Unit 4 My Favourite Subject, Lesson 4, Section B 1a–1d 教学设计2026-2027学年人教版英语七年级上册

 Unit 4 My Favourite Subject — Lesson 4 教学计划

I. Basic Course Information

 

1. Subject: English.

2. Grade: Grade 7.

3. Term: Autumn.

4. Topic: Unit 4 My Favourite Subject, Lesson 4, Section B 1a–1d.

5. Lesson Type: Reading lesson.

6. Duration: 1 period.

7. Teaching Aids: Multimedia courseware, audio recording, reading task sheets, mind map templates and peer feedback checklist.

 

II. Teaching Objectives

 

1. Students can identify the text type of an online message board and use tables to organize the main information of the posts.

2. Students can use skimming and scanning strategies to obtain the main idea and detailed information of the reading passages.

3. Students can further accumulate expressions related to describing favourite subjects and reasons, describe their preferences from multiple aspects, and understand the meaning and importance of learning different subjects.

4. Students can retell one of the posts clearly and completely with the help of a mind map.

5. Students can compare cultural information in the posts and broaden their understanding of school life in different countries.

III. Teaching Key and Difficult Points

 

1. Key Points: Identifying the features of an online message board; using tables to organize key information; finding favourite subjects and reasons from multiple aspects, such as class activities, teacher, ability, usefulness and future career.

2. Difficult Points: Summarizing reasons from different aspects; retelling the posts clearly and completely; understanding cultural differences in timetables and subject settings.

 IV. Teaching Procedures

 

Step 1: Lead-in (5 minutes)

 

1. The teacher asks students to look at today’s timetable and complete the table in activity 1a.

2. Students fill in the subjects they have today and check the English names of the subjects in groups.

3. The teacher invites two or three students to read their tables aloud and

correct any inaccurate subject names.

4. The teacher asks: What is your favourite subject today? Why? and invites students to give brief answers.

5. Purpose: To activate students’ prior knowledge and experience, review subject vocabulary, and prepare for reading.

 

Step 2: Pre-reading (5 minutes)

 

1. The teacher asks students to look quickly at the following information in the posts: the posters’ names, avatars, usernames, posting date and time, emojis and comment boxes under the posts, and the last sentence of the first post.

2. Students work in pairs to identify the text type and guess the main content of the posts.

3. The teacher guides students to notice that the texts are from an online message board and that the usernames musicfan and mathswhiz may give clues about the posters’ favourite subjects.

4. Students predict Mike’s and Binbin’s favourite subjects and give reasons for their predictions.

5. Purpose: To develop students’ observation and inference skills, help them identify the genre features of a message board, and prepare for detailed reading.