Module 7 Unit2 I was born in Quincy 教案

Module 7 My Past Life
Unit 2 I was born in Quincy.
Analysis of Teaching Material:
Module 7 My Past Life (from Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press) is for the 7th graders;it was composed of Unit 1 I was born in a small village(conversation), Unit 2 I was born in Quincy(passage)and Unit 3 Language in use(language drilling).
Analysis of Target Students:
Seventh Graders;
First time to read a passage full of Past Simple ;
Interested in this topic but few of them have adequate topic-related expressions;
Have limited skills in reading and need to improve reading strategies in predicting and taking notes;
Learnt about “There be...” but do not have the sense of describing a house with sentence patterns like “There is/are...with...”
Teaching Objectives:
Language abilities:
a. Vocabulary:
bathroom, bedroom, garden, kitchen,living room...
b.Imitative writing;
Learning ability:
Different reading strategies: prediction; scanning&skimming; summarizing...
Emotional Improvement:
a. Friends & Friendship;
b. Love our hometown, for example, Hefei;
Step 1. Greetings and leading in.
Describe the T’s own past life to lead in the topic: My life in Quincy.
Step 2: Pre-reading:
1.Input related vocabularies about this teaching period.
a. garden, bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, living room...
b. There was/ were ... with/without...
2. Prediction according to the title;
a. Maybe the house on page 44 is Betty’s ;
b. the writer: Betty King
c.---What life will be talked about in the text
---School life
---Family life
---Social life
---...
Step 3:While-reading:
1.Skimming to match the main ideas with the paragraphs;
para. 1-2: Betty’s house
para. 3-4: friends
para. 5: Quincy town
2. Read para.1-2 to finish the following questions:
a. Were there a lot of things to do in Quincy
Possible answer: Yes, there were.
b. What was Quincy like
Possible answer: It was interesting, famous...
c. Was anyone famous born in Quincy
Possible answer: Yes, there were two presidents of the US born in Quincy.
d. Who did Betty write the passage” My past life in Quincy” for
Possible answer: Those who have not been to Quincy.
4.Read para.3-4 to finish the Blank-filling activity below:
Betty’s house What was it like Facts:
In the house big and 1 ● big 2 room with a TV;●a 3 ;●a 4 with a bath;●three 5 ;●pictures of my 6 stars;
7 of the house 8 ●a big 9 with lots of trees;●a small 10 with fish in;
Possible answers:
1.comfortable; 2. living; 3. kitchen; 4. bathroom; 5. bedrooms; 6. favorite; 7.Out; 8. great; 9. garden; 10. Lake
5. Read para.5 to talk about the following question:
What’s the most important reason for Betty’s going back one day
(Flexible design: If the target students do not know the answer, I will give them the following choices for reference. Meanwhile, I will finish my blackboard design.)
A. Because Quincy was interesting and famous.
B. Because she was proud of Quincy.
C. Because of her friends.
D. Other reasons.
Step 4: Post-reading:
a. Let’s retell the passage: My life in ...
Social life Where How ... Family life The most important thing(s) there for me was/were...
●I was born in...,a town/city on the east coast of...●I wasn’t bored there because...●It was famous for...●You can visit... ●Our house was...●There was/were...a ...living room with...a kitchen, bathroom(s), and bedroom(s)...●On my bedroom wall there were/was...●Out of the house, there was/were...with/without... ●There were lots of...●Many of them were...●This was our last home in ...and I was there for the last time in ...●One day I’ll go back,and I’m looking forward to doing...again.
b. Let’s know more about Quincy:
Quincy is on the east coast of America. It’s called the “City of Presidents” and “Birthplace of the American Dream”. Quincy is the birthplace of the second and the sixth U.S. presidents, John Adams and his son, John Quincy Adams.
John Adams,born in Quincy(1735- 1826)
John Quincy Adams (the son of John Adams), born in Quincy (1767- 1848)
Step 5: Homework:
Imitative writing named”My past life in...”with the following sentence patterns like:
●(Behind/in front of/out of/ in...)there was/were...with/without...
●There were lots of things to do in...
●...was/were...
●...wasn’t/weren’t...
●You can visit...
●This was our/my last home in ...and I was there for the last time in ...
●One day I will go back, and I’m looking forward to doing...again.
Step 6:Blackboard Design:
What’s the most important reason for Betty’s going back one day
happy proud
Big & comfortable
friends
Step 6: Teaching Reflection:
First, this passage is designed according to PSC model. Natural lead-in about my past life creates a relaxing and harmonious learning environment, which meanwhile also helps the target students to get close to me, a new teacher for them. Besides, this design is composed of pre-reading, while-reading, and post-reading. To some extent, while-reading is the highlight of my design, in which I designed different tasks to help the students to learn how to read, such as, several subjective questions for para.1-2, blank-filling for para.3-4 and an open question for discussion for para.5, from easy to hard. It is the task-based learning methods that promotes students comprehensive language competence. Finally, the imitative writing consolidates the input of the language learning and checks the output of the students’ learning . All in all, this design is helpful to the students’ core competence, like language skills and knowledge, attitudes to learning, learning strategies, and cultural awareness.