Reading and vocabulary评课稿

Module 4 A Social Survey-My Neighborhood Reading and Vocabulary A Lively City I．Teaching objectives: In order to improve students’

key competence of English subject, the teaching objectives are as follows: i. Knowledge objectives 1. Words: hometown, attractive, fortunate, pretty, sound, tourist, bother, nuisance, rent, district, approach, harbour, gorgeous, architecture, starve, park; 2. Phrases: feel fortunate (in) doing something 3. Sentence patterns: (1) It’s been six years since we last saw each other. (2)This is the first time I’ve visited your hometown. (3)This is one of the most attractive places I’ve been to. ii. Abilities objectives 1. Students can describe the cities they live in; 2. Students are able to understand the content and structure of the passage and develop the abilities of skimming, scanning, and careful reading. iii. Feelings and Attitudes Students can become interested in their neighborhood and cities.

iv. Strategy Objectives 1.

Students can master the basic reading steps and develop good learning habits of observation and imitation. 2.

Students can develop the ability of self-study and cooperation by having the group discussions and peer work. 3.

Students can develop their critical and independent thinking by introducing their cities. v. Cultural Awareness Students can know more about neighborhood and their own cities and make contribution to the development of their own cities. II. Language focuses and anticipated difficulties: i. Language focuses: 1. Help students to grasp the key words, phrases and sentence patterns; 2. Help students to understand, generalize and analyze the passage. ii. Anticipated difficulty: Enable students to introduce their cities by themselves. III. Teaching Strategies: i. Teaching Methods 1. Task-based Language Teaching; 2. Communicative Approach(discussion): pair work, group work;

3. Process-oriented Approach. ii. Preparation before the class 1. PowerPoint; 2. Learning guide for students. iii.Teaching Aids Multi-media, PowerPoint, textbook, blackboard IV. Teaching Procedures: Step 1. Pre-reading: Guessing Game and Discussion 【Activity 1】Class report Invite a student to do a class report about her trip to London. After the student’s presentation ,ask the following questions: 1.

What impresses you most in her class report? 2.

What adjectives can be used to describe London? Introduce the new words: attractive, gorgeous 【Activity 2】Guessing Game Provide students with clues about Xiamen and ask students to guess which city it is. 1. It is on the coast. 2. It enjoys the title of National Garden City. 3. There are palm trees in this city. 4. A stone statue of the national hero Zhengchenggong 5.Gulangyu Island

【Activity 3】Prediction Ask students to predict: If you were Xiao Li, what aspects of Xiamen would you introduce? 【Purposes】

1.

To help the students to review the knowledge they have known about description of a city and pave the way for the following exercises. 2.

To arouse students’

interest in learning the reading material. Step 2. While-reading 【Activity 1】Fast reading 1. Ask students to read the passage quickly and check their predictons by answering the question: What aspects of Xiamen does Xiao Li actually introduce? (Reference answers: impression, people, location, climate, buildings, and places of interest) 【Activity 2】Careful reading 1. Ask students to read the passage carefully and find out specific information about each aspect mentioned in the above activity.

[Reference answers: (1)

It is attractive and lively. (2)

People in Xiamen are friendly. (3)

It is on the coast. (4)

It is pretty hot and wet in the summer and can be quite cold in the winter. (5)

A lot of high-rise buildings and shopping malls. (6)

It is a gorgeous island with some really interesting architecture.] 2.

Focus on the language (1)

Ask students to guess the meaning of the word from the context They can be a nuisance in the summer because there are so many of them. Nuisance: a thing, person or situation that is annoying or causes trouble or problems. (2) Ask students to replace the underlined words with the words

in the passage. I’m very hungry. I feel lucky living here. Now we are leaving the business district and coming near to the harbour. [language points: I’m starving. Feel fortunate (in) doing something Approach=come near to] (2)

Ask students to pay attention to the tense in the clause. It’s been six years since we last met each other. This is the first time that I have visited your hometown. This is one of the most attractive cities that I have been to. Exercises: It ___________(be) one year since our school _______(move) to the new campus. This is the first time I _____________(watch) the TV program. I think it is one of the best TV programmes I ___________(know). [Reference answers:is/has been, moved; have watched, have known] 【Purposes】

1.To help the students develop the reading ability; 2.To help the students understand the passage; 3.To help the students master language points.

Step 3. Post-reading 【Activity 1】Retelling Ask students to retell the passage with the help of the mind map.

【Activity 2】Role Play Ask students to work in groups of four and make a play.

【Activity 3】Discussion

Homework: 1.Read the passage after class and review the words and expressions in the passage. 2.Write a passage about Qingdao. 【Purposes】

1.To help the students express their own opinion and improve their speaking ability; 2.To help the students consolidate the knowledge they have learned.