Strange coincidences
Good afternoon, boys and girls.
My name is Betty. This is my first time in your school.
But I found your school nice and clean. And
I also discovered you are wonderful students.
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So let’s play a game.
First I am going to write down my favorite season and you write down yours.
T: what’s your favorite season?
My favorite season is spring! Put up your hands if your favorite season is spring, too. What a coincidence!
This very difficult but I believe you spell it.
Then write your favorite color! (Give me five!)
T: What’s yours?
S: …
T: My … is … , too.
What a coincidence!
Can spell coincidence?
I’ll write down my favorite animal. U guess what it is.
Ss: Is it dog?
T: Bingo! You read my mind.
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Look! This is my pet dog, Jimmy. I discovered my Jimmy in the park one day. Later I found that it had no home. So I took it home. I adopted Jimmy.
Adopt ~~ adopt~~ Together!
Can you spell adopt?
Now it is one of my family members. And of course I live with my parents. I also have a bother. He is really lucky!
He has two sons.
Look! Here they are! Anything special? Yes, they look the same. They are twins. They are identical twins.
They look exactly the same.
Spell identical, please.
Look at them again. They are having a birthday party. We can also say they are celebrating their birthday.
Spell celebrate, please.
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Do you have a twin brother or sister? I wish I had one. Because I know there are always some interesting stories and coincidences between twins, just like my nephews. Let’s read today’s story! -----Special connections?
And try to answer
第一次阅读
1. What are their names?
2. How old are they?
3. What was their mom’s trouble?
names
age
coincidences
1. When they began to talk,_______________
2. When they were nine, ________________
3. When they played guessing games, __________________________
Can you read the word (confused) according to the spelling? Pay attention to the stress.
第二次阅读
Read again and find out what are the strange coincidences between them?
Why are there so many coincidences? ----Because there are special connections.
Someone says it’s nothing special, because they live together.
But do you think this kind of connection will still be there between the twins, if they don’t live together?
Because they are completely separate.
“be completely separate” means never be together.
第二篇阅读：
Fast reading
Is the special connection still there between Jerry and Mark？ -- Yes.
Why were they completely separate? -- Two families adopted them.
Although different families adopted them, they look exactly the same.
Are there other coincidences?
both worked as drivers
both started job in the fire service.
Jerry says “all my life, there was something missing”, so what do you think was missing?
Talk with partners and try to discover it.
(Could they play games, go outside, share their feelings, learn from each other, help, celebrate?………………..)
Well, what was missing? What do you think?
So many things were missing, but something was always there.
What was it?
That was the special connection, like a bridge, between the twins. That’s why Jerry says he’s happy. So the connections are very important. Don’t you think?
You see coincidences are not only between twins, but coincidences are everywhere. But strange coincidences are not strange at all. There are connections between them.
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Well, how strange! You have learned so many new words and phrases today.
Let’s look at them. Let read after me.
Discover
Coincidence
Adopt
Identical twins
Celebrate
Be completely separate
Be confused
Special connections
Read one’s mind
We’ll play a game to see if you still remember them.
Close your eyes. When you open your eyes there is one word or phrase missing. Let’s try it!
Do you think it’s easy for you, let’s try something harder.
Blank filling:
The words and phrases on the blackboard may help you.
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Homework:
Here is the homework. If you are interested in the word puzzle, you can try this four-star homework. If you are interested in writing, you can do this one. Discuss with your partners and write down some strange coincidences between you and your family. And you can email to me. My email address is …. This is how our connection works.
反思：
1、由于上台前没有了解设备情况，导致整堂课的教学都在使用话筒，影响整体效果。学生的发言也没有很好的呈现。在新词导入中，也手忙脚乱，拉掉了一些环节。
2、在呈现be confused的过程中，原本设计将该词分解成con, fu, sed三个部分。但是在教学过程中发现，学生对前两部分的发音不存在困难，但是对sed的发音则与预测有较大的差距。究其原因，confused本身就只有两个音节：con, fused，硬是把它拆开反而误导学生。
3、在blank filling中，应该再设置一个环节。询问学生：Can you give the title for this story?并且引导学生使用：What a coincidence! 或者Strange coincidence! 与课文中文本的大标题相呼应。并且点明，strange coincidence is not really strange. There are some connections between them.将课文提升。
4、整堂课，学生参与不够充分，并且根据学生的反馈表情况，可以在单词导入过程中，设计一些给学生提供语境的环节，反复操练四会词汇。例如，在呈现完celebrate之后，可以提问：When do you usually celebrate your birthday? 那么，学生可以根据实际情况进行有效的操练。
5、明确四会单词，适当处理非四会单词。同时，还可以使用更多的教学手段，处理新词。比如，在阅读过程中可以通过paraphrase,解释adult，有助学生更好的理解课文。
6、在课前热身环节中所播放的video可以考虑只播放一遍。结束后，应该引导学生多关注文本，或者再进行其他一些热身游戏。
7、学生输出不够，可考虑学情适当降低阅读预设的难度。
