Unit5 Reading and Thinking 名师教学设计
主题语境:人与社会之音乐
语篇类型:说明为主,叙事为辅
文本分析:本文属于“人与社会”主题语境,体裁以说明为主,叙事为辅,介绍了虚拟合唱团及其创始人Eric Whitacre。本文共四段,第一段主要介绍了组成虚拟合唱团的关键要素和影响,第二段以时间顺序介绍了创始人Eric Whitacre的经历,第三段说明创立的条件,第四段总结虚拟合唱团的作用和意义,从而呼应第一段。本文通过 connect ordinary people together, global community, positive influence, worldwide phenomenon, one voice, better place等主题语言,展现了虚拟合唱团对人们生活的积极影响,表达了作者对虚拟合唱团的赞赏之情。文本中多次用到直接引语和数据,凸显信息的真实性,另外,过渡句的使用,体现了上下文衔接自然。
课时目标:本文属于Reading and Thinking,因此本节课的教学目标以培养学生的阅读策略,提高学生的思维能力,树立正确的价值观为主,在本课学习结束时,学生能够:
1.根据文本标题和图片,预测文本的主要内容;
2.通过略读,提取语篇的关键信息或中心句,归纳各段大意;
3.通过寻读,梳理关于虚拟合唱团的影响、创始人及其创立的具体信息,分析概括其成功的原因;
4.在阅读过程中,学会分析过渡句的功能,了解引用、数据的作用;
5.基于本堂课所学,借助思维导图,有逻辑地组织信息,发表个人观点;
6.形成正确的价观值,了解虚拟合唱团的积极作用,树立普通人通过努力也能成就非凡事业的观念。
教学过程:
Activity1: Lead-in.
T shares a song with Ss, showing music has its magic.
Free talk: Ss like listening to music and singing songs, so ask them: What are the ways for you to experience music
Video time: Share a short video to make them know something about the virtual choir.
【设计意图】:利用音乐导入,感受音乐的魅力,激活学生关于音乐的认识。学生谈论体验音乐的不同形式,引出互联网带来的便利,为下文分析虚拟合唱团成立的条件做好铺垫。观看小视频使学生对虚拟合唱团形成初步感知,引出本堂课的话题。
Activity2: Make predictions.
T asks Ss to look at the title and the picture and answer: If you were the writer, what would you write about this topic(The Virtual Choir)
【设计意图】:让学生依据标题和插图进行预测,形成阅读期待,为下文的阅读做好准备。
Activity3: Skim for the main idea of each paragraph.
Skim the text and find the main idea of each paragraph.
【设计意图】:学生通过略读验证自己的预测是否正确,运用略读策略定位每段的关键信息或中心句,从而培养学生对文本的整体理解能力和概括能力。
Activity4: Scan for details.
Para.1
Scan and find out the specific information: what, who, where, how, why
Analyze the function of the quote: “Music helps me to... forget my problem. With music, I become someone else”.
Para.2
Scan and circle times, and find out what happened to Eric Whitacre at each time.
Analyze the transitional sentence: This led to the creation of the virtual choir.
Analyze Eric’s qualities that led to the creation of the virtual choir.
How to understand Eric’s words, “It was like seeing color for the first time.”
Para.3
Scan and find out what else led to the creation of the virtual choir.
Analyze the function of using figures.
Introduce the UNICEF, and make Ss know the ordinary can become extraordinary.
Sum up the elements leading to the success of the virtual choir.
【设计意图】:在寻读过程中,以问题链引导学生阅读,使学生有针对性地提取细节信息,有助于提高学生的阅读技能。通过对过渡句、引用等的分析,了解Eric如何从喜爱——专业——受欢迎,一步步成就虚拟合唱团,引导学生珍惜在学校接受教育的美好时光,既是德育渗透,也是加强阅读策略的指导。基于文本内容分析推断虚拟合唱团成立的多方面因素,培养学生的高阶思维能力。通过对UNICEF的介绍,拓宽学生的国际视野,增强学生的责任感。
Activity5: Further-thinking and discussion.
How to understand “sing with one voice”
Discuss why the virtual choir can make the world a better place.
【设计意图】:通过分析“one voice”,培养学生分析文本言外之意的能力。通过分析虚拟合唱团的作用和意义,使学生了解首尾段呼应的文本结构,增强学生的语篇意识。
Activity6: Summary and retell.
T sums up the text and asks Ss to retell the text referring to the mind map.
Explain the meaning of the virtual choir.
End the class with a saying from Leo Tolstoy “Wisdom comes from diligence, and greatness comes from the ordinary.”
【设计意图】:学生在学习文本后,借助思维导图进行复述,内化课堂所学。通过分析虚拟合唱团的意义,结合托尔斯泰的名言,传递给学生“普通人也能成为非凡的人”这一人生哲理,渗透德育教育。
Assignment
Write a summary of the text referring to the mind map.
Search the Internet to get more information about the virtual choir.
【设计意图】:结合文本内容,将口头输出落实为笔头输出,从而巩固和内化所学知识。课外搜索更多的相关信息,鼓励学生在英语学习过程中拓宽学习渠道,获取并储备更多的课外知识。
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