教学设计
新课标高中英语教材第三册必修
Module 5 Great People and Great Inventions of Ancient China
Reading: Philosophers of Ancient China
一、教学课型：阅读课
二、教材分析：本篇课文介绍的是中国古代哲学家孔子、孟子和墨子。经过十几
年的耳濡目染同学们对他们的观点较熟悉，也颇感兴趣，但这些内容以英语的形式出现会让他们略感惊奇和不适，因此要引导学生克服心里障碍，通过阅读和讨论，捕捉有效信息，学会用英语表达诸多哲学家的观点。 三、教学目标：
1、Help the students grasp the useful words, expressions and some important
sentence structures in the text.
2、Help the students to develop reading skill
3、Encourage the students to find out more about European philosophers to
compare with those of China so as to learn something necessary to their lives.
四、教学重难点：
1、develop reading skill
2、learn about philosophers home and abroad to enrich their mind. 五、教学过程：
Step I. Lead in
1. Show pictures of some famous philosophers the world has ever produced and their ideas such as Socrates, Higer , Laozi, Maozetong and so on. T: Please look at these pictures to see if you know any of them, if so, talk about their ideas.
T: Could you tell us which philosopher you like best and why? Ss:…….
2. Have the students name some philosophers they know. T: Please name some philosophers you are interested in.
T: Would you like to major in philosophy when you go to college and why? Ss:……
（设计说明）
In order to arouse the students’ interests in philosophers, we need to let
them learn about some philosophers and their views, while at the same time make them guess the meaning of the word “ philosopher”, a key word in this passage, in which way the topic of philosophers is brought out. Step II Reading
Task one: Leave the students some time to watch the video of this passage with the following questions in mind.
1、What are the names of the philosophers mentioned in the passage? 2、What are their ideas?
3、Whose teachings were very similar to those of Confucius?
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4、Why did Mencius resigned?
5、What is the difference between the views of Confucius and that of Mozi?
T: Now I ’like you to watch the video with some questions in mind to get a general idea of the whole passage. Ss:………. （设计说明）
In learning a foreign language, listening should come before reading, especially for high school students who have no time to communicate with foreigners, and with some questions in mind while listening is helpful for them to grasp the main idea of the passage and avoid blind listening. Task two: Skimming
1.Leave the students five minutes to skim the passage and pick out the topics sentences of each paragraph
T. Now that you have got some idea about these philosophers, next go over the text quickly to pick out the topic sentences of each paragraph. 2.Show the topic sentences on the computer screen
(1) Confucius is the philosopher whose influence has been the greatest.
(2) Mencius was a thinker whose teachings were very similar to those of Confucius.
(3) Mozi founded the philosophy called Mohism. (设计说明)
Going through the passage quickly to find the topic sentences is to help them improve their reading skill and in the long run to learn writing. Task three:
Scanning: Let the students read the passage more carefully and finish the following exercise.
T: Please read the text in detail this time and then carry out the following activities.
1. fill in the blanks without looking at your books, each blank with one word. (1) Confucius is the ________whose influence has been the greatest. (2) Confucius ________the importance of kindness.
(3) Mencius was a thinker whose _______were very similar to those of Confucius.
(4) However, when he saw that the ruler was not following his advice, he _______.
(5) Mozi was another teacher who was very _________.
(6) He became famous for his unusual clothes and ____________. 2.Choose the right answers:
(1). Mozi spent many year trying to find a state in that_______.
A. He believed that men were not equal.
B. His idea of love was different from the Confucian idea of kindness. C. He supported the idea of war.
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D. He wanted people to follow his teachings
(2) Which of the following idea is from The Book of Mencius A. People were less important than rulers
B. The people should be well treated by the government C. If the government were tough, the people would be good. D. The people should be treated badly
(3) It can be inferred that the author of the passage is_______. A. is in favour of these philosophers
B. doesn’t support the ideas of the philosophers C. the passage doesn’t imply
D. is against the ideas of the philosophers
3.Show the answers on the computer screen of excises 1and2.
Excise1. 1. fill in the blanks without looking at your books, each blank with one word.
(1) Confucius is the philosopher whose influence has been the greatest. (2) Confucius stressed the importance of kindness. (3) Mencius was a thinker whose teachings were very similar to those of Confucius.
(4) However, when he saw that the ruler was not following his advice, he resigned. (5) Mozi was another teacher who was very influential. He became famous for his unusual clothes and behaviour. Excise 2. D B C (设计说明)
To read the passage in detail is to have a further understanding of the text. The above two excises are designed to help the students search information and give a summary of the passage.
Step III. Discussion
Have the students give a discussion of some foreign philosophers and their teachings (prepared before class as a homework to surf the internet) in group of four within about 15 minutes with each group handing in their final report after class. （设计说明）
The materials of the discussion have to be prepared beforehand so that the students will spend time collecting them, which can raise their ability of finding out information, while the discussion is a sort of group activity which can help them learn to cooperate with each other.
Step IV Language points discussion
Hold a discussion about the usage of some important words, phrases and sentence structures.
T: Now we have finished the reading part of the passage. Well, let’s have a discussion about the language points of this passage. First look at the first paragraph, anyone volunteer to point out important words, phrases or sentences structures you think
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important…….
Ss: be at war with…..
( The following Words and expressions and sentence structures should be pointed out by the students and their usage should be discussed, the teacher has to give some further explanation and examples if necessary) Words and expressions:
stress; resign; adviser; influential; principle; be at war with; be brought up; be similar t o; in some ways; man; human beings…. Sentence structures:
(2) But it was a time when there were many great philosophers. (3) Mencius believed that the reason why man is different from animal is that man is good. (4) As a result, he spent many years trying to find a state where people would follow his teachings.
（设计说明）
Learning to use the words , expressions and sentence structure is one of the important skills for the students. To teach oneself and hold a discussion is a good way to grasp them, and to a certain extent help the teacher a lot in teaching, there is always something the teacher hasn’t prepared.
Step IV. Homework
T: Today we have completed learning the words, phrases and sentence structures of the passage and developed reading skill, so the homework today should be making good use of what has been learned in this passage, that is , write a short passage about a famous philosopher you know in about 200 words. （设计说明）
The best way to learn a language well is to use it in real life, so writing about something the students are familiar with is helpful to improve their skill inEnglish.
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高一英语必修三Unit5教案
