Unit1Period2ReadingTheGeneralIdeaofThisPeriod:ThisperiodisaboutthereadingofthepassageSchoollifeintheUK.ItwillhelptheSstolearnmoreaboutschoollifeintheUKandthedifferencesbetweenthatinUKandinChina.TheReadingStrategyofthisunitteachesSstwobasicreadingskills,skimmingandscanning.Ssareexpectedtomasterthetwoskillsandtoapplythemtotheirfuturestudy.TeachingAims1.Trainthestudents’readingability2.Learnsomeusefulwordsandexpressions3.LearnmoreaboutschoollifeintheUKandthedifferencebetweenschoollifeintheUKandinChina.LearningabilitygoalsHelptheSslearnhowtotalkaboutschoollife.Important&difficultpoints:(1)HelptheSstounderstandthepassagebetter.(2)Learnandmastersomeimportantwordsandphrasesinthisperiod.(3)HowtohelptheSsimprovetheirreadingabilityandunderstandthepassagebetter.(4)Howtomastertheimportantlanguagepointsinthispassage.Teachingmethods:Readingstrategies(skimming,scanning);discussion;explanation&sometask-basedactivitiesTeachingAids:ataperecorder;amultimedia7.Teachingprocedures:Step1Greetings1.Greetthewholeclassasusual2.Checktheirhomework.(saysth.abouttheirwriting)Step2Lead-inT:Inthelastperiod,welearnedaboutsomedifferencesbetweenChineseandBritishschoollife.WeknowtheUKhasalonghistoryineducationanditspublicschoolsareveryfamousintheworld.ManychildrenintheUK,eventhosefromtheroyalfamilieswouldgotothepublicschools.Why?Today,we’llgototheUKschoolstohavealook.We’llgetsomedetailedinformationabouttheschoollifeintheUK.Step3ReadingActivity1SkimmingT:Nowwe’llreadanarticlefromaschoolmagazinewrittenbyanexchangestudentnamedWeiHua,whogivesusabriefbutcleardescriptionaboutwhatschoollifeintheUKislikefromherownexperience.ReadthetextquicklyandanswerthequestionsinPartAonP.2.Forthis,trytofocusonandidentifythemostimportantinformationinthetext.Checktheanswersafterreading.T:It’snotverydifficultforyoutofindtheanswerstothequestions.Butforthis,Idohavesomequestionsforyou:first,haveyounoticedwheretheanswerstothesequestionslieinthetext?Ss:Theyareeitheratthebeginningortheendofcertainparagraphs.T:Second,inwhatwaydidyoufindtheanswers?S1:Ireadthroughthewholearticleandfoundtheanswers.S2:IonlyreadthefirstsentencesofthefirstparagraphandIfoundtheanswertoQuestion1.用心爱心专心116号编辑S3:Ifoundthewords“myclassteacher”first,andthentheanswertoQuestion2.S4:First,Ifoundtheparagraphtalkingabout“Woodworkclass”,andthenIfoundtheanswertoQuestion3.T:Inansweringthequestions,wecanreachthefollowingconclusion,thatis,it’snotnecessarytoreadanarticlewordbywordorsentencebysentencetofinishcertaintasks.Thisiswhatwecalled“readingstrategy”.Inthisunit,we’lllearntwobasicreadingstrategies---skimmingandscanning.Nowreadthe“strategybox”onP3andfindthetruemeaningofthemandwhenandhowtousetheskillsandthentrytofinishthefollowingform.StrategiesWhentouseHowtouseSkimmingWhenwewanttogetageneralideaofwhatatextisabout.Welookatthetitlesandheading,thefirstandlastsentencesofparagraphsandthefirstandlastparagraphsaswellaspicturesandchartstoguesswhatthetextisabout.ScanningWhenwewanttofindcertaininformationinatextquickly.Wescanthetextforkeywordsandphrases,dates,numbers,etc.Wedonotneedtoreadthewholetextwordbyword.Activity2ScanningT:Sometimesyouwanttofindinformationquickly.Inthiscase,youdon’treadeverysentence.Instead,youscanthematerial---youlookquicklyfortheimportantwords.Todothis,haveaquestioninyourmind.Thenrunyoureyesdownthepageuntiltheanswer“jumpsout”atyou.D...
