Reading(1)：Advertisements教学设计(第二课时)

New Study: Humans May Live forever

学科：英语

执教者：王宏伟

授课班级：盐城市龙冈中学

高一（1）班

Teaching aims:

授课时间：2018年4月18日上午第2节

To enable students to have a through understanding of the essay To help students to develop reading skills To make students think about life Important and difficult points: 1. How to find the detailed information.

2. How to summarize the passage Teaching methods: 1. Student-involved class activities 2. Task-based activities Teaching aids: The multimedia and the electronic whiteboard Guidance before class:

Do some exercises. Teaching procedures: Step1. Lead-in T: Please enjoy the video. T: My heart will go on and on. To some people, love is eternal. What about humans’ lives? Can I live to be 115. Ss: …

T: To solve these problems, please immerse yourself in detailed information. Step2. Immersion T: Listen! First, read the whole passage in silence. Second，share your information of each task with

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your group members. Third, choose one of your group members to present what you’ve got. Are you clear? Just do it.. Task1 Para1: Why do people have mixed emotions about living forever? ____________________________________________________________________________________

Task2 Para. 2: Explain the underlined words in English Line3 …since there’s currently a fight going on in the scientific community right this every minute about a study was published in Nature that suggested the human tops out at around 114.9years old. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Task3 Para. 3 Line 1

If you’ve ever met a 90 year-old, you know things can get pretty grim. The similar meaning of grim is_________ A. promising

B. depressing

The author explains that a 115-year-old cap on human life sounds just about right_________

A. by giving examples

B. by comparing the differences between the two people C. by collecting statistics from the government D. by analyzing the results of the survey Task4 Para. 4:

What’s the function of Paragraph 4?

A. introducing paragraph

--elicit (引出)the topic B. linking paragraph

--present the view C. supporting paragraph

--support the main idea

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D. concluding paragraph

--draw a conclusion

Can you translate “ took issue with” into Chinese properly? It means _________________.

Task 5 Para 5、6 What attitude does Professor Jim Vaupel have towards this 115-year- old cap?

What is it that leads to the most complaints about the original study?

Task 6 Para7 What is Siegfried Hekimi’s attitude?

He _______ ______ the view that humans can live longer.

Step3. Exploration 1). According to the main ideas, divide the passage into three parts. 2). What’s the tone of the writer in the passage? □

a. serious □

b. critical □

c. humorous □

d. aggressive 3). Please predict what it is most likely for the author to write about in the end. Step4. Summary Present a brief summary with around 30 words by referring to the main idea of each part .mixed emotions about living longer .the new finding sound reasonable .different opinions

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____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Step5. Extension If we have no choice to control the length of our life, what can we do? We can not control the length

of our life, but we can strive to extend its depth and scope 人生无法掌握生命的长度，

却能自我拓宽生命宽度与厚度

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