Task(1): Writing an article about problems and solutions: Skills building 1 and 2精品学案

M6U2 Task Writing an article about problems and solutions教学设计

江苏省锡东高级中学

倪卓颖

【教材分析】

TASK板块是一个要求学生在课堂内进行的开放型、任务型活动的教学内容。本节课以帮助朋友解决困难为线索，让学生从倾听和阅读中判断负面情绪和发现问题，在讨论中寻找解决对策，同时学会采取把大问题分割成几个小问题的策略。在了解了给出解决问题方案的注意点后，学写一篇关于如何帮助他人解决问题的文章。通过一系列的听说活动，提高听力技巧，改善口语表达水平，培养学生发现问题、分析问题、讨论问题、解决问题的能力。

【设计思想】

本节课的设计立足于学生本身，把学生作为教学的主体，在这个过程中，教师扮演的是一个支持者、指导者的角色，负责引导学生在参与教师精心设计的任务型学习活动中认识语言、运用语言、发现问题、找出规律、归纳知识和感受成功。

【学情分析】

高二上学期，学生积累了一定的词汇量，对Task的学习要求和过程比较熟悉；大部分学生能积极主动地投入到课堂教学活动中，也善于和同学合作，但要自己独立完成最终的写作任务对学生来讲有一定的挑战性，需要教师的引导。

【教学目标】

1. Enable students to learn how to recognize words that express problems and find out the problems behind it. 2. Learn to break a big question into smaller ones to discuss and give advice to solve problems. 3.

Write an article about problems and solutions. 【教学重难点】

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Giving advice to solve problems 2.

Writing an article

【教学方法】

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探究引导策略：教师引导，培养学生自主合作探究学习的能力。

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建立小组讨论，交流，合作的课堂氛围。

【教学准备】

多媒体课件、录音机和学案

【教学过程】

Step.1 Lead-in I’m glad to give you a lesson here. Today, I bring a new friend for you. Where’s he? He is here. His name is Ma Jie. He is good at playing basketball and he is happy every day. But recently I have found he is a little bit different. Let’s look at the picture and pay attention to the change on his face. Can you use some adjectives to describe his feelings? 设计说明：以好友马杰情绪变化为出发点，以形容词为限定要求，导入情绪词汇，奠定本课时的基础语言知识方向。

Step.2 Recognizing words that express problems Ask students to go through skills building 1 on P.26 and find more suitable words or phrases

to describe Ma Jie’s feelings.

Skills building 1:recognizingwords that express problemsMa JieSkills building 1:recognizing words that express problemsMa JiePhrases

Judging from these words and phrases, we can see Ma Jie must meet a problem. But what is his problem? 设计说明：找出匹配于马杰情绪的英语短语，引导学生懂得貌似分马牛不相及的英语词汇中有许多表情绪语言的奥妙，因势利导，举一反三，使学生领悟和了解跨域文化背景的重要性和必要性。在以后的学习中，多去尝试与丰富自己的英语语言积累。

Step.3 Recognizing problems I found a letter on our school’s website. Let’s read the letter in Part A on page 26 and find out a topic sentence to describe his problem. 设计说明：操练学生快速阅读的能力，提炼主要内容，归纳马杰存在的主要问题，为后续的生成目标树立靶子。

If you were Ma Jie, what would you do to solve the problem?

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Try harder at everything 

Focus on school, play basketball at the weekend 

Quit basketball 

Study less 

Talk his parents and coach about what he is thinking 设计说明：顺水推舟，激发学生思维互动，发挥小组活动的合力，开启发散性思维，各抒己见，推出数种解决方案，以供下面环节的推敲。

Ma Jie has already thought of these solutions, but they didn’t work. Next, let’s listen to what he said and write down the reasons. 设计说明：峰回路转，马杰的问题似乎不是那么简单，他早已想到过这些解决方法，但是却屡不见效，这样就自然而然地需要学生去解决下一环节的问题，找出它们之所以无效的原因所在。

Step.4 Break a big question into smaller ones So far, we’ve known much about Ma Jie’s problem. How can we help him? You see this question is so big and complicated that you can’t answer it with one or two simple sentences. Therefore, we’d better discuss it together. First, let me help you break the big question into smaller ones. Q1. How can we help him? Q2. Do you think there is a solution? Q3. Is there a way to make everyone happy? sad/unhappy/upset/confused/ happydisappointedunder a black cloud心情不好/feel blue闷闷不乐/feel sad/unhappy/upset/confused/ stuck/caught between左右为难/in very low spirits情绪低落disappointedhappy

Q4. Is there a solution he has not tried? Q5. Why will that work?

