【新教材精创】2.1 Starting out & Understanding ideas 教学设计（1）-外研版高中英语必修第二册.docx

【新教材】第二册 Unit 2 Lets celebrate! （外研版）教学设计Period 1 Starting out & Understanding ideas本单元的主题语境是“人与社会”,涉及的主题语境内容是中外节日。Starting out部分：活动1呈现了一段与节日主题相关的视频,视频介绍了世界各地一些庆祝季节变换的节日,如保加利亚的玫瑰节和中国的中秋节等。活动2请学生阅读对几个节日的描述,并将节日与庆祝原因进行匹配,从而了解节日庆祝原因的多样性。活动3鼓励学生联想其他节日及其庆祝原因。本板块旨在激学生已有的语言、背景知识,为接下来整个单元的学习活动做铺垫和预热。Understanding ideas部分：本板块呈现了一篇反映单元主题的课文,语篇类型为书评。课文介绍了英国作家 Tolkien的圣诞老人的来信,主要讲述了 Tolkien在圣诞节以圣诞老人的口吻给他的孩子们写信的故事,体现了Tolkien对孩子们深沉的父爱。读前的导入活动帮助学生了解 Tolkien,从而熟悉课文的主要人物和文化背景。读中活动引导学生思考“写的是什么、为什么要写”这两个问题。读后活动则通过主旨大理解、细节理解和开放性问答等活动,启发学生深入思考,探究主题意义。1. Guide students to have a preliminary understanding of different types of festivals and understand different festival cultures;2. Lead the students to grasp the content of the text quickly and understand and explain the meaning of the title accurately through skimming;3. Guide students to understand the characteristics of book review articles and obtain the key information about the works introduced in the articles;4. Guide the students to deepen their understanding of the meaning of the holiday by understanding the spirit of giving and dedication extolled in the book letters from Santa Claus.Key points:1. Understand the festivals related to the seasons and their cultural characteristics, and understand the content and language points of the text;2. Understand the spirit of giving and giving that letters from Santa Claus celebrates and deepen your understanding of the meaning of the holiday.Difficult points:1. Master the application of some key vocabulary and sentence patterns;2. Learn to introduce the main activities and cultural characteristics of festivals in different seasons with the vocabulary and sentence patterns learned.1、Let the students preview this section according to the guide plan, find out the new vocabulary, and combine the context or consult the dictionary to understand these new vocabulary.2、Learn about the activities of different seasons of the festival and the reasons for celebrating the festival.3、Learn about Tolkien and his works before class.Step 1 RevisionGo over the new words we learned in last class:1) v. honour,participate,vote,regard,complain;2) n.dragon, poet, harvest,decoration,freedom,inequality,fantasy,novel,literature,envelope,pole, roof,warning.3) adj.lunar,limitless,handwritten,regular,polar,starving.Step 2 Lead-inActivity 1 (Starting out)1. T asks Ss to read the questions in Activity 1 and plays the video.Ss watch a video about festivals in different seasons and answer the questions:(1) What festivals are mentioned in the video?(2) Why do people celebrate these festivals?2. T invites some Ss to share their answers with the class. Ss share their answers with the class.Q1:The festivals mentioned in the video are “hanami”, the Rose Festival, the Mid-Autumn Day, the Harbin international Ice and Snow Festival,and the New Year.Q2:Because people want to celebrate the Changing seasons and express their appreciation of nature.3.T play the video again,and the whole class check their answers.Step 3 Reading and discussionActivity 2 (Starting out)1. T asks Ss to read the four festival descriptions and complete the sentences in Activity 2. 2. Ss read the descriptions and discuss in pairs, then complete sentences. 