Reading and vocabulary教案1

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Module 2 Fantasy Literature --The Cat That Vanished

Reading and vocabulary

——康平县高级中学

张春红

Teaching Goals:

General goals: 1.

Get the students to know about fantasy literature and its characteristics, as well as famous writer and works in this field. 2.

Help students to master and learn to use words and phrases related to this topic. 3.

Organize various class-activities on the basis of solving the difficulty of vocabulary and develop students’ ability of using a language. Ability goals: 1.

To improve students’ ability of getting the general and detailed information. Emotion goals: 1.

To develop students’ love of fantasy literature. Important points: 1.

Develop students’ reading ability. 2.

Grasp the usage of some significant words and phrases. Difficult points:

Enable the students t get the useful information quickly. Teaching methods: task-based teaching method; direct instruction model Learning methods: autonomous learning; cooperative learning Teaching aids: multi-media; blackboard

Teaching procedures: Step 1: Lead-in 1. Show the students some posters of several films, asking them to look carefully and come up with the names of the films and further information. The films are: Painted Skin, The Lord of the Rings, Harry Porter and The Hobbits. 2. Question: what do these films have in common?

According to this question, the teacher leads the students to come up with the definition of Fantasy Literature—Stories that take place in a magical and impossible world.

3. Introduce British writer Phillip Pullman and his famous writing—His Dark Materials. The reading passage “The Cat That Vanished” comes from the second work of the trilogy. Step 2: While-reading Scanning: 1. Read the reading passage and try to get the main idea of the story and its main characters. 2. Divide the whole passage into four parts and match them with he main ideas after reading. ①Para.1

②Paras.2-7

A．Will found what the cat did and how the cat vanished.

B．Will saw a cat. C．What he saw and how he felt in another world. ③Para.8-12

④Para.13-15

D．What Will found and how he entered another world. Careful reading: 1. Ask the students to read part one, and answer the question: how was Will before he saw the cat?

Answer: Will was stupefied wit exhaustion.

His head was not clear because he was tired. 2. Ask the students to read part two, and retell the story according to the pictures given. 3. Ask the students to read part three, and fill in the blanks. 4. Ask the students to read part four, and put the sentences into Chinese. Step 3: Post-reading 1.

Summarize the passage using as few words as possible and fill in the blanks. Step 4: Language points

Step 5: Homework 1. Imagine what would happen to Will in the new world, write it down and share your imagination next class.

Blackboard design: Part1(1) Will saw a cat

Part2(1-7) What the cat did and how she vanished

Part3(8-12)What Will found and how he entered another world

Part4(13-15) What he saw and how he felt in another world.