高中英语选修7unit2 Reading教学设计

UNIT2

The First Period Reading

Teaching goals 教学目标

1. Target language目标语言

a. 重点词汇和短语

fiction, cartoon, desire, satisfaction, absent, alarm, alarmed, smooth, embarrass, sympathy, elegant, pile, scan, fingernail, absurd, haircut, accompany, curtain, cushion, carpet, paint, awful，affair, firm, firmly, declare, victory, envy, marriage, test out, ring up, turn around, leave alone

b. 重点句型

1. She felt embarrassed and quickly told him to go.

2. Claire thought it was ridiculous to be offered sympathy by a robot.

3. By the amused and surprised look on her face, Claire knew that Gladys thought she was having an affair.

2. Ability goals能力目标: Help students to learn about robots and science fiction.

3. Learning ability goals学能目标：

Enable students to realize science fiction reflects scientific thought; a fiction of things-to-come based on things-on-hand.

Teaching important points教学重点

Teach students to enjoy science fiction. Enable students to grasp what Tony did to help Claire and how her emotion developed during To ny’s stay at her house. Help students to sum up characteristics of science fiction.

Teaching difficult points 教学难点

How Claire’s emotion developed during Tony’s stay at her house.

Teaching methods教学方法

Discussing, explaining, reading and practising

Teaching aids教具准备

The multimedia computer

Teaching procedures & ways教学过程与方式

Step I Warming up

Deal with Warming up. Present photos of different kinds of robots. Then ask them to say something about his or her favorite robot.

T: Good morning /afternoon, class!

Ss: Good morning/ afternoon, Mr. /Ms…

T: In this class we are going to learn about robots. Who would like to tell me what a robot is?

S1:A robot is a machine.

T: What kind of machine?

S2: A robot is a kind of machine that can do a variety of often complex human tasks.

T: How can a robot perform human tasks?

S3: A robot is controlled by a computer.

T: You are right. Then we can give the definition of a robot like this: A robot is a machine designed to do jobs that are usually performed by humans. Robots are programmed and controlled by a computer. Now look at some pictures. Divide them into different types and decide your favorite one.

Step II Pre-reading

Ask students to discuss the questions in pre-reading in groups. Students are encouraged to speak out their opinion freely, no matter what it is. Teacher should encourage students to use their imagination.

Step III Reading

Deal with the reading part.

Scanning

Ask the students to scan the text and find out what Tony looks like.

T:Ok. I’m glad you had a heated discussion. Now I’d like you to meet Tony-- a robot that looks exactly like a human being. He is a character in the science fiction Satisfaction Guaranteed by Isaac Asimov. Please read the text and find the answers to the following questions.

Show the following questions on the PowerPoint.

1. What did Tony look like?