人教新目标版八年级英语下册《Unit4 Why don’t you talk to your parents.阅读课》教学设计（公开课教案）

Unit4 Why don’t you talk to your parents.
阅读课教学设计
Teaching aims:
Knowledge aims:
Students can get familiar with the situation about after-class activities and get some detailed information of this passage.
Ability aims:
Students can use context to guess the bold words and use skimming skills to get the main idea of each part and use the scanning skills to get specific information.
Students will express their opinions on how to relax.
Emotional aims:
Students will increase their interest in discussing with others together.
Students will hold a correct attitude to after-class activities.
Teaching key points and difficult points:
Key points:
Students can get familiar with the topic of after-class activities grasp the bold words in the passage. Students can apply reading strategies: making prediction, skimming and scanning.
Difficult Points:
Students can express their opinions on the topic freely and fluently.
Teaching procedures:
Step 1 Lead-in
1.Greet students.
2.Ask students questions “After school, what activities do you usually do ” and show some pictures about activities such as play basketball, play the piano and paint. Students often do a lot of things after class, may be they need relax. In this way, I will lead to today’s topic “ Maybe you should learn to relax”.
(Justification: the teacher can lead the topic of “ Maybe you should learn to relax” very naturally and it can also arouse students’ interest.)
Step 2 Pre-reading
After free talk in the lead-in part, I will tell the pressure of my students. Then I ask a question “How about America students ” and show a short video about after-class activities of American students. Both Chinese students and American students have the same problems about after-school classes.
(Justification: Students can be aware of the current situation of after-class activities and the pressure, it can also attract students’ attention and lay a foundation for the following reading steps.)
Step 3 While-reading
1. Fast reading
Read and match the main idea of each paragraph.
Para1. A Life for Cathy taylor’s three children is very busy
Para2. B Doctors say too much stress is not good for a child.
Para3. C children today are busier because of too many after-school classes
Para4. D Linda miller knows all about such stress
(Justification: students’ skimming skills can be trained. Students will read the passage quickly and get the main idea of each paragraph.)
2. Careful reading
1) Read the first paragraph and fill the blank.
Chinese Children are sometimes busier on weekends than weekdays because _____________.
2)Read the second paragraph and fill the table.
personactivities
One boy
My other son
daughter
3) Read the third paragraph and answer “ what is the opinion of Linda milller ”
Using the context to guess the meaning of words. And then explain the bold words.
(Justification: These questions can help students understand this passage much better. This activity can also develop students’ scanning skills to grasp the detailed information. Using context to guess words will deepen the impression of the new words)
Step 4 Post-reading
Group discussion: What should you do to relax
Divide students into 6 groups and make a discussion. Then ask the group leader to represent their ideas.
(Justification: This discussion can achieve the emotional aims to increase their interest in discussing with others together and they can learn some methods to relax themselves. Also, they can develop critical thinking and speaking ability.)
Step 5 Summary and homework
Summary: Invite one student to summarize what we have learned today.
Homework: Ask students to search for more ways to relax themselves. And show their ideas next class.
Blackboard design:
Maybe you should learn to relax
Para1. A Life for Cathy taylor’s three children is very busy
Para2. B Doctors say too much stress is not good for a child.
Para3. C children today are busier because of too many after-school classes
Para4. D Linda miller knows all about such stress