英语人教版八年级下册Unit4Tofacestressbravely

英语⼈教版⼋年级下册Unit4Tofacestressbravely
Unit 4 why don’t you talk to your parents?
The sixth period (reading)
Teaching goals：
1.Ss can read and understand the meaning of the passage.
2.Lead students to use the word guessing approach and
summarize the meaning of each passage to show how to understand the passage easily.
3.Make students think more about the topic and express their own opinions according to the language structures they have learned.
Moral goals:
Lead students to change their roles to think about something, help ss to set up the positive attitude and values of life. Teaching important points:
1.Help students understand the whole passage.
2.To use the reading strategy of guessing the meaning . Teaching difficult points:
Express their own ideas about after-school classes and use the reading strategy of guessing the meaning .
Step 1 warming up
T : How was your last weekend?
What after-school activities do you usually do?
Check the work students did yesterday .
___ Do homework ___ use the internet
___ Have after-school classes ___hang out with friends ___ Watch movies ___ play sports or exercise T : which activity is the most tiring for you ? why?
Step 2 Before-reading
(T :These days, many of Chinese children have to face a problem, that is besides doing much homework , they have to take all kinds of after-school classes on weekends. So we often say Chinese students are tired.)
Q: How about American children ?
Are they the same busy like us?
T :Today Let’s read a passage and find the answers.
(渗透本篇课⽂阅读策略)
Step 3 While-reading
A.Read the article quickly and answer two questions.
Q: 1.What is the common problem for Chinese American
families?
B.Read the second paragraph and finish the chart.
C.Read the third paragraph and answer the following questions.
1. Who is Cathy T aylor?
2. What after-school activities do her children take?
3. Why doesn’t she cut out a few of their activities?
D. Read the third paragraph and find Linda Miller’s opinion.
Fill in the blanks.
In some families, competition starts very young and continues until the kids get elder. Mothers send their small kids to all kinds of classes. And they are always comparing them with other children. It ‘s crazy. She doesn’t think that’s fair. She thinks people shouldn’t push their kids so hard.
E. Read the last paragraph , check the statements ture or False
1. Too much pressure is not good for a child’s development.
2. All these activities can help students get into a good university.
3. Kids shouldn’t have too much time to relax.
4. To want successful children is more important than to have happy children
Step4. Further understanding
T: From our understanding, I think this passage can be divided into two parts.
How to divide them?
Para__ and Para__ are the first part.
Para__ and Para__ are the second part.
What does each part mainly tell us ?
The first part mainly tells us __________________________________
The first part mainly tells us ____________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
Step4 Post-reading
Groupwork -----Have a discussion
Should children take after-school classes or not ?。