Reading and speaking优秀教学设计

Reading Practice

四川省盐亭中学

陈贵兵

I. Teaching goals: 1.

To understand the real purpose of reading 2.

To understand the passage completely

3.

To retell the passage with the key words and pictures 4.

To make the students realize the best way to keep love is to give it freedom 5.

To write a composition entitled Our Limited Freedom

II. Teaching key points

Making the students get to understand the passage completely, retell the story and write a related composition entitled Our Limited Freedom

Teaching the hard points

Retelling the story in one’s own words and writing a related composition entitled Our Limited Freedom

III. Teaching aids Multimedia equipment, PPT, chalk, blackboard, and handout

IV. Teaching methods Lecturing, Group Discussing, Modelling, Audi-visual approach, Drilling, Reading in unison V. Teaching procedure Step 1 Pre-reading 1. Warming–up

Get refreshed!

Let’s play a game--- “Do What I Say”

Stand on one foot!

Hop on one foot !

Stamp your feet! Flap your arms !

Pat your head ! 2. A question: When you find two very hungry and weak birds, what will you do? Step 2 While-reading 1. Read the passage quickly to get the answers to the questions.A. How did the girl kill the larger bird?

B. What did the girl realize? 2. Do the following matching exercise.

1. fly very high in the air

A. songbird 2. a bird that has a musical call

B. grasp 3. hold tightly in the hand

C. capture 4. catch

D. starving 5. doing anything without worrying about danger to yourself or others

E. toss

6. throw up into the air

F. soar 7. feeling very hungry

G. cage 8. something like a box in which animals or birds are kept

H. desperate 9. weak

I. limp 10. a feeling of great fear

J. melody 11. music

K. horror

3. Finish the following exercises as quickly as possible.

1. The girl loved the two birds very much because

. A. they greeted her every morning

B. they didn’t eat much food

C. they liked staying in the cage quietly

D. they were hungry but very strong 2. One day the girl forgot to close the door to the cage and

of the two birds flew out of the cage.

A. the sick

B. the female

C. the larger and stronger

D. the white and blue 3. The girl held the bird tightly in her hand because she was afraid that

.

A. it would be killed

B. it was feeling cold

C. the other bird felt lonely

D. it would fly away 4. The girl felt that the other bird

when it was jumping in the cage.

A. wanted to see what happened

B. wanted to be free

C. wanted to sing a beautiful song again

D. wanted to eat something 5. What does the story want to tell us?

A. To keep love is to let it fly.

B. The cage is used to keep birds.

C. The birds are easily killed.

D. We should protect the endangered birds.

4. Retell the story with the key words and pictures. in the woods

in a small cage

walking, found

took,

put, cared, (grew), (greeted), loved

in the sky in her hand

left, (flew from), frightened, (flew close),

noticed, could feel, lifted, tossed, (circled),

grasped, felt glad, opened, stared, killed,

watched, wanted, (flew closer), (landed), (sang), realized One day, while she was walking in the

, a girl found two

songbirds. She took them home and put them in a small

. She

them with love and the birds grew strong. Every morning they

her with a wonderful song. The girl felt great

for the birds.

One day the girl left the door to the cage

. The larger and stronger of the two birds

from the cage. The girl was so

that he would fly away. As he flew close, she

him wildly. Her heart felt glad at her success in

him. Suddenly she felt the bird go

. She opened her hand and stared in

at the dead bird. Her

love had killed him.

She

the other bird moving back and forth on the edge of the cage. She could feel his great need for

. He needed to

into the clear, blue sky. She

him from the cage and

him softly into the air. The bird

once, twice, three times.

The girl watched

at the bird's enjoyment. Her heart was no longer concerned with her

. She wanted the bird to be happy. Suddenly the bird flew

and landed softly on her shoulder. It sang the sweetest

that she had ever heard.

She finally

that the fastest way to lose love is to hold on it too tight, the best way to keep love is to give it

!

5. What can we learn from the passage? woods →

free

starving cage →

imprisoned

sad hand →

dead

sky →

free

happy →

Conclusion If we really love someone, we should give him/her freedom. Otherwise, the love will die in the blink of an eye. 6. Have a competition: give a proper title for the passage.

Step 3 Post-reading

Do we have the same freedom as the bird’s?

Step 4 Assignment

Write down what you have discussed in Step 3 under the title of Our Limited Freedom in about 100 words.

Paving Words harm, do good to, obey, laws, school regulations, social moralities(社会公德), respect, get along well with, enjoy the freedom，…

Our Limited Freedom

As we know, freedom doesn’t mean that you can do whatever you like.

.

. in the sky

in our society