选修8unit1公开课教案

Teaching plan of “California”

Analysis of the teaching material

This is a reading passage about California. It introduces the history of California and describes the great historical events happened in various times. It also tells us when, how and why different people from all over the world have been immigrating to California. It explains to us the reasons why it will be a simple multicultural community in the 21st century. The passage helps to develop Ss’ culture awareness and cross-culture communicative skills.

Teaching aims:

Knowledge aim:

To master the new words &phrases in this unit

Ability aim:

To train the Ss’ reading ability

Moral aim:

To develop Ss’ culture awareness and cross-culture communicative skills

Teaching key point and difficult point:

Key point:

To know the history of California and master the key words, phrases and sentence structure.

Difficult point:

To help the students understand why California is the most multicultural state in the USA.

Teaching Approaches

Task-based language teaching

Cooperative learning approach

Communicative approach

Situational Approach

Affective Motivation…

Learning Methods

Self-learning

Task-based learning

Cooperative learning

Teaching procedures:

Step 1: Lead in

When the class begins, teacher asks the following questions:

1. What did you do during the May Day holiday?

2. As we know, the Shanghai World Exhibition was opened On the May Day holiday; did you go to Shanghai to see it during the holiday?

Students may say they didn’t have time and money to see the exhibition. Then teacher say: What a pity! The World Exhibition will show us the cultures and technologies of different countries. It is a good chance for us to broaden our views. But, it doesn’t matter, today，I’ll show you

around the museum of California to help you learn something about California. Now, follow me into the museum. (Show the following slide on the screen)

In the above slide, there are three exhibition halls. In exhibition hall 1, I’ll show the students the location of California. In exhibition hall 2, I’ll show the students some beautiful scenery of California. And in exhibition hall 3, I’ll lead the students to the topic of this period: the history and cultural diversity of California.

（设计意图：通过世博会，引入本节课的话题，让学生了解一些关于加州的知识，提起他们对于进一步了解加州的兴趣，给学生观看加州的图片，使学生对加州有一个直观的印象，为下面阅读文章做好准备。）

Step 2: Fast reading

Ask the students to read the text fast and try to divide the text into three parts, and work out the main idea of each part.

（设计意图：此环节为快速阅读，目的是培养学生迅速浏览课文，获得文章大意的能力。）

Step 3: Detailed reading

1. Ask the students to read the 2nd paragraph and finish the following