Unit 1 The Changing World Section B 1a-1f 教学设计 2026-2027学年人教版英语九年级上册

Unit 1 The Changing World — Lesson 5 Section B 1a-1f教学计划

 

Objectives:

Language Ability:

1. Ss can master key vocabulary and phrases such as transport link, complete, convenient, benefit from, take place, business deal, with ease, and comment.

2. Ss can use reading strategies (skimming and scanning) to understand the structure and main content of a news report.

3. Ss can talk about the changes brought by the Mombasa-Nairobi railway and how it has benefited local people.

 

Learning Ability:

4. Ss can extract specific information (e.g., numbers, dates) from the text and use a table to organize the key points for retelling.

5. Ss can analyze the language features of a news report, including the headline, introduction, details, and comments.

 

Thinking Quality:

6. Ss can infer the double meaning of the title "On the Fast Track" and analyze the reasons behind the railway's benefits.

7. Ss can compare similar infrastructure changes in the world (like the

China-Laos Railway) and think about how countries work together.

 

Cultural Awareness:

8. Ss can appreciate the friendship and cooperation between China and Kenya, and understand how different countries can work together to build a better world.

 

Key and Difficult Points:

Key point

Ss can grasp the key information of the news report and understand how the new railway has improved local Kenyans' lives.

 

Difficult point

Ss can understand complex sentence structures (e.g., past participles used as post-modifiers, compound adjectives) and infer the implied meaning of the headline.

 

Teaching Procedures:

 

Step 1. Lead - in

1). Activity 1a: Ask Ss if their hometown has a train system and how it benefits local lives. Elicit answers about faster travel and business

growth.

2). Show pictures of Kenya's Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) and play a short video. Introduce the topic: Today we will read a news report about a famous railway in Kenya that has changed local people's lives a lot.

 

Step 2. Pre - reading

1). Skimming: Ask Ss to read the title "On the Fast Track" and look at the picture. Ask: What type of writing is the text? (A. An advertisement. B. A story. C. A news report).

2). Scanning: Guide Ss to match the numbers in the text (2017, 1901, over 2 million, 480, 10, about 5) with their specific meanings (year, length, hours, number of people). This helps Ss quickly locate key factual information.

 

Step 3. While - reading

1). 1st reading (Main Idea): Ask Ss to find the event in the news report (When, where, what).

2). 2nd reading (Detailed Information):

   - Ask questions about the past: What were the only transport links before the new railway? What was the problem with the old railway? (It took 10 hours).

   - Ask questions about the present: How did Kenya build the new