教案Unit16 Lesson3 Life Stories

Lesson 3 Life Stories

教案

Teaching Aim:

① Learn some useful reading strategy: predicting, general idea, and working out the meaning of important words from the context.

②. Learn to retell a story according to time order

③. Accumulate some synonyms and antonyms

Teaching important and difficult points

　 　

①.   Learn some useful reading strategy

②.   Retell a story according to time order

Teaching procedures:

　 　

Ⅰ. Warming up

Task1: Look at the picture and talk something about Helen Keller

Task2:Talk about some famous people and their events

　 　

Ⅱ. Pre-reading

Introduction about Helen Keller

Helen Keller  (June 27, 1880 - June 1, 1968), was an author, lecturer, and humanitarian whose unusual life and dedicated 献身的 work had an  international influence on the lives of the disabled (残疾人). She became blind and deaf at the age of 19 months through a damaging brain fever and  could communicate only through hysterical 歇斯底里 laughter or violent tantrums 发怒. But, with the help of her teacher Anne Mansfield Sullivan,    Keller learned to read barilla盲文 and to write by using a special typewriter. Bibliography自传: Keller, Helen, The Story of My Life and Teacher (1955); Waite, H. E., Valiant Companions: Helen Keller and  Anne Sullivan Macy (1959);

　 　

Ⅲ. Reading

Task1: Reading strategy (1)

Before reading, look at the title, pictures and the first couples of lines of the text.

Look for clues to help you predict what kind of text it is and what it is about.

Reading strategy (2)

   Read the text to get the general idea. Ignore words you don’t know.

Read the text again. Try to work out the meaning of important new words. Use a dictionary if

you can’t.

   Read any comprehensive questions and try to think of  possible answers. Then find

answers to questions in the text. 

　 　

　 　

Task2: read the text and answer the following questions:

1. How was Helen Keller different from other children?

2. Why was her teacher so important to her?

3. How did she learn new words?

4. Why did she feel happy when she understood the meaning of the word “water”?

5. Why was the word “love” so difficult for Helen to understand?

6. Why did she think that love might be the sun?

7. How did she learn the word “think”?

8. What do the words “love” and “think” have in common?

Task3: retell the story according to the clues

Can you figure out the whole process of Helen’s learning ?

Some of the clues are given here:

①. getting to know Sullivan …getting

②. to know some words which can be touched…

③.   the mystery of language was revealed to her …

④.   getting to understand some abstract words.

　 　

Ⅳ. Post-reading

Discussion:

What kind of teacher do you think Anne Sullivan is?

Try to use as many adjective words as you can:

　 　

Ⅴ. Language points:

1.feel +名词， 感到某事情感或触摸到某物。

He felt no shame and no regret .

Feel = adj  感觉到怎样. 摸上去如何

Feel lonely

The cloth feels very soft .

2. Only 引导的状语从句如放在句前， 后面的句子要部分倒装。

Only by changing the way we live can we save the earth .

3. Reveal

1.    展现,显露出Little by little he revealed his ambitions.渐渐地,他暴露出他的野心。

2. 揭示,揭露;暴露;泄露

He revealed the secret by accident.他不小心泄漏了这个秘密。

Further investigation revealed that he was guilty.进一步侦查表明他是有罪的。

　 　

Ⅵ. Homework