What is beauty 说课.doc

（Module 6） Unit 18 Lesson 1 What is beauty? 晋江市养正中学 郁蔚高中英语说课（Module 6） Unit 18 Beauty Lesson 1 What is beauty? PART 1 UNDERSTANDING OF THE TEACHING MATERIAL AND THE STUDENTS 1. STATUS AND FUNCTION The lesson of the unit I pick up today is aimed at serving the function of reading comprehension. But listening, speaking and writing will also be practiced in it. (And in this period I will lay my emphasis on the improvement of the students’ reading skills. As for the language points, I will deal with them in the next period.) And this lesson is the first one of unit 18, it is about what is beauty in your mind. Everyone admires beauty. Everyone has his own standard about beauty. So it is very important to the growth of a student and related to our daily life. 2. TEACHING KEY POINTS 1. Develop the students’ reading skills: finding out topics; finding out detailed information; working out meaning of words, etc. 2. Master the usage of some useful words and expressions; 3. According to what we learnt and practiced in the lesson, students can say something about what is the real beauty in their mind. 3. TEACHING DIFFICULTIES 1. How to grasp the main idea of a text or a passage; 2. Our students are afraid of making mistakes in speaking English, it’s not easy for them to open their mouth and speak English. So knowing how to use some words and expressions freely and put them into use in real communication may be difficult. 4. ANALYSIS OF THE STUDENTS On one hand, most of the students have adapted themselves to Senior High English learning through various activities. And the students of this age are full of curiosity. They are active, friendly with each other and eager to show what they know. On the other hand, our students are easily bored with a long passage while reading with a lot of words, we should constantly arouse their interest in learning more about the passage. PART 2 TEACHING AIMS AND DEMANDS 1. Knowledge objects In this lesson, I want the Ss: