1、This unit is about festivals. Students learn about festivals from both China and foreign countries, and talk about festivals and express their opinions on them. In this period, students will read a passage about Christmas, a western festival. Students learn the spirit of Christmas from the story in
2、A Christmas Carol and try to understand the spirit. At the same time, students are expected to improve their comprehensive language competence, especially reading abilities and develop their cultural awareness.Students in Grade 9 have some abilities in reading and they are familiar with the topic, s
3、o its easy to arouse students interest in this lesson and encourage them to participate in the class actively. However, some students still have problems reading and understanding the passage, so the teacher continues to develop students reading abilities.II. Teaching aimsBy the end of the class, st
4、udents will be able to:1. know the key words and phrases :Christmas, lie, novel, eve, dead, business, punish, warn, present, warmth, spread, end up, care about, remind of.2. master some objective clauses and important sentences: Many would agree that when we think of Christmas,we probably think of g
5、ifts, Christmas trees and Santa Claus. He just cares about whether he can make more money. He now treats everyone with kindness and warmth, spreading love and joy everywhere he goes.3. use reading strategies to understand the structure and details and learn to use the new reading strategy-inferring.
6、4. use mind map to retell the passage and work together to make a proper conversation. 5. understand the spirit of Christmas and share and give love to people around them in their life. 6. learn about foreign culture and share Chinese culture with others.III. Teaching important and difficult pointsI
7、mportant points:1. Learn the key words and phrases :2. Learn some objective clauses and important sentences:3. Use reading strategies to understand the structure and details and learn to use the new reading strategy-inferring.4. Use mind map to retell the passage and work together to make a proper c
8、onversation.Difficult points:1. Use reading strategies to understand the structure and details and learn to use the new reading strategy-inferring.2. Use mind map to retell the passage and work together to make a proper conversation.IV. Teaching methods and learning methodsThe New English Curriculum
9、 advocates TBLT(Task-based Language Teaching) and students are the real masters while the teachers act as directors and bring students abilities to full play. In this lesson, I mainly use communicative approach, audio-visual approach and situational approach. Based on PWP approach (Pre-reading, Whil
10、e-reading, Post-reading) Students will participate in various activities like discussion, prediction, skimming, scanning, retelling and performance. V. Teaching aidsThe Teaching Syllabus says its necessary for teachers to use modern teaching facilities, so I use CAI (computer-aided instruction) to m
11、ake the class lively, interesting and effective. And a computer, a projector and a blackboard are needed in this class.VI. Teaching proceduresStep1 Pre-reading1. Warming upEnjoy a song “Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays”.Purpose: make students relaxed and interested in this lesson and be ready for the
12、 topic.2. DiscussionDiscuss what you know about Christmas and create a mind map.Learn some new words. Ask students if they know the date, activities, symbols and stories about Christmas and discuss with their partners. After that, I will show some possible answers. Meanwhile, students learn some new
13、 words like carol, novel, partner and some new names like Santa Claus, Scrooge and Jacob Marley. make students brainstorm what they have already known about Christmas and be ready to know more about Christmas. Learning new words can pave the way for the following reading.3. PredictionPredict what th
14、ey will read about according to the title and the pictures. make students curious about the passage and get ready for it.Step2 While-reading1. SkimmingSkim the passage to get the structure and the main idea of each part and each paragraph. make students get a overall understanding of the passage. Here I do not offer students the answers directly but give them a tip to teach them how to learn.2. ScanningRead paragraph 2 and paragraph 4 to
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