一、教学整体设计分析
The topic of this unit is about entertainment which is mainly talk about the different kinds of TV shows and movies, and also asks students to talk about their preferences and learn to make plans. The content of this lesson is a passage about American culture of a cartoon character, Mickey. According to the new Curriculum Standard, students need to be able to get the key information, summarize the structure and the content of article through reading. They also need to express their ideas with proper words, sentences and grammar, to appreciate the value and achievements of some culture, and finally to agree and be confident about their own culture.
二、学情分析
1. 学生已有知识水平
For the knowledge, students have learned most of the words and phrases in the text. Many students know Mickey Mouse, and they are interested in the topic of cartoons.
学生已具备的思维水平或能力
Students can read to get main idea and key information in the passage, and can understand most of the simple sentences.
待发展的高阶思维或能力
However, it’s hard for students to understand some difficult long sentences. And this is the first time for them to explore the article more deeply while reading, such as finding out Mickey’s spirits and the reasons behind Mickey’s popularity.
三、教学内容分析
1. What: This article mainly tells the success of Mickey as a cartoon character, and analyzes the reasons of his success and popularity. The author describes the origin of Mickey, and presents Mickey’s characters, personalities and influence. In addition, the author also attempts to spread the idea that popular cartoons as cultural symbols are of important value.
2. Why: By introducing the development of Mickey, the author describes the difficulties that Mickey encountered, which causes readers to think and learn from Mickey’s courage, optimism and strong perseverance in pursuing excellence when facing difficulties.
3. How: The first and last paragraphs are mainly based on a series of time to describe how Mickey succeeded such as "over 80 years ago", "on November 18, 1928", "in the 1930s" and "on November 18,1978". In the second paragraph of the text, the author uses turning conjunctions such as "but" and "anyway" to highlight Mickey’s tenacity in actively coping with difficulties. "the first" appeared twice in the article, which shows the hard success of Mickey, but Mickey and his creator Walt Disney, like thousands of "little man" in real life, tried their best to open up a new world.
四、教学目标
Language competence(语言能力): Students are able to master key words and expressions, and find out the general information about Mickey Mouse.
Learning ability(学习能力): Students can use reading strategies such as skimming, scanning and intensive reading to understand the status of Mickey as a cartoon character in American culture.
Thinking quality(思维品质): Students can analyze the reason of Mickey’s popularity, summarize the spirits of Mickey and then create a new cartoon character in real situation.
Cultural awareness(文化意识): Students are able to improve the awareness of cross-cultural communication, stimulate their attention to Chinese culture, and establish national pride.
五、教学重点、难点及重难点分析
1. 重点:Students can master the new words and expressions in this text, and use reading skills such as skimming, scanning and intensive reading to understand the basic information, spirits and status of Mickey in American culture.
难点:Students can understand some difficult long sentences and know the reasons that Mickey as a cartoon character is an important symbol of American culture and then apply this idea into Chinese culture and real life.
3.确定教学重难点的依据:According to the requirements of new Curriculum Standard
六、教学评价设计
序号 评价目标 评价任务 评价标准 评价方式
1 Try to get basic information about Mickey.(学习理解) Read for main idea and fill in the blanks with correct answers for detail information. 水平1: find out the basic information correctly 水平2:find out most of the information By students answers(师评,自评)
2 Analyze the deep reason of Mickey’s popularity.(应用实践) Understand Mickey’s spirits and the reasons behind his success 水平1:explore the passage successfully with teacher 水平2:understand the spirits of Mickey. By students answers(师评,自评)
3 Apply the knowledge and ideas into real situation.(迁移创新) Create a cartoon for school’s sports festival in groups to enhance students' national pride and self- confidence. 水平1: use Yunnan’s culture properly and introduce with the correct sentences. 水平2:join in the group work and learn something meaningful, By students creation and introduction.(自评,互评,师评)
七、教法与学法
1.教法 activity-based approach to English learning, task-based teaching approach and situational teaching approach
2.学法 independent learning and cooperative learning
八、教学流程设计
Setting a situation Cartoon Designer Wanted!
