牛津高中英语模块二unit 1 教学设计参考

Unit 1 Tales of unexplained

Welcome to the Unit

Teaching aims:

(1) Get students to conduct a free discussion about some mysterious and unexplained

phenomena in the world.

(2) Encourage the students to make full use of resources and share their imaginative

ideas with each other.

Important points & difficult points:

(1) Students are expected to describe what they have known about the posters and

what they are eager to know about it.

(2) Encourage students to communicate with classmates.

Teaching procedures:

Step 1 Lead-in

(1) Group discussion: In your opinion, what is the most beautiful things one can

experience? Why?

(2) About Elbert Einstein:

• What have you known about Elbert Einstein? Why was he so great? …

• Introduce his saying about mysteries and lead to the topic of this unit.

Step 2 Photo observation

1. Why is the Mona Lisa Smiling? Is the Mona Lisa just the painter himself?

2. On seeing this photo, how are you feeling? Why? (Revision of the related

vocabulary about the emotion.)

3. What has drawn your attention? ( Train students to observe the photo and

describe it in their own words.)

Step 3 Posters

(1) about UFOs: What do the letters UFO stand for?

Are they really from another planet? Why?

Read out more information about it. (2) about Yetis: Himalayas---the highest mountain range in the world;

Why do some people make great efforts to climb them?

Yeti---Abominable Snowman, half-man and half-beast.

(3) about Lock Ness Monster: Where is Lock Ness? Why is it famous for?

What does the Loch Ness Monster look like? A sunken ship? A kind

of dinosaur?

(4) about Stonehenge: introduce some information about Stonehenge to students.

(5) about pyramids: Where were these pyramids built, on the east coast of the Nile or

on the west coast? What are the reasons?

Do you think the Great Pyramid is a wonder in human history?

One of them: the Sphinx---Half human, half lion, the Sphinx is

240 feet long and 66 feet high.

(If time permits, introduce more information about pyramids that we

have known about them, such as how wide, how tall and how heavy

and do some quizzes.)

Step 4 Group discussion:

1. Do you believe in unexplained things mentioned above? Why or why not?

2. If you saw a UFO or a monster some day, what would you do?

Step 5 Language points

1. advanced (adj.); advance (v.)

2. run into

3. translation of some phrases

Step 6 Homework

(1) Surf the net and learn more about world mysteries. Prepare a short speech (better

in Powerpoint) to introduce something that interests you.

(2) Make a scale model of the Great Pyramid under the following guidelines and bring

it to the class.

Unit 1 reading Teaching objectives:

1. To help Ss know the way of writing a newspaper article

2. To develop students’ ability of reading a newspaper article

3. To master some useful words and expressions

Important and difficult points:

The way of writing a newspaper article and the way of reading it

Teaching procedures:

Step 1 Lead-in:

Get students to think about the following questions:

1. Do you really believe in aliens? Why?

2. Show a short video to the students and let them discuss what it is like in their

eyes?

Today we will come to a missing boy who was said to be taken away by UFO. Let’s

listen to the report and tell whether it is believable or unbelievable.

Step 2 Reading

1. Listen to the tape and finish A

2. Read through the whole text in details and finish C1&2 (scanning)

3. Fill in the blanks for self-evaluation (scanning)

4. Let Ss finish D according to the text and let them ask more if possible (careful

reading)

Step 3 Reading strategy

This is a typical news story.

1. Do you often read newspapers?

2. What kind of news do you like to read, sports news, entertainment news,

economic news…?

3. How do you select the news you like to read, by taking a look at its title or by

being attracted by its colorful pictures?

4. Is there anything wrong with the title according to the grammar? (the title is incomplete)

5. What is a complete title?

6. Why did the writer use an incomplete sentence as its title? (brief)

7. Can you name some other features of a news title? (you can also show more titles

found in the newspapers at the same time)

8. How to write and read a news article?

Step 4 language points

1. ask Ss to ask what they don’t know?

2. make a supplement

Step 5 Homework

1. read the news article again to make sure that you can use your own words to retell

the story

2. review the new words and phrases in this text

3. finish the exercises in the workbook

4. choose a piece of English news, using the strategy we learned today to take some

notes about its title, when, where, who, how, what, why…

Unit 1 Word Power

Teaching plan for word power