必修五（Unit 3　Life in the future Period 4） 新课标人教版高中英语.docVIP

Period 4　Reading and Writing The General Idea of This Period This period teaching and studying will center on reading and writing.As usual, the teacher can begin the teaching with revision the former knowledge, that is to say, the content of First Impressions.This part can be also regarded as the lead-in, because the passage to be learned is the continued part of First Impression.It will describe amazing things that Li Qiang has seen in the future AD 3005. As to reading training, the purpose of doing it is to help the students to form the good habit of reading with some strategy.The teacher should develop the students’ ability of scanning and skimming, including the implied meaning beyond lines.So at the beginning, get the students to prepare knowledge for reading.In order to reach that purpose, the teacher firstly will ask some questions about what they have learned in the second period, and then let them talk about what they can see in the picture. Then let the students scan the passage and find what amazing things are mentioned.Later, the teacher will ask the students to skim it and find out the main idea for each paragraph.The purpose of doing these is to help the students to form the good habit of reading.When reading a passage, we had better first read it as whole, that is, understand the structure of the passage and catch the main idea with the help of structure and title. The following step is to read the passage for the details.The teacher can design some teaching activities to help the students to know about more and more information by taking part in the reading activities.As a result, the teacher should be careful, cautious and creative when designing the reading activities.The reading activities had better be various, which can cause more students’ attention. At the end of reading, some activities should be designed to lead the students to understand the implied meaning beyond the passage.At the same time, let the students consider the writing purpos