Unit 12 Life is full of the unexpected SectionB（2a-2e）教案

Unit12 SectionB（2a-2e） 教案
1.0教情分析
1.1 Teaching objectives 教学目标
1.1.1 Language targets 语言目标
1.1.1.1 Key Words and Chunks
1.1.1.1.1 For applying: play jokes on, especially, all kinds of, around the world, each other, reporter, no more, as much…as they could, sell out, all of, more than, find out, end up doing, marry, rather than, sound, thousands of , run out of, run away from, lose weight, reply
1.1.1.1.2 For comprehending: introduction, April Fool’s Day, celebration，tricks, take place, hoax, customer, believable
1.1.1.2 Sentence Structures
1) April Fool’s Day is a celebration that takes place in different countries around the world.
2) It happens on April 1st every year and is a day when many people play all kinds of tricks and jokes on each other.
3) One April Fool’s Day, a reporter in England announced that there would be no more spaghetti because the spaghetti farmers in Italy had stopped growing spaghetti.
4) Many people ran to their local supermarket to buy as much spaghetti as they could.
5) By the end of the day, more than 10,000 people had phoned the TV station to find out how to get their water.
6) Many April Fool’s jokes may end up being not very funny.
7) One of the world’s most famous tricks, however, happened in October rather than in April.
8) He described where they landed and told how they were moving across the United States.
9) Welles made it sound so real that hundreds of people believed the story, and fear spread across the whole country.
10) By the time police officer announced that the story was a hoax, thousands of people had left their homes.
1.1.1.3 Grammar Focus
1) April Fool’s Day is a celebration that takes place in different countries around the world. (a celebration that takes place in different countries around the world是一个定语从句，先行词是that，意思为愚人节是一个在世界各个不同国家都庆祝的活动。)
2) It happens on April 1st every year and is a day when many people play all kinds of tricks and jokes on each other. （它是在每年的4月1日， 在这一天许多人互相做各种各样的恶作剧和开各种各样的玩笑。When引导的是一个定语从句，而不是状语从句。）
3) Welles made it sound so real that hundreds of people believed the story, and fear spread across the whole country.（Welles使它听起来如此真实以至于数以百计的人都相信这个故事，并且举国上下一片恐慌。so…that 引导结果状语从句）
1.1.2 Ability goals 能力目标
1.1.2.1 学会使用背景知识来帮助理解阅读内容。
1.1.2.2 通过找主题句，例证，观点阐释来掌握并理清文章结构的方法。
1.1.3 Emotional goals 情感目标
1.1.3.1学会把握思考愚人节玩笑的度。
1.1.3.2学会成为一个幽默风趣的人。
1.2 Important and difficult teaching points 教学重难点
1.2.1文中出现的重难点单词，短语及句型。
1.2.2 掌握文章大意和框架结构分析。
1.2.3 让学生学会表达和话题讨论：愚人节。
2.0 Student analysis学情分析
2.1 Fundamental State基本情况
通过本单元前面几个课时的学习，学生已经有了一个开放的心态来谈论生活中或者愚人节期间出现的出人意料的玩笑或者闹剧。同时，优秀的学生对于自己的有趣或者搞笑的生活经历进行过分享，学生们从情感上来说，已经能够理解愚人节的玩笑，学会用娱乐的精神来面对这些玩笑和闹剧，为本课时April Fool’s Day的学习垫定了良好的情感和背景基础。
2.2 Knowledge Reserve知识储备
本课时主要介绍西方节日---愚人节的一些出人意料的故事。实际上Section B的第一课时就是为本课时的学习做好了充足的知识和背景知识的铺垫，学生有足够的知识储备讨论愚人节的庆祝活动。
2.3 Class data本班实际
本班学生学习动机明确，能够在小组活动中互相帮助，积极与他人合作，敢于用英语进行表达。本课时读前引导学生谈论April Fool’s Day，内容贴近学生实际，贴合本单元话题内容，学生愿意讨论，应该有话可说。对于阅读篇目，教师应该使用恰当的阅读策略，引导学生从背景入手，并读前讨论，进入读中的思考，进行有效的思维训练。同时，读后的难句理解分析也应该为学生留足空间。
3.0 Teaching methods教法建议
thematic teaching method主题教学法；Discussion method讨论法
4.0 教学辅助
blackboard and chalk, computer, projector
5.0 Teaching procedures 教学进程
5.1 Leading-in and warming-up 引入与激趣活动
Get a top S to introduce April Fool’s Day through his or her search on the Internet or any resources.
5.2 Reading Practice 阅读训练
5.2.1 Pre-reading 读前导入
5.2.1.1 T: What do you know about April Fool’s Day
Ss:…
T:What kind of jokes or tricks would people play
Ss:…
T: How do people feel when they are fooled
5.2.1.2 T asks several Ss to show their ideas or opinions with the class.
5.2.2 While-reading 读中理解
5.2.2.1 Skim reading
5.2.2.1.1 Ask Ss skim the passage quickly and find out the main idea of each paragraph
Answers:
Paragraph 1 An introduction to April Fool’s Day
Paragraph 2 Examples of funny stories that happened on April Fool’s Day
Paragraph 3 A sad story that happened on April Fool’s Day
Paragraph 4 The most famous trick played
5.2.2.1.2 Guide Ss to practice in reading for general ideas. Give Ss some tips to help them skim a passage effectively.
Tips: To skim a passage, we can read:
The title and sub-title (if there are any)
The first paragraph
The first sentence in each paragraph
The last paragraph
5.2.2.2 Scan reading Activity 2c
Encourage Ss to scan the passage carefully for details and answer the questions in 2c.
