高中英语人教版 (2019)必修 第一册Unit 1 Teenage life教案

Unit 1 Teenage Life Period 2 Reading and Thinking 教案

教材分析：

The topic of this unit is about teenage life, which belongs to the theme context of “humans and oneself”.

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

This period is entitled the freshmen challenges, which mainly concerns some big challenges for new students in Senior high school. In this period, a teacher should lead students to find out what their challenges are and guide them to figure out how to crack the challenges and better themselves. More importantly, a teacher should instruct students to absorb new language points and appreciate the language. Besides, a teacher must instruct students to acquire some skills concerning reading efficiently and inspire them to talk more about their new school life, especially their new problems and solutions both at school and in life.

教学目标与核心素养：

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

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

3. Develop students’ sense of cooperative learning and individual thinking capability.

4. Develop students’ different learning skills to solve different reading comprehensive problems.

教学重难点：

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

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

教学过程：

Step 1 Leading-in

Have a free talk with students. Ask them the following questions:

How do you feel about your senior high school? Have you come across some challenges that make you upset?

Step 2 Pre-reading

Let students guess what the text will be mainly about before reading by looking at the picture and the title.

Step 3 Reading

1) Fast reading

Ask students to skim the reading passage to sum up the main idea of each paragraph and then discuss it with their partners.

Paragraph

1.________________________________________________

2.________________________________________________

3.________________________________________________

4.________________________________________________

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

2) Intensive reading

Allow students to read carefully this time to understand the main details of each paragraph and then finish the following.

1. Adam felt __________at the beginning of his senior high

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

2. Who gave Adam advice on courses?

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

3. What subject is Adam’s favorite?

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

4. Hearing he was poor in playing football well, Adam             .

A. felt disappointed but went on with it

B. left the football and joined a club

C. didn’t give up and tried to improve

D. felt unhappy but signed up for a new team

5. What kind of person is Adam?

A. brave and well prepared      B. negative and silly

C. active and shy        D. gentle and patient

Let students look through the chart first and then read the text silently. Three minutes later, check the answers with the whole class. Show the suggested answers on the screen.

Step 4 Further Reading and discussion

Read the text the third 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 other challenges are you facing?

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

Step 5 Passage Consolidation

Complete the passage with the suitable words from the passage.

I’m Adam,   1   freshman in senior high school. The first week was a little   2  (confuse).

There are some   3  (challenge) I have to face in my new school life. First, I had to think carefully about my courses. Chinese is hard to learn, but I hope I can speak it   4  (fluent) when I graduate. My adviser   5  (recommend) me to sign up for advanced literature because I’m good   6   it. Second, I had to choose my extra-curricular activities. I tried   7  (join) the school football team though I couldn’t do well in   8   at first. Besides that, I joined a volunteer club.

In order to be well   9  (prepare) for university or whatever else   10  (come) in the future, I make up my mind to study harder and get used to new situation.

Step 6 Homework

1. Write a passage to introduce you first senior school challenges and how to solve them. (about 120words)

2. Learn the useful new words and expressions in this part by heart.