【优秀教学案】必修一 Unit 1 Friendship Period 2　Reading.docVIP

Unit 1 Friendship Period 2　Reading 整体设计 从容说课 This is the second teaching period of this unit. As usual, the teacher should check the students’ homework and offer chances for them to go over what they learned in the last period at the beginning of the class. In this period, the teaching emphasis will be put on developing the Ss’ reading ability and getting them to learn to use some reading strategies such as guessing, key sentences, skimming and so on. As to new words and phrases, the teacher can first find those the Ss find most difficult and help them to understand. One way of helping them learn new words is to ask them to study the text before the lesson and find out the meaning of any word they are unsure of. A second way of helping them is to choose the words they maybe find difficult and pre-teach them before beginning the reading. In order to lead in the part Reading, the teacher can first ask the students to discuss whether they have ever considered making friends with animals, plants or even an object and why or why not. The students are supposed to analyze their reasons. The purpose of this activity is to begin to focus the students’ attention on the main topic of the reading passage. It is very important that the students learn to use all the clues in the text to help them understand the gist of what they are reading. So first encourage them to look at the pictures and the heading and guess what the text might be about. Then ask the class to read the passage silently. Sometimes ask them some questions to focus their reading. Alternately, ask them to tell what the main idea for each paragraph is. Make sure that they do it in one sentence. This is very useful because it is making them analyze what is important and what is not. While discussing the ideas put forward in the reading passage, the students should be encouraged to put forward their own ideas, either criticizing the text or using it as a support because they should think whether they agree or disa