北师大版高中英语选修8《Unit24Society》TheEighthPeriodReading(II)教案.doc

第  PAGE 6 页 共  NUMPAGES 6 页 Teaching goals 教学目标 1. Target language 目标语言 a. 重点词汇 age, population, dramatic, advance, birthrate, implication, financial, burden, concern, pensioner, bankruptcy b. 重点句子 Experts insist that steps should be taken now to prepare for the future. They suggest that because people are living longer, they ought to work longer. It’s high time we stopped seeing ageing as a disease and started playing our parts in securing the future of our ageing societies. 2. Ability goals 能力目标 Enable students to learn about an ageing society. Review grammar — expressions of persuasion. 3. Learning ability goals 学能目标 Help students learn how to use the expressions for persuasion properly. Teaching important and difficult points 教学重难点 Expressions of persuasion. Teaching methods 教学方法 Asking and answering, writing, reading and pair work. Teaching aids 教具准备 A multi-computer. Teaching procedures ways 教学过程及方式 Step Ⅰ Revision Check the homework. Check the answers to Ex 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 with the class as a whole. Check the answers to Ex 7 by having individuals write the words on the board and then check together. Step II Language Awareness 9 Deal with Ex 1 Pay attention to the title “Are Societies Ageing Too Fast?”. T: How do you understand “age” here? … It is used as a verb here, which means “to become older”. Now read the text and answer the questions in Ex 1. Students read the text and answer the questions.[来源:学,科,网Z,X,X,K] Check answers by having students reading out their answers. Suggested answers: 1. An ageing society is one in which the population of people over the age of 60 is increasing. 2. One reason is that dramatic health advances have added 20 years to the average life-expectancy; another is that birthrates have dropped as people, especially women, are educated. [来源:学科网ZXXK] 3. In an ageing society, a huge financial burden will be placed on the government. Another problem is that as medical expenses increase wi