Lesson 3 Nine to Five公开课参赛课教案

Senior High English Module5 Unit 14 Lesson 3 Nine to five

The Road to Success

1. Analysis of teaching materials

The theme of this text is “The Road to Success”, representing Wang Junyan's success. The curiosity, diligence and

commitment to the truth are the basement of her success. In this lesson, the students can not only know the way of Wang Junyan’s success, but also have a determination of their own learning and daily life by reading this text. Moreover, students should develop positive values about success after reading Wang Junyan’s story.

2. Analysis of students This lesson is designed for students of high school. Since they learned English as second language for some years, they have accumulated a certain amount of vocabulary and established a certain capacity of language organization. They have some knowledge of reading, speaking, listening and writing skills; all of these have laid the foundations for learning this lesson.

However, studying at high school, students will need to develop more independence and learning skills instead of waiting to be told what to do by teachers. And in this class, students should also improve their reading abilities by using scanning and skimming strategies.

3. Teaching objectives (1) Moral aims Carry out moral education by the story of Wang Junyan and help students develop positive values about success. (2) Ability aims 1) To develop strategies for working out meanings from the context 2) To practice extensive and intensive reading skills 3) To use the task-based Language Learning, let students improve their language expression ability (3) Knowledge aims Key words: grasp, inspect, pay off, beneath, glory

4. Learning focus (1) How to guess the meanings of words according to the context;

(2) Cultivate the students’ reading ability: fast reading: to get the main idea of the whole text careful reading: to find out the detailed information of the text

(3) Guide the students to form correct and positive attitudes towards “success”

5. Teaching approaches

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Task-based Language Teaching, scanning, skimming

6. Teaching aids

Multi-media

7. Teaching procedures Step 1. Warm-up

Greetings and lead-in

1) First I’d like to show some pictures of people which are familiar to the students. Then I’ll guide the students to find out their common points —

famous and successful

2) Today’s story is about another successful person

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Wang Junyan. She talked her successful experience in an interview and I’m sure that students will learn something from her. 【设计说明】通过观看图片激发学生学习的兴趣与参与活动的热情，创造轻松愉快的课堂氛围，并自然地引出话题。

Step 2. Fast-reading Read for general idea Ask the students to read the passage as quickly as they can, then choose the main idea of each paragraph: Para1

Wang Junyan won an award for her report. Para2

Wang Junyan’s feelings about being a reporter Para3

Brief introduction of Wang Junyan Para4

Mother’s influence on Wang Junyan Para5

The reason why Wang Junyan chose to be a journalist 【设计说明】要求学生快速浏览全文并理解文章的结构层次、归纳文章段落中心，可以使他们理清文章脉络获得对文章的整体印象，也可以有效提高学生的阅读能力。这部分设置使用配对的形式，相对降低了活动难度，以培养大部分学生学习与运用英语的信心。

Step 3. Words guessing Guess the meanings of some key words chosen from the text.

I put the key words into sentences which describe some careers, and it will help the students understand the meanings easily. 1) Students: The teacher speaks so quickly that I can’t grasp the importance of his words. grasp:

to understand something completely 2) Policemen: “My job is to inspect all streets in this district every day; I need to keep an eye on one or two thieves.”

inspect: to look at something or someone carefully

3) Firefighters: “When we got to the house, it was very dangerous. Luckily, we found the little baby beneath a big desk. She was sleeping on the floor.”

beneath:

in or to a lower position than sb/ sth, under sb/ sth 4) Musicians: All his hard work paid off in the end, and he finally

became a well-known pianist.

pay off:

to be successful and bring good results 5) A football player: He celebrated the glory of scoring three goals in the final 8 minutes. glory: fame, praise or honor that is given to somebody

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【设计说明】在语境中理解单词，可培养学生快速理解关键词，同时加强学生对单词的记忆。此外，关键词的掌握能帮助学生更好理解课文。

Step 4. Careful-reading

Read the text quickly and answer some questions about the text. 1) In Wang’s opinion, what made her a success?

2) What did Wang Junyan do with her mother that taught her to be curious? 3) What special moment made Wang Junyan realize the importance of being a journalist? 4) What does Wang Junyan like most about being a reporter? 5) What does Wang Junyan’s story tell you about success?

【设计说明】此处问答设置不仅围绕文章的细节，更涉及全文的主旨。通过让学生仔细阅读每一段并回答与每段相关的问题，帮助学生深入理解课文内容。与此同时锻炼学生的阅读能力，提高他们的综合理解能力。

Step 5. Interview Ask students to think of successful persons in their class and then invite three of them to the front. Next, divide the rest into some groups and the group leaders can ask the three students questions on behalf of their groups.

【设计说明】本文使用采访题材是为语法学习服务，此处设计采访这一环节为下节课的学习作铺垫。选用学生心目中最成功的同学作为被采访象，不仅能调动学生参与的积极性，更能让他们学习身边人的成功经验。

Step 6. Appreciation

1) Watch a short video clip about a famous athlete and ask the students whether he can be called a success.

2) Share two sayings about success with the whole class. ☆

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. ---- A. Einstein ☆ Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.

----David Frost

【设计说明】成功固然是每个人梦寐以求的，但并不是每个人都能如愿以偿。我们应该对成功一词有正确的定义，尤其是对于高中生，要正确树立他们的价值观。拓展学生的课外知识，进行进一步的情感教育。

Step7. Homework 1) Review new words and read the text after class. 2) Write a short passage about the person who you admire most and why. 【设计说明】课后复习非常重要，适当的家庭作业是帮助学生巩固所学内容。

Step 8. Teaching reflections

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