Learning about Language教案3

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学

校

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大同一中

年

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高三

班

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451班

Extensive Reading Knowledge aims: 1.

Learn the important words and phrases included in this part. 2.

Learn and think about the sentences where clauses are used. Ability aims:

a. Enable students to talk about the superstitions in our daily life. b. Get ss to comprehend the text and be able to analyze the structure of the passage by using reading skills, such as looking for the key words and key sentences. Emotion aim:

Help ss to know more about superstitions and develop their value system about different culture phenomena.

Teaching Aims

Focuses and Difficulties

Teaching Type

Teaching Aids

Using proper reading skills to analyze and understand texts. Reading & Speaking multi-media, blackboard Teaching Method

Teaching Time

Presentation, discussion 1 period Teaching Procedures:

Step 1

Lead-in

1.

Show some photos of some traditional Chinese superstitions in our daily life.

2.

Have a brief description of these phenomena in English. In the first picture, parents of senior high school students would like to go to the temple for burning incense and offering up a sacrifice to pray for good results of their kids in the University Entrance Examination. In China, people used to consult fortune tellers to decide when is the lucky time to immigrate, give a birth to babies, have a wedding and so on. 3.

Introduce the definition of “superstition”.

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Ask ss their opinions about it, and try to illustrate it use their own words. (2)

Show the definition from the dictionary.

Step 2

Warming up 1.

Show some photos of superstitions of western countries.

2.

Ask students whether they can get the superstitions of the pictures, and try to tell them.

Step 3

Reading:

SKIMMING AND SCANNING I. Skimming.

Take 1 minute to skim the following article. Run your eyes over the article to get a general idea of what it is about. 1.

After you have skimmed the article, write its main idea in your own words. 2.

Without looking back at the article, write three questions that you think will be answered by reading it. II. Scanning. First, underline the key words in the following questions.

Next, scan the article to find the answers. Quickly underline each answer and move to the next question. It should take you no more than 3 minutes to answer all of the questions.

Questions: 1.

What are the seven superstitions discussed?

2. Who wrote the book entitled How Did It Behave Reasons, Backgrounds and Practical Explanations?

_______________________ 3. Is Friday the 13th discussed?

_______________________ 4. Are any superstitions about animals discussed? _______________________ 5. What buildings in America skip the 13th floor? _______________________ 6. When was the cat linked to witches and Satan? ________________

III. Comprehension.

Thinking and Discussing: What does the title mean?

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Step 4

Listening and further learning

1.

Have a brief introduction of the famous song Superstition.

Superstition是著名歌手Stevie Wonder（史蒂夫·汪德）的一支单曲，此曲在《滚石》杂志评选的“最伟大的100首英文歌曲”中位列第17名。

2.

Play the first section of the music for the first time, and subtitles are attached.

Superstition Stevie Wonder

Very superstitious, writing's on the wall, Very superstitious, ladders bout' to fall, Thirteen month old baby, broke the lookin' glass, Seven years of bad luck, the good things in your past. When you believe in things that you don't understand, Then you suffer, Superstition ain't the way

Very superstitious, wash your face and hands, Rid me of the problem, do all that you can, Keep me in a daydream, keep me goin' strong, You don't wanna save me, sad is my song. When you believe in things that you don't understand, Then you suffer, Superstition ain't the way, yeh, yeh. 3.

Watch the mv of the song. And students are asked to try to find as many superstitions as possible from the video. 4.

Let ss find out: How many superstitions are mentioned in the lyric of the first section? Very superstitious, writing's on the wall, Very superstitious, ladders bout' to fall, Thirteen month old baby, broke the lookin' glass, Seven years of bad luck, the good things in your past. When you believe in things that you don't understand

Step 5

Discussion 1.

What's your opinion on superstition? 2.

How to treat these superstitions around us?

Step 6

Assignment Express your opinions on the above questions, and organize your words into a passage.

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