人教版九年级全册 Unit12 Life is full of the unexpected. SectionB 2a-2e 教案

Unit 12 Life is full of the unexpected Section B(2a-2e)教案
Teaching Aims and Demands :
1．Knowledge Objects
1) Help Ss know some basic information about April Fool’s Day;
2) Talk about different kinds of jokes played on April Fool’s Day;
3) Review the tense of pluperfect;
2．Ability Objects
Improve Ss’ reading skills. (Try to get some information by carefully reading the first sentence in each paragraph; guess the words’ meaning by reading the contexts)
3．Moral Objects
Talk about what kind of jokes shouldn’t be played on April Fool’s Day
Teaching Key Points:
1. How to get some useful information by carefully reading the first sentence in each paragraph.
2. Try to guess the words’ meaning by reading the contexts.
3. Review the usage of pluperfect.
Teaching Difficult Points:
1. Ask Ss to discuss about what they can learn from the April Fool’ s jokes.
2. How to get some useful information by finding the outlines of the passage.
Teaching method:
1. Task-based teaching method ;
2. Cooperative learning ;
3. Discussion ;
Teaching Aids
1．A tape recorder．
2．Some pictures about April Fool’s Day．
Teaching Procedures:
StepⅠ: Lead-in
Have a discussion in class about the following questions:
What day is April 1st？
What can people do on April Fool’s Day
What kind of jokes can we play on April Fool’s Day
StepⅡ: Fast reading:
1. Give four sentences and ask Ss to find the key words.
2. Ask Ss to read the first sentence of each paragraph, then match each paragraph with the main idea.
Step Ⅲ : Careful reading:
1. Go through paragraph 1 quickly, then fill in the blanks.
what when where how
2. Listen to paragraph 2 , then answer the following questions:
How many examples are given in this paragraph
Why did the supermarkets run out of spaghetti
Why we say the water is special
What can you learn from the two examples ( )
A. Each coin has two sides.
B. Think carefully before you act.
C. Where there is a will , there is a way. (有志者事竟成)
(first, give an explanation to the phrase “run out of ”; next, do these exercises by giving the outlines; then , ask Ss to fill in the blanks )
3. Paragraph 3:
1) Show Ss some pictures, then ask them to retell the sad story.
2) Ask Ss the following questions:
Did the story have a happy ending Why
Do you think it is very funny
What can you learn from the sad story
4. Paragraph 4:
1) Read paragraph 4 aloud .Then fill in the blanks.
when who what was announced on the radio result
2) Read the following sentence aloud, then tell what “it” refers to
Welles made it sound so real that hundreds of people believed the story , and fear spread across the whole country.
3) Ask the following question :
Can we play jokes about things related to (与….有关) safety or crime (犯罪)？
5. Do exercise 2d and review the tense of pluperfect.
Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the verbs in brackets.
Step Ⅳ : Post reading :
Give some key words, and ask Ss to talk about things happened to Mary and Dave on April Fool’s Day.
Mary : went off ; got up ; got dressed; went to school; empty; after an hour ; showed up ; her brother; changed her clock to an hour earlier
Dave: his friend ; gave him a biscuit ; felt strange ;put toothpaste ( / tu:θpe st/ 牙膏) into …; brushed his teeth
Step Ⅴ: Practice
Ask Ss to talk about their own stories about April Fool’s Day , then vote for :
a. the funniest joke b. the most embarrassing(尴尬的) joke
c. the most creative joke
Step Ⅵ: Summary
Tips about having a happy April Fool’s Day :
On April Fool’s Day , we can play different kinds of jokes , but we’d better not play jokes about love 、marriage(婚姻) or things related to (与….有关) safety or crime (犯罪).
The reporters also should be responsible for what they said.
Jokes help us relax ourselves and we may not use them to hurt others.