Answers：1. Because a reporter announced that there would be no more spaghetti.
2. It could help people lose weight.
3. Because the TV star fooled the lady.
4. In October, 1938.
5. Because he made the trick sound so real.
6. I think the first is the most believable because it’s possible that farmers in Italy stop growing spaghetti. And the second is the least believable because there’s no water like this on the earth.
7. Yes, I would./ No, I wouldn’t.
5.2.2.3 Activity 2d
5.2.2.3.1 Review parts of speech and help Ss fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the verbs in brackets.
Answers：1.appeared, rushed 2. found out, had disappeared 3. ended, had called 4.ended, had lost 5. told, had run away
5.2.2.3.2 Check the answers
5.2.3 Post-reading Activity 2e
5.2.3.1 T can organize a group discussion and get them to share their funny stories.
5.2.3.2 Ask the class to vote for:
The funniest story
The most embarrassing joke
The most creative joke
5.3 New points interpretation 新知感悟（贴标签）
5.3.1 Discovering chunks 语块发现
Get Ss to read the text once again, this time, and underline all the useful chunks in it.
1) April Fool’s Day is a celebration that takes place in different countries around the world.
2) It happens on April 1st every year and is a day when many people play all kinds of tricks and jokes on each other.
3) One April Fool’s Day, a reporter in England announced that there would be no more spaghetti because the spaghetti farmers in Italy had stopped growing spaghetti.
4) Many people ran to their local supermarket to buy as much spaghetti as they could.
5) By the end of the day, more than 10,000 people had phoned the TV station to find out how to get their water.
6) Many April Fool’s jokes may end up being not very funny.
7) One of the world’s most famous trick, however, happened in October rather than in April.
8) He described where they landed and told how they were moving across the United States.
9) Welles made it sound so real that hundreds of people believed the story, and fear spread across the whole country.
10) By the time police officer announced that the story was a hoax, thousands of people had left their homes.
5.3.2 Analyzing chunks 语块分析
5.3.2.1 It happens on April 1st every year and is a day when many people play all kinds of tricks and jokes on each other. 它是在每年的4月1日，在这一天许多人互相做各种各样的恶作剧和开各种各样的玩笑。
all kinds of 意为“各种各样的”。其中kind为可数名词，意为“种类”。
There are all kinds of food on the table. Help yourself. 桌上有各种各样的食物，随便吃！
play tricks/jokes on sb. 意为“捉弄某人；开某人的玩笑”，也可表达为：play a trick/ joke on sb.
Do not play tricks on me. I just need to know the truth. 不要骗我，我只需要知道真相。
5.3.2.2 One April Fool’s Day, a reporter in England announced that there would be no more spaghetti because the spaggehtti farmers in Italy had stopped growing spaghetti. 有一年愚人节，一位英国记者宣布将不再有意大利面条了，因为意大利的（从事）意大利面条种植的农民已经停止种植意大利面了。
句中no more 意为“不再”，常位于句中，放在be动词，助动词或者情态动词之后，实意动词之前。同义的搭配:not … any more.
如：Jane不再住在学校了。
Jane no more lives in school.= Jane doesn’t live in school any more.
5.3.2.3 Many people ran to their local supermarket to buy as much spaghetti as they could. 许多人跑去当地的超市尽可能多地买意大利面。
as much as one can/could 意为“尽可能多地”，相当于as much as possible。 其结构为：as + 形容词/ 副词原级 + as one can/could = as + 形容词/ 副词原级 + as possible 意为“尽可能”.
如：他尽可能说清楚，好让参观者能听懂。
He spoke as clearly as he could to make the visitors understand him.
= He spoke as clearly as possible to make the visitors understand him.
5.3.3 Using chunks 语块运用
Help Ss to make their new sentences using the new chunks in this passage.
5.3.3.1
By the end of the day, more than 10,000 people had phoned the TV station to find out how to get their water. (P94)
【原句翻译】
到那天结束的时候，为了查明怎样得到这种水，已经有一万多人给电视台打电话。
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【仿写造句】more than
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5.3.3.2
Welles made it sound so real that hundreds of people believed the story, and fear spread across the whole country. (P94)
【原句翻译】
韦尓斯使它听起来如此真实以至于数以百计的人都相信这个故事，并且举国上下一片恐慌。
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【仿写造句】so... that
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5.3.3.3
Many people ran to their local supermarket to buy as much spaghetti as they could. (P94)
【原句翻译】
许多人跑去当地的超市尽可能多地买意大利面条。
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【仿写造句】 …as… as one could
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5.4 Practice and Consolidation 练习与巩固
1.I am so tired. Can we just stop _______a rest (have)
2. It is the best- seller of the book store. All the copies have been sold ______.(填介词)
3.Columbus is the person who _______ (发现) America.
4.Lucy and Joe _________ (marry) ten years ago, so they ________ (marry) for ten years.
5.Lee Minho (李敏镐) has a lot of fans in China, so every time he came to China, he would see _______________ (成千上万的) fans were waiting for him at the airport .
Keys: 1. to have 2. out 3. discovered 4. married, had been married 5. thousands of
5.5 Summary
Help Ss to make a summary by talking and sharing about:
Q1:What have you learnt in this period
Q2: What do you still have problem with
Q3: How will you work out the problems
Get the Group leader (GL) to make a report about their summary. Put some key points on the Bb to form a clear mind map.
6.0 Homework 课后作业
What funny things happened to you on April Fool’s Day Please write what happened to you on April Fool’s Day and share the story to your friends.