Unit 2 Great minds获奖说课稿

Unit Two Great minds

Period One: Reading Teaching Objectives: 1.

To get to know the meaning of the title Great Minds. 2.

To get to know the difference between fiction and non-fiction. 3.

To pay attention to signal words, such as however, but, then, always, one morning/afternoon/evening and later. 4.

To practice reading with who, what, when, where, why and how questions in mind.

Teaching procedure: Before-reading 1.

Students are asked to read the title Great minds and guess what the title means, especially the word mind in the title. 2.

Students are asked to tell the difference between fiction and non-fiction. 

The definition of fiction and non-fiction. 

Students are shown pictures of some persons and are asked to fulfill the following tasks: (1)

decide who the person is (2)

tell whether he/she is a fictional character or a non-fictional character (3)

describe the person by using a relative clause.

The first has been done for them. e.g. Albert Einstein is a non-fictional character who put forward the theory of relativity

While-reading 1.

Skimming Students are asked to read the title, sub-title, and the pictures of the story and predict what will happen in the story. 

What kind of person can be called a genius? 

What do you suppose might happen when two geniuses meet? 

What are the people doing in the picture? 

Who is delivering a speech in Picture Two? 

Is there any difference between Picture One and Picture Three? 

Why do you think they changed seats?

2.

Students are asked to read the text and find out the who, when, where, what, why and how

of the story. 3.

Introduce the strategy to students.

Ask them to look for singal words which can help them understand the flow of the passage. 4.

Have students underline the important verbs which describe what Einstein and Hans did.

Post-reading Students are asked to retell the story by referring to the important verbs on the blackboard. Opening:

regard … as, lead to, used to say, it’s a pleasure to …

Development: I wish I didn’t …, let sb. down, learn it by heart, changed places, give his lecture, be in trouble,

Ending: offer to …, it’s a pleasure to …

Assignments 1.

Read the story again. 2.

Complete exercise E1 and E2 on P21/ 3.

Retell the story.