2019-2020年高中英语Unit1Schoollife

2019-2020年高中英语Unit1Schoollife

Teaching aims:

1. Warm up for the topic of this unit.

2. Let Ss know each other and improve their spoken skills.

3. Encourage Ss to talk about their ideal school life for future changes.

Teaching procedures:

Step 1. Greeting

1. Make a brief self-introduction to the Ss, include your experience, interest, your habit of teaching and your requirements of the class as well.

2. Ask Ss to make a self-introduction card: their names, interest, motto, ambition, promise or whatever they’d like others to know about themselves. Ask 2 or 3 students to make a brief introduction.

3. Ask Ss to form groups of 6 or 8, and introduce themselves to each other, meanwhile collect information about different tastes or interests in their groups and make notes.

Step 2. Going through the tasks in textbook

1. Say “You’ve met each other and you’ll spend 3 years together here for your senior high school period. Before you graduate from junior middle school, what did you think high school is like?”Collect different ideas about what they thought of high school. And then sum up their ideas: “High school may be a time of discovery, learning and hard work for Ss all over the world.”

2. Go through the pictures on page 1 of our textbook with the whole class, while checking whether they’re the same with Chinese schcool life.

Collect answers to the first 2 questions by asking Ss individually.

3. Allow Ss some minutes to discuss the third topic with each other in small groups or in pairs and list down the key points of their dream school life. To simplize the task, you can instruct them to discuss the topic in such aspects as time, subjects, homework, activities, teachers, classmates, rules and so on.

Step 3. Free choices for different classes

Read and explain half of the words and expressions in this unit if possible. Or give Ss some extra materials to read if possible.

Step 4. Homework

1. Write a short passage to show what your dream school life is like.

2. Preview the new words & expressions and the text “School life in the UK”.

3. Finish some extra reading tasks for best class.

Period Two

Teaching aims:

1. Allow Ss to get some information about British school life.

2. Practise Ss’ reading skills by reading the text and finding useful information to answer questions

3. Practise Ss’ ability of organizing materials by the retelling task.

Teaching procedures:

Step 1. Reviewing and warming up

Ask Ss to read out their passages about their dream school life while listing out the key words in their passages, eg: time, subjects, freedom, choices, homework…

Tell Ss “We’re going to learn a new passage about the school life in the U K, see if there is sth. that can meet your dream of the ideal school life.”

Step 2. Reading and prehending

1. Tell Ss the strategy of skimming and scanning.

Ask them to read the text and find answers to the questions in Part A as fast as they can.

Check their answers.

2. Ask Ss to read the text intensively again and finish the tasks in Part C1+2. Play the tape at the same time to control time, allow them some minutes to discuss and finish the tasks.

Collect answers to the 2 parts by asking Ss individually.

Step 3. Consolidation

Read the text again to get familiar with the text. Then do the running race game: Ask the 4 groups of students to write down as much information as possible on the Bb and pare which group gets the most.

Step 4. Homework

1. Write a short passage to show what the school life in the UK is like.

2. Make up a dialogue between Weihua and a journalist to talk about W eihua’s school life in the UK.

3. Read the passage on page 91 and answer the questions below the text.

Period Three

Teaching aims:

1. Allow Ss to get some general ideas about American school life.

2. Practise Ss’ reading skills by reading and finding information.

3. Practise Ss’ oral skills by paring different school lives in different countries.

4. Practise Ss’ writing skills by assigning the writing task.

Teaching procedures:

Step 1. Reviewing and warming up

Interview: Invite a student to stand out as Weihua and the others as journalists. Make an interview about Weihua’s school life in the UK. You can also pete to see which group gives the most