Teaching plan for 7B Unit 8 From hobby to career (Reading)
Topic: From hobby to career
核 心 素 养 目 标 Linguistic skill(s): Improve the ability to read . Language knowledge: Know the keywords and expressions and understand the meaning of them. Emotion and attitude: Be able to think what to be in the future. Learning strategy: Be able to understand the passage through the keywords and phrases. Culture awareness: Know more about the knowledge of hobbies and jobs.
重点 1. understand the main ideas 2. have a full understanding of the passage
难点 Help students think what to be in the future.
Teaching Procedure
Pre-reading Step 1: Warm up and lead-in
Teacher’s Activity Students’ Activity Purposes Time
1.greetings 2. show questions about Hi and Lo’s hobby 1.greetings 2.look at the questions and answer them 2.to elicit the topic of the lesson 1mins
Step 2:Show some hobbies and have a brain storm
show some hobbies Show the corresponding jobs 1.Look and read the hobbies 2.have a brain storm and speak out the corresponding jobs 2.activate their existing knowledge of hobbies and jobs 3mins
Step 3: Look at the picture and learn about the stars and planets
ask students to look at the picture and fill in the blanks Ask the questions about Patrick Moore’s hobby Look at the picture and speak out the answers 2.Answer the questions about Patrick Moore’s hobby 1.help students learn the universe 2.Be able to talk about sb’s hobby 2mins
While-reading 1st reading: Skim for the main idea and circle the keywords
Teacher’s Activity Students’ Activity Purposes Time
Show the article for the student and guide them to circle the key words. skim the poster and circle the key words pre-teach the key words and practice the students’ ability of reading 2mins
2nd reading: Read and listen to the paragraphs and finish the tasks.
1.Ask students to read through the passage quickly and match the main ideas with each paragraph 2.show five questions for the students 3. show seven sentences for the students 4. show the exercises 5.Ask students to find more details to support the statements 1.read through the passage quickly and match the main ideas with each paragraph 2. Read the passage again and answer the questions 3.read, have a deep think about the sentences and choose true or false 4.have a think about the sentence and fill in the blanks 5. students find more details to support the statements 1. Gain the main idea 2. improve the ability of reading for details 3/4/5. have a deeper understanding of the Article 15mins
Post-reading Step 1:Retell the passage
Teacher’s Activity Students’ Activity Purposes Time
show the article with blanks ask the student to retell the article discuss with desk mates and retell the passage in groups Improve the ability of cooperation and organization 4mins
Step 2:Read and discuss
Ask students to discuss how Patrick Moore turned his hobby into career discuss how Patrick Moore turned his hobby into career Think about the ways how Patrick Moore turned his hobby into career 3mins
Step 3:How can we turn our hobby into our career
1.Ask the student to think about how can we turn our hobby into our career think about how can we turn our hobby into our career Think about their own hobbies and what they want to do in the future 10mins
3.work in group to write a letter for the Environmental Protection Agency 3.work in group to write a letter for the Environmental Protection Agency and read it out 3. strengthen the writing ability
Step 3: Summary
Guide the students to retell the passage Try to retell some details help students reflect their learning 1mins
Homework Content Purposes Time
1.Try to make a mind-map of the text and retell the story. 2. Do the exercises on page 106 Consolidate what the student has learned today in different ways
Blackboard design (
the sky
) the beginning of my lifetime hobby
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From hobby to career
) how to change our hobby into our career
career