Lesson 28 The Study of Living Things优质课教学设计

Lesson 28:The Study of Living Things 一. Teaching aims: 1、Knowledge aim: The students can master the new words and some useful expressions in this lesson.

2、Ability aims: （1）Develop students’ abilities of listening, speaking, reading and writing, especially their reading ability. (2)The students can set up their effective studying strategies by training their abilities of studying by themselves and cooperating with others. 3、Moral aim: The students can be interested in science and be willing to study it. 二. The important and difficult points 1.The students can understand the passage . 2.There are some Attributive Clause in the passage and the students may have some difficulties understanding them. 三、.Teaching strategies 1. Communicative Approach 2. Task-based Language Teaching Approach

3. Situational Teaching Approach 4. Group Cooperating Teaching Approach 四.Learning methods

According to the new standard curriculum, I created a student- centered class and offered the students opportunities to participate in class to share and exchange their ideas with the group members actively, which made them experience in the situation, and at the same time, develop their sense of cooperation and competition.

Step1: guide in

Ask the students to discuss the following questions: 1 Do butterflies migrate in a year? Why? 2 Where do butterflies lay eggs? Step2: Pre-reading: Listening: Ask the students to listen to the tape and answer the following questions: (1)

What does Dr. Chip Taylor study? (2)

How far does the butterfly travel south in fall? (3)

Where do the female lay eggs? Step3. While-reading: 1 Ask the students to read the passage and answer the following questions: (1 ) What draws Dr. Taylor's attention? (2) What are the fantastic facts about the butterflies? (3) What makes Dr.Taylor worry about? (4) What things can't scientists understand about the butterflies?

2 Ask the students to draw a mind map of the passage.

What makes him

worry about? Dr. Chip Taylor’s study What things can’t scientists understand about this kind of butterflies? What is he studying?

Step4: Post -reading:

Ask the students to retell the passage according to the mind map. Step5: Language points:

A: Ask the students to learn the following phrases.

1 lay---laid----laid (产卵、下蛋）

The hen laid two eggs yesterday. 2 puzzling/puzzled(令人迷惑的）

The question is puzzling.

I feel puzzled about his puzzling answer. 3 draw one's attention(引起某人的注意）

What he did has drawn my attention. B: Complete the following sentences: 1 He ______(躺在床上）and listening to music. 2 Bob _____(撒谎）to his mother last week。

What draws his attention?

3 The hen____（下蛋）two eggs last week. 4 He is ____(interest) in biology because he thinks it is____(interest). 5 You should ___________(注意)your handwriting. 6 His bad behavior___________(引起了她的注意）

Step6: Homework:

Finish exercise 1 in “Let’s do it”. Blackboard design:

biology/biologist

butterfly

migrate

fantastic

completely

grandchild

female

milkweed

chemical

puzzling/puzzled

freeze

draw one's attention(引起某人的注意）

lay eggs (产卵）