Reading and vocabulary第一课时导学案

Reading

The Cat that vanished Teaching goals教学目标

1. Target language目标语言

a. 重点词汇和短语

hero, heroine, creature, witch, take place, approach, behave, bush, comfortable, cottage, definitely, exactly, exist, guide, hesitate, nearby, vanish

b. 重点句子

Will was so tired that... When it had gone past...

Feeling that he was dreaming but... 2. Ability goals能力目标

Enable the students to understand text organization. 3. Learning ability goals

学能目标

Enable the students to learn how to write a fantasy story; learn to retell a story. Teaching important & difficult points

教学重难点

Learn how to understand narrative organization of the passage. Teaching methods

教学方法

Skimming and task-based method.

Teaching aids

教具准备

A recorder and a projector. Teaching procedures & ways教学过程与方式

Step I Lead-in

Have you read a Harry Potter novel or seen one of the films? It is a fantasy story. Did you enjoy it? Why? Can you tell me what a fantasy story is? Who knows something else that also belongs to fantasy stories? Today we’ll learn a new fantasy story “The Cat That Vanished”

and something more about fantasy stories. Now read the passage and underline the words and phrases that show it is a fantasy story.

Sample answers:

fantasy novels, different worlds, other worlds, extraordinary adventures, witches, talking bears, strange creatures We will try defining what a fantasy story is. Who would like to try? fantasy stories include make-believe or magical characters and events, and they could not really happen.

Then ask the students to do Activity 2. Check the answers with the students.

Step Ⅱ

Reading

Task 1: Warming up

Ask the students to discuss the questions. Task 2: Pre-reading A cat vanished. You may wonder where it would go, what it would do and what would happen to the other characters in the story. Now you will read the passage as quickly as possible and try to get all the answers to these questions. Task 3: Skimming T: Now please skim the passage fast to obtain a general understanding of the whole passage. And number the sentences in the correct order. Then check the answers.

Task 4: Comprehension 1. Tell the students to read the passage carefully, and then finish Activity 4.

Then check the answers.

2. Ask the students to look through the passage once again and finish the chart below. Will Trying to decide what to do

Came up to Will, then turned away and went across the road towards the bushes just past the trees, and there she stopped. Still watching Behave strangely: _____ Cat

Watch more carefully

After another few seconds, the cat stepped forward, and vanished. Then he stood still, keeping

his eyes on the place where the cat vanished. 3. Ask the students to try to draw a picture according to the story. Sample answers: Will

the patch in the air see the cat, watch, stand still, climb through the hole look around, turn away, stand up, look around for the cat

Cat — guide appear,

behave strangely, vanish disappear

Task 5: Discussion T: Now let’s try to understand why Will decides not return to his world. Let’s have a discussion: What’s the meaning of “Although he knew nothing at all about this world, it had to be better than the life he had just left.”?

Step Ⅲ

Homework 1. Retell the story in your own words. 2. Imagine what will happen after Will comes to the new world.