湖南桃源第九中学

湖南桃源第九中学

葛骅梅

An adventure in Africa

Period One

Reading

Teaching aims:

Train the students’ reading ability and know how to write an informal letter.

1. Get the students to know the main idea of the text.

2. Develop the students’ creative, comprehensiv e and consolidating abilities. Teaching important points:

1. Develop the students’ reading strategy ability.

Teaching difficult points

1.How to make the students understand the passage better.

2.How to help the students develop their creative, comprehensive and consolidating abilities.

Teaching methods:

1. Fast-reading method to get the general idea of the passage.

2. Careful -reading method to get the detailed information in the text.

3. Discussion after reading to train the students’speaking,reading comprehension

and writing ability.

4. Acting to develop the students’ creative, comprehensive and consolidating

abilities.

Teaching aids:the multimedia

Teaching procedures:

Step 1. Free-talk and Lead-in

1. Prepare some pictures. Encourage students to talk about Africa after watching them.

2. Show a map of Africa to students and ask them to know some famous places and their position.

Step 2 Reading Strategy

The purpose is to train my students’ abilitie of reading skill and to help my students grasp the main idea and the structure of the text easily and quickly. At the same time ,it’s very important to train their reading comprehension ability to fit in their examinations.

First of all, read the title and predict what the text mainly talks about.

Grasp the key words:adventure, Africa.

Secondly,enjoy the pictures.

What are they doing? Rafting----dangerous and exciting -------adventure. Thirdly, look through the first paragraph and the first sentences of each paragraph to make the prediction more specific.Because the first paragraph and first sentences of each paragraph usually tells what the text will be about.

And look for key words:planning my holiday,trip, travelling ,visit, go to Africa. These words may help to prepare for and predict what will come next.

Fourthly, pay attention to the style of an informal letter .

for example, the greetings and closings,in order to learn to write a letter by themselves.

Finally, refer to the exercises,because they will help understand the structure or clue or the details of the text .such as,

Exercise C2-------learn about the route

Exercise E--------- learn about the summary of the text.

In all,I spend much time to explain the reading strategy ,because I think it’s so important for my students .

Step3. Fast reading

The purpose is to find the structure and clue

This time, ask my students to use the reading strategy to read the text fast.Pay attention to:

The first paragraph.

The first sentences of each paragraph.

The key words.

At the same time, ask my students to refer to exercise C2.to learn/know about the route and what to do.

Try to put the activities in the correct order:

___3_______ travel down the River Nile

___2______travel on camels through the Sahara Desert

___5_______climb Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania

___4_______see wild animals in Kenya

___1_______fly to Morocco

___6______ go to the Himalayas

Step4 . Difficult words and sentences.

When students read. passages,very often they meet words they don’t know .so it’s difficult for them to go on . The teachers should help them understand, Explaining the