Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending教学设计实例

The Teaching Plan for Unit 4 Reading: How Life Began on the Earth ----by Sun Hongyan from Wenchang High School Teaching objectives: At the end of this class, the Ss will be able to:

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get information from the text by skimming and scanning. 2.

summarize the main idea for each para. 3.

be aware of the evolution of life on the earth. Teaching focus and difficulty: Retell the evolution of life on the earth. Teaching procedures: Stages Step 1

Lead in

Teacher’s activities purposes 1.

Show Ss the picture of solar system and To warm up and have them name out the planets. lead in the topic. 2.

Q:Do you know why Pluto is no longer considered a planet? 3.

Q:So far, life hasn’t been discovered on other planets. Why is the earth different from them? Para.3 1.

Q: What’s the function of water?

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Q: Why is there no life on the Mars? 3.

Have Ss summarize the main idea. To make Ss know the importance of water.

Step 2 Text analysis

Para.1 To make Ss know 1.

Q: Do you know exactly how the about the Big Bang universe began? Theory. 2.

Have Ss find out the information about the Big Bang Theory. 3.

Help Ss to get the main idea. Para.2 To make Ss know 1.

A series of questions: about the formation What was the earth like after the Big Bang? of the earth. When did the Earth become a solid globe? What happened at that time? What was formed later? 2.

Show Ss some pictures to review the process of the formation of the earth. 3.

Have Ss summarize the main idea.

Para.4.

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Have Ss find out the life forms on the earth. 2.

Qs:

1Why did the plants grow before the ○animals came? 2Why is it wrong to show films with ○dinosaurs and people together? 3In what way were mammals special? ○3.

Review the development of life on the earth with the help of pictures. 4.

Have Ss summarize the main idea. Para.5 1.

Qs: 1What problem is caused by human beings? ○2What may happen in the future? ○2. Help Ss summarize the main idea. Step 3 Post- reading

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Have Ss put the events in correct order. 2.

Retell the text with the help of a video.

To make Ss clear about the development of life on the earth. To make Ss know about the problem caused by humans. To review development life. the of