Lesson 4 First Impressions优质课教学设计

Module 5

Unit 13 People Lesson 4 First Impressions (a reading period)

Lesson 4 First Impressions (a reading period) I. Teaching objectives : 1. Knowledge objective: To learn to use various expressions to describe feelings of one’s first impression. 2. Ability objective: To analyze the 6 factors and basic structure of a narrative and finish the practices with the reading strategies, then retell the story. 3. Emotional objective: To make students aware of the importance of first impression and not judge people before truly know them. II. Teaching Important and difficult points 1. Help students learn to use the linking words relevant to time when writing a story. 2. Help students use knowledge to express themselves. III. Teaching procedures Step I Warm up (3 minutes) 1.

Show students a famous cartoon---- Beauty and The Beast. Invite 2 students to dub a film clip and lead students to today’s topic. 2.

Q: Have you ever met someone you don’t like at first, but later you became best friends? (Design intent: Lead students to naturally get involved in today’s lesson. )

3.

Vocabulary review: Ask students to paraphrase the words below and give examples

anxious,

grateful,

forgiving,

relieved,

annoyed,

guilty 1.

a feeling of worry or nervousness

2.

be angry with sb.

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be happy because you’re no longer worried about sth.(

4.

be thankful to sb.

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be ashamed because you did sth. wrong

6.

be generous and willing to forgive Step II Fast reading 1 (7 minutes)

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Ask students to read the text quickly and answer the questins blow. 1. Identify what style the text is?

A.

Narrative (Story)

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C. Application

B. Exposition

D. Argumentation 2. What are the 6 factors of a story? 3. Who are the main characters in the story? 4. When did the story start? 5. Where did they meet for the first time? 6. Do you think Jenny left a good first impression on Jane? Why? (Design intent: Help students identify what style the text is and find out the 6 factors of a story, then get the general idea of this passage) Fast reading 2 1.

How does the passage develop?

(5 minutes) A.

By giving examples

B. By analyzing causes

C. By following time order

I. Beginning

para. ___--___ II. Turning point para.___--___ II. Ending

para.___

D. By making comparison 2. Ask students to match each part with its main idea Jane was lucky and got a good friend. They got along really well with each other. Jenny returned the book that Jane left in the library. Jane was annoyed by a girl who was singing while she was preparing for her oral exam. (Design intent: Help students figure out the structure of this text.) Step III Intensive reading Task I Students try to find the similar words from the text to replace the underlined expressions. 1.

I looked angrily at the person who was singing. (

2.

I couldn’t stop laughing at this.

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) ) 3.

She was very interested in what she was reading. I quickly looked at the book’s cover.

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) 4.

She’d asked a person who works in a library to get my phone number from

their place where they keep information.

5.

I felt so bad about behaving rudely.

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) ) ) 6.

...who was willing to forgive my bad behavior. (

7.

I was trying to do some studying

for an important spoken exam.( )

8.

After making sure that I was, Jenny said that she had noticed ...( )

Task II

Fill in the blanks with details.

(5 minutes)

Reading strategies: Look for more details. While reading, try to find out the topic sentences by circling some key words.

(Design intent: To make students search more detailed information in

order to better understand the passage) Step IV Students have a group discussion and each group should

choose on representative to retell the story according to the coordinate.

(10 mins)

(Design intent: Practise to use English knowledge to retell a story ) Step IV Post-reading: Role play

(8 mins) Show time: Ask two students to act out this story.

(Design intent: Apply to use English knowledge to express students themselves ) Step V Reflection (2 minutes) What do you learn from the story? First impressions are not always reliable. ----Kafka Step VI. Assignment

Continue to make up the story from the perspective of Jenny. (The main information should be included and the beginning has been given on the

working sheet)

One possible version: The day that I met my best friend for the first time, I was reading Tennyson in the library and singing songs softly. Suddenly, a girl whispered to me :”

Thanks to your noise, I have been unable to study. You’re so selfish.”

Before I could apologize, the girl was already beyond my sight.

Feeling shameful, I found that the girl had left a book behind. Luckily, her name was in the files so that I could turn to the librarian.

After getting her phone number, I called her and we agreed to meet at a convenience store which was close to both houses. She apologized for what she said in the library and invited me to her apartment for a quick cup of tea. We found we had so much in common and became best friends then. (Design intent: Help students write an article from other’s point of view and improve their writing skills.)