Learning about Language优质课一等奖

The Third Period Reading(Ⅰ)

Teaching goals 教学目标

1. Target language目标语言：

重点词汇和短语

Patent, distinguish, product, power, perfume, cube, abrupt, abruptly, convenient, expectation, monitor, passive, criterion, valid, application, file, rod, call up, now and then, set about, in case 重点句子

The first thing I tried to do was...

Between the outside and inside there is...

Nor will you receive a paten until ...

to find out that your product really is different from...

Only after you have had that recognition can you say that...

2. Ability goals能力目标

Enable the students to describe the problem of the snakes and what has been done by the writer to solve the problem. Make them realize it takes steps to catch the snakes and it’s not easy to get a patent. 3. Learning ability goals 学能目标

How to describe the problem of the snakes and what has been done by the writer to solve the problem. Teaching important & difficult points教学重难点

Lean how to meet the requirements of getting a patent Teaching methods教学方法

Task-based method and cooperative learning Teaching aids教具准备

A computer and a projector, a recorder Teaching procedures & ways教学过程与方法

Step I Revision

1.

Greetings 2.

Check the answers to the multiple choices in Using Words and Expressions. 3.

Ask some students to show the answers to the preview questions. Sample answers: 1.

The problem talked about in the text is how to catch snakes in the courtyard. 2.

The writer solved the problem in different steps. For example placing the frozen bowl and the ice cubes on top of the bowl to keep it cook, freezing the bowl and ice cubes again in the evening as the temperature was staring to cool and using a net used for catching fish.

Step II Pre-reading T: Problem can arise everywhere at any time. Now here is a problem of snakes. Look at the title of the reading passage. What can you guess about the content of the passage from the title? To answer the question you should try to predict the content of the reading material by reading the title and looking at the pictures in the text. The title of the text is THE PROBLEM OF THE SNAKES. Next I’d like you to discuss the questions with your partner. Then you are supposed to report your work. Are you clear? After a few minute Then ask the Ss to judge the right order of stages of inventions. Step III While Reading Get the Ss to comprehend the passage carefully and accurately, and then divide the text into several parts and work out the main idea for each paragraph. T: Now please read the passage carefully, divide the whole passage into several parts and find out the main idea of each part. PartⅠ (Para.1) the discovery of the problem of snakes PartⅡ (Para.2-3) the research on the approaches to solve the problem PartⅢ (Para.4-6) the attempts to catch the snakes PartⅣ (Para.7-8) the requirements of getting a patent.

Ask Ss to go over the whole text again and analyze the text in details. Discuss the following questions. Show the followings: 1.

What are the writing techniques of this text? 2.

What’s the main idea of the text? 3.

What should we learn from this text? 4.

What’ the writing purpose of the writer? Sample answers: 1. In this text the writer puts forward the problem of the snakes, makes research and analyzes the problem, lists the steps of solving the problem according to the arrangement of ideas, and finally illustrates what is needed for getting a patent. By listing the creative steps she takes to catch the snakes without hurting the, the writer has efficiently recorded and narrated to the readers the beginning, the development and the final result of the incident clearly. 2. The text narrates the problem of snakes and presents the procedures of catching them and applying for a patent, from which we have got a better understanding of how to do scientific researches and how to apply for a patent. After learning, we know that it usually costs some time and continuous efforts in order to solve some practical problems in a scientific way. 3. We can learn from the text the way of doing scientific research and how to apply for a patent. We can also learn that it takes an inventor great determination and persistence to achieve his or her ambition in life. 4. The writer wants to inform us of the scientific methods to solve present problems so that we students can not only broaden the horizons but become more skilled in discovering and considering carefully the problems in daily life. We are also encouraged by the writer to be creative and hardworking as well as thinking independently. Help Ss deal with difficult language points in the text. “The first thing (I tried to do) was to see if there were products (that might help me),

but there only seemed to be powders designed to kill snakes.我设法做的第一件事情是看看是否有能帮我忙的产品，但是好像只有一些用来捕杀蛇的粉。

“Between the outside and inside walls of the bowl there is some jelly, which freezes hard when cooled. =when it is cooled 在碗的内外侧，有一些冰果冻，

冷却时他们会冻得很结实。

Nor will you receive a patent until a search has been made to find out that your product really is different from everybody else’s. (倒装) 直到做了一次调查研究后你的产品确实与众不同，

这时你才会获得专利。

Step IV Comprehending Task1: Exercise 1 T: Now, please look at Exercise 1 on page 21. Listen to the recording of the passage to get the answers to the questions. While listening, pay more attention to the correct pronunciation and tone. Then read the text by yourselves to get the answers to the next questions. You can work in groups. Task2: Exercise 2 Now I’d like you to go on and solve the problems in Ex 2. Step V Homework Ask the students to do the followings. 1. Go over the whole passage and learn the key sentences in the text by heart and prepare for the in-class blank filling. 2. Prepare for Leaning about Language and Using Structures.