Self-assessment教案设计（一等奖）

Guessing Meanings Of Words In Reading Teaching background: Meaning guessing is a common exercise in reading comprehension, but many my students have difficulty in dealing with it easily in terms of their lack of vocabulary in Grade 1. So as the teacher, I will help them summarize the way of approaching such a problem in advance. Teaching goals: 1. To learn common phenomena in meaning guessing; 2. To summarize different ways to deal with these common exercises. Teaching important points: To help the students summarize the ways to deal with meaning guessing themselves. Teaching difficult points: How to help the students summarize the ways to deal with meaning guessing. Teaching aids: multimedia Teaching ways: 1. Interaction between teacher and students; 2. Interaction between students and students; 3. Cooperation in groups; 4, exercises in forms of listening, reading, speaking and writing. Emotional attitude and values: Students are expected to experience the joy of using English

deal with problems successfully and learn how to cooperate with classmates and develop their team spirits.

Teaching procedure: Step1: Lead-in

Students appreciate a short nursery rhyme to have a comprehension of a word with different meanings. (To lead in the subject) Step2: Requirements and statistics in exams

Students get to know the requirements and statistics of meaning guessing in exams. Step3:

Review

(pair work) Review related tasks in our recent exercises and textbook:

1. The desert was once a green land with huge tress, but they were cut down and that resulted in the city being buried by sand---What a pity!

(模块三教材) 2.Some sharks carry their young inside their bodies, with a cord(脐带) connecting the fetus to the mother, like humans.

3. This gradual adjustment works really well for most kids. To further reduce any sleep disruption, get the kids outside between 6 and 9 A.M. to help reset their body clocks. （单元检测一）

4. These picture words went through a gradual development over the centuries until the pictographs changed into “ square characters”, some

simplified while others complicated.

（单元检测二）

5. For many years frequent bathing

was believed to be bad for one’s health. Ordinary bathing just to keep clean was avoided, and perfume was often used to cover up body smells. （检测三）

6. Founded as a kingdom in 176B.C., Loulan flourished for over 800 years. The city had a population of over 14000, including about 300 soldiers guarding the safety of the kingdom….

（单元检测三）

( Students are familiar with these exercises because they have just met them in recent days where some of them were confused with the answers. So it is necessary to help them learn the proper ways to deal with such problems.) Step4:

Inquiry in class: different ways to guess meaning (Students conclude the ways in groups or in pairs after the teacher finishes the first one as an example) 1．________法：

eg 1) : It will be very hard but very brittle

— that is , it will break easily.

eg 2):

The herdsman , who looks after sheep, earns about 650 yuan a year.

(The teacher lead the students to judge the meanings and guide them summarize the name of the way---definition (定义法)，and its common forms) 2.__________法：

eg 1): Most of us agreed, however, Bill dissented. eg 2): She is usually prompt for all her classes, but today she arrived

quite late.

(Students summarize the way according to the characters of the exercises) (contrast对比法) 3. ____________法：

eg:

Cleaning up waterways is an enormous task .The job is so large, in fact, that the government

may not be able to save some of the rivers and lakes which have been polluted. (similarity 相似法) 4____________法：

eg 1): One who is destitute has a great need for food and clothing.

eg 2): That museum is so immense that it will be impossible to see all the exhibitions in one day. ( cause and effect 因果法) 5．___________法: eg: Today young couples often spend lots of their money on appliances, for instance, washing machines, refrigerators and color televisions.

(example 例举法)

6 ___________法: Common prefixes and suffixes: (group work) eg:1) I’m going to buy a microbus.

eg2): She was so tired that she rested herself against the desk.

（word-formation 构词法）

7 ___________法: eg 1): Tom saw an owl in a tree last night but it flew away when he got near．

A．a bird

B．an animal

C. a star eg 2):

Gray wolves once were seen here and there in the Yellowstone area and much of the continental United States, but they were gradually displaced by human development. By the 1920s, wolves had practically disappeared from the Yellowstone. （2017全国卷三）

（context 上下文）

8.___________ eg :When a doctor performs an operation on a patient，he usually gives an anesthetic to make him unconscious，because he does not want his patient to feel pain or to know what is happening to

him.

