Module 7 Unit 2 She couldn’t see or hear. 教案

Module 7 Unit 2 She couldn’t see or hear.
Aims:
to grasp the new words “blind, deaf, role model”.
to develop reading skills of collecting information from a passage and speaking skills of introducing a person according to key information.
to know Helen Keller better and understand her extraordinary life and encourage the Ss never give up.
Recycled Language: language from the module.
Materials: word cards; ppt; a book; headphones;
Language competences: The students will be able to get information by reading passages about people, and also introduce a person according to key information.
Warm-up
T uses sign language to greet the Ss.
Share hobbies; recommend a book “Three days to see”. T reads the sentence “Keep your face to the sunshine, and you cannot see a shadow.” to the Ss, guides them to feel the meaning of the words “sunshine” and “shadow”.
Teaching Steps
1. Talk about Helen Keller.
Answer the question “What do you know about Helen Keller ”
Make a brief introduction of Helen Keller according to the key information.
2. Discuss and experience Helen’s hard life as a blind and deaf child.
Talk about the hard life of Helen Keller when she was young.
Watch a video and then talk about Helen’s feeling.
Ask a volunteer to experience as a blind and deaf person.
3. Discuss the sunshine in Helen’s life.
Step 1 Lead-in
Greet students and show some pictures of famous female in the world (Deng Yaping, Madame Curie, Helen Keller…).
Several students will be invited to introduce one achievement of these women.
(Justification: By showing pictures of famous female, students' interest will be aroused and their spoken English will be improved.)
Step 2 Pre-reading
Read paragraph 2 & 3, answer the following 2 questions: Who helped Helen What did Helen do
Quick response of great things Helen did according to pictures and key phrases.
Introduce "could and couldn't" to students.
Let students try to make sentences by using the modal verbs to describe a kind of ability that they had owned before.
(Justification: Students will get the usage of could and couldn't and can apply the modal verbs into making sentences.)
Step 3 While-reading
1. Fast reading
Read the story for the first time and find out the main idea:
What's the main idea of the passage
(Justification: Students' ability of grasping the main idea through fast reading will be trained.)
Detailed reading
Read the story for the second time and judge the sentences by T or F:
(1) Helen Keller could see and hear when she was a baby. ( )
(2) Helen lived to be seventy-eight. ( )
(3) Helen wrote a book about herself. ( )
(4) Helen never left the US for her whole life time. ( )
(Justification: This step means to develop students' ability of grasping specific information through detailed reading. And the step sets a good emotional foundation for the whole class.)
Post-Reading
Write down some words on the blackboard and let students retell the story. Students will have 5 minutes to prepare and after that, some representatives will be invited to share in front of the class.
(Justification: This activity can help students improve their speaking ability, and can provide them a chance to memorize the content that they have learned in this class.)
4. Retell Helen’s special and wonderful life.
Watch a video about Helen’s whole life.
Retell her life experience according to the key phrases on the blackboard.
Extensive activity
Discuss the shadow and sunshine in Helen’s life in groups, then finish the form.
Ss analyze the shadow and sunshine in Helen’s life and introduce Helen Keller’s special life.
Ending the lesson
T makes a brief conclusion and invites the Ss to read the sentence “Keep your face to the sunshine, and you cannot see a shadow.” together. Encourage the Ss never give up.
Homework:
Write a passage about Helen Keller or the Ss’role models, and introduce them to friends.