七年级英语 U4 Save the trees 阅读课教学设计

Analysis of the students 学情分析
Key points 教学重点
Challenges 教学难点
Teaching Objectives 教学目标
Language ability and learning skills: Already know: The students are in the first year of junior high school. They have already accumulated certain amount of linguistic knowledge for understanding the English text in this lesson. They have read some articles in the textbook about the nature and environment. They also have learnt more or less about the Amazon Rainforest in the Geography class. Don’t Know: However, the students haven’t read much about the rainforest and its eco-system. Besides, many students may not know the potential dangers that threaten the Amazon Rainforest. Psychological status: Students in Grade 7 are more interested in fictional writing and keen on reading stories. They are less familiar with the genre of non-fictional writing such as expository text. 1. Students understand the text. 2. Students understand the theme of the text and know the importance of forest protection. 3. Students acquire the strategies of reading this genre of text.
help with their reading. Learning and understanding: Students understand and get the key information of the text. Applying and practising: Students can develop their reading skills such as predicting, skimming, scanning and judging the text. Transferring and creating: Students can develop their analytical and critical thinking by evaluating the text.
1. Students make inference and association when reading the text. 2. Students learn to appreciate the text and learn to be critical readers. Solutions: 1. Students learn to connect the reading text with their daily life. 2. Students learn to associate their Geography knowledge and use it to
1. Students read the text and check their predictions. 2.The teacher guides students to recall the details of the text by conducting a quiz.
Inferencing & Association
Content
an introduction to the Amazon
Rainforest
The New Curriculum Standards (2017, 2020) issued by the Ministry of
Education prescribe that English education should cultivate students’ core
English through participation in meaningful tasks.
Theories for the teaching design 理论依据
Analysis of the teaching material 文本分析
The main theoretical support for this lesson design is the theory of English Learning Activity. The theory which is structured around the four core English learning competencies stresses the importance of using various activities to integrate the language learning, cultural cultivation and thinking processes. The three phases of English leaning activity begin with learning and understanding activity, then moves to applying and practising activity, and, at the highest level, improves to transferring and creating activity. In the first phase, students mainly notice, acquire, sort and summarize what they learn. In the second phase, students need to elaborate on, analyse, make judgements of, internalize and then apply what they learn. In the third phase, students criticize and evaluate what they learn and then make creations.
Teacher’s Activity 2. The teacher presents some aspects that the text could possibly talk about.
Skimming & Scanning
Students obtain the information of the text.
Students make inference about the text and associate the reading content with their own life.
The teaching material is taken from the 7B Unit 4 of Oxford Press & Shanghai Education Press textbook.
Genre and content： The genre of the text is a non-fiction. The thematic context is humans and nature. The whole text tells the readers the location, the area, the importance and the threat with regards to the Amazon Rainforest. Language: The story is presented in simple present tense, which is usual for this genre. This expository text introduces the basic information of the Amazon Rainforest. Theme The major theme of the text is about environmental protection. After explaining the importance of the Amazon Rainforest for the ecosystem,
to students’ overall language ability when teaching reading. The standards
also emphasize the importance of activating students’ reflective and
critical thinking. Moreover, it is necessary to encourage students to learn
the author calls on the readers to take action to protect the rainforest. Structure The story is organized in the order of the basic information of the
School
The Amazon Rainforest
Shenzhen Middle School
Teacher
Students Type of the
lesson
Guiding Principles 指导思想
dents in Grade 7
Lesson Duration
20 minutes
Reading (Online lesson)
rainforest, from its location, area, animals and threat. At last, the author guides the readers to realize the rainforest is endangered so that they will take action to protect it.
Teaching approach
strategy-based teaching and learning
Step Predicting
Purpose
Students get prepared for the reading task.
Students’ Activity 1. Students watch pictures and read titles and pictures of the Amazon Rainforest and predict what the text will talk about.
competences including linguistic ability, thinking ability, cultural
awareness and learning strategy. According to the guidance of the
standards, teachers should shift their focus from reading comprehension