Unit 5 My Special Jeans

Unit 5 My Special Jeans

Objectives:

Instructional Objectives:

1. By the end of this lesson, students can skim through the passage and get the main ideas.

2. By the end of this lesson, students can scan the passage to get detailed information and fill in the blanks.

Educational Objectives:

By the end of this lesson, students can know how to describe a thing that is special to them.

By the end of this lesson, students can be able to express themselves more confidently.

Personal Objectives:

The teacher can handle the class effectively and efficiently.

Focal Points:

Students can apply their reading skills to efficient reading under the guidance of the teacher.

Difficult Points:

  Students can improve and apply their reading skills.

Contents:

Vocabulary: wardrobe, bonfire, rip, nail, back pocket, washer, faded, etc.

Reading: My Special Jeans

Teaching Aids: blackboard, chalk, some pictures, a pair of jeans and a book.

Main Procedures:

Stage1: pre-reading 

Step 1: The teacher will tell the students some things about her special jeans and teach them some new words involved in this lesson. After that, the teacher will lead the students to read the article--- My Special Jeans.

Step 2: The teacher will ask the students whether they have special clothes.

Stage II: While-reading

Step 1: Let the students read through the passage and find out the main idea of each paragraph. Then the students need to match the paragraphs with their main ideas.

Paragraph1        How I killed my special jeans.

Paragraph2        How I bought my special jeans.

Paragraph3        How I loved my special jeans.

Paragraph4        How I kept my promise.

Step 2: Let the students read the passage again and answer some questions.

1. How many pairs of jeans I have picked out before I bought one?

2. Because my special jeans were faded, I didn’t love them anymore. True or false?

3. How do you understand the word “killed” in the last sentence?

1. After I killed my special jeans, I didn’t feel sad because I could buy another pair of jeans. True or false?

   Step3: Let the students read the passage for the third time and a785bplete the chart below.

Paragraph 1	The new jeans	I__ a couple of jeans, but I_ the blue jeans as soon as I put them on. Although they were a little__. I decided to buy them.
Paragraph 2	The faded jeans	Because I__ the jeans, they became more ___ and__. However, I still___ .
Paragraph 3	The broken jeans	The next year, they were__ under the right back pocket, so my mum                       ___and I continues to wear them for__.
		I__ from the old shed in my garden, but a nail__ .There were such a__ that they were__.

Stage III: Post-reading

Step1: Lead the students to interview their classmates in groups and ask them what their own special items are. They should fill in the table below.

Item	What	Why	…
1	pen	A birthday gift
2
…

Step2: the teacher will tell the students that she has a friend who works in a publishing house and who wants to write an article about people’s special items. Then the teacher will ask the students to write an article about their special items.

 

Homework

Write an article about your special items and tell us why they are special.

 

Blackboard Design

On the left side of the blackboard

faded   washer   back pocket  nail  rip  bonfire  wardrobe

In the middle of the blackboard

Paragraph1        How I killed my special jeans.