Unit4 Feeling Excited（Story）教学设计

Book8Unit4 Feeling Excited（Story）教学设计
Analysis of teaching material:
This is a story teaching lesson in book8 Unit4. The lesson focuses on talking about the feelings and the reasons of these feelings. Aiming at letting students grasp the structure “Why are you… I was… Because…”. The topic of this unit is closely related to students’ real life, and in accord with students’ cognitive level, thus can make students learn meaningfully and build students a confidence of English learning.
Analysis of students:
The objects of this lesson are students in Grade 6. Students in this grade has already learned some words on expressing the emotions, but most of them didn’t know how to say the reasons of their feelings, thus they will learn more words on expressing their emotions and some skills of expressing the reasons. However, some students lack of the ability of systematic autonomous language learning and some students have no confidence of English learning. Therefore, it requires teacher to set up the tasks from easy to the advanced to guide them.
Teaching Aims:
1) Knowledge Objective:
①Master and use some important words: excited, scared, cave, because…
②Master the sentence structure: Why are you… I’m… Because…
2) Ability Objective:
①Students can understand and read the story properly.
②Students can retell the story according to the blackboard.
③Students can talk about their feelings and the reasons.
④Students can think actively while learning.
3）Emotion Objective:
①Learn to express own feelings and care for the emotions of others
②Be active and cooperative in team work, enjoy the sense of achievement in cooperation
Teaching Difficulties:
How to make the language richer and make the story more interesting.
Teaching methods:
① Task-based Teaching Method
② the Natural Approach
③ the Communicative Language
Teaching Method
Teaching procedures:
Section 1: Warm-up:
Greetings Sing a song hot hot so hot
【Purpose of design: To catch students’ attention and arouse their interests.】
Section 2: Lead in:
T: Is it hot today What’s the weather like today Was it hot yesterday
Ss: Yes/No.
T: What’s the weather like in this picture
Ss: It’s cold and snowy.
T: Were they sad Were they happy Why What happened to Gogo Let’s have a look.
【Purpose of design: To review the words they have learned, liven up the lesson and lead in the topic.】
Section 3: Learn the story
1. Watch the video. (The first reading) After watching…
T: How did Gogo feel Why
Ss: Gogo was excited, because they’re going to climb the mountain.
T: Boys and girls, look at these two pictures, at first, Gogo climbed the mountain, but at last, Gogo had a party, why did Gogo have a party Did Jenny and Tony have a party with Gogo Where are they What happened
2. Listen to the story. (The second reading)
T: Gogo was excited. How about Jenny Jenny was excited too Let’s listen to the story and find out. After listening…
T: How did Jenny feel Why
Ss: Jenny was scared, because Gogo is going into that cave. Teach scared and cave.
3. Read silently and underline. (The third reading)
T: Did Gogo feel scared too
Ss: No.
T: Gogo was confused. Why was he confused Read silently and underline the answers.
Ss: Gogo was confused, because he heard a noise.
T: Wow, he heard a noise, maybe people’s noise, maybe animals’ noise. Is it dangerous
Ss: Yes/No.
4. Listen and read (The fourth reading)
T: Maybe it’s not dangerous. Did Gogo go into the cave Why Let’s read the story and find out. After reading…
Ss: Yes, he did. Because it’s great in here!
T: Why was it great
Ss: Because…
T: Look at these people, who are they Can you see this kind of people in Zhongshan Let’s watch a video about them. After watching…
T: They are Eskimos, they live in an ice house, they live by hunting, and they eat raw meat. They live in the Arctic Circle, it is beautiful, but it is cold and snowy all year round.
【Purpose of design: Learn the story step by step, from watching to reading. According to the story teaching content, to mobilize the students’ auditory and visual senses by the voice, images and other medias.】
Section 4: Retell the story
T: Well, let’s back to our story. We have already learned the story. Can you retell the story Let’s try. Teacher gives an example. Students retell by themselves and in groups.
【Purpose of design: Check students’ understanding of this story. Teaching from sensory understanding to the cultivation of thinking ability. By retelling the story, students can generalize the main knowledge and the key point, it’s good for the cultivation of creative ability.】
Section 5: Extension
T: Ok, we have already learned the story. Now, please take out your paper, and finish task1in your group. After finishing, your group needs to show your paper here. Look at the pictures together and finish.
【Purpose of design: Let students use the knowledge they have learned in the lesson to communicate and express. Make the students’ comprehensive ability increased gradually. Let students be active and cooperative in team work, to develop students’ multiple intelligences.】
Section 5: Homework Read and retell the story. Finish Task2
Blackboard design: Unit4 Feeling Excited