First, the teaching objectives
At the end of this class, students will be able to: fully understand the article "The Spirit of Christmas"; Master the guessing skills of inferential understanding.
Knowledge and ability:
Through a variety of reading tasks, improve the ability to understand details, summarize the general idea and speculate.
Process and method:
Adopting the learning strategies of autonomous learning and group cooperative inquiry, the classroom reading teaching is carried out by using slides. Teaching suggestions of this unit:
Reading teaching
By guiding students' reading strategies;
Oral English teaching
Practice each other by asking and answering questions in oral communication activities.
Emotional attitudes and values:
By learning the spirit of Christmas, we can understand the importance of sharing and passing on love and happiness to others.
Second, the difficulties in teaching
Teaching focus:
(1) Read the article and complete various tasks.
(2) Learn the skills of speculation.
(3) Conduct 2e role-playing activities.
Teaching difficulties:
(1) Summarize the main idea of each paragraph of the article.
(2) Learn the skills of speculation.
Third, teaching strategies
Reading teaching
By guiding students to complete the tasks before reading, during reading and after reading, students can fully understand the reading materials;
Oral English teaching
Practice each other by asking and answering questions in oral communication activities.
Fourth, the teaching process
Step 1: Read ahead
Activities talk about Christmas and design mind maps.
Design intent
Through group discussion, design mind maps, summarize the contents of festival culture, and pave the way for reading articles.
Step 2: When reading
Activity 1. Read the article and answer the questions.
Design intent
Understand the main idea of the article and answer simple details through the first reading.
Activity 2. Read the article and complete the task of filling in Form 2c.
Design intent
After reading for the second time, complete the form "What did a miser see when he was …". This task also belongs to detail understanding, but students need to make a simple summary.
Activity 3. Read the article and summarize the central idea of each paragraph.
Design intent
By guiding students to summarize the general idea of a paragraph, students' overall understanding and generalization ability can be improved.
Activity 4. Learn and practice "inference" skills.
Design intent
Training the "offending" method through 2d answer questions to improve students' reading ability.
Step 3: After reading
Activity group activities, role-playing.
Design intent
After reading, the group will carry out activities in different roles, which can not only test students' understanding of the article, but also exercise students' oral expression ability.