Reading 1: The ghost in the park名师教学设计

Unit 5 Amazing things

Reading

郭俊瑜

Teaching aims Knowledge aims: To predict meaning of specific words from context. To practice the main language points of the context. Ability aims:

To identify specific meaning by scanning the text.

To summarize key points of a story by sequencing statements.

To identify key events and infer general meaning. Emotion aims: To let the students know there are no ghosts in the world. Important and difficult points 1. The simple past tense 2. Some useful phrases

Teaching method

Audio-visual method, interactive method Teaching aid

Multimedia Courseware Teaching procedures

Step one- Lead in

1. To revise yesterday’s dialogue by talking about the amazing pictures with several sentence patterns. Try to make the students familiar with some words and structures. 2. Revise some words by asking the students choose the correct meanings of some words.

Step two- Presentation Listen to the tape and ask the students to answer the following questions 1. Did Millie and Amy go to Sunshine Park one Sunday morning? 2. Did they hear a song from the bushes behind the tree? 3. Who did they meet on their way? 4. What did Andy find in the bushes? Step three-outline

Fill in the blanks with the information learned

When

Where Who What How

Step Four --details

Read the text carefully and answer some questions on details. 1. Why were Millie and Amy frightened?

They heard a whisper from the bushes behind the tree. 2. Who did they meet on their way home?

They met Andy. 3. Where did Andy find the “ghost”?

In the bushes.

How did he find it?

He searched the bushes and found it. 4. Why did the cat sound like a ghost?

Because it was very weak. 5. Where did they take the cat?

They took it to the animal centre. 6. Do you think there are ghosts in the real life? Step Five –put them in a correct order Millie wrote some sentences about what happened, but they were not in the correct order. Help her put the sentences into the correct order. Write the numbers 1-7 in the boxes. Step Six—True or false Millie is telling her friend Wendy on the phone about what happened in the park, but Wendy can’t hear her clearly. Write a T if a sentence is true or F if it is false. Step Seven—act out

Finish the dialogue between Henry and Andy

Step Eight --explain some important language points 1）

They turned around but saw nothing.

turn around意为“回头，转回身”。

e.g. We turned around and saw a big birthday cake.

我们回头看见一个大的生日蛋糕。

2）on their way home 在他们回家的路上

on one’s way to sp. 译为“在某人去……的

路上”。home是副词，前面不需要加介词，如果后面跟的是名词需要加介词to。

3）search the bushes

搜寻, 搜查

search是及物动词，后面可以直接跟宾语。

如，search the room

search my schoolbag

如果表示目的，强调为了……而搜寻，则可以在名词前加上介词

for。

如，search for more information(为了更多的信息而搜寻)，search for the lost boy(为了丢失的男孩儿搜寻)。

4）say to oneself 自言自语

think to oneself 暗自寻思, 心里想

e.g.

这个老人自言自语说:“我是多么幸运啊!”

The old man said to himself, “how lucky I am!”

Millie自言自语道: “我再也不怕狗了。”

Millie said to herself, “I’m not afraid of animals any more.”

5）sound like 听起来像

e.g. 这首歌很好听。

The song sounds good.

这个低语声听起来像鬼。

The whisper sounds like a ghost.

苏州听起来像是一个很棒的城市。

Suzhou sounds like a great place. 6）Later that day, they took the little cat to the animal centre.

take sb. / sth. to some place意为“把某人/某物带到某处”。

e.g. I will take my son to France tomorrow.

明天我将带我儿子去法国。

Would you like to help the teacher take the books to the office?

帮老师把书送到办公室, 好吗？

Step Nine -retell the story Fill in the blanks to retell the story. Let them pay attention to the tense of the verbs and encourage the students to tell a story in their own words Step Ten--- Exercises Step Eleven --Homework 1.

Recite the text 2.

Retell the story in your own words and write it down or write about your own story