选修八unit1 整体阅读教案

Unit 1 A land of diversity

Reading: California

新店子中学教师:韩金山

一.教材内容分析：

本节课材料为人教版高二英语选修八第一单元的阅读。本单元主要围绕具有多元文化的美国这一主题展开，其中重点介绍了加利福尼亚州的多元文化特征。

教学重点&难点：阅读策略的培养

二. 学生情况分析：

高二的学生思维活跃对感性直观的知识接受力强并且已经有了

一定的语言功底和词汇量，并且形成一些具体的阅读策略，阅读速度较快，但在抓住文章细节方面存在一定的问题。

三．教学目标

1)知识目标：通过本课的学习，让学生了解并初步掌握以下单词和短语: live on, by means of, majority, make a life, keep up, boom, in addition, settle in

句型：It is likely that…

It is believed that…

Exactly when the first people arrived in what we now know as

California, no one really knows.

2)能力目标：1.培养学生通过标题,图片对文章内容进行预测的能力。

2.培养学生捕捉文章细节的能力。

3.培养学生的归纳和推断能力。

3)情感目标：通过各种阅读活动，培养学生小组合作学习的能力，加强团体协作意识。帮助学生了解加利福尼亚州的多元文化特征。

四．教学方法：

坚持“教师为主导，学生为主体，任务为基础”的教学原则，指导学生整体阅读，在阅读中培养学生的阅读策略。并且贯彻“教中学，学中用”的方针，设置任务真正使学生学以致用。

五．教学过程：

Step 1: Lead-in

Play a video about USA , a country with the diversity of culture. Especially about one of the states———California.

设计思想：好的导入可以激活学生的相关图式，激发学生的学习兴趣和热情，使学生积极投入到学习中来。本节课我从一个介绍美国国家形象的视频入手，由美国一个多元文化的国家引出本节课的话

题：。加利福尼亚州的文化多元性。

Step 2.Warming up

Show some pictures about California to the students, let

the Ss tell their impressions about California.

attractive developed modern beautiful famous

mysterious fascinating splendid…

设计思想：给学生更多有关加利福尼亚的信息，尤其是同学们较

为熟悉的加利福尼亚的城市，风景，发达的电影业和唐人街等。激发

学生学习加利福尼亚的兴趣。

Step3. Reading设计思想：以下几步是本节阅读

课的主要内容，通过设计不同的任务来培养学生的不

同阅读策略：

1.Skimming

略读：指导学生快速浏览阅读，寻找文章的重要信息，其目的是

了解文章的主旨大意和组织结构。

1）What’s the main idea of this text?

A. the culture of California

B. the history and the diversity of culture of

California

C. the climate of California

D. the population of California

2）. How many kinds of people are mentioned in this text?

Native Americans The Spanish Russians Gold

Miners

Later Arrivals Most Recent Arrivals

2.Careful reading

仔细阅读：把文章分为四部分，分别就每部分设题训练学生的

阅读技巧，主要是选择题和正误判断题的题型，和平时的考试题型接

近。

Native Americans:

1.Time: 15000 years ago

2.How did they come ?:

Crossing the Bering Strait or

by means of a land bridge

3.What happened in the sixteenth century?

1were killed by European

2were forced into slavery

3died from the disease

4survived the terrible times

The Spanish

In what order did the events happen?

1.the Spanish soldiers first arrived in California and took their land.

2. Mexico had to give California to the USA.

3. the people of Mexico gained their independence from Spain. California became part of Mexico.

4. California was ruled by Spain.

The time order: 1---4---3---2

From in the 16th century, in the 18th century, in 1821, in i846, we can know the author write this part according to the time order.

Russians & Gold Miners

Show some pictures to the Ss about the gold rush. Tell them at that time, the living conditions were bad in California, It was cold and people were short of food. But many people came here to get gold, dreaming of being rich.

Let the students read this part quickly and do the exercises

Do some T or F questions:

1.In the early 1800s, Russian hunters began settling in California. T

2.In 1848, before the American-Mexican war, gold was discovered in California. F

3.There are about 25,000 Russian-Americans living in San Francisco. F

4.California become the thirty-first state of the United states of America in 1850. T

5. Most miners who remained in California achieved

their dream of becoming rich. F

Later Arrivals & Most Recent Arrivals

We can learn from Paragraph 6-8 ______

A.Most Chinese immigrants arrived in California in

the 18th century.

B. People immigrated to California on different purposes.

C. All the immigrants have the same culture and customs.

D. The film industry in Hollywood was well established during recent decades.