Learning about Language说课稿【一等奖】

Learning about language

Looking & speaking& writing

人教版选修8

陕西省咸阳市乾县杨汉中学

教师

张瑞瑞

writing Task:

Look at the following pictures. First describe them to your partner using the words in the box. And then change the oral description into a written one.

merrily

glue

courtyard

ladder

walnut

ripe bamboo stick Step 1 Looking and speaking

?

Step2 Looking ,guessing and speaking Here guessing means to add some reasonable details that

are

logical and serve for the main idea of the story. The following expressions and questions may help you. run up and down

bang (猛敲) branches bring down

ripen

ask

for assistance

Talk to your partners about these questions according to the given words and pictures. Picture1:

1.What can you see in the

picture? 2.What happens? what is her problem? And why?

3.What does she do to try to solve the problem? (to answer this question, you need to refer to picture2 and picture3. ) Picture2:

1.Who is this girl? 2.What is she doing? Picture3: Who are the children?

What are they doing? Add a reasonable ending

Writing: Write down your answers to these questions.

Picture1:

What can you see in the picture? An old woman is crying in the courtyard, where there is a walnut tree. 2.

What happens? what

is her

problem? And why?

The walnuts are ripe and she is unable to pick them because they are too high for her to reach. 3.

What does she do to try

to solve the problem? (to answer this question, you need to refer to picture2 and picture3. )

She calls her granddaughter and asks her to help find some students to pick the walnuts.

Picture2:

1.

Who is this girl? She is the old woman’s granddaughter. 2.

What is she doing?

She is putting up a poster to ask for assistance.

Picture3: 1.

Who are the children?

They are the girl’s fellow students. 2.

What are they doing?(use the given words above) Some of them are merrily running up and down the ladders and

banging branches with bamboo sticks to bring down all the walnuts. Some are gathering them into the basket. Step3 Let’s add an ending for the story Possible ending: 1.The old woman will give them a lovely meal of dumplings when they have finished to thank them for all their help. 2. In return, the old woman will give the

students some walnuts when they have finished to thank them for all their help.

Step4 Writing

Here is a model.

There is a walnut tree in the courtyard of this house. An old woman lives in the house and has watched the walnuts ripen over several months. Sadly （情感）she is unable to pick the ripe walnuts because they are too high for her to reach. She

calls her granddaughter and asks her to help find some students to pick the walnuts.

Her granddaughter goes to her school. There is a notice board in her classroom where students can put up requests for help. (合理的细节)Although she is unsure whether anyone will come and help, with glue she puts up her notice asking for assistance.

Her notice is entirely successful.

Her grandmother looks on happily(情感) as her fellow students merrily run up and down ladders and bang branches with bamboo sticks to bring down all the walnuts. She will give them a lovely meal of dumplings when they have finished to thank them for all their help.

Assessment Chart(评价表) 自我评价(situational writing)

1.Is your description accurate? Did you grasp the main points of each picture? 2.Are the added details reasonable? 3.Are the sentences various? 4.Are there any outstanding sentences? 5.Is the handwriting clean and neat?

6. Any mistakes?(point them out and correct them.)

Some of the above assessments can also apply to topic writing. Step5 Homework Please check your own writing according the above assessment chart after class.