1.Ask the students the following questions : 1) Do you know that Premier Li made an inspection tour in Nan Tong last week? 2) Do you know that an 85-year-old woman learnt to parachute(跳伞) in Dubai(迪拜) ? 3) Everyday there is something, big or small, going on around us or around the world. Where can you get the news? (设计意图:选取世界热点话题和身边的新闻,导入主题-报刊阅读,开门见山。) Step 2 Structures of a newspaper Ask the students to take out 21st Century Teens Juniors and have an answer race. 1.Can you tell me how many columns there are in Teens Juniors? What are they? 2.Where can you find these columns? 3. Please look at each column, and tell us what is in each column? 5.What is your favourite column? 6. How do you choose the article you like to read in each column? (设计意图:梳理本节课所用报纸的结构,以便学生能更好更快地找出自己所喜欢的栏目和文章。) Step 3 Function of the titles in the newspaper Encourage the students to go through all the titles and try to answer the questions below: 1. Is there anything special about the titles? (Foam fights and raisins,Humans in a hotpot,All of the world's most disgusting foods) 2.Why are phrases commonly used in the newspaper? 3. Read these titles. What is special about them? (Museum makes “art for the ears”,Jin Yong passes away, Westlife makes their big return) 4.Why are present tenses commonly used in the title? 5. What’s special about this title? (No more trick-or-treating?) 6.What’s t the function of this title? (设计意图:分类解读报纸的标题,引导学生理清不同标题的功能和作用,并通过体验, 反思,讨论,合作和探究等方式,发现语言规律,发展自主学习能力。) Step 4 Guided reading—A film Review Pre-reading Before reading the article, raise the following questions : 1.Why do you choose the article about a film? 2. Look at the picture on the front page of the newspaper. What can you see on the picture? 3. At the first sight of the picture, what do you think the girl? (设计意图:通过讨论报纸首页的图片,预测图片中的人物的个性,激发学生的阅读兴趣,让学生带着期待和想象开启报刊文章的阅读之旅。) While-reading Get the students to read and answer the following questions: 1. Where is she from? 2. How old is she? 3. When did her new film come out on the Chinese mainland? 4. What does she play in her new film? (设计意图:从人物介绍的要素入手,设置Wh问题,引导学生快速读取文章信息,了解人物的基本信息。) Ask the students to read Paragraph 3-4 and think about the following questions: 1. What does she like doing? 2. What does she hope to do? 3. What is her dream? (设计意图:通过阅读,进一步了解人物信息,为下面个人观点的表达提供了有效的帮助。) After-reading 1. Conclude the structure of a profile in a newspaper. 2. Ask the students to introduce their favourite pop star. (设计意图:促进学生综合语言运用能力的形成和发展。) Step 5 Selected reading Get the students to read another newspaper article and enjoy the use of beautiful words and expressions. Read the passage about Jin Yong then answer: 1. What is Jin Yong's real name? 2. How many martials arts novels did he write during his life? 3. What makes his books rich and colourful? 4. What do the characters in Jin Yong's book fight for? (设计意图:通过阅读了解本周中心人物金庸的概况,了解金庸的成就及写作风格,为下一步了解经典人物做铺垫) Enjoy classic charactors in Jin Yong’s novels: 1. Do you know any classic charactors in Jin Yong's novels? 2.How are they described in the article? (设计意图:引导学生在读报过程中养成积累词汇,摘录好词好句的习惯。英语报刊体裁多样、贴近现实生活、词语丰富、趣味性强,英文报刊阅读既可拓展学生的知识面,又增加了初中生接触地道、纯正英语的机会, 有助于扩充学生的词汇量,习得地道表达。) Uses of punctuations(标点) 1. What did Jin Yong say about his novels? 2. What does this sentence mean? 3. What is the use of this quotation mark(引号)? Give more examples, ask students to have a discussion, try to find out different usages of quotations. 1. To present special meanings and ideas in the article. 2. To show what they say correctly and directly. 3. To use around the names of a book, a poem, a film, a TV programme and so on. 4. To highlight(突出) the facts. 5. To use around short sayings(谚语). (设计意图:恰当地在新闻报道中引用几句引语,能让报道生辉增色,牢牢抓住读者的眼球。简要探讨直接引语在新闻写作中的作用, 培养学生阅读新闻的能力。同时进一步探索引号的不同用法,培养学生合作探究的能力。 |