8 A Module 2 Unit 5 Encyclopaedia First period Reading
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
Look it up!
CONTENTS METHODS 1. Show some Ss enjoy
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
An encyclopaedia is a
arouse students’
book that gives you interest in the information about a topiclot of different things.
, say and learn
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
Typhoons Computers Weather Korea
to
find
the Pandas
information we need
When we use an encyclopaedia, should know what
kind
we Develop the
skill of using encyclopaediof as.
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
B.Text Dinosaurs
do dinosaurs make try to find them.you think of？
Choose and think of large, brave, fierce, some adjectives and
tell your classmates small, shy, gentle, about your ideas. beautiful, powerful,
an encyclopaedia and
Learn some
news words and phrases and get familiar with part of the
harmful, ugly, weak,
text
Reading A What do
harmless.
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
the article about dinosaurs
on CD-ROM. Listen carefully and help her complete the following notes for her school project.
to
make
intelligent guesses about what be
in might the
the text
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. 4.
Synopsis
by
the Internet
paragraph.
Surf the Internet and find more information about dinosaurs. Tell your
classmates about the
When we meet some lives of dinosaurs on new words, sometimes the Earth. we can know about
their meanings by For example, looking at the suffixes. 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’,
C.Diogenes ‘useful’‘, useless’, the Internet and find ‘helpful’ and some information ‘helpless’about Diogenes. and fill in the blanks. 3.
Learn the text.
.
Where did he come from
Where did he live
more 1. Ask Ss to read the Get
practice and
text by themselves learn more and find out the new information
about the
words, and try to topic guess the meanings by reading the words around them so that they can know the
the Internet again.
main idea of the text. 2. Read after the tape.
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