初中英语阅读课教案.doc

1、LESSON PLANTime of Lesson: 45 minutesStudents: Senior Grade OneTeaching Material: How Did Postage Stamps Come Into UseTeaching Objectives:1. To train Ss reading ability(such as guessing the meaning of new words in the context, the speed of reading.)2. To train Ss reading comprehension(To get message

2、s from what they read.)Teaching Points:1. Ss get used to three reading skills.2. Ss understand the given passage.Properties:Stamps, letters, postcards, work sheets, OHPTeaching Method:Communicative ApproachLesson Type:ReadingNew Words and A Phrase:postage, put forward, proposal, seal, deliver, syste

3、m, postalProcedures:Step 1. Warm-up(6)1. Lead-inShow some stamps, letters and postcards and have free talk to arouse students motivation.2. Dealing with some new wordsQ: Do you know the postage of a letter?Explain postage, and write postage on the Bb.postage: payment for the carrying of lettersA: Fi

4、fty fen for any place in China except Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macao.Q: What do the postmen do with the letters?A: They take the letters from the postbox and carry them away to the places on the envelopes and deliver them to the addressed people.Explain deliver, and write deliver on the Bb.deliver: tak

5、e letters or goods to the addressed people.Q: Who put forward the proposal to use stamps? Use OHP to project the question onto the screen.Explain put forward and proposal, and write them on the Bb.put forward: put an idea before people for thinking overproposal: sth. proposed, plan or idea, suggesti

6、onAgain: Who put forward the proposal to use stamps?Step 2. Skimming(430)1. InstructionsT: Now I give you a passage to read, and for the first time you should only find the answer to the question. You have only two and a half minutes to read. So dont read word for word. Read quickly. Just try to fin

7、d the answer.2. Handing out the reading material and reading3. CheckingQ: Who put forward the proposal to use stamps.A: Rowland Hill, a schoolmaster in England.Step 3. Scanning(6)1. InstructionsT: This time I give you three minutes to read the passage. When you are reading, find the answers to the t

8、wo questions.Use OHP to project the questions:1. Why was the postage high in the early nineteenth century when people did not use stamps?2. When was postage stamps first put to use?2. Reading3. Checking1) Pair work2) Class checkingAns. to Que.1. Because the post offices had to send many people to co

9、llect the postage.Ans. to Que.2. On May 6, 1840.Step 4. Full reading(21)1. InstructionsT: Now I give you ten minutes to read the passage for the third time and you should read it carefully. Before reading, lets go over the questions on the work sheet.Give Work Sheet 1 to the Ss. Explain the new word

10、s in Que. 4.prevent: stop, not let sb. do sth.reuse: use againT: Try to find the answers to the questions. But dont write the answers down, you can put a sign or underline the sentences concerning the questions.2. Reading3. Checking1) Group work: Checking the answers in a group of four Ss.2) Class w

11、ork: Checking the answers in class.Possible Answers:1. Why were people unhappy to pay postage for letters in the early nineteenth century?Because they had to pay postage when they received letters, especially when they paid for a letter which they did not wish to receive at all. The postage was high

12、.2. Why was it much easier for people to use stamps for postage?Because people could go to the nearby post office to buy stamps and put them on envelopes before they sent the letters.3. Why was the postage much lower using stamps?Because in this way, the post office did not need to send postmen to c

13、ollect postage. It only needed to send fewer postmen to deliver letters.4. How could the post office prevent people from reusing the stamps?The post office could simply put seals on the stamps so that people could not use the stamps again.Check the understanding of the word seal, and write it on the

14、 Bb.seal: 5. Did other countries take up the new postal system?Yes.Check the understanding of postal and system, and write them on the Bb.postal: of the postsystem: a set of working ways6. Does every country in the world has its own stamps?Yes.Step 5: Rounding-off(7)1. Answering Ss questions on the

15、passage if any.2. Making a guided-dialogue with the information given from the passage.Hand out Work Sheet 2. Do it in pairs.3. Asking two or three pairs to read their dailogues.A possible completed dialogue:A: Oh, What a beautiful stamp!B: Yes, its from the U.S.A.A: Do you know in the early nineteenth century people did not use stamps?B: Then how did they pay the postage?A: They had to pay the postage when they received letters.B: Was the postage very