Good morning, teachers. It’s my great honor to be here sharing my lesson with you. The content of my lesson is Senior English Book 1 Unit 1’s reading and comprehending, which is the second period. I’ll be ready to begin this lesson from 4 parts: Analysis of the teaching material, the teaching methods, the students and studying methods, the teaching procedure. First, let me talk about the teaching material.
PartⅠ The analysis of the teaching material
1. Analysis of the position of the lesson
This unit carried out various kinds of teaching activities around the topic of “friendship”. This is the second teaching period of this unit. The lesson mainly centers on Reading, which is the hard core of this unit. The reading passage titled Anne’s best friend. In this passage, we can know the dairy by the Jewish girl Anne gave a glimpse of her life during her family’s shelter in Amsterdam from the German Nazis’ killing in World War 2. She treats the dairy as her best friend, and in it reveals her longing for a normal life and close contact with nature, which helps her get through the days. 2. Teaching Aims
According to the new standard curriculum and the syllabus, and after studying the teaching material, the teaching aims are the following: 1. Knowledge aims: 1) Students can master the usage of the important words and phrases (e.g. reason; list; share; feeling; Netherlands; German; series; outdoors; crazy; nature; purpose; dare; thunder; entirely; power; according; trust; indoors; share. . . with...; go through; hide away; set down; a series of; be crazy about; on purpose; in order to; )
2) To grasp some useful words and expressions in this passage and help them understand. 3) To know emphatic sentence. 2 Ability aims: 1) To develop the students’ reading ability, learn to use some reading strategies such as skimming and scanning;
2) To analyze and summarize the rule of direct speech and indirect speech (questions and statements), can transfer and use them skillfully in our life. 3) Can introduce the basic information about Anne. 3 Emotional aims:
1) By Anne's diary, understand the tragic fate of the Jews persecuted by the Nazis. 2) The Ss will have a better understanding of the importance of friendship. 3) Encourage the students to value the friendship. 3. Teaching Keys & Difficulties Key points: 1) How to get the students to learn different reading skills.
2) How to get the students to realize the importance of the friendship. Difficult points 1) Develop the students’ reading ability.
2) Learn the use of direct speech and indirect speed of statement and question.
PartⅡ Teaching methods
According to the psychological characteristics of high school students, the teacher should
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adopt various forms of teaching methods, and students should participate in the class actively, in order to stimulate students’ interest, so that they will learn to participate in and learn from participation. I decided to use the following teaching methods:
1. Task-based learning for example: Let the SS complete some reading tasks. 2. Cooperative learning for example: group discussion
PartⅢ Analysis of the students and studying methods
My students are first-grade students of senior high school. They have been learning English in junior high school and have accumulated a certain number of vocabularies. They have mastered some simple learning strategies and skills with a preliminary ability of speaking and writing. However, the differences in students’ personality and English proficiency are very large. So my teaching design should have gradient to meet the need of different student. As for learning, Students will learn through independent reading, discussing and cooperating.
PartⅣ Teaching procedures Step 1 Lead-in
1. Free talk to lead in the topic we will learn:
Do you think to make friends with animals, plants and even things? Why or why not? Tell me the reason.
Step 2 Pre-reading
Before reading, I will introduce some skimming and scanning skills to the students. 1. Skimming Read the title
Read the introduction of the first paragraph Read the first sentence of each paragraph Read the headings and sub-headings Notice any pictures and charts Read the summary or last paragraph
A. Let the student read the passage of Anne’s best friend, which is the background information of the diary.
B. Let the students to read Anne’s diary quickly to know the main idea of the diary. Encourage the students to list some new words in the passage. Question：What is Anne’s diary mainly about? 2. Scanning
1) Let the students read the text and again to grasp the key information and main idea of each paragraph. After that, write down the main idea of each paragraph. 2) The students read the article silently. 3) Read Anne’s dairy.
① Ask the students how Anne felt in the hiding place.
② Guess the meanings of “spellbound” “hold me entirely in their power” from the discourse. ③ Ask the students to read the diary again and try to retell it. 4) Read loudly following the tape.
Step 3 Reading
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1. The teacher should introduce more background about this passage to the students
2. Try to guess what Anne’s friend is and what the passage is about by reading the title and having a quick at the pictures in this passage without reading it.
3. Skimming the first two paragraphs to confirm your guessing.
4. Let the students read the text and again to grasp the key information and main idea of each paragraph. After that, write down the main idea of each paragraph.
Para. One: Anne made her diary her best friend whom she could tell everything.
Para. Two: Anne’s diary acted as her true friend during the time she and her family had to hide away for a long time.
Para. Three: Having been kept indoors for so long, Anne grew so crazy about everything to do with nature.
5. Words and Grammar
I will teach new words in the passage to help them understand the passage. And I will also introduce the direct speech and indirect speech to the students.
Purpose: To develop students’ basic reading skills of skimming, scanning and careful reading and the ability to catch the main idea of the passage.
Step 4 Post-reading
1. Do the exercises of comprehending.
2. Ask the question: Imagine you had to go into hiding like Anne and her family. What would you miss most? Give your reasons.
Let the students discuss in groups and make a list of things they would do. Each group can decide its most interesting idea and tell it to the class. Then the class can discuss which ones would be the most effective.
Purpose: Enable students to experience the context, practice language and form emotional attitude through learning language. Through the discussion the students can feel Anne's longing for free life and friendship. By reflecting on their own life status, they will cherish life more and keep optimistic attitude towards life.
Step 5 Homework
1. Prepare to retell the story. 2. Do exercises on workbook.
3. Express the understanding of friends and friendship by several sentences.
Purpose: In order to consolidate the content learned today, to develop the students' ability of language organization and expression.
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高中英语必修1 Unit1 Reading 英文说课稿
