Unit 6 Ancient stories教案

A lesson plan for Reading, Unit 6 “Ancient stories”
Time and date: 9:00a.m.—9:40a.m., Monday, October 25, 2014
Time duration: 40mins
Teaching materials: ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )Reading, Unit 6 “Ancient stories”, 8A Oxford English
Lesson type: Reading
Topic: Ancient stories
Analysis of students:
Students of grade 8 are from common middle school.
Most of them are active and they like playing competitive games.
Most of them are body smart, interpersonal smart and picture smart.
They are interested i ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )n stories, but they lack of the knowledge of foreign ancient stories.
Analysis of the teaching materials:
Reading, Unit 6 “The Trojan horse”, 8A, Oxford English
This text is a little ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com ) difficult for my students to understand because they have never encountered the present perfect tense before, and they may feel confused with the frequent occurrence of the “ have/has done” sentence patterns. But they will have a rough understanding of what the reading is about since they have known most of the words.
Teaching focus:
Improve their reading skills of skimming and scanning.
Understand the new words and then make full use of them.
New words: ca ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )pture, soldier, huge, pull, main, celebrate, stupid, except, side, quietly, army, enter, succeed, trick
The present perfect tense.
Expand their knowle ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )dge of foreign ancient culture and learn how to tell a historical story.
Teaching difficulties:
The correct use of present perfect tense.
Some difficult ph ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )rases: look over, pull into, make jokes about, on the side of, climb out of, succeed in
The use of some prepositions: with, except, for.
How to guide the students to summarize the story and then retell it.
Teaching aids: a computer, projector, blackboard, chalk.
Teaching objectives:
By the end of this class, Ss will be able to:
language knowledge:
Understand and utilize the following words and expressions.
Words: ancient, u ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )nderstand, difference, captain, huge, main, pull, celebrate, empty, secret, quietly, succeed.
Expressions: They have ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com ) done…, they did sth, I have (haven’t) done sth since (the time point)…., by midnight, except sb/sth, for ten years (a period of time), succeed in doing sth, through sth/doing sth.
Share the stories they have known with their classmates in English.
Language skills:
Form the habit of using skimming and scanning when doing reading.
Summarize the ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com ) main idea of “the Trojan horse” and retell it without looking at the book.
Find detailed information by intensive reading.
Affect:
Cultivate their spirit of cooperation by role play tasks.
Build confidence by taking part in class activities.
Realize the consequence of being over-confident.
Learn to keep vigilant at any time.
Language strategies:
Guess the me ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )aning of the new words by the context or the given instructions.
Interact with other students and learn from their merits.
Utilize the internet and get as many as historical stories on line.
Cultural awareness:
Broaden their knowledge of foreign ancient culture.
Teaching procedure
Step1. Leading in (3 min)
Show students the p ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )ictures of merry-go-round, the real horse and the wooden horse respectively, and then ask them to answer my questions.
Question1: What are they
Question3: Are they the same
Question2: Can you ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )describe it using your own words (You can use the following words to describe them: for entertainment, amusement park, ride, run, real, wooden)
Purposes: to arouse their interest and lead in the topic.
Step2. Pre-reading (6 min)
Present the new w ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )ords and show them some pictures at the same time, and then ask students to match the words with the pictures given. After that, invite some students to choose one word to make sentence. (3min)
Raise them questions: (3 min)
Qestion1: Do you like ancient stories Why or why not
Question2: From the title, can you guess what this text is about
Purposes: to teach students new words and make them ready to speak.
Step3. While-reading (16 min)
First reading (4 min)
Play the record of t ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )he reading material as the students are reading. After that, ask them to find out the topic sentence in each paragraph and then finish the exercise D1 on page 85.
Purpose: to help the students get basic information of the article.
Second reading (5 min)
Guide students to ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )work out the summary of this article and then ask then to think of or find suitable words in the text to fill in the following blanks.
Purpose: to help st ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )udents have a better understanding of the article and get the main idea of it.
The model of summary:
In the ancient ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )west, there was a battle between Troy and Greek. In the battle, the Greeks sailed away and left a ____ _____horse there. The Trojans saw the _____ horse and ____ it into the city. That night, all the Trojans ____and went to sleep after the party. By _____, a lot of Greek soldiers_____ out of the horse and opened the main gate. The Greeks _____ the city and ______ it.
The answers: huge w ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )ooden, wooden, pulled, celebrated, midnight, climbed, entered, captured.
Third reading (5 min)
Go into more details. ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com ) Ask students to underline the phrases occurring in the text as they are reading, and then discuss with their partners about the phrases’ meaning. After that, ask them to match the phrases with their Chinese meaning and finish the exercise C2 on page 84.
Purpose: to he ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )lp students learn more details and prepare for the following story-retelling.
The forth reading (2 min)
Ask students to rea ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )d the text again to get a deeper and overall understanding of the article.
Step4. Post-reading (10 min)
Guide students to m ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )ake a spider gram of the Trojan horse with key words or key phrases. Then ask students to practice retelling the story in pairs according to the spider gram, and finally choose three pairs to retell it in the front of the whole classmates. (5 min)
Role play (5 min)
Present the main plo ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )ts of the story on the screen. Then choose one student from group 1, three from group 2, and three from group 3. One student acts as the Trojan captain, and the others act as Trojan soldiers and Greek soldiers respectively. Then ask them to act out the story in the text according to the main plots given.
Purposes: to consolida ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )te their understanding of the story and cultivate their teamwork spirit.
Step5. Discussion (4 min)
Discussion1: If yo ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )u were the Trojan captain, what would you think after the capture of the Greek
Discussion2: What do you learn from this story
Step6. Summary (1 min)
Sum up the new word ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )s and expressions learned this class, and the reading skills used in the course of reading.
Step7. Assignments (1 min)
Finish the exercise ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )C1 on page 84, and write the answers on the textbook.
Find another fore ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )ign ancient story and share it in the class next time.
Reserved activities:
Invite some studen ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )ts to share the Chinese ancient stories he/she has known.
Finish the exercise C1 on page 84.
Layout
The Trojan horse
New words and sentences Main plots Spider gram
Ancient the Greeks sailed away
understand 1.sailed away
difference the Trojan soldiers found the wooden horse
captain 2.wooden horse
huge pulled it into the city the Trojan horse
main 5.captured 3.celebrated
pull the Trojan soldiers celebrated the victory
celebrate 4.climbed out of
empty the Greeks climbed out of the horse
secret
quietly the Greeks entered the city and captured it
succeed in