《英语》（九年级上册）
Unit 4 Growing up
Study skills
I. Teaching aims and learning objectives
By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
guess the meaning of a word by its formation;
review different ways of forming words—prefixes, suffixes and compound words.
II. Teaching contents
review different ways of forming words—prefixes and suffixes;
guess the meanings of compound words and some words after putting prefixes and suffixes.
III. Focus of the lesson and predicted area of difficulty
How to guess the words’ meanings by the formation.
IV. Teaching procedures
Step 1 Free talk
How do you feel after learning about Annie Frank and her book?
T: Boys and girls. How do you feel after learning about Annie Frank and her book The Diary of a Young Girl?
S: I feel very sad/sorry.
T: Did she enjoy a happy life as we do?
S: No.
T: What did Annie write about in her diary?
S: She wrote about her thoughts, her feelings, her hopes and her dreams for the future.
【设计意图：以Free talk自然导入新课。】
Step 2 Read the passage and guess the meanings of the words
1. Read and answer some questions
T: Annie wrote about her feelings. How did she feel?
Please read the passage on page 59 and answer some questions.
T: How did Anne feel at that time?
S: She felt bored and unhappy.
T: How do you know?
Her boredom with being away from the outside world.
Her unhappiness with living in a small place all year.
T: Which word does “boredom” come from?
S: Bore—boredom.
T: Did she feel afraid?
S: Yes.
T: Why was she afraid?
S: She was afraid of being discovered and killed by the Nazis.
T: How do you know?
S: Her fear of discovery and death.
T: Which word does “discovery” come from?
S: Discover—discovery.
T: Was the story true?
S: Yes. It was not an imaginary story.
It was a true experience of a teenager in wartime.
T: Imagine—imaginary.
Wartime is a compound word.
T: What does it mean?
S: It means “the time during the war”.
T: Did the book sell well?
S: Yes. It became a best-seller as soon as it was published. Soon it was read by people worldwide.
T: There are two compound words here. Can you find them?
What does “best-seller” mean?
S: It means “a book that sells well”.
T: What about “worldwide”?
S: It means “all over the world, around the world”.
2. Match the words with the meanings
【设计意图：由谈论Annie Frank和她的日记引出本课教学内容，引导学生阅读语篇猜测词义，初步培养学生根据词的构成猜测词义的意识。】
Step 3 Explain how to guess the meanings of words by formation
1. Suffixes, prefixes and compound words
T: What do you do when you read and come across a new word?
S: I look it up in the dictionary.
T: You can guess the meaning by its formation.
Look at these words: careful, formation, boredom, discovery, imaginary.
Do the meanings change with suffixes?
No, they don’t. The meanings remain the same.
Sometimes a suffix changes a word’s part of speech, but the meaning remains almost the same. So if you know the meaning of the root word, you can guess the meaning of the word.
T: What about these words? Do the meanings remain the same?
No. The meanings are changed. So sometimes a suffix or a prefix changes the meanings of words.
T: And often two words put together and form a new word, a compound word, and we can guess the meanings from the two words.
Some compound words have a hyphen (-), such as well-known, hard-working.
【设计意图：引导学生归纳如何根据词的构成猜测词义。一些后缀不改变词义，所以根据词根就能猜测词义；一些前缀后缀改变词义；合成词由两个单词构成，可以根据两个单词猜测词义。】
2. Brainstorming
T: Work in groups. Try to think of more words with suffixes and suffixes.
-ist (artist) ___________________________________________________________________
-al (musical) _________________________________________________________________
-ness (illness ) ________________________________________________________________
-ful (useful) __________________________________________________________________
-ion ( action) _________________________________________________________________
-ment (agreement)______________________________________________________________
im- (impolite) ________________________________________________________________
un- (untidy) __________________________________________________________________
【设计意图：以头脑风暴的形式帮助学生复习巩固一些已学的前缀后缀和合成词，构建关于构词法的图式。】
Step 4 Practice
T: Boys and girls, Here is another article about Annie Frank. Can you guess the underlined words by their formation?
Annie Frank was born in a European country. She lived a pitiful life, which was completely different from ours. It was an unforgettable experience that had no peacefulness all the time. It may seem unbelievable to people in peacetime. However, though she was in the Nazi camp, her hopes and dreams were unaffected.
Her book was a big success after its publication. And we can read different translations in many languages.
【设计意图：自编一篇关于Annie Frank的短文，引导学生阅读语篇猜测词义，训练和培养学生根据词的构成猜测词义的能力。】
V. Homework
1. Find more words with suffixes or prefixes, more compound words and try to guess the meanings.
2. Preview Task.
课件10张PPT。Unit 4 Growing up
Study skillsTalking about Annie Frank Did she enjoy a happy life as we do?
What did Annie write about in her diaries?
Her thoughts, her feelings, her hopes and her dreams for the future.Read and answer some questionsHow did Anne feel at that time?
How do you know?
Did she feel afraid? Why was she afraid?
Was the story true?
Did the book sell well?
How did Annie feel? She felt bored and unhappy.How do you know?Her boredom with being away from the outside world.
Her unhappiness with living in a small place all year.Did she feel afraid? Why was she afraid?Yes. Because she was afraid of being discovered and killed by the Nazis.
Her fear of discovery and death.bore—boredomdiscover—discoveryWas the story true?Yes. It was not an imaginary story.
She didn’t imagine the story.
It was a true experience of a teenager in wartime .Did her book sell well? How do you know?Yes. It became a best-seller as soon as it was published. Soon it was read by people worldwide.Compound word: the time during the warimagine—imaginarya book that sells wellall over the worldMatch the words with the meaningsbest-seller
worldwide
imaginary
wartime
Jewish
boredom
unhappiness
discoveryrelated to the Jews
the feeling of not being happy
a period when there is a war
from all parts of the world
the state of feeling bored
which is imagined and not true
a book sells well
the act of discovering sb or sthWhat will you do if you come across new words when reading?Try to guess the meaning by its formation.how the word is formedSuffixes can be added to a word and do not change the meaning. Some suffixes and prefixes change the meanings of words. Compound words. (wartime, worldwide, well-known)careful, formation, boredom, discovery, imaginarycareless, untidy, dishonest, impolite, inactive, irregularWork in groups
Try to think of more words with suffixes and prefixes.-ist (artist) __________________________________
-al (musical) _________________________________
-ness (illness ) ________________________________
-ful (useful) __________________________________
-ion (action) _________________________________
-ment (agreement)____________________________
im- (impolite) _______________________________
un- (untidy) _________________________________happiness, carelessness, uselessness … movement, treatment, improvement … scientist, pianist, violinist … natural, cultural, educational … helpful, careful, wonderful, colourful … collection, celebration, invention … impossible, impatient, improper … unnecessary, unpopular, unwelcome … More practice Annie Frank was born in a European country. She lived a pitiful life, which was completely different from ours. It was an unforgettable experience that had no peacefulness at all. It may seem unbelievable to people in peacetime. However, though she was in the Nazi camp, her hopes and dreams were unaffected.
Her book was a big success after its publication. And we can read different translations in many languages.
1. Find more words with suffixes or prefixes,
more compound words and try to guess
the meanings.
2. Preview Task.Homework
