Unit Diary第二课时教学实录

高二英语备课组区级研究课

——授课教师：李悦

A Father and a Son教学设计

一、教材分析

本文文本是美国新闻记者Bob Greene（1947- ）所写的一篇题为A Father and a Son夹叙夹议的杂文。文章由叙事和作者评述构成。故事讲述了一个周六清晨，一对并不富有的黑人父子在亚特兰大机场来回乘坐免费机场区间列车、以此为乐。这对父子的快乐与冰冷默然的周围环境形成鲜明对比，打动了作者，引发了作者对当今美国社会中教育问题的联想和忧虑，他从这对快乐的父子身上找到了答案，即父母的爱、关怀和陪伴才是对孩子最好的教育，这也是文章的主旨。

文章故事叙述部分讲述的是父母与孩子生活中的点滴，语言简单直白，学生对此话题的已有知识经验比较充分；作者的评述部分穿插在故事中，生词较集中且语言深刻，不易理解，学生难以产生深度领悟，无法产生强烈共鸣。因此，整篇文章的总体理解难度偏高，对学生有一定挑战性。但正是因为作者由所见所闻到所思所想的审辨式思考，和文章情感的步步升华，大大增强了文章的可读性，是一篇可以借以构造立体阅读空间、培养读者语言能力和思维品质的文本。

二、学情分析

本节研究课的授课对象是高二学生，学生具有一定的语言知识和语言能力，能够读懂故事，但对评述部分的深度领悟需要在教师指导下达成。

就文本而言，故事中的主人公——一对黑人父子，有美国种族问题(racial distinction)这一社会背景的烙印可能会阻碍学生对文本的把握。因此本次课堂中设计者将将主人公的头像用电影The Pursuit of Happiness（《当幸福来敲门》）中的黑人父子的头像代替，帮助学生更好地理解文本中的人物形象。

本篇文本中的生词障碍如下：涉及相关背景知识的有racial distinction；与区间列车相关的词汇有terminal, shuttle；其余是涉及情感表达的sterile, impersonal, mock-exasperated；以及与社会问题相关的rotten, vile, obscenities。

对于不同类别的生词，或是补充背景材料，或是引导学生猜测词义，或是补充注释，设计者将在课堂中予以不同程度的处理。

三、教学目标

通过学习本课，学生能够：1.理解故事叙述部分及其语言；2.就叙述部分的文字和个人认知和经历，探索文章主题；3理解故事评述部分及作者的意图。

四、教学重点和难点

1.通过查找文本线索来探索文章主题；2.在集体阅读活动中习得语言知识和思想观念。

五、教学过程

教学步骤

Step 1 Warm up 师生活动

T: Can you predict what we are going to talk about today? 设计意图

课前播放一系列父子照片，教师提问，学生预测。师生对话：

引入主题

(1)

Ss: Family/Kinship/Father and son/ Parents/Love/Father’s Love... T:Good for you! Today we are going to learn a story about a father and a son. Step 2 1st-reading (5minutes)

Step 3 学生第一遍阅读故事，教师发问，学生寻找故事的四要素：时间、地点、人物、事件。

Q1: What’s the key elements of a story? Q2: What is a shuttle train? 帮助学生熟悉故事情节，引出生词shuttle, terminal, sterile和impersonal。

层思维能力，引导在提问与思考中理解文章主旨。

从故事的表层信息入手，剖析主人公认为“乘坐区间列车有意思”背后的原因，为把握文章主旨做铺垫。

1.学生第二遍阅读故事，每个同学提出一个关于文章的问题。

培养学生的语言和深2nd-reading 2.两人一组交流，相互提问回答。

(30minutes)

3学生提问全班。

学生可能涉及的问题如下：

Para1

Q:Where did the laughter come from? A:The father and the son. Q:Why did the father and the son laugh? A:Because they were happy. Q: Why were they so happy? A:Because they enjoy the riding. Q:Why did the boy consider the shuttle train fun? A:First, he is just five years old. For a little kid, he might not see the airport, the plane or the pilot before. Second, from the story, we can see the father and the son is not rich for they dressed in clothes that were just about as in expensive as you can buy. It is supposed that the father couldn’t afford to send his son to Disneyland which needs lots of money. Therefore, riding the shuttle may the only fun they can enjoy which doesn’t cost a cent. 追问：

Q:Can you find some sentences that show the son enjoy the riding?

