Learning about Language课时教学实录

mUnit 5

Meeting your ancestors

教学设计-------Learning about Language

山西省沁县中学

张书江

设计意图

This is the second teaching period of this unit. The teacher can first check students’ homework and offer chances for students to review what they learned during the first period. The emphasis of this period will be placed on the important new words, expressions and sentence patterns in the parts Warming Up, Pre-reading, Reading and Comprehending. In order to make students understand these important points thoroughly, we can first get students to understand their meanings in the context, then give some explanations about them, later offer some practices to make students master their usages. Some new words and expressions, such as alternative analysis

must

ample

assume

look ahead regardless of

somehow

at most

fed up with cut up

date back to are very useful and important. So are the sentence patterns ，we ought to pay more attention to them. At the end of the class, the teacher can make students do more exercises for consolidation. In doing so, they can learn, grasp and use these important language points well.

教学重点

1.

Enable students to grasp the usages of such important new words and expressions

analysis

must

ample

assume

look ahead regardless of

somehow

at most

fed up with cut up

date back to

2. Get students to master the patterns “Can you think of the alternatives we would use today? You must be aware that it's here that we've found evidence .’

教学难点

1. Let students learn the usage of the expressions. 2. Enable students to learn the sentence pattern “The law requires equal treatment for

all, regardless of race, religion, or sex. ”

3. Get students to understand some difficult and long sentences.

三维目标

知识目标

1. Get students to learn and grasp the important useful new words and expressions in this part:

show sb. around

be/become aware of/that ... regardless of scare ... away

as well at most cut up 2. Let students learn the following important useful sentence patterns:So we think it is reasonable to assume they lived in these caves, regardless of the cold．

能力目标

1. Get students to use some useful new words and expressions correctly. 2. Enable students to make sentences after the useful sentence patterns. 情感目标

1. Stimulate students’ interest in learning English.

2. Develop students’ spirit of cooperation and teamwork.

教学步骤：

→Step 1 Revision

1. Check the homework exercises. 2. Ask some students to dictate some useful new words and expressions.

→Step 2 Vocabulary study

1. Let students review the new words and expressions in Warming up, Pre-reading, Reading and Comprehending and give time to students to ask their own questions. 2. Ask students to learn some new words using the word formation. 3. Explain some new key words and expressions. →Step 3 Practice for useful words and expressions

Let students do the following exercises and check the answers after most of them finish. 1. Find words and expressions that mean the same to fill in the blanks. 1)______________think or accept that sth. is true but without having proof of it 2)______________ sth. that is different from sth. else, especially from what is usual, 3)______________to pretend to have a different name or be someone you are not, or to express a feeling falsely

4)______________ the strong wish to know about something 5)______________ someone who buys things or services from a shop, company, etc. 6)______________ a particular quality that gives someone or something an advantage 2. Fill in the blanks with words from the left box and paraphrase the italicized parts using the phrases from the right box. 1. Trade between the two countries was

i___________ by the war. 2. My mother bought me a heavy _______(被子) for the winter yesterday. 3. The president was very much pleased

by your _______ (分析) of the situation. 4. You’ll have a_____ time for questions later. 5. _____________________ (交通因……受阻) by a dense fog (浓雾).

6. He continued speaking, _________________________________ (不顾及我在此

事上的感情). 7. It will take ________________ (最多两小时) to get there.

8. ________________ (把胡萝卜切碎) before you put them into the pot.

→Step 4 Sentence focus

Ask students to read through the Warming Up and Reading again to find out the difficult sentences they can’t understand and give time to students to ask their own questions. Explain them to the class. →Step 5 Workbook exercises for consolidation

Ask students to do the exercises in Using words and expressions on Pages 49-50 to consolidate what they have learned in this period. →Step 6 Homework

1. Learn the new words and expressions by heart. 2. Finish off the Workbook exercises. 3. Do Exercise 2 on Page 49 and Exercise 4 on Page 50 in the exercise book.

板书设计

Unit 5

Meeting your ancestors Learning about language:

Important vocabulary Sentence patterns

1.Can you think of the alternatives analysis

must

ample

assume

look we would use today?

ahead regardless of

somehow

at

2. You must be aware that it's here most

fed up with cut up

date back to

that we've found evidence

3. So we think it is reasonable to assume they lived in these caves, regardless of the cold．