北师大版（2019）必修三Unit 8 Green Living Lesson 1Roots and Shoots教案

Unit 8 Green Living
Lesson 1 Roots and Shoots
教学设计
科目：英语 课题： 课时：1课时
教学目标与核心素养：
·To read and talk about Roots & Shoots, an educational organisation
·To read for general understanding
·To read for specific information and answer questions on details
·To learn about and practise parallel structures
·To give a presentation about Roots & Shoots
·To complete a summary of the text
教学重难点
·Students might struggle to identify parallel structures in a text.
·Students may find the various uses of -ing and -ed verb forms challenging and difficult to grasp.
课前准备：多媒体，黑板，粉笔
教学过程：
一、Pre-class
Activate and Share
Pair Work Look at the pictures. Discuss the following questions.
· In pairs, students answer the three questions about the pictures. Remind students that there are consequences to every action. What are the consequences of each action in the pictures
2、 While-class
Ⅰ. Read and Explore
Pair Work Read the first paragraph of the text. Discuss the questions.
· Ask students to silently read the first paragraph of the text.
Encourage students to read for general understanding and to use context to understand difficult vocabulary.
· In pairs, students discuss the three questions. Encourage students to underline the parts in the text that support their answers.
· Review the answers as a class.
Ⅱ. Read the rest of the plete the table or use your own graphic organiser to illustrate what you have found about Roots & Shoots.
· Read the rubric and discuss the table.
· In pairs, students read the article and underline the topic sentence for each paragraph. This will help students to better understand the text.
·Then students use their understanding of the text to complete the table.
·Review the answers as a class.
Ⅲ. Read the text again. Answer the questions.
· Read the questions. Students try to recall the answers with reference to the text.
· In small groups, students discuss the questions after reading the text.
· Each group presents their group's answers to the class and gathers any interesting ideas.
Ⅳ. Group Work Prepare a presentation to introduce Roots & Shoots with the following information.
Then give your presentation in class.
· In groups, students discuss the information on Roots & Shoots.
·A scribe can note answers to information.
· Groups can allocate one section to each member of the group, so they can give a joint presentation.
· Students can include other information or research.
· Each group presents their information.
Ⅴ. Group Work Think and share.
· In small groups, students scan the text for the first question to find examples to support their answers.
· List the writing techniques found in the text, on the board: examples, repetition, quotations, a colloquial style.
· Explain what colloquial style is, i.e. ordinary language used by common people in everyday life which can convey the writer's message more clearly.
· Put students in small groups and allocate one technique to each student. They should then scan the text to find at least one example. Have groups review their findings and then share their answers with the class.
· Invite groups to work together on finding another title for the text and point out that it should be a catchy one that would cause a reader to read the text. Hold a class vote on the best title.
Ⅵ. Group work The text uses many parallel structures with the same pattern of words and sentences. Underline these structures. Discuss why the writer uses them.
· In groups, students analyse the use of words and syntax. Students underline each pattern in a different colour, e.g.“… say you leave the tap running while you brush your teeth” and "How can it matter if I leave one little tap running".
· Using these examples, students discuss why the writer makes use of repetition. Does it help your understanding of the text if key phrases are repeated How do you feel reading repeated words/phrases
Ⅶ. Complete the summary with the correct form of the words and phrases below.
·Read the rubric and sentence frames. Explain any difficult words.
·Students complete the sentence frames with a phrase in the box. Students can scan the text to find the information they need.
·Invite students to work on their own answers and check the answers in pairs.
·Check the answers this way as a class.
三、After-class
Express Yourself
Imagine you are a volunteer of Roots & Shoots. Use what you have learnt to persuade one of the following people.
· In pairs, students choose one of the three people. Each pair works on some strong arguments to persuade the person to join Roots & Shoots. Ask students to base their arguments on what they have learnt so far and on the reading text.
· Invite students to role-play a dialogue where one is the person in doubt and the other is the volunteer who is trying to persuade them.
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