Unit4 I used to be afraid of the dark.
Section B, 2b
He Studies Harder Than He Used to
Ⅰ. Teaching Aims:
Knowledge Aims:
Students are able to identify and use the words: influence, boarding school, in person, be absent from and etc.
Students can understand and review the Comparative Degree better by reading this story.
Ability Aims:
Students can use different reading skills to read and understand the article: skimming, scanning, careful reading, using context and contrasting.
Students are able to finish the tasks designed in terms of contents of the passage.
Emotional Aims:
Students will know that we should be grateful for what we have and to somebody who has helped us.
Students will realize the importance of one’s own persistence and efforts in face of problems.
Ⅱ. Teaching Key Points:
Students are able to identify and use the words: influence, boarding school, in person, be absent from and etc.
Students can use different reading skills to read and understand the article: skimming, scanning, careful reading, using context and contrasting.
Ⅲ . Teaching Difficulties:
The groupwork: Students in Grade Nine are passive to show themselves.
Ⅳ. Teaching Methods:
Communicative Language Teaching
PWP Approach
Task-based Language Teaching
Ⅴ. Teaching Aids:
CAI, blackboard and handouts.
Ⅵ . Teaching Procedures:
1. Lead-in:
Watch a video and ask students two questions to lead in the group “left-behind children”.
Q1: What does the boy want to say to his parents in the end
Q2: Who is the boy
2. Pre-reading:
Show some pictures and ask some questions to let students know left-behind children’s situation and problems.
Guessing:
The title of the story may have two meanings.
Ask students to guess which is right.
3. While-reading:
(1) Task One : Scanning
Look through the passage quickly and put the sentences 【A-D】in the correct places.
A: They had a long talk.
B: Now Li Wen has really changed.
C: However, things began to change a few years ago.
D: His teacher was worried about him.
(2) Task Two: Skimming
Read the passage quickly and find the main idea of each paragraph.
Task Three: Careful reading
① Read Para1 and tell the sentences T or F.
② Read Para2 and guess the meanings of the words:
influence, be absent from, boarding school, in person
③ Read Para3 and answer the questions.
④ Read Para4 and fill in the blanks.
Past Now
He felt and . He is now, because he knows his parents and are proud of him .
He classes and his examinations. He works than he used to.
He was and was not able to quickly in school. He becomes and in school.
4. Post-reading: Task Four— Groupwork
A TV program invites Li Wen and his parents to join in a Talk Show. Four students work in one group, discuss to fill in the blanks and role play the host, parents and Li Wen.
Ask students to prepare.
Invite some groups to perform in the front.
Emotional Education:
Students can understand:
God helps those who help themselves.
Depend on ourselves to achieve goals.
Ⅶ . Blackboard Layout:
He Studies Harder Than He Used to
influence A new reading skill:
be absent from using context
boarding school
in person
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