Unit 2 Great minds教学设计及教案分析

Two Geniuses （Unit Two , Reading , S1B Oxford English）

Xu Yun [Teaching Objective] At the end of the class, students will be able to

1. Read a legend about Albert Einstein in a magazine to learn of his wisdom and humour in another culture. 2. improve reading comprehension ability such as predicting, finding details including who, when, what, where, why, how questions as well as how the plot develops through a variety of activities 3. express their own ideas about the characters or personalities geniuses have. 4. understand the great minds are ordinary people in many respects, and that ordinary people can be great minds on some occasions. [Focuses and Difficulties] 1.Understand wisdom and humour from another culture. 2.understand the great minds are ordinary people in many respects, and that ordinary people can be great minds on some occasions [Teaching Method] Communicative Method; Situational Approach [Teaching Aid]

PPT, blackboard, textbook [Teaching Procedure] Stages Lead-in Teacher’s Activities

Students’ Activities

Teaching Aims 1. Start with a guessing game, 1. Guess the famous 1. To arouse students’

ask students to guess the people through the given interest in this topic famous people or characters pictures and descriptions

with reference to the descriptions. 2. Explain the difference Make a difference

2. To learn the difference between fiction and between fiction and between fiction and non-fiction to students. non-fictions and then non-fiction recognize whether a story or character belongs to a fiction or non-fiction. 3. Introduce Einstein to 3. Learn about Einstein Students. 3. To introduce Einstein. While- reading 1. Guide students to skim the 1. Predict what the story is 1. To predict how the story passage and finish exercises telling about by looking at develops and what kind of pictures as well as the first story it is. and last paragraphs and

make a judgment whether

the story is a fiction or non-fiction. 2.

Guide students to complete various kinds of tasks by going through the passage respectively.

2. Scanning: a. Go through the first paragraph and find out proper words to replace b. Go through the second paragraph and find out Einstein’s characters shown in the story. c. Go through the third paragraph and answer questions about the two geniuses. d. Go through 4-10 paragraphs and fill in the charts about “who, when, where, what, why, how” questions. After that, put the events in order according to the story. 2. To obtain detailed information by scanning and learn how the story develops. 3. Ask students to do some 3. Analyze the same two further exercises according to sentences which appear in the story. different places in the passage. Post- reading Group Discussion: choose one topic and state own opinions with reference to the structure form and given sentence patterns. 3. To review and consolidate what students have learnt about the passage. Work in groups to To encourage students to introduce one place and express their own opinions. state their own opinions and ideas. Assignment Blackboard design

Recite the passage.

To practice their oral English and develop their sense of mastering English

U2 Two Geniuses

Definitions of a genius

(list students’ descriptions)