Reading 1: The ghost in the park精品学案

Reading Teaching aims Knowledge aims: To predict meaning of specific words from context. To practice the main language points of the context. Ability aims:

To identify specific meaning by scanning the text.

To summarize key points of a story by sequencing statements.

To identify key events and infer general meaning. Emotion aims: To let the students know there are no ghosts in the world. Important and difficult points 1. The simple past tense 2. Some useful phrases

Teaching method

Audio-visual method, interactive method Teaching aid

Multimedia Courseware Teaching procedures

Step 1 Revision To revise yesterday’s dialogue by talking about the amazing pictures with several

sentence patterns. Try to make the students familiar with some words and

structures. Step 2 New words Learn some new words in this lesson. Step 3 Warming up There are many ghost stories in Chinese history. Are you afraid? What do you think about them? Do you want to read a modern ghost story? Step 4 Listening Listen to the tape and ask the students to answer the following questions 1. Did Millie and Amy go to Sunshine Park one Sunday morning? 2. Did they hear a song from the bushes behind the tree? 3. Who did they meet on their way? 4. What did Andy find in the bushes? Step 5 Reading 1. Fill in the blanks with the information learned

When

Where Who What How

2. Find the meaning of each word by giving the correct letter. 1. As usual means ______.

a

the first time

b

as they often do

c

seldom 2. To reply means ______.

a

to think

b

to say something again

c

to say or write something as an answer 3. To leave means _____.

a

to find out

b

to look for c

to go away 4. If you wonder, you _______.

a

want to know something

b

feel great

c

say something happily 5. To search means _______.

a

to find something

b

to shout at something

c

to look carefully for something 6. Weak means

_____.

a

clever

b small

c

not strong

Keys: b, c, c, z, c, c

3. Millie wrote some sentences about what happened, but they were not in the correct order. Help her put the sentences into the correct order. Write the numbers 1-7 in the boxes. a. We ran away quickly. b. Andy found a little cat in the bushes. c. We sat under a big tree in the park. d. Suddenly, we heard a whisper. e. We turned around but saw nothing.

f. Andy went to the park. g. I told Andy about the strange sound. Keys: 4, 7, 1, 2, 3, 6, 5 4. True or false Millie is telling her friend Wendy on the phone about what happened in the park, but Wendy can’t hear her clearly. Write a T if a sentence is true or F if it is false.

1 I was afraid when I heard the whisper. 2 The whisper came from a big tree. 3 We went back to the park with Andy. 4 Somebody helped Andy find the “ghost”.

5 Andy found a small cat in the bushes. 6 Andy give the little cat to Amy.

Keys: T, F, F, F, T, F

5. Role play

Work in pairs. One will be Andy, and the other will be a reporter from your school newsletter. Ask and answer the questions. 1. Why were Millie and Amy frightened?

2. Where did Andy find the “ghost”?

3. How did he find it?

4. Why did the cat sound like a ghost? 5. Where did they take the cat? 6. Act out

Finish the dialogue between Henry and Andy Henry: What did Millie and Amy hear? Andy: They heard a (1) ________.

They were very (2) __________

and left the park quickly. Henry: What did you find? Andy:

I found a little cat in the (3) _______. Henry: Why did the little cat sound like a

ghost? Andy:

It was very (4) _____, so when it (5)

________, it sounded like a whisper. Henry: Where’s the little cat now?

Andy:

We took it to the (6) _______ centre. Keys: whisper, afraid, bushes, weak, miaowed, animal Step 6 Language points Explain some important language points 1）

They turned around but saw nothing.

turn around意为“回头，转回身”。

e.g. We turned around and saw a big birthday cake.

我们回头看见一个大的生日蛋糕。

2）On their way home, they met Andy. on their way home 在他们回家的路上

on one’s way to sp. 译为“在某人去……的

路上”。home是副词，前面不需要加介词，如果后面跟的是名词需要加介词to。

3）“What happened?” Andy asked.

happen作不及物动词，意为“发生”，多指某事偶然发生或由于某种原因而产生的结果。happen to do sth. 表示“碰巧或偶然做某事”，sth. happen to sb. 表示“某人遭遇到某事”。例如：

When bad things happen, what should we do? 当不好的事情发生时，我们应该怎么办？

If you happen to see Jimmy, please tell him to come to my office.

要是你碰见吉米，请告诉他来我的办公室。

Why does something like this always happen to me?

为什么这样的事总是发生在我身上？

4）He search the bushes.

search是及物动词，后面可以直接跟宾语。

如，search the room

search my schoolbag

如果表示目的，强调为了……而搜寻，则可以在名词前加上介词

for。

如，search for more information(为了更多的信息而搜寻)，search for the lost boy(为了丢失的男孩儿搜寻)。

e.g. 她翻遍自己所有的包找身份证。

She searched all her bags for her ID card.

5）Andy said to himself. say to oneself 自言自语

think to oneself 暗自寻思, 心里想

e.g.

这个老人自言自语说:“我是多么幸运啊!”

The old man said to himself, “how lucky I am!”

6）When it miaowed, it sounded like a whisper. sound like 听起来像

e.g. 这首歌很好听。

The song sounds good.

这个低语声听起来像鬼。

The whisper sounds like a ghost.

苏州听起来像是一个很棒的城市。

Suzhou sounds like a great city. 7）Later that day, they took the little cat to the animal centre.

take sb. / sth. to some place意为“把某人/某物带到某处”。

e.g. I will take my son to France tomorrow.

明天我将带我儿子去法国。

Would you like to help the teacher take the books to the office?

帮老师把书送到办公室, 好吗？

8）Millie and Amy were very surprised—it was a little cat!

surprised可用作形容词，意为“吃惊的，惊讶的”，be surprised to do sth.表示“某人对某事感到惊奇”，be surprised at sth. 表示“对……感到吃惊”。例如：

I am surprised to see Tom walk into the classroom with his father.

看到汤姆和他父亲一起走进了教室，我觉得真奇怪。

I was surprised at his behaviour at the party. 我对他在晚会上的行为感到吃惊。

Step 7 Exercises I. 用所给单词的适当形式填空。

1. There are some _______ (bush) in our school.

2. Our English teacher told us to listen to the radio ________ (careful). 3. “Be

quick”, I said to ______ (my).

4. I found nothing in my school bag. I

knew there was something ________ (usual). 5. Yesterday I ______ (find) a little dog in my garden. 6. Just now Sandy ______ (hear) a whisper and she ____ (run) away quickly. II. 汉译英。

1. 像平时一样, 他早早来到了学校。

2. 小偷看到警察转身就跑。

3. 我确信我会学好英语的。

4. 不要忘了任何重要的东西。

5. 地上有个钱包。

Step 8 Homework

Retell the story.

Think about the problem that how we treat animals without homes.