Learning about Language主要内容及教案内容

Unit 3, Book8

Reading教学设计

广西岑溪市第二中学

侯文英

I.Teaching contents教学内容

Reading---Inventors and Inventions

II.教案背景

1、面向学生：高中

学科：英语

2、课时：1 3、学生课前准备：

（1）初读课文了解大意

（2）自学单词，读准单词，理解意思，知道目的。

III.教学设计思想：

新课改后，我们要从整体上认识教材，并用联系的观点分析教材。在理解的基础上读懂教材，通过反复阅读教材并查阅有关资料，了解全册教材编写的指导思想，主要特点，结构体例，掌握教材的知识体系，逻辑结构和编排意图，了解全册教材的所有知识点在各单元的分布情况，确定每个单元和每节课的教学目标，重点难点，建立起知识之间的联系。新课标要求教师备课的有效目标必须把握三维目标，即结果性目标（知识与技能）、程序性目标（过程与方法）、体验性目标（情感态度与价值观）。注重三维目标的互动整合，逐步形成素质。因此,教师的备课应体现学生全面和谐的发展，个性充分发展。教师的备课应体现学科特点，教师特色，要有利于教师的提高，有利于学生的发展。在新课程课堂上，师生间合作极其重要，没有合作就难以实施新课程。老师与学生一起交流，一起活动。合作意味着参与，一种师生间的共同体验，师生合作是一种人文关怀，在参与活动中与学生交流，老师在新课程课堂上角色应是平等的交流者，这样才能调动学生学习的积极性。新教材中话题、结构、功能的结合，使学生能在大量的语言实践中既学到了语言文化知识又了解了各国的风土人情，生活习惯。新教材更鼓励教师采用现代化的教学手段，利用现代化教学设备，创设合适的教学情景，使语言内容直观，学生易于学习，降低教学难度，激发学生学习热情和学习动机，吸引学生的注意力，激发学生学习英语的兴趣，从而帮助搞好自己的教学。同时在教学中注重学生自我探究，让学生充分发表自己的意见。对不同见解要充分尊重，对有创意的解答要肯定赞赏，鼓励学生质疑求新，培养学生的创造思维，激发学生的学习动机，培养他们的学习兴趣，建立一个接纳，支持宽松的课堂气忿，使学生会学，乐学。根据高中学生认知能力、情感态度的特点和国家对人才培养的需求，在义务教育英语课程学习的基础上，进一步发展学生的基本英语语言运用能力，着重提高学生用英语获取信息、处理信息、

分析问题和解决问题的能力，努力培养学生用英语进行思维和表达的能力，使每位高中学生都具有基本的英语语言素养，为将来发展和终身学***台和条件。

IV.教学内容分析：

本单元让学生更好的理解如何进行科学研究并申请获得专利的方法，使他们听、说、读、写都将得到训练和加强。而reading是本单元的重点,因此，我们要抓住文章的主线，从简单到复杂，从表层到深层，逐步深入进行。同时，在此基础上设计以如何进行科学研究并申请获得专利的方法，帮助学生对文章的主要内容进行梳理，达到对文章深层次理解的目的。

V.Teaching goals教学目标

1. Target language目标语言

（1）重点词汇和短语

patent, distinguish, product, power, perfume, cube, abrupt, abruptly, convenient, expectation, monitor, passive, criterion, valid, application, file, rod, call up, now and then, set about, in case （2）

重点句子

a. The first thing I did was to see if there were any products that might help me, but there only seemed to be powders designed to kill snakes.

b. Between the outside and the inside walls of the bowl there is some jelly, which freezes when cooled.

c. The criteria are so strict that it is difficult to get new ideas accepted unless they are truly novel.

d. Nor will you receive a patent until a search has been made to find out that your product really is different from everybody else’s.

2. Ability goals能力目标

Enable the students to describe the problem of the snakes and what has been done by the writer to solve the problem. Make them realize it takes steps to catch the snakes and it’s not easy to get a patent.

3. Learning ability goals 学能目标

Help the students to learn how to retell the story and how to meet the requirements of getting a patent.

VI.Teaching important points 教学重点

How to describe the problem of the snakes and what has been done by the writer to solve the problem.

VII. Teaching difficult points 教学难点

Learn how to meet the requirements of getting a patent.

VIII. Teaching methods 教学方法

Task-based activities.

IX.Teaching aids 教具准备

The multimedia teaching platform

X.Teaching procedures & ways教学过程与方式

Step Ⅰ Warming up

1.Show the students some pictures and ask them to tell whether they are inventions or discoveries. 2.Ask students to read the meaning of invention or discovery on the screen.