A:…on this Saturday I heard laughter./…sounds of pure delight

…stretched his neck to look/“I want to ride some more.”/“This is fun.”/…the boy laughed again. Q:What did the boy enjoy?

A:He enjoyed looking everything new to him.

Q:What do you think of this boy?

A: He is curious and innocent who just think everything is fun.

He is happy in his simple and pure world. (That’s a good point of being a child./What a wonderful thing of being a child forever.) Q:Do you consider riding the shuttle back and forth fun? Why? A:Definitely no. Because as an adult, he may ride the shuttle before. Besides, it is just a means of transportation to go to the airport. Maybe you will feel it tired to have a long journey by train.

Para3

Q:How old is the son? A:Five years old. 追问：

Q:When you are five years old, what did you find most interesting? A:Of course not riding the shuttle.

Para4

Q:How do they look? What can you tell form their looks? in expensive as you can buy. We can predict they may be poor and have no money.

追问：

Q:Although they were black and they were not rich, they were happy! What can you conclude? A:We can conclude that happiness doesn’t depend on how much money you have. A millionaire also has his trouble. The fisherman who has nothing but just lying on the beach enjoying the sun is happy. Para6 Para7 Q: Why did the author go back? A:He had forgotten to buy something in the terminal. Q: Why did the father and his son return? A:They hadn’t been heading for a flight, but just been riding the shuttle. Para8-11 Q: Did the father enjoy riding the shuttle with his son? A: Yes. He laughted./ He is mock-exasperated but clearly pleased. 追问：

Q:Do you think the father will consider the shuttle fun？Why did he still have fun with the riding?What did he really 体会父亲这一主人公的特点，从人物剖析过程中，体会能花时间陪伴自己的孩子的父爱的伟大，进一步为学生把握主旨做铺

从字里行间，分析故一：幸福快乐与金钱无关。

A:They were black and dressed in clothes that were just about as 事所蕴含的哲理之联系学生实际生活，帮助学生体会儿子这一主人公的角色特点。

enjoy? A:Of course no.(All of you shake your heads). Maybe he had riden it before, but now he thought it was fun because his son thought it was fun. As a father, if his son is happy, he will be happy, too. He enjoy the time/company with his son. (That is why he was trying so hard to make it fun.)

Q:How did the father make the riding process fun? A:First, he made it fun by pointing something and explain them to his son./Pointing something out to make his son curious. Second, the father follow his son’s ideas and didn’t let his son down/disappointed.When the son said he wanted to ride some more, the father feel mock-exasperated. It means that he pretended to be angry, but clearly pleased. Q:What do you think about this father?

A: He is a wonderful father who spent more time with his son instead of busing with his work. That’s the way to be a wonderful father. Para12-15 Q:Compared with the father and the son, there are other people on the shuttle, what do you think those people? A:They were rich and enjoyed better life. Besides, they might not talk with each other on the shuttle. Because in paragraph 1,the author wrote the shuttle is sterile and impersonal. Impersonal means indifferent.

追问：

Q: Why do you think so? A:First, they were white. Second, they were well-dressed for business trips or vacations.

Q:You believe these people might be busy with their business, so what kind of parents they might be? A:. They want to earn more money and want their children to be better educated. However, they may spend little time with their children. It is not good I think. Their children might not have happiness. 追问：

Q: Are there any evidence in the story?

垫。

分析文章触及的社会背景和作者评论，发散学生思维，锻炼深入思考的能力。

A: In paragraph12, “there are parents who can afford to send their children to Europe or Disneyland, and the children turn out rotten....Rich and poor, ... so much goes wrong so often.”

