安徽省长丰县高中英语Unit18BeautyLesson1WhatIsBeauty教案北师大版选修6

Unit 18 Beauty Lesson 1 What Is Beauty

课题Unit18 Lesson 1 What Is Beauty? 课型Reading

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教学目标知识目标

1.Develop the Ss’ reading strategies. (scanning, skimming and

scouting)

2.Understand the main idea of the passage.

3. Talk about physical and inner beauty and understand why

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”.

能力目标

1.Encourage the Ss to express their opinion of beauty.

2.To practice students’ expressing ability.

情感目标Enable the Ss to appreciate and judge beauty more objectively.

内容分析重点How to get the Ss to use the strategies to understand the passage. 难点How to encourage the Ss to express their opinion of beauty.

关键点The grammar in this unit

教法学法Team-work and

communication

approach.

教具

学具

Multi-media A tape recorder

教学过程

教材处理师生活动修改与创新I.Warming

up

Ⅰ. Warming up:

1. Ask the Ss to tell what things they think

are beautiful.

2. Show the Ss some pictures and ask

whether they think the persons in the

pictures are beautiful to arouse their

II

Pre-reading

III

While-reading interest and lead to the conclusion →Different people have different views on beauty.

Introduce the sub-title: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and help the Ss understand its meaning.( 情人眼里出西施) Guess and choose one that is closet to its meaning.

a. Beauty is only skin-deep.

b. Bird of a feather flock together.

c. The eyes of love are blin

d.

II Pre-reading

Vocabulary Study

Present them some pictures and ask them to say them in English, pay attention to words that go together, after which, they will do a word Exercise.

III While-reading

1. fast-reading

Mark the paragraphs and then show the students how to find the main idea of each paragraph. (strategies) The teacher will help the students to find the most

difficult one.

a. Standards of beauty change…

b. Our idea of beauty changes with…

c. Culture remains…

d. Precise criteria…

e. Physical beauty must…

f. Beauty has much more than…

2. Careful reading:

Task 1 Read and fill in the following form: How have our ideas of beauty changed with time and culture?

Women in the 19th-century Europe: They _____ to achieve a body shape. European women nowadays: They think it unhealthy

European men in the past: They _____ across their shoulders.

Men in the 21st century: They don’t think it is _____.

Women’s different attitudes towards weight:

In some countries:

In other cultures:

Task 2 Read the whole text quickly and answer the following questions:

1. What three things influence people’s ideas of beauty?

2. What’s the relationship between physical beauty and inner beauty?