3.Ask students to say more important inventions of the 20th

century and tell which is the most important invention. 4.Ask students to say what are the stages every inventor must go through before they can have their invention approved. 1. Applying for a patent

（6）

2. Finding a problem

（1）

3. Doing research

（2）

4. Testing the solution

（4）

5. Thinking of a creative solution

（3）

6. Deciding on the invention

（5）

Step Ⅱ Reading

A.

Fast reading 1.Ask students to read the text carefully and get the main idea of the text. 2.Ask students to match the main idea with each part.

Part I (Para.1): the discovery of the problem of the snakes Part II (Para.2): Doing some research about the habits of snakes Part III (para. 3) Deciding on the solution Part IV (Paras.4-6): the attempts to catch the snakes Part V (Paras.7-8): the requirements of getting a patent 3.Help students read the text and put the given events in the correct order. A. I found that people used powders to kill snakes. B. I put the frozen bowl and the ice-cubes over the snakes’ habitat in the evening. C. We put the snakes back into the wild. D. The snakes made their home near the walnut tree. E. I tried to catch the snakes but they went into a hole. F. I used a net and caught the snakes. G. My mother called telling me about the snakes. H. I chose to catch the snakes by cooling them. （key:D→G→A→H→E→B→F→C）

B.

Careful reading 1.Read the text carefully and fill in the blanks （1）Finding a problem Snakes came near my mother’s house now and then and she wanted me to get rid of them without _______ them. （2）Doing research

I set out to research the _____ of snakes to find the easiest way to trap them.

（3）Thinking of a creative solution

Three possible approaches: ◆

removing the snakes’

______ ◆

attracting the snakes into a ____ using male or female perfume or food ◆

_______ the snakes so that they would become sleepy and could be easily caught I decided to use the _________ approach. （4）Testing the solution

Three attempts:

◆

putting the frozen bowl over the snakes’ habitat early in the morning ◆

putting the frozen bowl over the snakes’ habitat ____________ ◆

putting the frozen bowl over the snakes’ habitat in the evening and carrying a small ____ to collect them the next morning The third attempt was a success. （5）Applying for a ______

◆

The patent office makes a search to check that your product really is ________ from everyone else’s. ◆

Patent examiners examine whether your claim is _____ or not. ◆

Your application for a patent will be published ___ months from the date you apply if your claim passes all the tests.

2.Read the text carefully and choose the best answer. （1）How did the writer catch the snakes?

A. using something the snakes were interested to attract them into a trap.

B. taking their habitat to another place.

C. placing the snakes at a low temperature for them to sleep and then caught them.

D. All the above.

（2）The writer was successful to catch the snakes in ____ attempt.

A. the first

B. the second

C. the third

D. every （3）

The following are used in the three attempts EXCEPT ____.

A. perfume

B. a bowl

C. jelly

D. ice-cubes （4）Why did cooling the snakes make them less active?

A. Because snakes are warm-blooded animals. B. Because snakes like high temperature. C. Because snakes are reptiles(爬行动物) and their body temperature depends on the heat around them.

（5）Which of the following may get a patent according to the text? A. A computer programme.

B. A new animal variety. C. A work of literature.

D. A truly novel and useful invention. （6）

The purpose in writing this text is ___. A. to show us how to trap the snakes but not to kill them B. to tell people how to apply for a patent of the writer’s new idea C. to introduce the writer’s new idea of trapping the snakes and her

application for a patent D. to tell the readers how to get a new idea and make it a patent （7）The biggest advantage of the writer’s new idea is that ____. A. it makes the snakes move slowly

B. it makes the snakes hardly bite us C. it is easier for us to kill the snakes without hurting ourselves D. it is easier for us to catch the snakes without killing them （8）Which statement is true according to the text? A. The snakes were so sleepy in the second attempt that they couldn’t bite the

writer at all. B. Your product must be different from everybody else’s if you want to receive a patent. C. The writer decided to send her invention to

the patent office the moment she succeeded in catching the snakes. D. If an application for your product proves to be valid, you can get a patent immediately. 3.Read and answer the questions. （1）What was the mother upset about? （2）Why was the writer happy to help her mother? （3）Why did cooling make the snakes less active? Step 3. Post reading Look at the following problems in pairs. Choose one and use the scientific stages to design a new invention to solve it. Remember to include one change to your invention in case it doesn’t work the first time. Problem 1: the ripe apples on your apple tree are too high for you to reach. What can you invent to pick the apples in comfort? Problem 2: You need to make a house but you only have strings, glue, fishing nets and many plastic bottles. How can you solve it? Problem 3: You want to catch fish but not hurt them when you do so. Design a fishing rod that will solve this problem. Step 4. Homework Choose one of the problems above and write a passage about how you solve it.