人教新目标 (Go for it) 版八年级上册Section B教学设计

Class Description

Students have learned some structures and descriptions of food-making process in the former periods in this unit.

Teaching difficulties

Describing the process of making dishes.

Teaching aims

1. To enable Ss to understand the reading passage generally, including vocabulary, phrases and sentences.
2. To train Ss to retell the process of making a turkey dinner.
3. To guide Ss to know some information about Thanksgiving.
4. To cultivate Ss’ sense of being thankful to others.

Teaching procedures

Pre-reading

Teacher’s activities

Students’ activities

Purpose

Step 1 Free talk

The teacher talks about her favorite traditional food.

Communicate with the teacher.

to get the Ss activated

Step 2 Brainstorming

Get Ss to talk about traditional food

Talk about traditional food they know.

to stimulate Ss’ interest and get prepared for the topic

Step 3 Play a guessing game

Guess something about traditional food and special holidays

Answer the questions, read after the teacher and make sentences about new words.

to recall the traditional food and holidays and teach unfamiliar words

Teaching procedures

While-reading

Step 4 Skimming

Ask Ss to read the passage quickly and match the main idea with each paragraph.

Ss skim the two paragraphs and match the main idea with each paragraph.

to train Ss’ ability of skimming, reading titles & words in bold.

Step 5 Guide the Ss to read the text carefully

1. Ask Ss to read the first five lines of Para. 1 and answer the questions below:

When is Thanksgiving? Why do people celebrate it?

2. Ask Ss to read the rest part of Para. 1.

(1) Help Ss to find out how the first Thanksgiving came and talk about it by telling a story; Then show a video about the origin of Thanksgiving.

(2) Get Ss to answer:

How do people celebrate Thanksgiving?

（Add more ways of celebrating Thanksgiving Day.）

Guide the students to answer:

What’s the main dish of the meal?

3. Ask Ss to enjoy a video about making a turkey dinner first. Read pictures:

What do we need if we want to make a turkey dinner?

Read Para.2:

Get Ss to number the pictures, then        

describe the steps one by one.

4.Ask Ss to retell the instruction in a group.

Read the passage paragraph by paragraph with the guidance of the teacher

Read the first five lines of Para.1 and answer the two questions.

Read the rest part of Para.1 and tell the story of the first Thanksgiving. Read the part about the origin of the first Thanksgiving and then enjoy a video about it.

Answer the questions with the guidance of the teacher. Get to know several ways to celebrate Thanksgiving and choose the most popular way.

After enjoying the video, read the pictures and talk about what are needed to make a turkey dinner.

Read Para. 2 and number the pictures. Learn the steps and try to retell them in a group.

to understand the details of the passage with different tasks

to practice the reading skill of scanning and locate the key words and information

to cultivate Ss’ cultural awareness by watching the video of the origin of the first Thanksgiving.

To train Ss to read for detailed information with the help of      pictures.

to develop Ss’ ability of retelling an instruction and cooperation in groups.

5.Ask Ss to finish the summary of the passage by blank-filling.

Fill in the blanks of the summary. Check the answers and read the passage aloud together.

to summarize the passage  and strengthen Ss’ understanding of the text

After-reading

Step 6 Group work

Get the Ss to discuss about Thanksgiving and who they want to thank.

One student is a reporter and the other students are his/her American friends. Talk about Thanksgiving and who they want to thank.

to encourage cooperation, stress the gist of the passage and cultivate the Ss’ awareness of being thankful to others.

Assignment

Mother’s Day is coming soon. Cook a dish for your mother and write an article about how you make it.

Blackboard Design

Thanksgiving in the United States 

tradition         oven

autumn          pepper

celebrate…by…   plate

turkey           mix

                fill…with…

                cover…with…