3. T invites some Ss to share their answers and encourages the Ss to come up with more information about these festivals.4. Then T show the answers through the PPT on the screen.Keys: Thanksgiving; May Day; Freedom Day; Dragon Boat FestivalActivity 3 (Starting out)1) T ask Ss to talk about other festivals of each type and think about the reasons to celebrate these festivals.2) Ss work in groups to give more examples of different types of festivals and discuss the reasons to celebrate these festivals.Keys: Other festivals of each type include Pongal,Spring Festival, Independence Day and Valentines Day,etc. Other reasons to celebrate a festival include celebrating the beginning of a year, worshipping the ancestors,etc.3) Teachers can use pictures, videos and text to briefly introduce other festivals, so that students can learn more about the festivals.Step 4 ReadingActivity 4 (Understanding ideas)1) T asks Ss to read the instruction of Tolkien and answer the questions in Activity 1.2) Ss read and answer the questions in Activity 1.3) T asks Ss to share more information they know about Tolkien.Activity 5 Reading (Understanding ideas)1) T asks Ss to read the passage quickly and find out: Why did Tolkien write these letters? What stories are included in Letters from Father Christmas?2) Ss read the passage and find the answers to the questions. 3) Check the answers with class.Q: Tolkien wrote these letters because he wanted to keep Father Christmas alive for his four children.Q: Letters from Father Christmas is a collection of Tolkiens letters to his four children at Christmas. The letters told wonderful stories about Father Christmass life and adventures at the North Pole.Activity 6 (Understanding ideas)T asks Ss to read the passage again and understand the passage:.Read the text and fill in the blanks.Para.1: Parents try to keep the magic of Christmas _ for their children.Para.2: JR.R.Tolkien kept writing letters to his four children for more than _ years.Para.3: The children were _ when they opened the letters.Para.4: The letters told wonderful stories about Father Christmass life and _ at the North Pole.Para.5: We can all share the true spirit of _ at Christmas time.Keys：1.alive2.twenty3.excited4.adventures5.giving.Read the text carefully and choose the best answer according to the text.1Who may be most interested in the book Letters from Father Christmas?APeople who like reading novels.BPeople who like playing games.CPeople who like reading books about festivals.DPeople who consider Christmas a special time of year.2Which of the following statements about JR.R.Tolkien is NOT true according to Paragraph 2?AJ.R.R.Tolkien has four children.BJ.R.R.Tolkien is very famous in French literature.CJ.R.R.Tolkien is the author of The Lord of the Rings.DJ.R.R.Tolkien kept writing letters to his children for over twenty years.3What kind of true spirit can we learn from the book Letters from Father Christmas?AGiving.BBeing happy.CBeing with family members.DExpressing love for family members.4What kind of father do you think JR.R.Tolkien is?AHumorous.BStrict.CSerious. DCaring.Keys: 1.D; 2.B; 3.A; 4.D.Which of the sentences best explains the tile of the passage?1. The real Father Christmas was actually Tolkien himself.2. Tolkien is the real Father Christmas, because he wrote letters using the name “Father Christmas”.3. Tolkiens love and care for his children make him very like Father Christmas. Key: 3Activity 7(Understanding ideas)1. T asks Ss to read the passage carefully and complete the notes in Activity 4.2. Ss complete the notes in Activity 4. They can read the passage again if necessary.3. Ss share their answers.Keys: 1.Letters from Father Christmas; 2.J.R.R. Tolkien; 3.a North Pole stamp; 4.a handwritten letter from Father Christmas; 5.Father Christmass life and adventures at the North Pole; 6.climbed the North Pole; 7.fell through the roof; 8.how he could not stop his helpers playing games Step 5 Thinking & SharingT asks Ss to discuss the two questions in groups and offers help if they need.Step 6 Homework1) Understand the passage better.2) Remember the new vocabularies and master the usage of them.3) Do some exercises of the guide plan.1、 通过本节内容学习，学生能否了解不同季节的节日特点和庆祝节日的原因；2、 通过本节内容学习，学生是否理解了文章The Real Father Christmas的真正涵义；3、 通过本节内容学习，学生掌握了阅读的方法：scanning,skimming,careful-reading.