英语必修 第三册Unit 2 Morals and Virtues教学设计及反思

必修三 Unit 2 Morals and Virtues Reading for Writing教学设计

Lesson content

Share your opinions about a moral story

Theme context: Excellent conduct, correct attitude towards life, civic obligations and social responsibility.

Text analysis:

This lesson provides a small fable "The stone in the road", which mainly tells the story of a king who hopes to educate his subjects not to complain but to work hard to solve problems when they encounter difficulties. The first natural paragraph summarizes the entire text. The second paragraph begins to narrate the development of the story. The king placed a stone pressed against gold on the road, and people reacted the same way when they were blocked by the stone. One complained but remained indifferent. One day has passed, and no one is willing to move the stone. The last young girl was afraid that the stone would hinder others, so she tried to move the stone away and obtained gold. The last natural paragraph, through the words of the king, clarifies the theme, elevates the theme, and brings certain educational significance and inspiration to people.

Lesson objectives

1. Obtain basic information about the story through reading.

2. Learn to tell moral stories in appropriate language.

3. Cultivate students to establish correct moral values and excellent qualities.

4. Cultivate students' critical thinking, guide students to judge right and wrong, and make correct moral choices.

Key and difficult points:

1. Obtain text information and text characteristics.

2. Use appropriate language to tell moral stories and express one's own views.

Teaching preparation:

1. Collect some moral stories.

2. Encourage students to reflect on the moral choices they have made.

3. Preview new vocabulary and texts.

Teaching process

Step I Learning and Understanding

Activity 1: Brainstorm

Ask students to work in groups and brainstorm son good morals, virtues and some fables or stories about the in Chinese traditional culture.

Activity 2: Acquisition and sorting (Predict and Read)

1.Ask students to read the title and try to predict who story is mainly about?

2.Ask students to read the story and answer t following questions:

(1)What was the king's idea for teaching an important lesson to his people?

(2)What was the response from most of the people(3)What did the young girl think and do when she said the coins?

(4)What do you think this fable is trying to tell us?(5)Was the king wise? Why or why not? Suggested answers:

(1)He placed a large stone in the middle of the ma street and hid gold coins under the stone. Then he h behind a huge maple tree and watched to see if anyone move it.

(2)Most of the people complained about the stone b nobody made an attempt to move it.

(3)She thought she must find the owner of the go coins.

(4) It is trying to tell us that we should all ta responsibility for our community,society and country.

(5)①Yes, he was. Because as a ruler,he should p attention to his people's morals and virtues. Only having good morals and virtues could make his people live w each other in harmony, and his country may be in cont and prosperous.

②No, he wasn't. Because few people learnt from experiment. In the text, the milkman, the woman w water, and the other villagers complained about the stone and continued on their journey. It seemed that the social responsibility of the majority is too little just because they are busy with their own things.

【设计意图】通过阅读,让学生了解不同人遇事做出的不同选择,引导学生理智思考,做出正确的选择,为写作提供范例。

Activity 3: Summary and Integration

1.   Ask students to read the story again and complete the table.

【设计意图】通过识别语篇以及了解故事内容，学生深度思考,挖掘主题意义,学习语篇的写作特征,获取正确的道德观，为后续写作做了有效铺垫。

Step II Application Practice

Activity 4: Analysis and Judgment (Discuss and state their opinions)

Ask students to discuss the following questions and give their own ideas.

(1)What kind of story is it?

(2)What is the main idea of the story?(3)What is the author's purpose?

(4)Do you think the story achieved its purpose?(5)What did you like about the story?

Suggested answers:

(1)It is a fable about morals.

(2)It is about a king who wanted to teach his people a lesson by hiding gold coins under a stone in the street.

(3)The author's purpose is to tell us that when meeting with problems we should not complain and expect others to solve them.

(4)Yes, I /we think so.

(5)I like the story because the fable mirrors that different attitudes may bring about different results.

【设计意图】通过讨论文章体裁、文章主旨大意、作者的写作意图、读者对文章的观点和态度，达到对文章的深层理解,有助于单元主题的理解和学生英语核心素养的形成。

Activity 5: Practical Exercise (Write a review of the fable)

1.Ask students to work in pairs and discuss the question:

Can you think of times in your own life when you felt and acted like the girl or like the other people in the story? Give examples.

2.Write a review of the fable.Use the outline below to help you.

Paragraph 1: Basic information about the story.

●What is the title of the story?.

●What kind of story is it?

.●What is the main idea of the story?

Paragraph 2: Your analysis of the story.

●What is the author's purpose?

●Were the details of the story clear?

●Do you think the story achieved its purpose?

Paragraph 3: Your opinion about the story.

●What did you like about the story?

●What did you not like about the story?

●Would you recommend this story to others?

【设计意图】本活动为写作实践，让学生以小组的形式讨论并收集尽可能多的想法，列举不同的观点，最后根据段落提示完成写作，旨在降低写作难度,增强写作信心。

Step III Migration Innovation

Activity 6: Criticism and Evaluation (Exchange drafts and revise them)

1. Exchange drafts and use the checklist to give feedback on your partner's draft.

Does the writer give a short description of the story?

Does the description include the most important details of the story?

Does the writer give his/her opinion about the characters or their actions?

Is the review well-organised?

Does the writer use the -ing form as the adverbial in the review?

Are there any grammar, spelling or punctuation errors?

2.Learn from each other.

3.Ask each group to recommend a student's writing Choose two of them to share with the class.

【设计意图】该环节通过小组合作，探讨学生的习作是否给出了自己的观点，语言组织是否合理,语法是否正确等方面，对组内成员的习作进行综合评价与相互学习，有助于提高学生的书面表达能力，加深对主题意义的理解和多元思维的培养,实现深度学习。

Step IV 课后作业

1.Polish your writing after class.

2.Copy the useful expressions in your group members writings and try to memorize them.