Unit 4 Creatures large and small教学实录与评析

U4 Creatures Large and Small Reading: Friend or Enemy? 1st period

Date: March 11th, 2019 School: East Shanghai High School Teacher: LIN Honghong (林弘虹) Class: Class 4, Senior1 Lesson length: 40mins Teaching Material: Creatures large and small (Oxford English S1B)

Teaching Objectives: By the end of the class, the students will be able to: 1.

get a general idea of a play by skimming, scanning and playing. 2.

learn to think critically and understand spiders better. 3.

further understand the relationship between nature and humans.

Teaching procedures: Stages

Pre-reading

Students’ activities

Teaching purposes To arouse students’ interest in spiders and elicit the topic Teacher’s activities

1.

Raise questions to Ss to Think and make a guess. answer to arouse their

curiosity about the play.

While-reading 1.

Skimming Ask several questions for students to answer before skimming.

2. Play out Guide Ss to read the beginning of the play and draw their attention to the features of a play.

3. Scanning

a.

Ask Ss to scan the remaining part, and lead them to think “What does Winston tell Betty about spiders then?”

b. Present a diagram to Ss and ask them to fill in.

c. Invite Ss to summarize the properties of spider silk and its uses.

4.Thinking Lead Ss to find out more details to find out the change of Betty’s attitude towards spiders.

Think about the To help students questions and then understand the general skim the play.

idea and structure of the

play.

Play the beginning

To learn about the out in pairs.

features of a play and

how to play out a play

well.

Scan the main body

To get the general idea of the excerpt.

of spiders’

benefits to

humans.

Finish the diagram To develop students’

ability to summarize.

with details.

To cultivate students’

ability to retell.

To practice students’

Think about some ability to reflect after hidden information reading.

in the play.

Post-reading Have Students play out on various Think as a group To learn to work in occasions.

and play out.

groups and develop the competence of critical thinking.

1.

Search for more information on spiders on the Internet or relative books.

2.

Polish your play.

Assignments