Unit 2 Lessons in life Understanding ideas-Tuesdays with Morrie
By analyzing the book reviews of four readers, the author intends to understand how the protagonists in the book face death, how to correctly treat friendship, and how to establish a correct outlook on life and values. The author aims to show students the various possibilities of life and lead them to explore the true meaning of life, so as to face life with a healthy and positive attitude and establish a correct outlook on life and values.
The text type of this lesson is book review. There are 7 paragraphs, clearly structured, divided into two parts, and a brief introduction and four readers' book review.
【 Teaching objective 】
Upon completion of this lesson, students will be able to:
1. Get the main content of the text and understand the main idea of Tuesday with Morrie;
2. Analyze the structure and language characteristics of the text, master the expressions related to the topic in the text, and use the expressions to communicate;
3. Learn how to write a book review and a brief introduction to a literary work;
4. Explore the true meaning of life, face life with a positive attitude, and establish a correct outlook on life and values.
【 Important and Difficult points in teaching 】
Focus: Analyze the structure and language features of the text, and master the expressions related to the topic in the text.
Difficulty: How to write a book review and how to share the life wisdom learned in English.
【 Teaching process 】
Pre-reading:Read the reviews on the back cover and answer.
1. What metaphor for life is used in the reviews
S1: Life is seen as a path or a journey.
2. When people are described as “watching you kindly from further along the way”, what does this mean
S2:It means that those people are older than you and have more life experiences. They will be with you and support you on your life journey.
【 Design intention 】
The comments on the back cover of original English novels are introduced into classroom teaching to create a real language learning atmosphere, stimulate students' interest in learning, and cultivate students' ability to make reasonable inferences through observation.
Skimming:
1. How many parts are there What are they about
Three
2. Where might the passage be taken from
S3:A book review website.
[Design intention] Students' ability to obtain the general idea of paragraphs and clarify the logical relationship of paragraphs, guide students to grasp the overall structure and source of articles, and cultivate students' ability to obtain the general idea of articles.
Scanning:
1. Read the 1st part and find out what the book is about.
2. Read and answer
● how many stars the four people would give the book
● what they liked or disliked about the book
● what lessons they learnt
● what topics of the book are mentioned
Arthur K: Amy Wang: Marty: Vivian:
[Design intention] To sort out the text logically and reconstruct information, to help students understand the background knowledge of Tuesday with Morrie and readers' comments on the book, and to help students master the language knowledge related to the topic.Think and share
1. “Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.”
2. “Love each other or perish .”
3. What kind of person is Morrie in your eyes
Give your evidence.
[Design intention] Consolidate the content learned in this class, exercise students' language expression ability, help students understand the theme meaning of the text, and improve students' critical thinking ability.Appreciation and application
1. How to write a book review
2. Make a speech to recommend the book
[Design intention] To help students initially master how to write book reviews, further deepen their thinking on the meaning of the unit theme by appreciating the classic expressions in the book, recommend books through speeches, exercise students' language expression ability and dialectical thinking ability, and realize knowledge transfer and innovation.Assignment:
1. Polish your speech and write it down on your paper.2. Read the book or watch the film if possible.
[Design intention] Sort out and integrate the expression of book reviews, realize the transformation from speaking to writing, consolidate what is learned in class, and exercise students' writing ability. Students are encouraged to read the original works or watch the adapted films to gain a deeper understanding of the artistic charm of literary works.More facts about the book
◆Tuesdays with Morrie is an autobiographical nonfiction written by Mitch Albom.
◆ Professor Morrie Schwartz taught Mitch every Tuesday for 14 weeks before he died (13 topics included).
◆ The book has been on the bestseller lists for four years and has been translated into thirty-one languages, including Chinese.
1.“Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.”
Everyone only has one life to live, so value it and live it to the full. Treat each day like it is the last.
2. “Love each other or perish .”
We should love those who we love and who loves us, or else the life is meaningless.
3. What kind of person is Morrie in your eyes
Give your evidence.
A qualified professor, a sincere friend, a death fighter, a positive man, a brave soldier, a profound man...
Fascinating sentences from the book
1. The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
2. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives your purpose and meaning.
3. Forgive yourself. Forgive others. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done.
4. Aging is not just decay. It’s growth.
5. Neither money nor power will give you the feeling you’re looking forward to
Reflection after class
The theme context of this unit is "people and self", and the theme context content involved is life wisdom, aiming to show students the various possibilities of life, lead students to explore the true meaning of life, so as to face life with a healthy and positive attitude, and establish a correct outlook on life and values. This lesson is the second lesson of this unit. It mainly adopts a holistic reading approach to develop students' ability to summarize, summarize and extract key information from the text. Through reading the recommended comments on the back cover of literary works, the introduction part activates students' background knowledge and stimulates their interest in reading.
The quick reading part allows students to understand the structure and general idea of the text through speed reading, and cultivates students' ability of analysis and induction. Through the setting of questions, the detailed reading session guides students to understand the brief content of literary works, further increases their understanding of the content and theme of books from readers' evaluation of literary works, and cultivates students' ability to extract information and summarize the text content. In the thinking section, through the English interpretation of classic sentences in the book, students can understand the theme meaning of the text and improve their critical thinking ability. Finally, in appreciation and application, by understanding the writing characteristics of book reviews and using classic sentences in the book, students express their own views and make their own judgments on the book in the form of speeches, achieving the purpose of improving students' critical thinking ability and migration and innovation. The first task is to further polish and transcribe the lecture notes for the class. The second task is to read the book or watch the movie adapted from the book after class, so as to realize the hierarchical design of the homework and the expansion and application of knowledge. There are four design highlights in this lesson. The first is to try to use the method of holistic reading, pay attention to the overall layout of the text, and cultivate students' ability of generalization. The second is to focus on the writing and language characteristics of multimodal discourse book reviews. The third is to pay attention to the improvement of students' discipline literacy, especially the setting of open questions, to inspire students to express their own views on problems, and to improve students' critical thinking ability. Fourth, it fully reflects the use of teaching materials, rather than limited to teaching materials, through the supplement of other language materials in the book, enrich the content of the text, and let students understand the topic content and theme significance in a more comprehensive way. Of course, I also felt the inadequacy and doubts in this class.
First of all, in the course design process, due to the limited class time, there is no detailed analysis of how to write a brief introduction to literary works. Secondly, in terms of the practice of core literacy, there will be requirements in various aspects and different dimensions, which cannot be applied and achieved in one class as a teacher. How to make reasonable choices and specific design, and how to better understand the requirements of the new curriculum standards are the goals to be pursued in the future.