Reading and vocabulary教案1

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Module 2 Fantasy literature Period two

Reading

Teaching aims: 1. To enjoy the fantasy literature written by Phillp Pullman. 2. To develop the students reading ability. Important and difficult points: 1 Get the students to appreciate the charm of fantasy. 2 Get the students to describe the story in groups. Teaching procedures: Step 1. Revision. Read the new words of this passage. Step 2. Skimming Go though the passage and think about the main idea of this passage.

The passage is about Will and a cat. The cat is a strange creature, who acts as Will’s guide. She goes to another world through the patch in the air. And Will follows her without hesitation. Step 3. Read the text and fill in the blanks.

Parts

Paragraphs Main ideas

What the cat did and how

______________.

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1 Para. 1

Will saw a cat.

2 Para. 2

to ________

3 ______

to Para. 12 Step 4. Fast-reading

Number the sentences in the correct order.(Activity 1, P16) Step 5. Scanning

1. Discuss the following questions.

1) Where and how was Will before he saw the cat?

2) How strangely did the cat behave before she vanished?

3) What did Will really see?

4) Did Will climb through the hole into another world?

5) What was the new world like?

6) What does Will think of the new world?

7) Why do you think Will was eager to leave his own town?

Step 6.Post-reading

Describe how the cat vanished into the other world.

What would happen to Will in the new world?

4 Para. 13 to Para. 15

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Step 6. Vocabulary Appreciation of the language in a story

She padded out of a garden on the Oxford side of the road, where Will was standing. …Will felt such a longing to turn for home that tears scalded his eyes. …as a truck came around the circle and swept its lights over him. It wasn’t easy, because there was nothing to fix on, but when he came to the place and cast about to look closely, he saw it. And for that reason alone, it enticed him to stoop and look further.

What he saw made his head swim and his heart thump harder. …he pushed his shopping bag through, and then scrambled through himself, through the hole in the fabric of this world and into another. Just beside him was that bare patch in the air…

With a dawning light-headedness, the feeling that he was dreaming but awake at the same time, he stood up and …. Step 7

consolidation Revision: fill in the blanks

_________ with exhaustion, Will stood trying to ______ his head, when he saw a cat Will _________ his shopping bag and _______ his hand, and the cat __________ rub her

heads against his knuckles. ___________ and padding across the road, the cat stopped

and began to behave ________. It ___________ a paw to pat something ________ to Will

in the air. Then, it leapt back, back arched and fur _______, tail held out stiffly. After

another few seconds of sniffing, touching, whisker-twitching, ________ overcame

_________. The cat stepped forward and vanished.

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