八年级下册Unit4Agoodread(ReadingⅠ)

八年级下册Unit 4 A good read ( ReadingⅠ)
Teaching objectives
1.Knowledge objectives:
(1) To learn and enjoy the story.
(2) To understand the new words and expressions in the context.
2.Ability objectives:
(1) Students can improve the ability of skimming the story for the main idea, scanning the story for specific information and reading carefully for more details.
(2) Students can appreciate and experience the beauty of the text by acting creatively.
(3) To help students to arouse their imagination and ability of thinking to make up different endings of the story.
3. Affective objectives:
Students can be encouraged to be brave and optimistic, imaginative and creative, and can respect every life in the world.
Focus of the lesson and predicted area of difficulty
To guide the students to search for and use the targeted details to summarize a story. Teaching aids:
Blackboard; Multi-media
Teaching procedures
Ⅰ. Lead-in
Show pictures of different famous novels.
T: Boys and girls, are you familiar with these books?
Have you ever read these books before? What type are these books?
Do you know their Chinese names?
[Purpose: Encourage students to read more books and try to lead them to express their opinions in English.]
Ⅱ. Reading Comprehension
Pre-reading
1. Show pictures, then teach the new words of against and continue.
T: What can you see in the picture?
Is it strange? There is a big man and many tiny men.
He is Gulliver. He likes voyage very much. Unluckily, his ship crashed against the rocks. Can the ship continue moving? The ship can’t continue moving. Let’s see what happened to him.
3.Show the picture of the story. Let students predict the story.
T: Look at the picture, please think from the five elements.
(who, when, where, why, what)
[Purpose:Attract students’ interest of the story. And lead students to predict the plot of the story.]
While-reading
Step 1
Why was he on the beach? Let’s find out the reasons from paragraph one.
1. Para. 1 Read and answer.(Read the questions first and read para.1.)
①What did Gulliver do after their ship crashed against the rocks?
He swam as far as he could.
②Why did Gulliver fall down on the beach?
He was tired out. (Learn tired out)
Can you explain tired out in English?
[Purpose: 1.Attract students’ interest of reading the story..]
Para 2
If you swim for such long time, how long will you sleep? What about Gulliver? What happened to him when he woke up? Can you help me find out in the next paragraph?
①T or F
1. When Gulliver woke up, it was almost evening.
2. Someone tied Gulliver’s arms, legs, and hair to the ground.
② Imagine
If you are Gulliver, what will you feel and what will you do?
Can you read this paragraph with emotion?
[Purpose:Knowing the story’s setting. Train student s’ divergent thinking ]
Para 3
If I am Gulliver, I’ll feel afraid and don’t want to be eaten by monster. So I want to know who tied me. Do you want to know who did it? Ok, let’s continue reading and try to find out who is coming. Who is coming?
①Answer a question.
How big was the small man?
He was the same size as Gulliver’s little finger.
(Show me your little finger. Can you draw a small man on your finger?)
②Imagine.
If you see such a small man, how will you feel? What will you do?
Who will read this paragraph with surprise for us?
Where was Gulliver?
Who was the tiny person?
Shall we read this paragraph with surprise together?
Para 4
How many small men are there around Gulliver?
What will you do if there are many small men around you? What about Gulliver? What did the small men do? Let’s continue reading.
①Answer questions.
1. Why did the tiny men all fall over?
2. Why did Gulliver shout at them?
3. Did they care about Gulliver’s shout?
4. Why didn’t they care?
5. What do you think of the tiny men?
②Imagine.
If you are tiny men, what will you talk about?
Who can read the paragraph with emotion for us?
[Purpose: Encourage students to feel the feelings of Gulliver and tiny men.]
Para 5
All of us have so many questions and want to ask Gulliver. Did the small man talk to him? What did Gulliver and the small men do? Let’s continue reading.
①Finish the flow chart and say it into sentence with actions.
②Have a discussion after reading Para.5.
T: Could Gulliver run away at last?
Ss: Yes, he could, because........
No，he couldn’t, because……
If Gulliver could run away, how could he do it?
If Gulliver couldn’t run away, what would happen?
[Purpose: Knowing the actions of Gulliver and tiny men deeply. Teach students some reading strategy. Train students’ reverse thinking.]
Step 2
1. Encourage students to retell the story by pictures and key words.
[Purpose: Retell the story, and make sure the students can know the story.]
Post-reading
What do you think of Gulliver? （I think Gulliver was……because he……）What do you learn today?
[Purpose:Summarize what they learned today. Help students realize how important respect and communication are in our lives.]
Ⅲ. Homework
1. Write a short passage about your idea.
(If Gulliver could run away, how could he do?
If Gulliver couldn’t run away, what would happen next?)
2. Try to read the book of Gulliver’s Travels.
[Purpose: To arouse students’ interest of reading English novels.]。