Unit 4 Maybe you should learn to relax! 教學設計

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教學目標

I. Knowledge aims：

By the end of the class：①The students will be able to read and understand the new words：pressure， push， compete， continue， compare， cause， usual， crazy， typical， skill， opinion， development;②The students will be able to use the following structures to express their opinions：I agree or disagree /don’t agree with… ? ?In my opinion， I think…Parents/ kids should /shouldn’t

II. Ability aims：

The students will be able to express their opinions and advice.

III. Emotional objectives：

To encourage the students to talk about the problems in our lives and give their opinions about them

教學重難點以及突破措施：①Important points： knowledge objectives and reading skills;②突破措施：引導學生分層次閱讀，分任務閱讀，通過引導猜詞，預測等手段來理解上下文，幫助獲取信息，理解文章。

教學方法：①恰當運用多媒體輔助教學，提高課堂效率增加趣味性。②以學生為中心，開展Pair work， Group work等英語教學活動。

教學過程：

Step1： Lead-in

1. Play the video and ask the students to answer the questions ：

Q1： How does the girl feel？

Q2： Why？

2.Free talk about after-school activities.

What do you often do after school？

What do you think of them？

Step 2 Pre-reading

Show the picture and the title and guess what the passage is about.

Step3： While-reading

Task 1： Read quickly and match the main idea of each paragraph.

Task 2： Read Paragraph 1 and answer the questions

1. What’s the purpose（目的） of the students learning exam skills？

____________________________________________________

2. What are other students doing？

______________________________________________________

Task 3 ： Read Paragraph 2 and fill in the chart.

time person activities feeling

after school one of two boys 1._____________ 4.___________

the other son 2._____________

daughter 3._____________

Cathy Taylor take her children from activity to activity

Task 4： Read paragraph 3 carefully and fill in the blanks.

1. Linda____________（ agrees/disagrees） with Cathy.

2. ?She thinks that it is ____ to compare the kids with other children.

3. ?She also thinks that people shouldn’t _____ their kids so hard.

Task 5： Read Paragraph 4 and answer.

Does Dr. Green agree with Cathy or Linda？What does she say？

Task 6： Read the passage again and guess the meaning of new words.

continue， train， typical，compete，development， compare .

Step4 ?Post-reading

Groupwork： What do you think of after-school activities？What should you do to relax？

Ask the students to discuss and write down their ideas .

Step5 Consolidation

1.Reading strategy 1： Get the main idea of each paragraph according to the topic sentence.

2.Reading strategy 2： Use the context to help you guess the meaning of the words you don’t know.

Ste6 Homework

1. Try to remember the new words and try to use them.

2. Be happy every day！