Q:Let’s talk more about their kids. With the rich guys who is only busy making money being the parents, what their children can be? A:1.the children may be cold and don’t want to communicate with others because they have much money. They look like very fashion. So they don’t what to make friends with others. 2.Without the company with parents, children may feel lonely. They will not feel happy. 3.Children may be unable to control themselves or resist the temptation. As the author said they may turn rotten. Q:Can you find some examples in the story? A:In paragraph 15, “crime, the murderous soullessness, the lowering of educational standards, the increase in vile obscenities in public, the disappearance of simple civility.”

Q:Why the author write so much about the troubles in this country? Does it have any relationship with the simple happy father and son? A:It is a contrast. Although a person lives in a society that may have so many problems, whether he is happy or not depends on the person’s heart. Just like the saying goes:“If you got your heart full with sunshine , the world of you will also be filled with sunshine.” Therefore, happiness is in our heart. Life can be difficult, but if we are optimistic enough, we are the happiest in the world. It has nothing to do with money. Para16

Q: As parents, how to prevent their children becoming rotten? What’s your answer? A:Parents should care more about their children and pay more attention to their growth. Parents should give their children more spiritual care than material things. For example, they should spend more time with their children rather than give them much money and leave their children alone.

Parents should know what their children really think in their minds and help them solve the problems in their heart. In a 探寻文章主旨，通过代词it的所指的询问再次使学生深刻领会主旨。

word, parents should help their children grow, especially in difficulties.

T:That is exactly the author’s answer. “Parents who care enough to spend time and to pay attention and to try their best. It doesn’t cost a cent, yet it is the most valuable thing in the world.”

追问：

Q:What does “it”refer to? A:love/care/company... Step4 Summary (3minutes)

Q:What did you learn from this story? A:Parents’ company is very important for a happy child./More money doesn’t means more happiness. “It can buy you books but not knowledge.It can buy you medicine but not health.It can buy you a house but not a home”

Step5 Homework (1minutes)

Blackboard

A Father and a Son design

when: on Saturday morning

theme:

where: Atlanta airport

parents’ company

story

who: a father and a son

happiness VS money

what: riding a shuttle

sterile

impersonal

terminal

六、教学反思

本次课经过了试讲后调整为启发学生主动发问，将课堂放开，培养和锻炼学生的思维能力和品质。授课对象是文科重点班学生。课堂上学生较为积极活跃，基本达成教学目标，但还存在一定问题，下面围绕几个重点方面就本课进行总结反思。

第一，课堂上教师要足够有底气，展示给学生和在场所有听课教师非常自信的一面。发散性思维，学生自主发问确实对教师是一个挑战，但在做足充分准备的情况下，教师应相信自己以丰富的阅历和人生体验足以应对学生的思维，并引导学生向主题方向挖掘，一般情况下能较好地达成教学目标，因此无需紧张，教态要更加自如。

第二，整体自主发问的设计形式是亮点，但在操作上的细节需要更加高效和流畅。首先，给足学生时间自己阅读并思考问题，每位同学将问题写到卡纸上，大概7分钟左右；然后2人一组问答，2分钟左右；接着，由教师选择有代表性的问题贴到黑板上或是用卡纸在展台上上进行展示，这样节约

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了学生先探讨谁的问题有代表性，再进行推荐的时间。

第三，好的问题必须是基于文本，能引导学生再读文本的问题。例如：学生提问，为什么孩子觉得做区间列车有意思？学生发表自己的观点：孩子家庭贫困。此时，教师可以追问，How do you know that？（你是怎么知道的），引导学生从文中寻找线索，如孩子穿的衣服便宜；找到线索后，再回归思考，是不是穿的衣服便宜就说明他们家境不好呢？引导学生思考社会背景，这对父子是黑人父子，社会地位底下。

第四，问题发散后，或是对学生进行德育，或是引导学生回归主题，总之，一定要能够收回。

第五，学生最后学到了什么，产出一定应基于本节课所学，而不应设计过于宽泛的问题，那样学生本节课所学会没有用武之地，久而久之学生会失去学习的信心和热情。

第六，教师的语言有示范性，还是应该准确再准确，对学生语言严谨性也应有一定要求，用重述给予示范。