Reading 1: Down the rabbit hole教学实录及点评

英语（七年级下册） Unit 6

Outdoor fun

Reading (I) 盐城市滨海县蔡桥初级中学

韩玉娟

I. Teaching aims and learning objectives By the end of the lesson, students should be able to: 1. develop the ability to infer the general meaning from the title and the context; 2. pay attention to the time order of the action during the reading procedure; 3. encourage the students to be brave, optimistic, imaginative and creative; 4. revise and expand vocabulary in the story and conversation.

II. Teaching contents 1. New words and phrases: rabbit, hole, by, pass, dear, watch, fall, hit, herself, alone, low, locked, notice, into, side, through, surprise, look up, pass by, take … out of, stand up, run across, jump down, get down, hit the ground, find oneself alone, go through; 2. New sentences: She looked up and saw a white rabbit in a coat passing by.

How amazing!

She found herself alone in a long, low hall.

The strange rabbit surprised Alice.

III. Focus of the lesson and predicted area of difficulty 1. To develop the ability to infer the general meaning from the title and context; 2. To reinforce students’ ability to skim the text for overall meaning and scan for details.

IV. Teaching procedures

Step 1 Lead-in Free talk. T:Today is a sunny day ,Do you have a nice mood? S: Yes. T: I have a nice mood too,so I’ll tell you some fairy tales. Fairy tales are all interesting stories, most children like reading. Do you like reading fairy tales? S:Yes. T:Let’s play a guessing game.Look at the pictures,then guess what the story is. Pictrre1:Snow white and the seven dwarfs Picture2:The lion king

Picture3:Cinderella. 【设计意图：用学生熟知的童话故事图片导入新课。】

Step 2 Presentation 1.

Pre-reading. Show Picture4 T:There are many strange people and animals,they look interesting.Do you know what the story is?

S:Alice in wonderland. T: Yes. I asked you to search some information about the story yesterday,Who can tell me? S:----- Show the background of the story. T:Today we’ll learn one part of the story-----Down the rabbit hole.

Can you find the two main characters? S: A rabbit and Alice. T: Yes. Look, the rabbit is a bit strange. Why? S: It wears clothes. T: Yes. It is a white rabbit in a coat. What happened to them? Do you want to know? 【设计意图：出示相关图片，找出主人公，为阅读做好铺垫。】

2. Fast reading. T: Skim

the story and try to answer the following questions. 1)

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What is the story about? 2)

When did the story happen? 3)

Where did the story happen? 4)

What's the ending（结尾）

of the story? 【设计意图：快速阅读，掌握大意。】

3. Watch and learn. T: You have got the main idea of the passage. Now, let’s watch a video to go over the passage.

T: Let’s finish the exercises in B1 on page 71.

T: By now, we’ve learned many phrases with verbs. Let’s review them and try to get the past forms of the verbs.

T: Well done. Please read them together. 4. Skimming and scanning.

T: Please go over the whole passage again and try to find right places for the three pictures and put them in the right order.

S: The first picture is by the river. The second is in the field and the third is in the hall.

T: Right. And there are five paragraphs in the passage and we can divide them into three parts according to the three places. Paragraphs 1 & 2 are about “by the river”. Paragraph 3 is about “in the field”. Paragraphs 4

& 5 are about “in the hall”. 【设计意图：根据地点顺序将文章分成三部分，为精读做好铺垫。】

5. Detailed reading. T: Now we’ll read the story for more details. Let’s read Paragraphs 1 & 2 together and answer the questions: 1).Who sat by the river? 2).What happened to Alice? 【设计意图：精读第一部分，借助问题呈现细节。】

T: Read Paragraph 3 by yourselves, and then answer three questions. 1. What did Alice think of the rabbit? 2. What did Alice do then? 【设计意图：借助问题，辅助阅读，获得信息。】

T: Read Paragraphs 4 & 5 and find three quetions. 【设计意图：通过问题，呈现最后两段的要点。】

6. Further reading. T: Let’s read the whole passage again, and then finish PatrB3. 2.Complete the passage. 【设计意图：整体复习文本，完成对话，巩固细节。】

Step 3 Production

1. Put the sentences in the right order.

【设计意图：借助排序练习，回顾全文，为复述做好铺垫。】

2. Retell the story. T: Now, let’s try to retell the story with the help of these sentences. And I will show you some pictures for help too. You can prepare it with your partners. S: One Sunny day, Alice sat by a river with her sister. Then she heard a sound. She looked up and saw a rabbit passing by. She stood up and ran across the field after the rabbit. Then she jumped down a hole after the rabbit. She fell for a long time. At last she found herself in a hall. She noticed a small door and she could see a lovely garden on the other side, but she couldn’t go through the door, because she was too big. 【设计意图：借助图片，用自己的话复述课文，旨在培养学生的理解能力、口头表达能力和逻辑思维能力。】

3. What do you think of Alice? T: You’ve done a great job. What do you think of Alice? Can you use some words to describe her? You may use the sentence structure: I think she was … because …

T: I think Alice was curious, brave and careful. Let’s enjoy a short passage. Alice was curious, brave and careful, so she found her wonderland in the story. In fact,

everybody has a dream world, if you are curious, brave and careful, maybe someday, you can find your wonderland in your life!

【设计意图：提炼文本思想，升华文本。】

V. Homework

1.Try to retell the story to your friends after class. 2.Read the book 《Alice's adventures in Wonderland》

in your free time.