Reading(1)：Cultural differences优质课教案

Unit 3 in Module 6

Reading ---Understanding each other 湖南省娄底市第二中学

周晓明.

一.

Teaching content:

1.The Reading part:

Understanding each other. 2.Talking about festivals. 二

.Teaching aims 1. Aims in ability: Enable students to grasp the skimming and scanning skills ，improve the students' reading speed and skills and

learn how to talk about some familiar festivals..

2. Aim

in knowledge: To understand some cultural differences in some countries.

3. Aim

in emotion: To educate students to love our country and our festivals. 三．Analysis of the learning situation Some students can read passages quickly, but others can’t grasp the reading skills. Most students are afraid of speaking English in public.

四.Teaching important points 1. How to skim and scan the text.

2. How to improve the students' reading skills. 五.Teaching difficult points 1. Understand some cultural differences in the countries mentioned in the dialogue.

2. Learn how to talk about some familiar festivals. 六．Teaching aids:

Multi-media 七．Teaching methods Asking and answering method, communicating method, free-talking method, discussion method 八．Teaching procedures

Step One

Greeting

Say : Good afternoon, class! How are you today?

Students say :

Good afternoon, Miss Zhou! I'm fine, thank you!

Step Two

Lead-in

1. I walk to the nearest student and shake hands with him , saying "welcome here".

2. Ask others "How did we greet just now?"Students may say "You shook hands "

3. I say "we usually shake hands with each other in China, but do you know how people greet in other countries?"

4. Show four countries on the PPT and ask students to act them out.

Step

Three:

Presentation of the new text 1.

Ask “Why do people greet in different ways in the world? Help students answer: Because different countries have different cultures. 2.

Say: Today we will learn a dialogue about different customs in some different countries. I think it’s interesting.Please skim the first four lines to find out the characters and their information. 3.

Show the PPT and ask students to answer the three questions. (1)

Which country is Waled from? (2)

Where does Peter come from? (3)

Where is Mali now? 4.

Show another picture of a map of part of the world and use three sparrows to show the positions of the three countries. 5.

Say: Since it’s interesting, why not read it in details? Scan the text for the “TRUE OR FALSE”questions. 6.

Show the T or F questions on the screen and ask students to do them and correct the errors if there

are. 7.

Six more questions to answer. Step Four

Summary Make a summary with students about in which ways cultural differences are. Step Five

Free talks about festivals. 1.

Show some pictures to describe and have a free talk.. 2.

Then ask three students to come to the front to talk about festival. Step

Six :

Joke-telling Ask the students to think about a joke that shows the cultural difference. Step

Seven :

Acting time Suppose that you are in the USA and your American friend is having birthday. Give your gift to the friend and act it out. Step

Eight :

Fill in the blanks 1.

It’s

not to open the gift when others give you one in the west. 2.

Korean usually have a

hen and a

rooster

as a part of the wedding ceremony.

3.

In Brunei ,the bride and the bridegroom

have

to

sit in

places. 4.

In

Brunei ,

people point with their ____.

Step Nine Homework Write an article about cultural differences. Step Ten

Reflection In the process of teaching this period, I lead in the text in a new and special way by shaking hands with a student, which attracts the students’

attention. In addition, when talking about the festivals, students are active and have good performances.