(情境创设) Fast Reading: Skimming and Scanning
Learning and Understanding Careful Reading: Name Card, Filling Blanks and T/F
(学习理解)
Applying and practicing Summarizing key points of Mickey’s success
(应用实践)
Transferring and creating Creating a cartoon for school’s sports festival
(迁移创新)
九、教学过程
教学环节 教师活动 学生活动 设计意图
环节一: Lead-in Greeting. Present three cartoon mascots of Asian Games to students. Set a situation: we want to find some excellent cartoon character designers. Greeting to teacher. Look at the three cartoon characters and learn the new expressions. Be ready for the following tasks. To lead into the topic and introduce some key expressions to students. Set a situation to let students more active and interested in this class
环节二: Pre-reading Task 1 Know about each other Present three questions about cartoons. And invite some pairs to make a conversation. Talk about this three questions with partners and write down the answers on their paper. To let students more familiar with this class’ topic and practice the ability of speaking and listening.
环节三:While-reading Task 2 learn a successful example Fast reading Activity 1: Skimming Present different main ideas of three paragraphs and explain the reading skills of skimming. Activity 2: Scanning Present a time line with some key information and explain the reading skills of scanning. Careful reading Activity 3: Present a name card of Mickey Mouse. Activity 4: Present a passage with some blanks which are some key grammatical points. Play a video about Great Depression in 1930s of America and lead students to analyze the deep reason of Mickey’ popularity and his spirits. Activity 5: Present two sentences about the details of paragraph 3. Students read the first and the last sentence of each paragraph and then draw a line to match the main idea. Students look through the passage quickly and circle the key words in the text. Then finish the time line with right events or time. Students read paragraph 1 and finish the name card of Mickey. Students read paragraph 2 and fill in blanks with the right forms of words or according to the Chinese. Student read paragraph 3 and try to judge the two sentences given by teacher are true or false. To practice the reading skill named skimming and to present the whole structure of the passage. To To practice the reading skill named scanning and help students to find out the process of Mickey’s success. To practice the careful reading and let students get more basic information about Mickey. To practice some important grammatical points and lead students to explore the spirits behind Mickey. And to enable students to learn something meaningful from Mickey. To let students know the status of Mickey today.
环节四: Post-reading Task 3 Summary Lead students to try to summarize the fact that if a cartoon character wants to be a country’s symbol, what should it be Check list Present some questions about the tasks and activities before to exam students’ master of knowledge. Task 4 Group competition Provide students some special elements of Yunnan and Guandu Middle school to choose. After students finish creating, invite some groups to give a talk. Students look at the key words in the blackboard and try to summarize with teacher. Students evaluate what they have learned so far and check each question on their paper. Students work in groups and try to create a cartoon character with Yunnan’s and school’s special elements for our school’s sports festival, and write down some key information about it, such as name, looks, personalities and symbols of culture. To lead students explore deeply the three key points of Mickey’s popularity and to prepare for the final task. To teach students how to evaluate themselves and they can fill in the gaps what they haven’t know. To provide a real situation to let students apply what they have learned in this class into real life.
环节五: Summary Present some sentences to answer the main idea of each paragraph and give an example of the first paragraph. After teacher retells the first paragraph, students are divided into two groups to retell the second paragraph and the last paragraph. To review the Mickey’s story again and practice the speaking ability.
板书设计
Unit 5 Do you want to watch a game show
Section B (2a-2e)
Para. 1 Who is Mickey
Para. 2 Why is Mickey popular
Para. 3 How is Mickey today
十一、作业设计
A层:Write a passage to introduce your favorite cartoon character and make a video, then all the classmates give points and choose the best together.
B层:Draw a picture of Mickey and retell Mickey’s story to teacher or your classmates.
C层:Follow the listening tape and read the passage in 2b fluently within 4 minutes.
十二、教学反思
对教学目标达成的反思
对教学内容处理的反思
对教学活动开展的反思
对教学方法使用的反思
4.对教学评价实施的反思(主要对教师教和学生学习过程,作业完成实效等方面的反思)