Learning about Language优秀教学设计内容

M8U3

Reading (Ⅰ) Teaching goals教学目标

1. Target language目标语言

a. 重点词汇和短语

patent, distinguish, product, power, perfume, cube, abrupt, abruptly, convenient, expectation, monitor, passive, criterion, valid, application, file, rod, call up, now and then, set about, in case b. 重点句子

1. The first thing I did was to see if there were any products that might help me, but there only seemed to be powders designed to kill snakes.

2. Between the outside and the inside walls of the bowl there is some jelly, which freezes when cooled.

3. The criteria are so strict that it is difficult to get new ideas accepted unless they are truly novel.

4. Nor will you receive a patent until a search has been made to find out that your product really is different from everybody else’s.

2. Ability goals能力目标

Enable the students to describe the problem of the snakes and what has been done by the writer to solve the problem. Make them realize it takes steps to catch the snakes and it’s not easy to get a patent.

3. Learning ability goals 学能目标

Help the students to learn how to retell the story and how to meet the requirements of getting a patent.

Teaching important points 教学重点

How to describe the problem of the snakes and what has been done by the writer to solve the problem. Teaching difficult points 教学难点

Learn how to meet the requirements of getting a patent.

Teaching methods 教学方法

Task-based activities.

Teaching aids 教具准备

A recorder, a projector and some slides.

Teaching procedures & ways教学过程与方式

Step Ⅰ Revision

1. Greetings 2. Check the answers to the multiple choices in USING WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS.

3. Ask some students to show the answers to the preview questions.

Sample answers: 1. The problem talked about in the text is how to catch snakes in the courtyard. 2. The writer solved the problem in different steps. For example placing the frozen bowl and the ice-cubes on top of the bowl to keep it cool, freezing the bowl and ice-cubes again in the evening as the temperature was starting to cool and using a net used for catching fish. Step Ⅱ Pre-reading

The suitable order of the steps every inventor must go through before they can have their inventions approved:

1.

Finding a problem 2. Doing research

3. Thinking of a creative solution

4. Testing the solution

5. Applying for a patent

6. Deciding on the invention Step Ⅲ While-reading Get the students to comprehend the passage carefully and accurately, and then divide the text into several parts and work out the main idea for each paragraph.

Now, please read the passage carefully, divide the whole passage into several parts and find out the main idea of each part. Part I (Para.1): the discovery of the problem of the snakes Part II (Paras.2-3): the research on the approaches to solve the problem

Part III (Paras.4-6): the attempts to catch the snakes Part IV (Paras.7-8): the requirements of getting a patent T: Now, please go through the whole text again and I’d like you to analyze the text in details. Discuss these questions on the slides.

Show the following.

1. What are the writing techniques of this text? 2. What’s the main idea of the text?

3. What should we learn from this text? 4. What’s the writing purpose of the writer?

Sample answers: 1. In this text the writer puts forward the problem of the snakes, makes research and analyzes the problem, lists the steps of solving the problem according to the arrangement of ideas, and finally illustrates what is needed for getting a patent. By listing the creative steps she takes to catch the snakes without hurting them, the writer has efficiently recorded and narrated to the readers the beginning, the development and the final result of the incident clearly. 2. The text narrates the problem of the snakes and presents the procedures of catching them and applying for a patent, from which we have got a better understanding of how to do scientific researches and how to apply for a patent. After learning, we know that it usually costs some time and continuous efforts in order to solve some practical problems in a scientific way. 3. We can learn from the text the way of doing scientific researches and how to apply for a patent. We can also learn that it takes an inventor great determination and persistence to achieve his or her ambition in life.

4. The writer wants to inform us of the scientific methods to solve present problems so that we students can not only broaden the horizons but become more skilled in discovering and considering carefully the problems in daily life. We are also encouraged by the writer to be creative and hardworking as well as thinking independently.

Help the students deal with the difficult language points in the text.

Step Ⅳ Comprehending

Now, please look at Exercise 1 on page 21. Listen to the recording of the passage to get the answers to the questions. While listening, pay more attention to the correct pronunciation and tone. Then read the text by yourselves to get the answers to the next questions (slide). You can work in groups.

Step Ⅴ Homework Ask the students to do the following.

1. Go over the whole passage. 2. Recite the key sentences in the text. 3. Prepare for Learning about Language and USING STRUCTURES in the workbook.