上海牛津英语教案

8 A Module 2 Unit 5 Encyclopaedia First period Reading Look it up!

Language Targets:

1. To activate the knowledge to help the students understand the text.

2. To help students understand the text quickly by using different reading skills , such as getting main idea and details, find facts etc. Ability Targets:

1. Students learn to maintain an interaction by reading the article. 2. Students learn to write the synopsis by paragraph. 3. Students try to express their ideas in English fluently. Emotion Targets:

Students can know about the history of dinosaurs, a way to be happy and Disneyland. Language focus: 1. Vocabulary:

1) article, dinosaur, exist, harmless, gentle, fierce,,skeleton,Diogenes,Greece, amusement,creat,character,deliver

2) a long time before, as small as chicken, leave behind, the way to be happy, even happier, an amusement park

Function: 1. It sometimes sat on Walt’s desk while he was working.

2. After leaving school and studying art at night, he sold newspapers and

delivered mail.

Teaching aids:

1. A recorder, a cassette 2. Student’s book 8A page 74-77.

Teaching steps: PRODEDURE preparation CONTENTS METHODS enjoy 1. Show some Ss pictures interesting pictures. dinosaurs PURPOSE some Students about would like and to enjoy it 2. Learn vocabularies Disneyland and so with on. classmates and will make the atmosphere of we can lead in the new words. new We went to an Ask students to learn to amusement park. express the Here Amusement meaning in English means something that gives people pleasures or fun. Character means a person, animal in a book, play, film, etc. II. While- procedure task A. Encyclopaedia is an enclopaedia , say and learn An encyclopaedia is a arouse students’ book that gives you interest in the information about a topic lot of different things. Have you got an at types of encyclopaedia home encyclopaedias Have you ever read an encyclopaedia in the library 4. In which volumes of Do you know any the encyclopaedia on types of the encyclopaedias right would you find the information listed below Write the number of the volume for each topic. on different topics Brains to find Typhoons Computers Weather Korea the Pandas When we use an encyclopaedia, should know what kind of we information we need B. Text Dinosaurs do dinosaurs make you think of？ Choose and think of some adjectives and tell your classmates about your ideas. Reading A What do information we need to look for first. Sometimes, we do not understand some important words (we call them key words) in the sentences. Then we can look in an encyclopaedia and try to find them. large, brave, fierce, small, shy, gentle, beautiful, powerful, harmful, ugly, weak, harmless. Develop the skill of using encyclopaedias. Learn some news words and phrases and get familiar with part of the text you know about 1. Ss try this quiz 4. How much do you know about alone. dinosaurs 2. Check their answers. Say something about them. If you do not This is part of 5. Listen and fill in know much, you can the skill of ask your classmates the blanks. predicting, It for help. is good for Ss May is listening to to make the article about intelligent dinosaurs on CD-ROM. Listen guesses about carefully and help her complete the what might the text following notes for be in the her school project. article. 1. Ask Ss to read the text by themselves and find out the new words, and try to guess the meanings by reading the words Develop the of around them so that skill guessing and they can know the working out likely main idea of the text. the meaning of a 2. Read after the tape. word from 3. Read the text the study of its context. together. the Internet 4. Synopsis by paragraph. Surf the Internet and find more information about dinosaurs. Tell your When we meet some new words, sometimes we can know about their meanings by looking at the suffixes. C. Diogenes the Internet and find some information about Diogenes. and fill in the blanks. 3. Learn the text. the Internet again. classmates about the lives of dinosaurs on the Earth. For example, harmful is an adjective which means ‘causing harm’ and harmless is also an adjective which means ‘not causing harm’. Do you know the meanings of ‘careful’, ‘careless’, ‘useful’, ‘useless’, ‘helpful’ and ‘helpless’ . Where did he come from Where did he live 1. Ask Ss to read the text by themselves and find out the new words, and try to guess the meanings by reading the words around them so that they can know the main idea of the text. 2. Read after the tape. Get more practice and learn more information about the topic