牛津初中英语教学设计8AUnit5ReadingThestoryofXiWang.pdf

Teaching designThe story of Xi WangThis teachingdesignis madeup of 6 parts,including analysisof teachingmaterial,analysisof students,teachingobjectives,teachingmethods,teachingtheories and procedures.Analysis of teaching materialThis article,the story of Xi Wang,is from the reading part of Unit 5,8A,Fun withEnglish.The topic,wild animals,accords with the cognitive ability and lives of students.This course requires that students read a passage about lives of giant pandas.Bylearning it,students can know the growing process of pandas and develop theawareness of protecting wild animals by exploring the dangers giant pandas face.Analysis of studentsThe target studentsare in level 4,they have certain readingability.Theirlistening and speaking ability are enhanced in a certain degree.They have learningconsciousness.Withregard to the condition above,I will train their reading abilityfurther anddeveloptheir comprehensivelanguageskills by listening,reading,speaking and writing activities.Teaching objectivesStudents are able to(1)get to know some basic information of Xi Wang.(2)be familiar with and identify the new words and expressions:serious,none,mainly,be born,in the beginning,take action,look like,eat bamboo,live on,face seriousproblems,in the wild,in danger,right away.(3)improve reading ability by training skimming and scanning.(4)raise awareness of protecting wild animals by knowing the truth that manywild animals are in danger.Teaching methodsTask-based language teaching,communicative language teaching and theguided-discovery method.Teaching theories(1)Make students the real masters of the class and I act as a facilitator.(2)From easy to difficult,from shallow to deep,from simple to complicated.Teaching proceduresIt includes 4 steps:lead-in,pre-reading,while-reading,post-reading.Step 1Lead-in(have a guess)Firstly,I will present students 3 sentences,they are the description of 3 animals.Then let students guess what animals they are.Secondly,ask students“What s your favourite animals Why”I will ask some studentsto share their favourite animals with us.(Purpose:To lead in the topic and to arouse studentsinterest by a guessing game)Step 2Pre-readingActivity 1:important words and expressions learning1.In step1,students have shared their favourite animals,so I will ask them:know what s my favourite animals”to arouse their Thint enrestHaI.will also give“them a descriptive sentence to guess what itis gaint panda.2.Show students a short paragraph of the reason why I like them and some basicinformationof gaintpandas.(Thesesentencescontainimportantwordsandexpressions)3.Have students finish B1 to consolidate the words and expressions.(Purpose:To deal with the difficult language points which may impede theunderstanding and to have students be prepared for the reading.)Activity 2:PredictingIll ask students“Can you predict the content of the article according to the title-The story of Xi Wang”In this process,Ill encourage students to think and speak outfreely.(Purpose:To enable students to predict before reading and train the strategyof predicting)Step 3While-readingListeningI will have students listen the article before reading.Before listening,I will askthem a question“How many pandas are there in the wild”.Have them answer afterlistening.(To train their ability of listening with questions)Fast-reading(matching)I have divided the article into 4 parts and present the main idea of each partrandomly.Have students read the article quickly and do the matching.(To improve ability of skimming)Careful-reading1.Fill-in-table activity.Have students read para1-3,discuss with partners to fill inthe table.2.Have students read para4 to find the serious problems giant pandas face.3.Discussion:group workGive students a question“What can we do to protect wild animals”Have themdiscuss in groups to put forward suggestions.(Purpose:To improve ability of scanning and to enhance their awareness ofcooperation in pair and group work)Step 4Post-reading1.Review:ask one students to lead the whole class to review what they havelearned in this lesson.2.World Wildlife Protection DayHomework:have studentssurf in the internetto look for information of WorldWildlife ProtectionDay.In the next lesson,sharethe information with the wholeclass.(Purpose:To train their ability of looking for information and have them aware theimportance of wildlife protection in the process of surfing the Internet)