Using LanguageⅡ教案公开课一等奖

Whatever you do, put your heart into it.

Teaching Design Wang Yafang

Period 1 Warming up and reading

(An Exciting Job) Teaching objectives ■

Knowledge aims: 1.

Get students to learn some useful words and expressions about natural disasters. 2.

Let students understand some information about volcano eruption and the duty of a volcanologist.

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Ability aims:

1.

Develop students’

reading and listening ability and make them learn different reading skills, such as skimming and detailed reading. 2.

Enable students to learn and talk about volcano and their dream job. ■

Emotion aims:

1.

Improve students’ sense of cooperation and encourage students to give their opinions and act out confidently. 2.

Arouse students’

thinking about their dream job and the ways of getting it.

Teaching important points 1. Let students listen and read the passage to learn about main idea of the passage. 2. Get students to find out some detailed information about volcano eruption.

Teaching difficult points

1. Help students to develop their cooperative discussion. 2. Guide students to act out some interviews confidently. Teaching methods 1.

Picture looking and video watching lead in method.

2.

Tasked-based methods to develop students’ reading skills.

Learning methods 1. Speak out some words about natural disasters by looking at some pictures. 2. Know something about the volcano eruption by watching a short video.

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Whatever you do, put your heart into it.

3. Understand the main idea and details of the text by listening and reading.

4. Improve core quality by discussing and interviewing. Teaching Aids

Multimedia facilities, blackboard and chalks with different colors

Teaching procedures Step 1: Lead in

Good afternoon, class. Before we start, let’s read the learning methods on the screen together.

Today’s topic is the power of nature. It means that sometimes the nature is so powerful that it will cause some natural disasters.

First, let’s play a game. Look at some pictures and guess what kind of natural disaster they are. Are you ready?

Earthquake, drought, thunderstorm, snowstorm, sandstorm, flood, tsunami, tornado... Step 2: Warming up

Next, let’s watch a short video to know more about it. After watching it, I’d like to ask you to answer the questions.

What disaster happened? When and where?

Step 3: Reading

Task 1 Skimming: Skim the text quickly and answer the following questions.

What is the writer? Where did he work? When did he see a volcano eruption? Does the writer love his job? Task 2 Listening and reading: Match the main idea with each part.

Para1-2

He’s still enthusiastic about his job.

Para 3

What damage the eruption can cause. Para 4

How he had a closer look at the crater after the eruption.

Para 5

His job as a volcanologist. Task 3 Details: Read each paragraph carefully, then answer the questions.

1. Read para 1 and 5:

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Whatever you do, put your heart into it.

What shows that the author likes his job? 2. Read para 2:

As a volcanologist, what is the duty of the writer? 3.

Read para 3: What made the author realize that an eruption happened?

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Read para 4:

What did they wear when getting close to the crater? What did they do after the eruption?

Step 4 Summary: Invite some students to make a summary of the text with the help of blackboard design.

Step 5 Role play: Discuss the following questions in groups and then make an interview and act it out.

Do you want to be a volcanologist?

If so, give your reasons.

If not, What is your dream job? Are you fit for it? How can you make yourself fit for it?

EXAMPLE Job-seeking: Volcanologist

Interviewee:

Student A

Interviewer A: Student B

Interviewer B: Student C

You may introduce your role first and begin like this: A: Good afternoon, honorable interviewers. My name is... I’m here to apply for the job-volcanologist.

B:

Have a seat, please. I'd like to ask you some questions. Why do you...?

A:Because... C: Do you like...? ... B: Thank you. We will inform you of the result later.

Step 6 Read the following sentence together. No matter what we do, we should put our heart into it, and be enthusiastic about it. Step 7: Homework 3

Whatever you do, put your heart into it.

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Write a short summary of the text in your own words.

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Read the text again and preview the language points of the text.

Blackboard Design Unit 5 The Power of Nature

exciting

the greatest Job

saw during heard wore after did volcanologist never bored

feel alive

protect...from enthusiastic

amazed volcano eruption 2nd week, Hawaii 4