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人教版七年级下册Unit 12 What did you do last weekend? Section B (2a-2c)

1. Teaching background

1. Analysis of teaching material

The content of lesson is the Second volume of seventh grade Human Education Edition Unit 12: What did you do last weekend? This unit is about weekend activities. By studying of this unit, students will enable to use the past simple tense to talk about their weekend activities and ask about others' weekend activities. At the same time, let students learn how to talk about events in the past.

This period is the first lesson of Reading. The lesson focuses on talking about Lisa's experience last weekend, aiming at letting students grasp the past tense further. This topic of this unit is close to students' life, further promoting mutual understanding between students, so that students in a relaxed and happy atmosphere to learn.

2. Analysis of students

The objects of this lesson are students in Grade 7. Students in this phase has already learned simple past tense, thus they must have mastered some skills of tense-learning and fully prepared to learn the lesson cognitively.

Teaching objectives

3. Knowledge objectives

(1)  The students can master the usage of the important words and expression, such as high school, scary, camp, put up tent, make a fire, wake up, what did you do last weekend and so on.

(2)  The students can use the past sense in the proper situation.

(3)  The students can understand the context of the lesson, talk about their weekend activities and get their own idea about how to had a lovely weekend and a nice time.

4. Ability objectives

(1)  To improve the student's ability of reading, especially their skimming and scanning ability.

(2)  To be capable of listening, speaking, reading and writing by using the past tense.

(3)  Grasp and clarify the structure of the text by looking for key sentences and chronological order.

5. Emotion objectives

(1)  To train the students' abilities of studying by themselves and cooperating.

(2)  To guide students to realize the importance of forming good study habits and arranging their time properly.

(3)  To broaden students' horizons by learning about snakes.

(4)  To overcome the fear of animals, and love animals.

2. Teaching important points

1. Master all phrasal verbs in the article, such as finished high school, went camping, took a long bus ride and so on.
2. Mater the writing of past tense verbs.
3. Understand the use of different time expressions to understand the logical order of the day's activities.

3. Teaching content

1. Leading (5分钟)

Step 1. Guessing Game

Use English to say what the picture is doing, to recall the words in the last lesson, to deepen the memory, to help understand the passage.

Step 2. Showing pictures and asking questions

Show some pictures of animal. Let students answer "what's this?"

The teacher: Are you scared of these animal? what kind of animals are you afraid of? Why?

Ask several students to share their ideas in front of whole class.

2. pre-reading (25分钟)

Step 1. Predicting

Look at the picture and the topic "A Weekend to Remember" and predict: How was Lisa's weekend?

Step 2. Skimming

Skim the passage again, and answer the questions.

How many paragraphs are there in the story? What's the structure of the story? Choose A or B.

A: Para. l       Para.2      Para.3

A:            Para. l      

Para.2       Para.3

Step 3. Scanning

Scan Para.1 and answer questions: When did her sister finish high school? Where did she and her family go last weekend?

Scan Para.2 and Para.3 and answer questions:

By what sequence was the story written? Underline the key words.

3. While-reading (10分钟)

Reading para. 1 and answer question: how was Lisa's weekend?

Complete the true questions according to the passage.

①　Lisa's sister finished high school last weekend.    F    T

②　Last weekend was interesting and happy.        F     T

③　They put up their tents and made a fire to keep then warm.    F    T

④　Lisa went to sleep very late.     F     T

    Reading para. 2 again and find.

  ( ) camping      ( ) a long bus ride      () up tents      () a fire

       () food      () under the room      () stories      () tired

       () to sleep

Read paragraph 3 carefully and choose T\F

(1)     They were happy when they saw a snake.

(2)     They shouted to their parents for help.

(3)     Snakes have ears and can feel things moving.

4. Post-reading (5分钟)

Discuss what you will do when you meet a snake or other animal.

Summary Lisa's weekend.

The teacher helps the students and encourage them to face the difficulties.

4. Teaching methods & Learning methods

In this topic, I will use Task-based Method, Communicated Method, Group Cooperate Method, Situational Communication Method, and predicting, skimming, scanning, catching and filling in the key words, putting in the right order of reading strategies.

5. Teaching aids

Use multimedia computer to play PPT. PPT includes pictures, text, audios.

6. Blackboard design

Unit 12  What did you do last weekend?

Section B 2a-2c

A Weekend to Remember

7. Teaching reflection 

Reading is a key and difficult point in junior high school. Fast reading before intensive reading helps students to quickly understand this article and find out the information given by the article. But in this process, teachers should encourage students to express their own understanding rather than retell the text. The language should also be used in real life, you can imitate the text related topics.