Unit 3 Under the sea Reading 教案 2020-2021学年高二英语人教新课标选修七.doc

Unit 3 Under the sea Three dimensional teaching aims Knowledge aim Get to know the meaning of new words from the context. Get the students to learn more about the creature under the sea by learning the text. Ability aim Students can improve their reading skills, such as predicting, skimming and scanning. Students use reading skills to grasp the structure and the main ideas of the whole text and each paragraph. Emotional aim Get students interested in the creature under the sea Develop students’ sense of cooperation acquisition of ocean knowledge. Teaching key points and difficulties 1. How to improve the students’ reading skills 2. How to make good use of students’ reading skills to better understand the text. Teaching methods Inductive method Task-based activities Teaching aids A computer, slides Teaching procedures Step 1. Lead-in Play a video about sea creatures and ask the students to write down some information. Do a quiz to know more about the sea creature. Step 2. Pre-reading Ask the students some questions to see how much they know about sea creature. Show the students the title and the pictures of this text and ask them to predict the content of the text. Ask students to give their opinions. Step 3. Fast reading Task 1 Read the text quickly and try to use key words or topic sentence to get the main idea of each paragraph. Then ask the students to do the match. Summarize the main idea of the whole passage. Possible answer: The passage mainly tells us how old Tom (a killer whale) helps with whale hunting. Task 2 Scanning Fill in the blanks with the names mentioned in the text. 1. ________was 16 years old when he went to work at the whaling station. 2._________orderd Clancy to go to the boat as there was a whale out there in the bay. 3. _________was swimming by the boat showing the whalers the way. 4. _______told Clancy that they would return the next day to bring in the body of the whale. 5._______was carried by the waves further and further away from t