（common sense and experience 普通常识和生活经验）

Step 5: Summary

Summary1. Definition 定义法2. Contrast 对比法猜测词义3. Similarity 相似法4. Cause and effect 因果法5. Example 例举法6. Word Formation 构词法7. Context 上下文8. Common Sense 普通常识……

Step 6: Inquiry-based Activities (I) 探究活动

(1) Guess the correct meanings of the words in blue. 1. There are some glaciers moving down the mountain valleys. A glacier is a river of ice.

A.

雪山

B.

树枝

C. 冰河

D. 冰

2. He is a resolute man. Once he made up his mind to do something, he won’t give it up halfway.

A. weak

B. firm

C. kind

D. clever 3. A touch of nervousness can sharpen your mind, allowing you to perform more quickly. However, too much anxiety can result in sleepless, loss of appetite before tests and poor performance. A. A bit of

B. A lot of

C. A kind of

D.A sense of

4. The official asked the man what his occupation was. The man said that

he worked as an engineer.

A. work

B. study

C. name

D. interest

5. The old woman has a strange habit to keep over 100 cats in her house. Her

neighbor all call her an eccentric lady.

A. 爱猫的

B. 古怪的

C. 闲不住

D. 动物保护主义者

6. In many countries there are two financial extremes, from penury to great wealth.

A. 便士

B. 温饱

C. 非常贫困

D. 虚弱

7. Mrs. Smith is loquacious while her husband is the silent type.

A. 活泼的

B. 好动的

C.爱说话的

D. 可爱的

8. Those new comers were not used to the life in the suburbs which was so different from that inside the city.

A. town

B. capital

C. countryside

D. house 9. The river is so turbid that it is impossible to see the bottom even when it is shallow..

A. clean

B. warm

C. dirty

D. cold

Step7: Inquiry-based Activities (II)

探究活动

(2)

( If time permitted) (or as their homework) Passage 1. We can not feel speed. But our sense let us know that we are moving. We see things moving past and feel that we are being shaken.

We can feel acceleration, an increase in speed. But we notice it for only a short time. For example we feel it during the takeoff run of an airplane. 1. Acceleration is the name for _______.

A. any kind of movement

B. the movement of a plane C. a steady speed Passage 2. Most women in Ghana– the educated and illiterate, the urban and rural, the young and old, work to earn income in addition to maintaining their roles as housewives and mothers.

D. an increase in speed

The underline phrase “illiterate” in the paragraph means______.

A. uneducated

B. repeat

C. reiterated

D. sick Passage

3

My first job was to drive the oxen that ploughed the cane fields. I would walk behind an ox, guiding him with a stick. For $ 1 a day, I worked eight hours straight, with no food breaks. It was very tedious

work, but it prepared me for life and taught me many lasting lessons. Because the plantation owners were always watching us, I had to be on time every day and work as hard as I could.

What does the underlined word “tedious” probably mean?

A.

interesting

B. tiresome

C. relaxing

D. challenging Passage

4

Although he often had the chance, Mr. Brown was never able to steal money from a customer. This would endangered his position at the bank, and he did not want to jeopardize his future.

The word “jeopardize” means _____ in this text.

A. protect

B. stop

C. continue

D. endanger Passage

5

(2017 年全国一卷）

Despite the celebrations, though, in the U.S. the jazz audience continues to become less and grow older, and the music has failed to connect with younger generations.

It is Jason Moran’s job to help change that. As the Kennedy Center’s artistic adviser for jazz, Moran hopes to widen the audience for jazz, make the music accessible, and preserve its history and culture.

What does the underlined word “that” refer to?

A. Jazz becoming more accessible

B. Jazz being less popular with young people. C. The production of Jazz growing faster. D. The Jazz audience becoming larger.

Step8: Summary ( again)

Step9: Homework: Finish off the exercises in the paper.