九年级英语阅读课

Unit 1 How do you study for a test?

How do we deal with our problems?

阅读课

Teaching and learning Goals：

Help the students to master the following important sentences in the passage.

1. And unless we deal with our problems, we can easily become unhappy.

2. Time goes by, and good friendships may be lost.

3. As young adults, it is our duty to try our best to deal with each challenge in our education with the help or our teachers.

4. Think about Stephen Hawking, for example, a very clever scientist, who regards his many physical problems as unimportant.

5. Let’s face the challenges instead.

Talk about how to deal with our problems in our life. And show the students how to find the main idea of the passage. Find out the difference between too much and much too. Encourage the students to study hard by learning from the famous people, Stephen Hawking.

Teaching and learning steps

Step 1 Goals

Show the studying goals to the students.

1. And unless we deal with our problems, we can easily become unhappy.

2. Time goes by, and good friendships may be lost.

3. As young adults, it is our duty to try our best to deal with each challenge in our education with the help or our teachers.

4. Think about Stephen Hawking, for example, a very clever scientist, who regards his many physical problems as unimportant.

5. Let’s face the challenges instead.

（目标导入，帮助学生明确本节课的学习目标，为下一步的学习做到有的放矢。）

Step 2 Preview

The students say the meaning of each word in the following box.

deal, unless, unfair, affect, solve, challenge, regard,

smart, duty, instead

（通过对词汇意思的理解进行预习检测，为同学们的下一步的阅读理解文章扫除词汇障碍。）

Step 3 Warming up and leading in

Talk about the picture of Stephen Hawking in groups. Get the students to answer the following questions according to the picture.

1. What’s his name?

2. Where is he from?

3. When was he born?

4. What’s the matter with him?

（通过直观的视觉，观察霍金先生的图片，利用“小组讨论”的方式来解决所提出的四个问题，既培养了同学们的参与合作意识，又为下文的阅读作了很好的铺垫。）

Step 4 Fast reading

Get the students to read the passage fast and silently to find out the answers to the following questions.

1. What does this passage talk about?

2. How many ways are talked about in the passage? What are they?

3. What can we learn from Stephen Hawking?

（同学们通过“自主阅读”文章，完成提出的三个问题，帮助同学们更好地掌握文章的大意，从而在无形中进行“快速”阅读技能的训练。）Step 5 Careful reading

Ask the students to read carefully and silently to answer the following questions.

1. The rich don’t have problems, do they?

2. What can we learn from the children deal with the problems?

3. Why many students often complain about school?