Unit 3 Under the sea 教学设计
〔教材解析〕本篇课文选自人教版新课标教材的选修模块7,为第一课时,阅读课,将Warming-up, Pre-reading, Reading, Comprehending部分放在同一课时教学,设计成为一节阅读课。故事发生于20世纪初期,一个名叫“Old Tom” 的虎鲸帮助捕鲸人捕鲸以及营救遇难者的事情。通过对文章的整体认知和把握,教师给学生创设情境,让学生和自己的搭档自主地学习、思考和讨论,从而激发学生对动物的关注,鼓励学生去了解动物,爱护动物。
〔学情分析〕本课是高二年级下学期的课程,学生已经具备一定的知识储备和运用能力,但由于授课的对象的英语基础比较差,水平参差不齐,为了激发全部学生的好奇心和求知欲,课堂采用了创设情境,采用老师扮演鲸鱼,以猜谜的形式引导学生进入本节课。通过对阅读的整体理解后,由学生扮演课文中出现的不同角色,,来活跃课堂气氛,引发学生对动物保护的意识。同时,在阅读课中教师要渗透阅读的方法和答题的技巧,培养学生阅读的综合能力。
教学目标分析
知识与技能.
Train the students’ reading ability, for example, skimming scanning.
Learn and master the following:
Words: anecdote, annual, witness, accommodation, shore, opposite, yell, pause, telescope, teamwork, diving, flee, drag, depth, urge, abandon
Phrases: be about to do, ahead of, even though, stop…from…, help out,
过程与方法
Task- based teaching
.Cooperation
Discussion
情感态度与价值观
The students’ confidence and interest can be stimulated.
Arouse the students to protect animals.
教学重点
Improve the students’ reading ability
教学难点
How to make the students understand the reading text better.
Make the students realize the importance of protecting animals.
教具准备
Blackboard, multimedia, textbook, a tape recorder
教学过程
Step 1 Greetings
Before class, the teacher prepared the mask of the whale. At the beginning of class, the teacher took it and greeted the students. Give the students a puzzle.
Step 2 Warming-up
1.Brainstorm: Have you seen plants and animals that live under the sea? Where did you see them? Find out from your classmates where the saw them?
Suggested answers: on a snorkelling trip, at an aquarium, on a boat tour, in books, in films, on TV programs, on the Internet.
Appreciate the video about the whale
Step3 Pre-reading
Look at the picture on Page19 in your book and read the material on the left side of it. Then fill the blanks in the form.
Author
Job
Style
Place
Time
Main idea
Step 4 While-reading
Fast reading
Look through the text quickly, and put the events in the reading passage into the right order according to the timeline.
_____1.The killer whale guided the team to hunt.
_____2.He saw a huge animal in the water which was Old Tom, the killer whale.
_____3.The men returned for the baleen whale the next day.
_____4.Clancy and his men killed the baleen whale with the help of the killer.
_____5.The killers ate the lips and tongue of the baleen whale.
_____6.He heard a loud noise coming from the bay.
_____7.The men went to the boat and headed out for a whale hunt.
_____8.Clancy arrived at the whaling station.
Suggested answer: 5,3,8,6,7,2,4,1
Careful reading
Answer questions
In pairs answer the questions.
What evidence was there that Old Tom was helping the whalers out?
Old Tom let the whalers know that there was a baleen whale bearby; he showed them the way to the whale.
What other animals did the author compare the killer whales with? Why do you think the killer whales behaved like this?
Dogs. Because they knew that, together with the whalers; they would soon kill the baleen whale and get a good feed.
Why did Geogre think that the killer whales worked as a team?
Because he could see that some of the killers were throwing themselves on top of the whaler’s blowhole while others are preventing diving or fleeing out to sea.
Why did the whales allow the killer whales to drag the whale away?
Because they knew the killer whales would leave the rest of the body to them.
How did Old Tom help James? Why do you think he did this?
Old Tom prevented James from drowning. Old Tom wanted to help his human friends.
Step 5 Post-reading
Discussion
The teacher plays the video and asks the question whether human being should be allowed to kill the whales and how to protect the whales. Then the teacher gives students 5 minutes to discuss it and the students state their opinion.( The aim of this part is to make students realize the importance of protecting animals.)
Step 6 Homework
1.If you are interested in the information about the whales,you can watch the video on the Internet.
2.Set a positive activity to protect animals by group.