Unit 4 Creatures large and small板书设计及意图

Teaching Plan

Topic: S1B unit 4 reading Friend or enemy? Teaching objectives: At the end of the class, students will ★ Knowledge objectives: ☆know the difference between insects and spiders ☆ know the uses of spiders in farming, industry and medical field. ☆know the features of a play ★ Skill objectives: ☆practice skimming and scanning to get the main topic and the details from the textbook ☆practice recognizing the differences by picture reading ☆learn about reasoning and giving supporting ideas ★ Emotional objectives: ☆learn how to form an objective attitude toward spiders ☆offer their evaluation toward the relation between nature and humans Teaching Focus: 1.

know the uses of spiders in farming, industry and medical field. 2.

practice skimming and scanning to get the main topic and the details from the textbook 3.

learn about reasoning and giving supporting ideas Teaching difficulties: 1.

know the features of a play 2.

learn about reasoning and giving supporting ideas Teaching aids: textbook, multi- media, tape recorder

Teaching procedures: Steps Teacher’s activity Students’ activity Purposes

Pre-task Check through their 1.

answering true or false preparation understanding of spiders questions together through true or false 2.

Picture reading to find out exercises the differences between insects and spiders

to stimulate and show their background knowledge about spiders

a on 3.

Show them a picture of a 1. Expressing their feeling to have spider about spiders general comment spiders While-task Task one: skimming and Check through their answers to understand procedure scanning exercises and find proof in the text the main topic and practice searching the details in the text Task two: the feature of this text passage 1.

Ask them the genre of this passage 2.

Show them an example to help them understand the features of a play: dialogue, characters and stage direction 1.

Making choices to to learn the recognize the genre-- an feature of a excerpt of a play play 2.

Read aloud Reading strategy 3.

Match the features withe examples 4.

Act out two excerpts to show their understanding of the features

Task Three: Further reading of this passage 1.

Why does Winston think of spiders

useful? 2.

Show them the table of pest control and encourage them to offer their comment on the benefits of the natural method of pest control 3.

Require students to finish task two on the work sheet and show pictures to check their understanding of the 3 physical properties 4.

Read aloud the text from line 35-37 and understand why Betty laughs 1. Listen to the tape and find out the 3 aspects spiders are useful in the text 2.finish the table about pest control according to the text 3. Answer the questions about spider silks 4. Try to match the properties with its application in spacecraft, artificial organs and bulletproof vests 5. Find out the uses of spider poison to know the main structure and details of spiders