人教版八下-Unit 7 what's the highest mountain in the world -Section A 3a—3c-教案、教学设计-市级优课-(配套课件编号：d1211).doc

1、1. Instructional objectives By the end of the class, more than 95% students should be able to 1) Recognize some new words and language chunks, such as, achievement, southwestern, take in, succeed, challenge and in the face of; 2) Compare the comparative forms and the superlative forms, for example,

2、the most dangerous sport, the most famous place, more serious, and stronger; 3) Develop some reading strategies through reading, like predicting, skimming, scanning, inferring the meaning of new words in context and summarizing; 4) Design a mind-map to get to know more about the reading material and

3、 relate the passage based on the mind-map; 2. Educational objectives By the end of the class, about 85% students should be able to 1) Talk about the natural geography in English; 2) Learn to challenge themselves in the face of difficulties; 3. Personal objectives Teacher should be able to 1) speak f

4、luently and correctly to set a good example for students 2) organize class effectively; Contents: 1.Vocabulary: achieve, achievement, southwestern, freezing, thick, include, condition, force, nature, succeed, challenge, take in, in the face of, even though 2.Grammar: comparative forms and superlativ

5、e forms Topic: Reading: Qomolangma - the Most Dangerous Mountain in the World? Focal and Difficult Points: 1. Students can learn the new words and language chunks, and talk about the natural geography; 2. Students are able to use some reading strategies to understand the passage; Procedures Step 1 G

6、reeting Purpose: The teacher greets students as usual and begin the class with a short song. Step 2 Enjoy a video (4 minutes) Purpose: Show a video to elicit the topic and present some new words , the students will have good interest in it. T:Can you tell me the name of the mountain in the video? S:

7、. 第 1 页 T: yeah, it is a little to guess.Let me give you some clues. S: Qomolanga. T: Do you want to climb the Qomolanga? S: Yes. Step 3 Pre-reading (2 minutes) Task 1: knowledge of Qomolangma and ew words Purpose: Let the students guess what things maybe talked about according to the title and the

8、picture. T: Look at the picture and the title: Qomolangma - the Most Dangerous Mountain in the World? Is it about the dangers or the beauty of Qomolangma? Step 4 While-reading Purpose: Design different tasks to train the reading skills and divide the passage into three paragraphs to lower the diffic

9、ulty of reading. All of these are aimed at arousing the studentsinterest in reading and in English. Task 2: Readthe passage quickly and try to match the main idea of each paragraph. Purpose: Let the students read through each paragraph quicklyand match each paragraph with its main idea in order to t

10、rain the reading skill - Skimming. (Let the text of each paragraph go through the screen from bottom to the top.) Reading strategy - Skimming: Look through to find the main idea of each paragraph. Read each paragraph very quickly in the screen, and match each paragraph with the main ideas. Task 3: L

11、isten para.1 and try to fill in the blanks. List four dangers for climbers Thick clouds Freezing weather Heavy snow Heavy storm Paragraph 1spirit of climbers Paragraph 2achievements of climbers Paragraph 3facts and dangers 第 2 页 Task 4 Para.3 (3 minutes) Purpose: Let the students read Para.3, and tr

12、y to answer the following questions Reading strategy - Scanning: Read the passage or the paragraph carefully to find specific information. Read the paragraph 1 and answer the following questions Q1: Why do so many people try to climb this mountain even though it is dangerous. Q2: what is the spirit

13、of the climbers tell us? S: 大自然的力量。(The force of nature) T: Now, lets complete the mind-map. Step 5 Post-reading Task 8: Retelling (6 minutes) Purpose: Let the students make a general summary and retell the passage in groups based on the summary. Working in groups can lower down the difficulty of re

14、telling. 1. Make a summary (Whole class work). 2. Work in groups, and retell the passage based on the mind-map. (Group 1 retells “the facts”, Group 2 retells “the dangers”, Group 3 retells “the achievements”, and Group 4 retells “the spirit”.) Task 6: Disscussion (14 minutes) 第 3 页 Purpose: Let the

15、students enjoy a video about one climber and make an interview based on the information they get from the video to have a deeper understanding of the passage and try to let them speak more in a real situation. 1. Question If you have chance to climb Qomolangma, do you want o have a try? Step 6Assignment According to the mind-map and the experience of Eric, write a short passage about Qomolangma in your own words.