Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending优质课教案内容

Unit 4 Learning Efficiently The Second Period

Reading Teaching goals教学目标

Teaching aims: 1.

Enable the students to realize that different language learning strategies are taken by individuals. 2.

Introduce to the students several aspects of being a successful and efficient reader Teaching important points:

Get the students to know how to be a successful and efficient reader and work out a program to improve their reading. Teaching difficult points:

Enable the students to use the information mentioned in the reading part to evaluate their reading and work out an improvement strategic program. Teaching methods:

Cooperative learning, task-based learning Teaching aids:

A computer, a blackboard, a tape-record Teaching procedures: Step I

Show the teaching aims

Step II

Students learn the words in this unit by themselves.

Step III

Leading-in (discussion)

Talk about Gauss The teacher presents the famous example of Little Gauss and get the students to discuss this example and then brings up the topic “How to Learn Efficiently?”

1＋2＋3…＋100＝

? C.F. Gauss(高斯), the great German mathematician(数学家) worked out the problem with an easier method in a few seconds at the age of ten.

1＋100 ，

2＋

99，3＋98，……

49＋52，50＋51

altogether 50 pairs So : 101×50＝5050

Step IV

Pre-reading

Predict what the text will be about before reading. After writing “How to Learn Efficiently” on the blackboard, the teacher gets the students to

predict “What will the text say about reading”

to arise the students’

interest and desire to make further exploration.

Step V

While reading

1. Skimming The students read the text quickly and silently to conclude the main idea of each paragraph and understand the main idea. The teacher should give the students some guidance to help them use the proper skimming strategy. Answers: 1.

PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT 2.

MAKE YOUR RADING PRACTICE ENJOYBLE 3.

LEARN THE TECHINIQUES OF GOOD READERS a

Before reading in details, good readers preview the text. b

A good reader reads actively not passively. c

A good reader reads in different way depending on the purpose for reading. d

A good reader doesn’t need to understand every word in a text.

4.

SUMMARY 2. Scanning The students read the text again, based on what they have known of the whole passage, to obtain required specific information. The teacher gives some guidance on how to focus on what is necessary information, and ignore what is unnecessary information.

Read the text and answer: 1) Which statement is NOT TRUE according to the passage? A. To read the first page is one way to test whether a text is at the right level to you. B. Reading techniques are up to you, so it isn’t necessary to read as good readers do.

C. A good reader doesn’t need to understand every word in a text.

D. Before reading in detail, good readers preview the text. 2) There are many pre-reading activities before many of the reading texts in Student’s Book. The reason is ________. A. to let you know about the subject or the organization of the text. B. to ask you to recall your knowledge about the subject. C. to teach you some of the new words you will find in the text. D. to ask you to glance at the way the text is organized. 3) What is the primary purpose of this passage? _____________________________________________________________________ 4) What does “It” refer to in the sentence “It is the same with reading”?

_____________________________________________________________________ 5) According to the author, how to become a successful reader? _____________________________________________________________________ Answers: 1) B

2) A

3) to tell us how to practice reading using right techniques 4) If your reading technique was all wrong, even if you practised for a long time, you would probably never become really good at it.

Step VI

Post reading

The students read the text again and answer these questions in groups and voice their opinions bravely.

1) Why does the writer repeat the word “practice” many times in the text?

2) Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one? …in spite that natural talent is also of importance to great achievements, anyone’s performance will benefit from his correct techniques and practising.

3) What do you think is the most important to improve your reading ability? Why?

Answers: 1) To emphasize the importance of practise. 2) Natural talent also plays a part in high achievement, but learning the correct techniques and then practising them will improve anyone’s performance.

3) The answers vary.

Step VII

Exercise The students fill in the blanks with words from the text and they can go back to the text again if necessary. Complete the following passage according to the text.

People agree that the best way to improve any skill is to practise, practise and practise. 1.________ if you want to improve your reading , you need plenty of practice. However, 2._________ correct techniques, practice makes no sense. Then how can you become a successful reader? You should choose proper reading materials, not too difficult or too 3.__________. Before 4._________ (read) a passage, you’d better do some pre-reading activities in order to know something about the subject, 5._________ will better your understanding. While reading, you should think 6._________ the content 7.__________ ask questions in your head. You should 8.__________ use different ways to read different types of texts for 9.__________ purposes. In a word, we can improve our reading as long as we keep on practising reading, 10__________ (use) right techniques. Answers: 1. So

2. without

3. easy

4. reading

5. which 6. about

7. and

8. also

9. different

10. using

Step VIII

Summary and homework

(1)

Help students conclude what they have learned in this period. (2)

Students write a article about “How to be an efficient listener?”