Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending第一课时教学设计

Unit 1 知识目标

Living well Designed by Zi Chaoyu

1．Get students to learn the useful words and expressions in this unit. eyesight，ambition，disabled，beneficial，in other words，clumsy，adapt，microscope，out of breath，absence，stupid，fellow，annoyed，all in all，industry，tank，make fun of，encouragement，adapt to 2．Help students to learn about disabilities and life of the disabled. 能力目标

1．Let students read the passage Marty's Story to develop their reading ability. 2．Enable students to know that people with disabilities can also live well. 情感目标

1．By talking about disabilities and life of the disabled，make sure students can learn some positive stories of the disabled. 2．Help them understand more about how challenging life can be for the disabled. 3．Develop students' sense of cooperative learning.

教学重点

Get students inspired by positive stories of the people with disabilities. 教学难点

1．Develop students' reading ability. 2．Help students understand the difficulties the disabled have to overcome.

教学方法

1．Task－based teaching and learning. 2．Cooperative learning.

教学过程

Step 1

Warming up 1．Warming up by discussing

First ask students to talk about people with a mental or physical disability to see how much they know about disabilities. Then show some photos of people with disabilities. Students will be asked to discuss the following questions in small groups. Do you know any famous people who are disabled? What difficulties do they have to overcome in daily life? What have they achieved? 2．Warming up by talking

First，ask students to look at the pictures and read what these people have achieved even though they each have a disability. Next，work with partners to talk about what disability they might have according to each description below the picture. Step 2

Pre－reading

Ask

students to read the short paragraph in Pre－reading carefully and find out the purpose of the website “Family Village”．

Step 3

Reading

1．Skimming

Give students 2 minutes；ask them to read the passage fast to fill in the blanks：

Paragraph 1：A(n)______ to Marty and his muscle disease. Paragraph 2：How the disease ______. Paragraph 3：Marty met a lot of ______ at school. Paragraph 4：How his life has become ______. Paragraph 5：The ______ of his disease. 2．Scanning for detailed information

Ask students to read the passage carefully to locate the detailed information.

(1)First ask students to read paragraph one and complete the chart below. Disease Difficulties Motto

(2)Next read paragraphs two and three and choose the best answer. Why did the doctors cut out a piece of muscle from Marty's leg? A．Because they could cure the disease by cutting it out. B．Because they wanted to use it as a specimen(标本)．

C．Because they would transplant(移植) the new muscle. D．Because they wanted to find out the cause of the disease. (3)Read paragraph four and answer the following questions：

①What is Marty's ambition? ②What is Marty's achievement? ③What is Marty's hobby? (4)Ask students to find Marty's advice in paragraph five. Step4:合作探究

1.Ask students to work together to write a mini biography for Marty according to the text.

My mini biography Name Status Health Interests and Hobbies Ambition Motto

2.Discuss in pairs to get the main idea of the passage by filling in the

blanks. Though he is a ______ person，Marty never feels ______ for himself and he ______ his life. Step 5

总结提升

1．Ask students to read the whole passage and choose the best answers. (1)Which of the following is false? A．Although there are a few students who look down upon him，Marty never gets annoyed. B．Marty leads a meaningful life and does not feel sorry for being disabled. C．Marty only spends time with his pets and never with his friends. D．Marty's disability has made him more independent. (2)From the passage we can infer that ______. A．Marty asks others to feel sorry for him B．Marty never loses heart C．Marty is afraid of being made fun of

D．Marty will not accept any encouragement because he has grown stronger psychologically

Homework

1．Retell Marty's Story according to the mini biography. 2．Surf the Internet to learn more about the life of disabled people. 教学反思：

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