牛津初中英语 教学设计8A Unit5 Reading The story of Xi Wang

Teaching design――The story of Xi Wang This teaching design is made up of 6 parts, including analysis of teaching material, analysis of students, teaching objectives , teaching methods, teaching theories and procedures.

Analysis of teaching material

This article, the story of Xi Wang , is from the reading part of Unit 5, 8A, Fun with English. The topic, wild animals, accords with the cognitive ability and lives of students. This course requires that students read a passage about lives of giant pandas. By learning it, students can know the growing process of pandas and develop the awareness of protecting wild animals by exploring the dangers giant pandas face.

Analysis of students

The target students are in level 4, they have certain reading ability. Their listening and speaking ability are enhanced in a certain degree. They have learning consciousness. With regard to the condition above, I will train their reading ability further and develop their comprehensive language skills by listening, reading, speaking and writing activities.

Teaching objectives

Students are able to

(1) get to know some basic information of Xi Wang.

(2) be familiar with and identify the new words and expressions: serious, none, mainly, be born, in the beginning, take action, look like, eat bamboo, live on, face serious problems, in the wild, in danger, right away.

(3)improve reading ability by training skimming and scanning.

(4) raise awareness of protecting wild animals by knowing the truth that many wild animals are in danger.

Teaching methods

Task-based language teaching, communicative language teaching and the guided-discovery method.

Teaching theories

(1)Make students the real masters of the class and I act as a facilitator.

(2)From easy to difficult, from shallow to deep, from simple to complicated. Teaching procedures

It includes 4 steps: lead-in, pre-reading, while-reading, post-reading.

Step 1 Lead-in (have a guess)

Firstly, I will present students 3 sentences, they are the description of 3 animals. Then let students guess what animals they are.

Secondly, ask students “What’s your favourite animals? Why?” I will ask some students to share their favourite animals with us.

(Purpose: To lead in the topic and to arouse students’ interest by a guessing game) Step 2 Pre-reading

Activity 1: important words and expressions learning

1.In step1, students have shared their favourite animals, so I will ask them: “Do you know what’s my favourite animals” to arouse their interest. Then HaI will also give them a descriptive sentence to guess what it is――gaint panda.

2.Show students a short paragraph of the reason why I like them and some basic information of gaint pandas. (These sentences contain important words and expressions)