公示课

Book 4  Module 4  Great Scientists

Period 4   Reading and Writing （教学设计）

Teaching objectives

1. Learn another famous scientist: Stephen Hawking.

2. Learn how to organize the passage when write a biography

3. Learn some skills to polish writing.

Teaching procedure:

Part one: Reading

Step 1: lead-in Use a picture to arouse students’ interest of getting the information about Stephen Hawking (T-Ss)

Can you recognize who he is?

How much do you know about him?

Step 2: Make an prediction about what they will read(T-Ss; Ss-Ss)

Later you'll read some information about this great scientist, what do you want to know about him?

Step 3: Learn the famous scientist Stephen Hawking (individual work)

Now read the 3 paragraphs and finish activity 2 and 3.

Step 4: Learn how to organize the passage when write a biography.(S-Ss)

  What is the structure of the passage about Stephen Hawking?

 

Part two: Writing

Step 1: Classify the information given in activity 4(individual work)

  First number each notes in activity 4.

  Classify the notes according to the aspects listed in activity 3.

Step 2: Learn some skills to polish writing.(T-Ss; Ss-Ss)

What ways can you think of to make your writing more organized?

topic sentence       transition words & expressions

How to make our writing more advanced?

Change simple words to advanced one

Use phrases to replace a signal word

Compound sentence is of great help.

Change the subject to make sentence pattern variable

Step 3: Writing (individual work)

Student A:  personal life  Student    B:  scientific career 

Student C:  Why he is so famous?

Step 4 : Present  and share your writing (Ss-Ss, S-Ss)

 

Blackboard-writing design     reading and writing

new words	structure	writing skills