Unit 2 Numbers Reading：The king and the rice 教案

Teaching design—— 8AU2 Reading
Teaching contents
This is a reading lesson, which presents a story about numbers.
Teaching objectives
Knowledge objectives
Students can learn some key words and useful expressions;
Students can get the basic elements of the story.
Ability objectives
After the lesson, students are able to describe the story and express their opinions;
Students can speak out their thoughts about the topic in a logical way and develop their critical thinking ability;
Students can master correct ways to use numbers in their daily conversation.
Emotional objectives
Students’ interest of learning English can be improved;
Students can get to know the importance of keeping a promise.
Teaching key points
Help students get the key elements and the process of the story and master some new words.
Teaching difficult points:
Lead student to use personas, and then students would analyze the consequences of different choices if they were the main characters in the story.
Teaching procedure
Step1: Warm-up
Use a mathematical problem to raise students’ interest and lead to the topic naturally.
Step2: Pre-reading
Ask students to predict by observing the pictures, the title of the story and the first sentences of paragraph 1 and 2.
Step3: While-reading
Ask students to read the story and divide it into 3 parts;
While listening to the tape, students can examine them part by part;
By asking students to do some exercises, the teacher can instruct students to summarize the main idea of each part in one sentence.
Step4: Post-reading
Ask students to retell the story according to the hints;
Ask students to think. “If they were the king, what would they do ”;
Present teacher’s opinion of this topic.
Step5: Assignment
Ask students to design an ending to finish the story and act it out with their friends.