1、Unit 1 Back to School Period 3: Reading II Teaching Aims Retell Mr Xus speech about Realizing your potential and understand how to make a speech interesting; Master the new words and phrases and use them wisely; Teaching importance The students can use key words and phrases which appeared in this pe
2、riod; Teaching difficulty Encourage the students to have confidence in realizing their potential. Teaching Procedures Reading Realizing your potential Step1: Review 1. Ask the students to read aloud Mr Xus speech. 2. Ask and answer with the students The questions may be like the following: 1)What wi
3、ll open the door to your potential at high school? 2)How should you develop your potential at high school? 3)Why should you make full use of school resources? 3. Provide the following exercises to check the new words. 根据汉语或首字母提示，写出下列单词 1They are unlikely to have changed their _(想法) so soon. 2The pub
4、 was full of colourful local _(人物) 3We need more money if we are to make any further _(进步) in this area of science. 4Fitness is important in sport，but of at least _(相等的) importance are skills. 5Cats have a very good sense of _(平衡) 6We scored a g_ in the first minute of the game. 7They held him r_ fo
5、r the failure of the plan. 8If he can keep from smoking for a month or two his health will i_ 9The teacher should treat each pupil as an i_ 10We need to give them a reasonable o_ to look at the display. (The answers:thinking; characters; advances; equal; balance; goal; responsible; improve; individu
6、al;opportunity) Step2: Language points To realize our potential, we make do our best to.(say together with the students). Read the speech again and read text notes on page 81 from No.2 to No.7 1. Pay attention to the following; 教材原句 句式结构 仿写促落实 1.I cant wait to describe to you what high school life i
7、s like. _. 迫不及待做某事 Jim _ the TV when he got home. 当吉姆回到家，他迫不及待地打开电 视。 2.Put simply，potential is your natural ability that can be developed when you try hard enough. _， 潜能是你与生俱来的能力， 足够努力才能得以开发。 when 引导时间状语从句 _ he was always trying out new ideas. 他小时候就常常试验一些新的设想。 3.Of equal importance are your good st
8、udy habits，positive attitudes and useful skills. 介词短语位于句首的倒 装句 _ an old castle. 山丘顶上有一座古堡。 2. Extend the phrases usage (1)When you work hard to get over the challenges，you have the opportunity to acquire great knowledge and enjoy personal growth. get over 克服，恢复常态 get into 染上(坏习惯)，陷入 get across 通过；被传
9、达；被理解 get through 接通；完成；通过 get down to 记下；开始 get away with 干而不受惩罚 get along/on with 进展；相处 acquire vt.获得，得到 acquire a good knowledge of 精通知识 acquire the habit of 养成的习惯 Make sentences with them. (2) Who knows what beautiful works of art you will create，what medical advances you will make or what amazing things you will discover! advance n进步，进展；前进，行进 vt. make full use of/make the most/best of; To his amazement, were not amazed at; make a great difference) Step 4. Summary
