Unit 1
Laugh out loud!
Understanding ideas教学设计
科目:英语 课题:Understanding ideas 课时:1课时
教学目标与核心素养:
知识目标:Students can learn some new words, phrases and sentences.
能力目标:Students can have a further understanding of the passage.
情感目标:Students can think individually and learn cooperatively.
教学重难点:
教学重点:How to learn the new words and sentences.
教学难点:How to make students have a better understanding of the passage.
课前准备:多媒体,黑板,粉笔
教学过程:
一、Pre-reading
1. Greeting
2. Leading-in
教师活动:教师提问。
What do you know about clowns
二、While-reading
Understanding Ideas
1. 学生活动:阅读文章,完成练习。
Ask students to read the passage quickly and match the paragraphs with the main ideas.
Para. 1 A. With my help, the little girl feels better.
Para. 2 B. How does the clown doctor work
Para. 3 C. A small girl is crying in pain.
Para. 4 D. The reason why I became a clown doctor.
Para. 5 E. Laughter is the best medicine.
Para. 6 F. I am a clown doctor.
(Suggested answers:
Para. 1~F; Para. 2~ C; Para. 3~D, Para. 4~ B; Para. 5~ A; Para, 6~E)
2. 学生活动:阅读文章,完成练习。
Read the passage again and answer the following questions:
Why does the author go to hospital
What can a clown doctor do in the hospital
Why did the author choose to be a clown doctor
How does a clown doctor help patients
Who attracted the author's attention
What's the author's wish
(Suggested answers:
To help patients and entertain them.
Make patients feel better.
Because of his own experience of going to hospital when he was a kid.
By doing magic tricks, singing songs, telling stories and telling silly jokes.
Lara.
Clown doctors help make hospital a friendlier place to visit.)
3. 学生活动:阅读文章,完成练习。
Read the passage and choose the best answers.
①What is the author going to do in the hospital
A. Examine the patients.
B. Walk through the doors.
C. Make patients relaxed.
D. Look through the magazines.
②What happened to the girl Lara
A. She fell off her bicycle.
B. Her parents scolded her.
C. She had a heavy cold.
D. The doctor could treat her ankle well.
③Why did the author become a clown doctor
A. Because he likes to work in the hospital.
B. Because he likes to be a clown.
C. Because he feels proud of being a clown doctor.
D. Because he wants to make patients feel better.
④How did the author make this small girl laugh
A. By singing songs.
B. By telling jokes.
C. By doing magic tricks.
D. By reading magazines.
⑤What is the author's attitude towards his work
A. Critical.
B. Enthusiastic.
C. Doubtful.
D. Objective.
(Suggested answers: CADCB)
4. 学生活动: Read the passage again and retell it.
三、Post-reading
1. 学生活动:Do the Activity 3 on Page 4.
(Suggested answers:
a-2 A small girl called Lara is in need of the Clown doctor's attention, because she fell off her bicycle and spent her time crying in pain.
b-3 A clown doctor is a specially trained clown who works as part of a programme known as "hospital clowning"; the clown doctor helps people (patients) by entertaining them. The author chose to be a clown doctor because of his frightening and boring experience of going to hospital when he was a kid.
c-6 He is still wearing a big smile as he remembers all the fun and laughter of the day, because he believes that "laughter is the best medicine".
d-4 A clown doctor visits hospitals and other health care facilities, working together with medical professionals to cheer up patients, their families and the hospital staff.
e-5 He gets the patient's attention by doing a magic trick - he produces the patient's sock from out of his pocket.
f-1 This clown doctor wears a white coat, a curly rainbow wig, and a big red nose. His working environment is boring and tense.
2. 学生活动:Do the Activity 4 on Page 5.
(Suggested answers:
Similarities
wear white coats
work in hospitals or other health care facilities
aim to make patients and their family members feel better
Differences
Clown doctors
train as actors
put on curly rainbow wigs and big red noses
may have no or little medical knowledge
usually help children
can't do medical examinations for patients
cheer up patients, their families, and the hospital staff
Medical doctors
need medical training
needn't act as actors but humour is preferred, of course
usually help patients of all ages
give medical prescriptions
relieve patients' physical pain)
四、Summary
1. 重点词汇:mood, amusement, entertain, examine, advertisement, employer, cheer up, do the trick、apologise for, get lost, look through, in pain, be designed for, concentrate on, in turn, take off, after all、in need of 和句型,采用表格、思维导图等形式更清晰地了解它们的用法,形成知识脉络。
2.让学生用简短的英语陈述作者作为小丑医生的工作经历和愿望,进一步锻炼学生概括、归纳的能力。
3. 通过对小丑医生职业范畴的了解,领会“笑是最好的良药”,尽自己最大努力,将笑声带给他人,也有助于培养乐于助人、积极向上的人生态度。
五、Homework
1. Sum up what we learnt in class and take notes.
2. Preview the next Period.
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