Module 2 Ideas and viewpoints Unit 4Reading （表格式教案）

教学设计
Teaching contents Reading & Speaking: Unit 4 Reading — English Grade Nine
Time 20 min
Teacher
Students Grade Nine
Analysis of the teaching material
The article is about four posts sent by teenagers to Aunt Linda in Unit 4. This artile tells us about the troubles and difficulties the teenagers are facing, including the problems with their friends, parents and other family members. All the problems are commonly seen in students’ life. Therefore, it can not only arouse students’ interest in reading but also help them to think about the problems and difficulties they are facing and encourage them to ask others for help if necessary. Each of the four posts is well structured and well written, which can be employed to train students’ reading ability and strategies. Besides, they can act as good examples for students to follow when they write letters or posts.
Analysis of the students
As the topic is very familiar to students, they will have interest in reading the text and finishing the class tasks. In terms of reading ability and strategies, students in Grade Nine have received lots of related training, but there is still room for improvement, especially in how to acquire, process and integrate detailed information and summarize the main ideas properly.
Teaching Objectives
Knowledge objective 1. Enable students to know something about posts on the Internet. 2. Enable students to master some useful expressions and sentence patterns related to the description of problems and difficulties. Ability objective 1. Improve students’ reading ability and help them to foster proper reading strategies. 2. Enable students to know how to ask for advice in a proper way. Emotional objective Guide students to fully sympathize others’ situations. Inspire students to cultivate a positive attitude towards the problems and difficulties in their own life.
Teaching key points and difficult points
Key points： Students know some useful expressions and sentence patterns used to ask for advice. Students improve their reading ability and foster proper reading strategies. Students review how to answer special questions and general questions. Students review how to change the first-person singular form into the third-person singular form. Difficult points： Students know how to acquire, process and integrate detailed information from the reading material. Students know how to summarize the main ideas properly.
Teaching methods
Elicitation Task-based Teaching Cooperative learning
Teaching procedures
Teaching steps Teacher’s activities Students’ activities Aims
Step 1 Leading-in Lead students to recall some problems they may face every day. Think about the problems and talk freely about the topic. To get the class warmed up and lead in the topic “problems”.
Guide students to discuss who they usually turn to for help if they don’t know how to deal with their problems and tell the reasons. Talk about their choices and state their reasons. To elicit students’ prior experiences related to the topic.
Step 2 Pre-reading Introduce the text by beginning with the explanation of the term “an agony aunt”. Form a general idea of what the text mainly talks about. To get students fully prepared for the reading part.
Step 3 Reading for skimming Ask students to go through the text quickly and choose the correct adjectives which show how the four teenagers feel. Help students to understand some new words in an easy way by giving them simple definitions. Guide students to find out the evidence in the text which can help get the answers. Read the text, find out the correct answers and their evidences. Acquire a better understanding of some new words according to the context. 1. To help students have a general idea of the text. 2. To help students extract the important sentences to grasp the feelings of the four teenagers.
Step 4 Reading for details Ask students to read the first post and answer two questions to better understand it. Ask students to read the second post and complete a chart to find out the detailed information. Ask students to read the third post and find out the answer to a specific question and discuss an opening question. Ask students to read the fourth post and decide whether the three statements are true or false. Read the four posts one by one carefully and finish different tasks, including answering comprehension questions, group discussing and judging whether a statement is true or false according to the reading material, etc. To enhance students’ ability to locate key information through reading. To enhance students’ reading ability through focusing on details. To provide opportunities for students to show comprehension of the unit theme, through critical thinking and group discussion.
Step 5 Reading for main ideas Ask students to read the text again and summarize the main ideas for the four teenagers’ problems by filling the blanks in a mind map. Read the text thoroughly and take the challenge to summarize the four problems. To guide students to extract the main idea of each post.
Step 6 Role play Ask students to work with his or her partner and continue a dialogue to talk about the posts. Choose one of the other three posts and continue the dialogue by asking and answering questions about the problem the teenager faces. To improve students’ cooperative and communicative ability through mastering the reading material.
Homework
Read the passage aloud three times. Finish the exercises on P52 and P53. Mini speech: What suggestions do you want to give to the four teenagers
Blackboard Design
New words and phrases: ·an agony aunt ·ashamed ·embarrassed ·annoyed Summary of the four problems: ·Not know how to … ·Regret not doing… ·Hate doing… ·Be disturbed by …
Reflections
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