省江阴市成化高级中学高中英语 Unit3 The meaning of colour National flags, colours and cultures教案 牛津译林版选修9.docVIP

Model 9 Unit 3： The meaning of colour National flags, colours and cultures 【Teaching Aims】 1. To train the students’ reading ability. 2. To learn to apply one basic reading skills: thinking about what you already know. 【Teaching Important Points】 How to train the students’ reading ability. How to let students get the general idea of each part. Help students to know the meaning of each color in some countries’ flags. 【Teaching Difficult Points】 How to let students get the general idea of each part. Help students to know the meaning of each color in some countries’ flags. 【Teaching Aids】 1. The multimedia 2. The blackboard 【Teaching Procedures】 Step 1 Greeting and Lead-in 1. Greet the students as usual 2. Each country has its own national flag with its own pattern and colors. This class, we’ll learn a passage about some national flags. Step 2 Reading strategy Ask Ss to read “Reading strategy” on P35. Ask Ss to read the headline and the first paragraph to get an idea of the theme of the article. (PPT 4) Question: What’s the theme of the article? Answer: National flags, colours and cultures. Show Ss a picture of many national flags (PPT 5) Follow-up question: What does a national flag tell you? (PPT 6) Answers to be found in the first paragraph: A flag tells us something about the country it represents. Step 3 Talking about what you already know 1. Show Ss a map of our national flag. (PPT 7) 2. Questions and answers: Question: What do the color red and yellow in our national flag mean to us? Answer: Red means blood of our soldiers. Yellow means brightness. (PPT 8) Question: What do the five stars mean to us? Answer: The big star stands for the Communist Party, and the four small stars represent the Chinese people. We Chinese people are united around the Communist Party. (PPT 9) 3. Discussion: What does our national flag mean to us Chinese people? (PPT10) Step 4 Reading comprehension of the text 1. Ask Ss to read three subtitles and match the