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Reading: An Adventure in Africa (the first period)新世纪学校宋洁琼Teaching Aims:1. Train the students’ reading ability.2. Get the students to know the main idea of the text.3. Develop the students’ creative, comprehensive and consolidating abilities. Teaching Important Points;1.Develop the students’ reading ability.Teaching Difficult Points1. How to make the students understand the passage better..2. How to help the students develop their creative, comprehensive and consolidatingabilities.Teaching Methods:Student-centered Teaching & Task-based TeachingTeaching Aids:The multimedia & The blackboardTeaching Procedures:Self Study and Communication (自学与交流)Step 1 Lead- inQuestions , video and pictures to arouse students’ interest.1.Can you recommend some great places to go traveling?2.let’s watch a video and pictures to know Africa.Step 2 Self-studyAsk students to skim the passage and find the ro ute of Toby’s travel plan.take a flight to Moroccoride camels through the Sahara Deserttravel down the River Nilesee wild animals in Kenyaclimb Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzaniago to the HimalayasStep3. Communication1.Read the letter again to find the answers of each question on page 23,and thencommunicate with your desk mate to see if you have the same idea.2.Correct answers.Presentation and Promotion（展示与提升）Step1 Fill in table.PStep 2 PromotionTo promote student’s speaking and writing ability, ask students to retell the travel plan by their own words . And give 5mins to prepare for it. (Give students the route as a help)Feedback and Summary(反馈与总结)Step1 Fill in the blanks with the words in the letter.Colin and I will spend a few_______ travelling. We will _____ to Morocco on 15 July. Then we go through the Sahara Desert by _______ with local guides. The six-day trip won’t make me _________.During the trip to the River Nile, going white-water rafting is filled with danger but __________, too. In Kenya, we will _______ the local people’s custom and challenge ourselves to drink cow’s blood. We will have a long _______and get close to wild animals. Our guide will have guns to ____________ us. We will climb Mount Kilimanjaro though we may feel ________ and sick in Tanzania. Then we will return China to climb Himalayas.Step2 Extra-Curricular ExtensionTo enlarge students’ knowledge about adventure and Africa, let students enjoy some pictures and song.Step 3 Homework1. Finish the exercises on page 25.2. Write a reply to Toby to tell him your adventure.Teaching Reflection:。
Teaching PlanTeaching Contents: Unit2 An adventure in Africa Background information:Students: 60 high school students, Grade 1Lesson duration: 45minsTeaching objectives:a:To get further familiar with Africab:To write an informal letter.c:To let the students to know the main idea of the text. Teaching Important Points:a: Developing the students’ comprehensive ability of the whole text. b:Developing the students’ information gathering capacity from different parts of the text.c:Deve loping the students’ culture connotation and international outlook.Teaching Difficulties:a:How to help students to use reading strategies as to stimulate students’ independent learning.b:How to rely on the reading class to train the students on their listening, speaking, reading and writing ability.c:How to develop the students’ creative, comprehensive and consolidating abilities.Teaching Procedures:Step1: Free-talk and Lead- in (12 minutes)Show students some pictures about beautiful scenery, and askQ1: Which place do you think it refers to?Q2: What do you know about Africa?Start a talk about “An adventure in Africa”Q1: what is “adventure”?Q2: what does this title means?Step 2: Skimming (20 minutes)Task A:Ask students to skim the passage and have a general idea about the whol e passage:Q1:What’s the main ides of the article?It is an informal letter about Toby’s __coming adventure _with his brother in __Africa_.Q2: Suppose we were going to travel with Toby and Colin. Can you find out To by’s travel route?A.London ---Morocco---the Sahara Desert---Lake Victoria ( the RiverNile)---Kenya---Tanzania---the HimalayasTask B:Help students analyze the passage for detailed reading, talking about Toby’s travel plan, including his travel route, the adventurous activities he will do in each place, and the things he will take as well.Fill in the form:Step 3: Reading Strategy: An informal letter and a formal oneInformal letters are written to family members, relatives, frien ds, classmates and colleagues, etc.In informal letters, greetings and closings are used, such as ‘Dear Ann’、‘Dear Mum’、‘Love, Toby’and ‘Best wishes, Ann.’An i nformal letter usually begins with a casual and friendly greeting, s uch as‘How are you?’Very often past events are referred back to, such as‘Do you still remember the trip I told you about?’and‘I h ad a great holiday in Africa.’In informal letters, we can see contra ctions（缩短形）here an d there such