1 Reading skills: Guessing meanings Teacher: Chen Mei Students: Class 4, Senior 2 Time: May 6, 2009 Teaching Plan Teaching aims: knowledge 1.To master the reading skill—guessing meanings by some typical exercises. 2.To learn some important words appearing in the exercises. Skills To guide the Ss to learn to find, analyse and summary the rules by themselves and then imprvoe their ability to guess meanings. Emotion Through the study of this class, let the students form good habits of reading and get the quality of being calm when meeting with the unfamiliar words. Teaching important points: ---- To help the students improve their reading skill—guessing meanings. ----Let the students learn some important words appearing in the exercises. Teaching difficult points: ---- How to guide the Ss to learn to find, analyse and summary the rules by themselves Teaching methods: ----inquiry-based activities ----cooperative learning ----discussion Teaching aids: ----the multimedia computer and the blackboard Teaching steps: Step1. Introduction 1. lead-in : Discussion: How do you deal with the unfamiliar words or phrases while reading? 2 2. Some typical expressions to deal with the meanings of words and phrases. 1). The word “…” refers to / probably means/could best be replaced by _______. 2). The word “…” is most likely to mean ______. 3). What do you think the expression “…” stands for? 4). The underlined word “…” means ______. Step2. Presentation Ⅰ. The introduction of eight ways to guess meanings 1. Definition 定义法：一般通过定义、定语（从句）或同位语（从句）来确定词义。用来下定义的标志词有:means, refer to, deal with, to be, to be called, to be known as, or, similarly, namely, that is (to say),in other ...
