一、教学背景:综合技能(Integrating skills)
本单元围绕life in the future这一主题开展听、说、读、写多种教学活动,让学生想象未来人们的住房、交通、商业、医药与健康、知识与教育等方面,这些话题能激发学生的想象力,引起学生对未来人类生活的幻想和想象,培养发散性思维。学生通过本单元学习,能拓展知识,不仅了解到日前社会各个领域的发展状况,并且能学会科学地预测未来,让学生关注社会、了解社会,并为实现美好的未来而努力学习。
在经过前几个课时“热身”(Warming up),“听力部分”(Listening),“口语”(Speaking),“读前”(Pre-reading),“阅读”(Reading),“读后”(Post--reading)和“语言学习”(Language study)后,学生对本单元的话题已形成基本框架,同时也掌握了一些新单词来描述未来,这些都为学生“综合技能”(Integrating skills)打下基础。
“综合技能”(integrating skills)部分包括:
1.阅读训练1:教材上的阅读是一封书信。Mekanica给人类写一封信,介绍:3044年的生活方式和具体感受。文章充满大胆的想象和对美好生活的向往,借此来激发学生的想象力,使其憧憬未来生活,更要珍惜现代生活。
2.阅读训练2:练习册(Workbook)里的阅读通过对farmers,marketing people,people who work with computers,以及teachers目前和未来工作状况和工作形式的比较,鼓励学生为在未来生活中找到立足之地而努力学习。
3。写作训练:设想你刚从4367年旅游回来,你看到了一个叫Mogray的新发明,要求学生写一篇文章,解释What is a Mogray? What does it look 1ike? How does it work? What is it used for?通过表格列出了提纲和问题,供学生参考,为学生写作的内容利方法 做了指导。
二、教学过程:
Teaching Procedures:
Step1 Lead--in
Welcome to our happy future English program. Just as usual, I’ll divide you into 4 groups. After our competition, we’ll choose the winner, and the winner will get a surprise. Our competition will begin.
What was the life in the past?
What’ll happen in 2008 in China?
What will life be like in the year 4367 in China? (通过比较过去和现在,畅想未来,激发学生的创造性思维)。
Ask 2 or 3 students to answer. Then let the students discuss in groups and design a question。
Ask questions about the future in different areas of life, for example business, family life, transportation, education, etc.
Make the students ask and answer these questions in the form of competition. Also tell them the rules of competition. If they ask 1 question, they’ll get 1 point. If they answer 1 question, also 1 point. 1 person can ask at most 2 questions. (to make more students to take part in the competition)
Step 2 Reading
Make a summary of the competition, and tell them to think over where the future is going?
Read the passage on workbook. And then discuss in groups of four. Go on asking and answering questions about future according to this passage. (competition) For example: what’ll farmers do in the future? Read the first paragraph and fill in the chart.
Makanika’s e-friend What does it look like? How does it work? What can it be used for?
(围绕课题设问问题,采用多种方法,帮助学生联想、想象、探索、创新,调动了学生的思维积极性与主动性。培养了他们从多角度思考问题的能力)。
Step 3 Listening
Let us enjoy a letter from Mekanika., Listen to the tape.: What does Mekanika tell us in the letter? (competition)
Main idea Paragraph1 Mekanika describes an e-friend. She explains what it is. What it looks like and how people use it. Paragraph2 Mekanika describes an idea, namely virtual reality.
What is virtual reality? Could you please use an example to explain?
(启发学生讨论将来的生活并比较自己和Mekanika的生活的异同,激发学生的发散思维。)
Step 4 Speaking
In the year of 2108, the world will totally change with the development of new technologies. Many new inventions will be made. Imagine one day your travel in the year of 2108 and see a wonderful machine called Mogray. Describe what a Mogray is.
Work in pairs and decide what a Mogray is. We only know it is a thing or a machine. Complete the chart below.
What does it look like? How does it work? What can it be used for?
(鼓励学生插上幻想的翅膀,通过描述自己设想的未来生活中的一个新发明以培养学生的创新精神)。
Step 5 Writing
Use the chart above to help you write your paragraph. Correct one or two passages together with the students.(要求学生写一篇文章畅想一下未来生活是什么样子的,培养学生的想象能力)。
Step6 Conclusion
We cannot predict exactly how bright our future will be., but at least we have dreams and we can hope. Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is present. That’s why we call it gift. So let’s value today!
Step7 Homework
Assign homework. Write their paragraph in exercise books.
三:教学反思:
整个一堂课围绕课题问路及答语,采用多种方法,帮助学生联想、想象、探索、创新,调动了学生的思维积极性与主动性。培养了他们从多角度思考问题,在变中求通,同中求活,活中求新的能力。多年的教学实践,我深刻地感觉到中学英语课堂教学必须遵循以活动为中心的理念,教师必须注重创设宽松、民主、富于创新精神的教学氛围,注重抓住一切时机激发学生创新的欲望,注重对学生的学习行为和学习结果、反应等做出客观、公正、热情、诚恳的评价。只有教师在课堂教学中真正创新了教学方法,学生的创造意识才能得以培养,其创造个性才能得以弘扬。英语是交流的工具,如何让学生敢开口、多开口、能开口,以便能应用外语表达自己的思想,是如今每一个英语教学工作者孜孜不倦的追求。我在这一节课在以下几方面也做了一些有益的尝试:
1.提出了感兴趣的问题,并鼓励学生表达不同的观点,在争辨中帮助学生克服怕犯错误、怕丢面子等心理障碍,使学生从敢讲到讲得好,到进一步激发学习兴趣。
2.紧抓发散点,引导学生联系其他各科的知识,并有意识地提倡学生广泛接触课外各方面最新信息,把课内外知识有机结合起来,培养学生发散性思维。
3.营造活跃的课堂气氛,根据上课内容的需要合理安排对话讨论、会话、游戏等多种方法,紧凑、高效且轻松地学习。
英语教改不光是教学方法的改革,也是教学思想的改革,要把学生从应付考试引导到运用英语能力的培养上来。
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