My First Day at Senior High

My First Day at Senior High

• 有关本节课核心问题

     1、核心问题：

       怎么描述新学校

     2、如何确定的核心问题？

      阅读中对新学校的描述

     3、本节课如何突破核心问题？

      学习文章后要求学生学会从哪些方面描述新学校

• 教学目标

     1、培养学生的阅读能力

     2、学习一些有用的表达

     3、了解中国古代哲学家的一些信息

• 教学重点、难点

     1、教学重点：help students to understand the passage

     2、教学难点：how to describe a place

• 学情分析

     所教班级一文一理，学生人数较多。但学生基础较差，学习主动些不太好。

• 教材分析

     本篇文章描述了新学校，通过学习，让学生掌握更多的有用的表达。

• 课程标准（考试大纲）要求

    掌握有用的表达和信息，学会书面表达

• 教学媒体

     media

• 教学过程

                       Teaching goals

   

  教学内容和目标  

  1．  学习My First Day at Senior High这篇课文  

  2．  训练学生速读，查读的阅读技巧；学会找主题句，归纳文章主旨；运用想象、联想，学会用英语思考的能力。  

  3．  学会如何描述高中的学习生活

  教学设计  

  Task   Learn and retell the passage

  Pre-task   Prediction  

  1． Ask Ss to discuss what Li Kang will mention about his first day at Senior High ----predict the topic

  2． Ask Ss to predict what Li Kang's first day will be like---use some adjectives to describe .Use mind map to imagine Li Kang's new school.

  Task-cycle Reading Activity

  1   Scanning     

  Ask Ss to do Ex 3 on page 2----Find the answers to the 3 questions

  1.What are difference between Li Kang’s Junior High school and this school？           

  2.What are the two things that the English teacher thinks are important to do in class？      

  3．What are the two things that the English teacher wants to improve？        

  Discuss and check the answers in pairs Activity .

  2 Skimming    

  Find the topic sentence of each paragraph and summarize the main idea -- pair work.  

  Paragraph 1   

  Paragraph 2   

  Paragraph 3   

  Paragraph 4   

  Paragraph 5   

  Paragraph 6       

  Check the answers and then ask Ss to do Ex 6 on page 4 ---Decide which is the best summary of Li Kang's opinion about the new school  .Check the mind map.

  Activity 3  A better understanding of the text .  

  1．Do Ex 4 on page 3 ---learn how to paraphrase the difficult sentences   

  2．Do Ex 5 on page 4---learn the new words and ask Ss which words appear in the text and read out the sentences with the words .

  3． Read the text again and deal with some language points in the text and give Ss a few minutes to raise the questions .

  Useful words and expressions:

  as big as…,   as many girls as…  

  nothing like  …one’s method of teaching one’s previous school reading a785bprehension give sb. instructions to do sth.   

  in other words   write / give a description of sth.

  Some Adjectives to modify somebody or something

  brilliant   bored   embarrassed  enthusiastic   amazing

  4． Ask Ss to re-order the following jumbled sentences

  A． My new school is very good and I can see why .

  B． The English class is really interesting.

  C． My name is Li Kang.  

  D． Ms Shen wants to help us improve our spelling and handwriting.  

  E． The teachers are very enthusiastic and friendly and the classrooms are amazing .

  F． There are 65 students in my class---more than my previous class in Junior High .

  G． The teacher is a very enthusiastic woman called Ms Shen.

  H． I like her attitude very much.

  Post-task  

  Activity 1  Retelling     

   Retell the text -----Li Kang's First Day at Senior High with the help of some key words.

  Activity 2   Discussion    

   Do Ex 7 on page 4 ---Work in groups an discuss the 3 questions.     

  1.Is your English classroom like Li Kang’s?  

  2.Is your class the same size as his? Is the number of boys and girls the same?

  3.Are you looking forward to doing your English homework?  

  Design a questionnaire to write down Students' opinions .

  Group number     Answers        Reasons      Comments

  Student A       

  Student B       

  Student C       

  Student D           

  Summary of today's lesson Homework    

  1. Review the new words learned today and get familiar with the text by reading .

  2.Give a description of your new senior high school to your previous classmate and ask about his.

  3. Do Ex 11 Reading on page 69-70

  教学反思：  本课堂的安排是对学生的阅读能力加以训练，不要对文章进行肢解，逐字逐句的讲解翻译。