《英语》（九年级上册）
Unit 5 Art world
Study skills
I. Teaching aims and learning objectives
By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
guess the meaning of a new word from the context;
II. Focus of the lesson and predicted area of difficulty
Using the reading skills to read different types of materials.
III. Teaching Procedures
Step 1 Lead in
1. Enjoy a song
T: The song Let it go is from the popular cartoon Frozen. Now let’s see the lyrics of the song.
There are three new words: footprint, kingdom and isolation.
2. Ways to understand new words
T: What will you do if you meet with new words? I will look them up in the dictionary.
For example, isolation.
T: What about this word footprint? We don’t need to look it up in the dictionary.
foot + print = footprint king + dom = kingdom
T: Now guess the meaning of the word homesick.
For example, he often misses his home. He is homesick.
Homesick means “missing home”.
3. Review study skills
T: We can guess their meanings by their formations.
【设计意图：由学生喜欢的电影主题曲Let it go导入，让学生猜测歌词中的生词isolation、footprint意思，复习第四单元的学习技能，并过渡到本课的学习重点。】
Step 2 Presentation
Guess the meaning of a word from the sentence
T: Look at the picture, and guess what happened one night.
One night while playing, Elsa accidentally injured her younger sister Anna. She hurt her head.
What does the word injure mean? How can we know it?
Hurt her head can help us know injure means hurt.
T: According to the doctor’s advice, Anna’s memories of magic were got rid of, but the fun was left.
Could Anna remember the fun with her sister? Yes, because the fun wasn’t got rid of. It was left.
Could she remember Elsa’s magic? No, because it was got rid of. It wasn’t left. It was cleaned out.
【设计意图：继续借助故事情境引入本课重点，呈现根据句子本身对生词的释义来猜测生词意思的技能。】
Step 3 Practice
1. Finish Exercise A on page 75
2. Make a summary
T: How can we understand a new word when reading?
Sometimes, the sentence itself might give the meaning of the word. When we look at the words before and after the new word, it is possible to find its meaning.
T: We can guess their meaning from the context.
【设计意图：通过练习，巩固本课所学的新技能。】
Step 4 Presentation
1. Guess the meaning of a word from its part of speech
T: Read the sentence and guess what the word azure means.
I sat on the green grass watching the white clouds sailing across the azure sky.
T: What should we do if the sentence doesn’t define the new word?
First, determine its part of speech.—It is an adjective.
Then look at the way other words are used in the sentence.—Green grass and white clouds, so azure may mean blue.
2. Guess the meaning of the words in Part B
T: What does the word in red mean?
I don’t like pop music. I prefer blues instead.
S: According to pop music, we know blues is a kind of music.
T: Blues is a kind of American pop music. It always tells sad stories. Now let’s enjoy one called Don’t You Remember.
【设计意图：根据生词的词性和上下文的语境来猜测词义，相对于前一种猜测方式要难一些，所以此处作了更为细致的引导。通过欣赏布鲁斯，可加深学生对这种音乐形式与西方文化的了解。】
T: Let’s take a quiz. Guess the meaning of the new words and tell us how you get the meaning.
Step 4 Practice
1. Play a game
T: Welcome to the reading garden. If you answer a question correctly, you’ll get a beautiful flower. Let’s see how many flowers you can get.
【设计意图：通过阅读不同种类的文本，强化学生根据语境猜测词义的能力。采用游戏的形式可激发学生的兴趣，也便于教师了解学生对这一阅读技能的掌握情况。】
(1) T: What does deliver mean? How do you know that? Circle the clue words.
Yes. It means sending a package to sb by post. Get a flower if your answer is right.
(2) T: Who took the photos? What does selfies mean?
Yes. The monkeys took photos by themselves. Selfies means photos taken by oneself.
(3) T: Is the joke funny? What’s the meaning of the word pregnant?
Who can tell the joke in a humorous way? You can get two flowers for telling the joke.
【设计意图：鼓励学生复述故事，以此活跃课堂氛围，并加深他们对文本的理解。】
(4) T: What about this article? Have you got the right meaning of the word?
Flavor means taste. Gentle Englishmen like gentle flavor.
T: Now it’s time for us to come out of the reading garden. How many flowers have you got?
2. Have a test
Read the sentences and write down the meaning of the underlined words in Chinese.
【设计意图：通过单句阅读训练，检测学生猜测词义的能力。】
IV. Homework
Preview Task.
