新人教版高中英语必修1Unit 1 Teenage Life-Reading and Thinking教案

Unit 1 Teenage Life-Reading and Thinking教案

【教材分析】

The topic of thisunit is about teenage life, which belongs to the theme context of “humans andoneself”.

As teenagers whoshoulder the responsibility of “Chinese great dream”, they must fully knowthemselves, including their strengths, weaknesses and challenges etc. They aresupposed to improve themselves continuously and readily study their subjects,and thus foster their strategies and confidence in lifelong studies.

This period isentitled the freshmen challenges, which mainly concerns some big challenges fornew students in Senior high school. In this period, a teacher should leadstudents to find out what their challenges are and guide them to figure out howto crack the challenges and better themselves. More importantly, a teachershould instruct students to absorb new language points and appreciate thelanguage. Besides, a teacher must instruct students to acquire some skillsconcerning reading efficiently and inspire them to talk more about their newschool life, especially their new problems and solutions both at school and inlife.

【教学目标与核心素养】

1. Enable studentsto acquire the basic usage of the new words and expressions concerning thefreshmen challenges and learn to use them flexibly.

2. Enable studentsto have a good understanding of the freshmen challenges in the new senior highschool which is quite different from junior middle school.

3. Developstudents’ sense of cooperative learning and individual thinking capability.

4. Developstudents’ different learning skills to solve different reading comprehensiveproblems.

【教学重难点】

1. Developstudents’ reading ability such as skimming, scanning and summarizing.

2. Let studentstalk about their new school challenges in senior high school and encourage themto find the possible solutions to conquer them.

【教学过程】

1. Warming up

Step 1 Leading-in

Have a free talkwith students. Ask them the following questions:

How do you feelabout your senior high school? Have you come across some challenges that makeyou upset?

Step 2 Pre-reading

Let students guesswhat the text will be mainly about before reading by looking at the picture andthe title.

Step 3 Reading

1. Fast reading

Ask students to skimthe reading passage to sum up the main idea of each paragraph and then discussit with their partners.

Paragraph

1.________________________________________________

2.________________________________________________

3.________________________________________________

4.________________________________________________

Tips: you can findmain ideas by first taking at quick look at the title, picture, key words andphrases and topic sentences.

2. Intensive reading

Allow students toread carefully this time to understand the main details of each paragraph andthen finish the following.

1. 1. Adam felt__________at the beginning of his senior high

A. excited B. interested C. confused D. worried

2. Who gave Adamadvice on courses?

A. Parents. B. Adviser. C .Coach. D. Classmates.

3. What subject isAdams favorite?

A. Chinese. B. World history. C. Math. D.English.

4. Hearing he waspoor in playing football well, Adam

A. feltdisappointed but went on with it

B. left thefootball and joined a club

C. didnt give upand tried to improve

D. felt unhappybut signed up for a new team

5. What kind ofperson is Adam?

A. brave and wellprepared B. negativeand silly

C. active and shy D.gentle and patient

2. Let studentslook through the chart first and then read the text silently. Three minuteslater, check the answers with the whole class. Show the suggested answers onthe screen.

Step 4 Further Reading and discussion

Read the text thethird time and work in pairs to do the following.

1. What does “make the team” in Paragraph 3 mean?

2. Do you face the same challenges as Adam? What otherchallenges are you facing?

3. What are some differences between Adam’s school life andyour school life?

Step 5 Passage Consolidation

Complete thepassage with the suitable words from the passage.

Im Adam, 1._______freshmanin senior high school. The first week was a little 2. _____ (confuse).