as‘we’re’、‘I can’t’，and abb reviations (缩写词), such as‘CU soon’, meaning‘See you soon.’Formal letters usually include your address, the date; receiver’s name, job title and address; formal greeting; formal ending; you r name and signature.Step 4: DiscussionDivide the students into 10 groups. Give each group a card with a map of Africa. They work in groups, scan the text and draw the course of the trip.Q1: Do you like traveling? Why?Q2:What’s the most exciting place you have ever been to?Q3:What’s your opinion about traveling for adventures? Homework:a: To draw a simple schematic of Toby ‘adventure route .b:To read the whole text thoroughly, and generalize the main ides of every parts.C: To write an informal letter to one of your friends telling him or her plan for the summer holidayBlackboard design:。
M2U2 Wish you were hereReading An adventure in AfricaXue Jun ,Jinsha Senior High SchoolI. Background information:Students in Grade 1 from Xiaohai Senior High SchoolDuration: 45 minsII. Teaching objectives:By the end of the class, Ss will be able to--1. understand the general idea about the passage and get interested in travelling and adventures.2. describe Toby’s travel plan in Africa, especially those adventurous activities he will do.3. write a passage about his or her travel plan.4. develop love for nature and gain positive attitudes.III. Learning content and skills:Content: a text titled “An adventure in Africa”Skills: Reading, speaking, writingIV. Teaching difficulties:Ss may have difficulty with writing a passage.V. Teaching aids: pptVI Teaching procedures:1.Lead-in①Talk about travel with Ss. Ask them some questions:②Ask Ss whether they want to go to Africa and what they know about Africa.③Show Ss the pics of morocco, the Sahara Desert, the Nile, Mount Kilimanjaro and animals in Africa.2. Fast reading①Help Ss to find out what an informal letter is like.②Ask Ss to look through the passage quickly and find out the destinations and route of Toby’s adventures in Africa.3. Careful reading①Para. 2 (Morocco and the Sahara Desert)a. Read Para.2 and find out the main information.b. Ask Ss to retell the paragraph in their own words based on the form they completed. They are encouraged to use varied sentence patterns.②Para.. 3(the Nile)a. Ask Ss to read Para.3 and find out the main information.b. Ask the Ss what the word “rough” mean in the paragraph.c. Ask Ss to read the sentence carefully “You should wear a helmet and a life jacket for protection, in case that they fall into the water.” Find out what “you” means in the sentence.c. Ask Ss to retell the paragraph in their own words based on the information they’ve found.③Para. 4&5 (Kenya)a. Ask Ss to read Para. 4&5 and find out the main information.b. Ask Ss to retell the two paragraphs in their own words based on the information above.c. Guess: Why do the Kenyans drink cow’s blood?d.. Discussion: Do you think Toby should drink cow’s blood?e. Present some pics of rare animals in Africa. Tell Ss that these pics are taken by Toby in Kenya. Ask Ss to tell the names of these animals.④Para. 6 (Tanzania)a. Ask Ss to read Para. 6 and find out the main information.b. Ask Ss to retell the paragraph according to the information above.4. ConsolidationPresent the map of Africa. Ask Ss to talk about Toby’s adventures in Africa.5. ReflectionCan we change the title into “A trip to Africa”?6. Brainstorming①Ask Ss to watch a short video about white-water rafting. Then ask the question: If you want to go for adventures such as white water rafting, what personalities should you have?②Ask Ss to list the reasons why people go for adventures.VII. WritingAsk Ss to discuss the adventure plan and write it down in groups. Several minutes later, I’ll ask some to read their travel plan to the whole class.VIII. HomeworkWrite down your travel plan in your composition book.IX. Blackboard designAn adventure in Africadangerous thrilling challenging demandingX. After the lesson reflection: (To be written after class immediately)个人简介薛军，男，1995年8月工作，中共党员，教育硕士，高级教师，适应初高中循环教学，2010年获南通市高中英语优课评比一等奖，2014年评为南通市英语学科带头人。
《An adventure in Africa》说课设计及反思作为一名年轻的英语教师,能有机会展示自己的教学设计，与学校众多优秀老师同台竞技交流学习,感到非常的激动和兴奋。
现将说课后的教学设计和说课比赛反思稍做陈述.本课课题选自《牛津高中英语》模块二第二单元的Reading部分。
本课学习旨在帮助学生了解作者在非洲旅行的所见所闻和所做的事，从而了解非洲的自然风光和风土人情，拓宽他们的文化视野，激发他们对大自然的热爱和探究大自然的渴望,培养他们的学习和探究意识。
同时，以此课文为载体，进一步发展学生听、说、读、写的基本语言运用能力，着重提高学生用英语获取信息、处理信息、分析问题和解决问题的能力,能力培养学生用英语进行思维和表达的能力，提高他们基本的英语语言素养，为未来发展和终身学习奠定坚实的基础。
因此，本课根据教学内容和学生生活实际设计探究性问题，让学生围绕这几个问题，通过观察、讨论、小组合作、参与和探究等积极主动的学习方式，完成任务，实现教学目标,形成有效地英语学习策略，从而使语言学习的过程成为学生主动思维、大胆实践、形成自主学习能力的过程。
一、实践过程1。
通过多媒体播放音乐Seasons in the sun,展示与旅游话题相关的图片,引起学生对本课话题的兴趣,导入课文。
2. 通过略读和查读的方式让快速阅读课文，并回答呈现在多媒体上的相关的问题，让学生对所学内容有个初步的了解.3。
通过多媒体展示和播放与非洲有关的图片和视频，设计相关任务，让学生仔细阅读课文,通过小组合作的方式完成任务，从而对课文有深入的了解，并在此过程中提高学生听、说、读、写的综合运用能力，以及分析问题、解决问题的能力。
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让学生研读“阅读策略”，并结合文章知道如何读非正式信件，从而为下一步的写作做好铺垫。
5. 利用多媒体设计一个有关与课文有关的任务型阅读,巩固学生对课文的理解.6. 让学生根据所学内容分组讨论毕业旅行计划,深化对课文的理解，检测他们的英语语言综合语言能力。
