Reading(1)：Stand up for your health!优秀获奖教案

Unit 1 Stand for your health Designed by Song desheng from Taixing No 3 Senior High School, Jiangsu Reading A famous comedian There are eight activities in this period. 1.Lead-in and brainstorming to recall students’ memory about comedians and to lead in this part. 2.Fast reading and detailed reading activities to train students’ ability of skimming, scanning and guessing from context. 3.Reading strategy is to enable students to learn a pun and clues

4.Discussion activities are designed to check students understanding and prepare for oral work. Teaching goals: 1.To help Ss get a general idea about the text. 2. To make Ss become familiar with the detailed information about the text. 3. To help Ss master Reading Strategy. Teaching important points: 1.How to make the students understand the passage better. 2.How to help the students finish all the exercises. 3.How to help the students develop their creative and comprehensive abilities. Teaching aids: multimedia and blackboard Interaction Patterns: Teachers -class, individuals, pairs Procedures for teaching: Step 1: Lead-in:When you’re in low spirits, what will you do to stop unpleasant feelings? Step 2: Brainstorming 1. Do you know any comedians in China ? 2. Do you know any comedians in the west ? Step 3:

Prediction According to the title of the unit, guess the meaning of the title—Stand up for your health Step 4:Fast reading Ⅰ for general ideas Go through the passage as quickly as possible and try to find answers to the five questions below. Just focus on and identify the information needed to answer these questions. 1.What is the article about? 2. After starting a stand-up comedian, what did Billy Crystal go on to do later in life? 3. What is laughter good for? Step 5: Detailed reading Ⅰ

for the structure of the text and types of stand-ups,then match each type with a proper example to further understand stand-up.

Look through the “A famous comedian” and answer the following questions 1.What does he keep in his pocket? 2.Who that were mentioned in the passage lived to be 100 years old and kept working until the end of their lives? Fill in the blanks through listening, then think further why do people love laughing ?

Step 6:Reading Strategy: You should try to guess the meaning by the following ways if you come across a new word or a phrase. 1. Read the sentences containing the new word or phrase and focus on clues(线索） provided. 2. Look at the words or sentences around the unknown word.

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3. Infer the meaning through the whole context.

Step 7: Discussion:What can we learn from Billy Crystal? Step 8:

Homework 1. Read the text freely and finish part C1,C2,D and E 2. Mark the difficult phrases and sentences in the passage.

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