Let’s answer these questions one by one. After that, you can find the solution easily. 设计说明：通过化整为零的方法分解一个复杂问题，将若干的小问题逐一解决，让学生找到一种处理类似问题的基本技巧，保持一种遇到问题“方法当先，分层解决”的良好心态。

Step.5 Discussing solutions Among the solutions we discussed just now, there is only one solution he hasn’t tried. That is to talk his parents and coach about what he is thinking. Why will that work? Please discuss with your partner.

设计说明：让学生分组讨论解决方法，能更明确、更具体地为写作部分做好准备。

Step.6 Presenting solutions Well done. Now are you clear about how to solve Ma Jie’s problem. Next, let’s present our solutions to help those who have similar problems. Go through skills building 3 on P.29 and remember a few points to make solutions clearer and more helpful to the people who need them.

Guidelines 1 avoid judging 3 be specific What to do Use ______________________ Be sure to say ________________________ Examples

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2 give examples Mention __________________________ 设计说明：表格化处理，匹配起来有条不紊，解决了学生整理思路时候容易出现疏漏细节、张冠李戴的通病，使得要点齐全，逻辑对应一一合理不遗漏。

Step.7 Writing an article 1. Discuss and list what should be written in an article about problems and solutions. 

Introduction

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Ma Jie’s problem

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Solutions he tried and the reasons why they didn’t work

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Your advice and the reasons why it will work 

Conclusion 设计说明：帮助学生理清写作的脉络，让他们更容易下手。

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Write an article about Ma Jie’s problem and solution. As high school students, we often try very hard to solve the problems we have by ourselves, and ____________________! However, it is often very hard for us to solve our problems alone. ____________________ turning to our parents and teachers for help? ______________________ my friend Ma Jie. This is _________________. Ma Jie’s problem is that _______________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________. Ma Jie tried some solutions, but they didn’t work. At first, he tried harder at everything, but he found _______________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________. One day, Ma Jie talked to me about his problem and asked me to help him. I suggested that ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________. Taking my advice, Ma Jie solved his problem soon. Now everyone is satisfied and happy.

From this we can see if we have problems, one common solution is that _________________ ___________________________________. In this way, we can find good solutions.

设计说明：给出范文，书写脉搏，为现有水平学生的有效模仿奠定基础，扬长补短，当然，对于书写水平相对优秀的学生，教师做到鼓励发挥优势，甚至树立学生范文机制，让其他学生有榜样可寻找，有目标可追赶。

Step.8 Homework Make the article perfect and put it on our school website. 设计说明：最后让学生课后将修改好的文章发到我校内网上与他人分享，使其更有成就感。

【反思】

这节课是本人在学校开的一节公开课，由于课时的需要，将本需2节课完成的内容浓缩到一节课中完成。本人在设计过程中做了大幅度的删减和调整。在此次的设计过程中，本人遇到许多困惑，尤其是在是否应遵行教材原有的教学内容和步骤进行教学这一问题上。和教科书上“Discussing solutions”环节本来是要求学生分角色讨论马杰的问题并最终找到最好的解决方案，即让马杰向他的父母和教练说出自己的想法，让父母和教练理解自己并找到适中可行地对三方都有利的解决方法。然而，分角色讨论在课上所耗费的时间过久，且Task部分本身内容多而课堂45分钟的时间相对于教学内容而言又过短。因而，经过再三考虑，本人将教学内容做了一些调整：由于马杰问题的方案就是马杰之前从未尝试过的一种方案，也是唯一的一种方案。既然如此，就没必要让学生兜圈子讨论出这一方案，而是由教师直接点出解决方案，再让学生讨论为什么这一方案切实可行。如此一来，既节约了时间又可把学生的关注点转移到寻找理由上，为后面的写作做好铺垫。