Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending特级教师教学实录

Period 1 Warming-up,Pre-reading, Reading & Comprehension Teaching Goals: 1.

strengthen students’ ability to read and understand essays on sports

2.

get students familiar with some vocabulary of sports 3.

develop students’ ability to scan and answer “why”, “what”, “how” questions

Teaching Procedures: Step 1. Review 1)

show some pictures of the traditional sports for students and ask “what are these sports?”. It can be used to help students to review the vocabulary;

2)

ask students to recall the names of some famous records breaker; Step 2. Pre-reading 1)

ask students to look at the six pictures on the book and guess what sports they are; 2)

ask students to do exercise one, and make them familiar with these new words; 3)

ask students “can you do some of these sports?” in order to find out how many of these sports are familiar to students; 4)

give a brief introduction of these sports, mainly on how to do these sports; 5)

ask some of the students to model the people in these pictures to do these sports in class and ler other students to guess what the sports are; 6)

brainstorming: give a topic for the students to discuss; the topic can be “what are the main differences between the sports in Olympic Games and the sports in the pictures?” or “which of these sports in the pictures is your favorite? Why?”, etc.

7)

lead-in: teacher asks “Do you believe that one person can keep all the Guiness records of these six sports?” to lead students to the reading part.

Step 3. Reading and Comprehending 1)

ask students to look through the text and find out the main idea;it can be done in the form of pair work or group work and teacher can ask one student of each group to give his/her group’s opinion on the main idea of the text; at last, teacher mixes up their answers and summarize the main idea; 2)

give a brief introduction about the text and some extra information relating to

Ashrita Furman; 3)

ask students to find out how many records that Ashrita Furman kept are mentioned in the text and do exercise 1; (if the sport is covered in the text, find out which paragraph it is in; if not, put a cross next to it) 4)

guide students to summarize the general meaning of each paragraph; a group work can be organized here, all the students can be divided into 13 groups and each group summarize one paragraph; 5)

ask students to read the text again and do exercise 2; in this period, students can exchange their ideas freely; then, teacher affords some referenced answers to these questions; 6)

teach the language points in the text, including vocabulary, phrases and sentences, etc. 7)

ask students “How do you think of the title of this text?”; in this period, inspire students to give some creative answers; the aim of this questions is to develop students’ ability to think of the deeper meaning of some sentence and also develop their understanding of English language; 8)

group work: Ashrita Furman In Your Mind

Ask students to read the text again and draw the picture of Ashrita Furman according to the description in the text; 9)

brainstorming: exercise 3; students can be divided into two parts, one is to support the statement and the other is to be against the statement and two sides argue with each other; the more reasons the group can raise, the group will win; 10) homework: exercise 4.