Module 2 Unit 6 Hard work for a better life Period 3 教案

Lesson Plan
Period: Period 3
Material: Oxford English 7B pages 40-41
Topic: the grasshopper and the ant
Teaching Style: reading
Teaching Objectives:
By the end of the class, the students are expected to:
Obtain the general idea and specific information of the story.
Analyze the different personality and quality of the main characters
Use proper tones to act out the story
Understand the morals of the story
Key points: have a good understanding of the fable and analyze the characteristics of the main characters.
Difficult points: Use proper tones to express the emotions of the characters and analyze the qualities of the main characters.
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Teaching procedure:
Steps Teacher’s guide Students’ activities Aims
I. Lead-in 5’ Play a game to let students guess what season is mentioned. Guide students to think about how do animals keep themselves warm. Review the features of different seasons Think of some different ways to survive the winter. Review what we have learned from the last lesson and lead in today’s topic.
II. pre-reading Stage 2.1 3’ Let students think about why seasons make us think of the story. Read the sentence before the main text Arouse students’ reading interests. To cultivate students’ ability of predicting what will happen in this story.
Stage 2.2 3’ Play a video and raise some simple questions. Introduce the main characters in the story. Watch a video and answer the question. To help students get a general idea of the story.
Ⅲ while-reading Stage 3.1 3’ teach the new words in different ways Learn the meaning of new words and their pronunciation. To help students have a better understanding of the story.
Stage 3.2 3’ Let students match the picture with respective paragraphs. Put the picture in correct order. To develop students’ ability in reading pictures and skimming the story.
Stage 3.3 3’ Ask students to rearrange the summary of each paragraph Read the summary of each paragraph and put them in correct order. To check students’ general understanding of the story.
Stage 3.4 8’ Let students find some details from each paragraph in different ways. Read each paragraph carefully and answer the questions. To check students’ understanding of the details of the story. To help students have critical thinking ability of the personality of the characters.
Stage 3.5 6’ Do a role-play game. Make a dialogue between the grasshoppers and ants To guide students to use proper tones and intonations to express the emotions of the characters in the plot.
Ⅳ Post-reading Stage 4.1 5’ Help students review the past form of the verbs used in the story before retelling it. Retell the story by choosing the correct verbs. To develop students’ ability to retell the story in their own words.
Stage 4.2 5’ Talk about the morals in the story Have a group discussion: What can we learn from the story? To encourage students to express their own ideas in different views.
Assignments 2’ Add more details to the story, polish the script and then do role play the characters. Read one more fables after class and prepare for sharing them with the class.