correct and fluent sentence for each word.
(2) Retell the complete story of The Fisherman and the Goldfish according to the plot outline, with no less than 90 words.
2. Improved Selective Homework
(1) Write a short passage (100–120 words) about your understanding of “greed and contentment” based on the story.
(2) Finish the supporting vocabulary and reading exercises to consolidate the usage of confusing words such as ours and marry.
3. Extended Creative Homework
Try to act out one dialogue segment of the story with your deskmate, and record a short English dubbing video to improve oral expression and literary perception.
Blackboard Design
Lesson 5 The Fisherman and the Goldfish
Core Vocabulary
wife, marry, honeyhat, coast, princegod, fool, whatever, ours
Story Plot
1. Beginning: Fisherman catches a magical goldfish
1. Development: Wife asks for more and more wishes
1. Climax: Her desire becomes endless
1. Ending: She gets nothing at last
Key Theme
Greed leads to loss
Contentment brings happiness
Key Sentence
1. Whatever you want, you should be thankful.
1. Don’t be a fool for endless greed.
The beautiful coast and peaceful life are the best treasure of ours.
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