Unit 2 numbers—teaching plan
(Reading part—the king and the rice)
Teaching Aims:
Knowledge aims:
1) Students learn and grasp the main idea of the passage and some details about the story.
2) Students can master the key words and sentences in the passage.
Ability aims:
Through reading, students reading ability and logic thinking ability will be improved.
Emotional aims:
1) Students will be more interested in the number and find the wisdom of numbers.
2) Students will glad to learn from others.
Teaching Key Points:
Member and master new words and phrases and understand the passage.
Teaching Difficult Points:
Foster students’Interest of reading passage and improve their reading ability.
Teaching methods:
Communicative teaching method, Task-based teaching method
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1: Warming up and lead-in
1. Daily greeting.
2. Give some pictures. Free talk. Question: what tales do you know
Students may say Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, The Ugly Duckling, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and The frog Prince. Then tell students today we will learn a tale: The king and the rice.
Step 2: Pre-reading
Show some pictures and ask some questions .Look at the pictures, the title of the story and the first sentences of paragraphs 1 and 2 on page 19. Then circle the correct answers.
Step 3: While – reading
1.Skim the story and divide it into 3 parts.
Part 1 (1-2) (the beginning) The king challenged the old man to a chess game.
Part 2 (3-5) (the middle) The king promised to give the old man the rice he wanted if he won the game.
Part 3 (6) (the ending) The king lost the game. He realized he didn't have enough rice to give the old man.
2. Detailed reading
(1) Read the passage again.
True or False question.
1. The story happened in ancient Italy.
2. The old man challenged the king to a chess game in the king’s palace.
3. The king promised to give the old man anything he wanted if the old man
won the game.
(2)Match the sentences with the characters.
(3)Put the following sentences into the correct order.
a The king lost the game.
b The king put one grain on the first square, two on the second, and so on.
c The king and the old man played the game for a long time.
d The king realized he wouldn’t have enough rice to put on all the squares.
(2) Ask students: what the old man ask for prize
Lead students read the paragraph about numbers and understand the wisdom of numbers.
Step 4: Post-reading
1. Read the story and sum up the text.
2 Discussion: What would you do if you were the king
Step5: Show time and summary
Give the students several minutes to act the play
Summary: review what we’ve learnt today.
Blackboard Design:
The king and the rice
Part 1 (1-2) (the beginning)
The king challenged the old man to a chess game.
Part 2 (3-5) (the middle)
The king promised to give the old man the rice he wanted if he won the game.
Part 3 (6) (the ending)
The king lost the game.
He realized he didn't have enough rice to give the old man.