1、1 英语（必修第一册）英语（必修第一册） Unit 1 Back to school Reading (II) I. Learning objectives By the end of the lesson, students will be able to: 1. understand the usage of the following words and expressions: (rise to) challenge, acquire, effort, advance, take advantage of, equal, balance, responsible; 2. use the
2、 above words and expressions in new situations; 3. understand the suffixes of adjectives ending with -ful, -less, -al, -ous; 4. make sentences using parallel structure. II. Key competence focus 1. Understand some new words and expressions. 2. Be able to use the new words and expressions. III. Predic
3、ted area of difficulty How to use the new words and expressions correctly. IV. Teaching procedures Step 1 Lead-in Review the main idea of the speech. T: Hello, everyone, nice to meet you! Weve learned a speech given by a principal on the first day of term. Today we shall review the text, discuss how
4、 to use some of the words and phrases, and practise using them in different situations. T: Would you fill in the blanks according to what you have learned? Can you divide them into three parts? We call the first part introduction, the second part body and the last part conclusion. Para. 1 A new _ Pa
5、ra. 2 A _ to open the door to your potential Para. 3 Definition of _ Para. 4 Take _ of school resources Para. 5 Habits, skills and attitude are _ important Para. 6 Make a continuous _ and be _ 【设计意图：回归课本，回忆文章。通过篇章结构的理解引领学生到词汇上面来。】 Step 2 Building vocabulary 1. Word study: challenge Introduce the mea
6、ning of challenge through different situations, first the context of the speech then other situations. (1) Challenge as a noun 2 T: Look at the sentence from paragraph 2. Whats the meaning of challenge here? A challenge is something new and difficult which requires great effort and determination. Yo
7、u can say your school life is full of challenges, or that your school life poses a challenge to you. Can you think of some other verbs that can be followed by challenge? Think about the situation: if the workers are not paid on time, they will go on a strike. Can you translate the sentence: 罢工给政府带来了
8、严峻的挑战。 (2) Collocations of challenge T: Since challenges do exist. People have to face them, right? You can also take on or accept them. That means you are ready to deal with the challenges. Then if you can successfully deal with them, you are able to meet them or rise to them. Would you please read
9、 the following two sentences together? Free talk: ask students to summarize different collocations of challenge and understand them in different contexts. (3) Challenge as a verb T: Challenge can also be used as a verb. If you challenge someone, you invite them to fight or compete with you in some w
10、ay. For example, 迈克要挑战我跟我下棋。How do you translate it into English? As we know, nowadays, the relationship between parents and children is not like that of many years ago. Children challenge their parents authority (权威) far more nowadays than they did in the past. Can you translate this sentence? Anot
11、her sentence: She challenged the newspaper to prove its story. Can you translate this sentence? Whats the meaning of challenge here? 2. Word study: acquire (1) Introduce the meanings of acquire in different contexts. T: Have you got some skills from your parents? That is to say, youve acquired some
12、skills. The principal says when you rise to the challenges, you will have the opportunity to acquire great knowledge and enjoy personal growth. (para. 2) Acquire has two meanings: 1. to obtain sth by buying or being given it 2. (of skills or habits) to learn it or develop it through your daily life
13、or experience. I have two examples for you. The company has just acquired lots of new equipment. How long will it take to acquire the necessary skills? Whats the meaning of acquire in each sentence? (2) Diction: acquire vs achieve Acquire and achieve seem similar to each other. Actually, they are qu
14、ite different. Achieve means to successfully complete something or get a good result, especially by working hard. Then, what can you acquire and what can you achieve? Pay attention to the sentence. Whats the meaning of acquisition? This is the noun form of acquire. 3. Word study: effort (1) Create c
15、oncrete contexts to further understand effort and learn to write with the phrases related to effort. T: Since you are facing a lot of challenges in the high school, you have to work hard, right? In other words, you are supposed to devote your effort to your schoolwork. Look at the sentence: I know y
16、ou dont like her, but please make an effort to be polite. Can you use your own words to 3 tell us the meaning of effort? In writing, we can use the following phrases: it takes effort to do sth, make effort to do sth, spare no effort to do sth. Read the sentence. (2) Learn about the suffix -less in t
17、he word effortless. T: Can you give an adjective to describe needing no or little effort? Would you translate the sentence? 4. Word study: advance (1) Ask students to explain the meaning of advance in the speech. T: You know, our society is developing fast. So, our country is ahead of others in a lo
18、t of fields . You, as the future of our country, will make great contributions. Who knows what beautiful works of art you will create, what medical advances you will make or what amazing technologies you will develop! (Para.3) Can you guess the meaning of advances? (2) Learn more collocations of adv
19、ance. T: Besides medical advances, what other advances can you achieve? T: Advance also has other usages. For example, their aircraft were in advance of those used by the US. The airline suggests booking tickets 21 days in advance. Do you know the meanings of these phrases? (3) Advance as a verb T:
20、The ability to guess the meaning of a word according to the context is important. Would you guess the meaning of advance in the sentence? We can see that in the sentences, advance is used as a verb. Whats the adjective form of advance? 5. Word study: advantage (take advantage of) (1) Ss look up adva
21、ntage in a dictionary and learn about its definition and usage. T: We know how to realize our potential is important. What can we do? Using our school resources is a proper way. That is to say, take advantage of our classes, learn from our teachers and classmates, and make use of our school faciliti
22、es. (Para. 4) We have several ways to express use something, for example. Advantage is an important word in the passage. Can you look up the word in the dictionary and find out the meanings of these phrases? (2) Ss practise using advantage in different situations. T: Great! Since you know something
23、about the phrases, lets practise using them. 6. Word study: equal (1) Introduce the word equal in the context of the speech. T: We still have other ways to realize our potential. Of equal importance are good study habits, useful skills and a positive attitude. (Para. 5) (2) Introduce the collocation
24、s of equal and make sentences. T: We have some phrases related to equal. Have you come across this phrase in some articles, be equal to? It has two meanings. a. to have the ability to deal with a problem, a piece of work etc successfully. It is the same as be up to. Please translate：你能胜任这个工作吗？ b. to
25、 be as good as something else 4 这个雕塑可以与世界上任何的雕塑相媲美。Can you translate this sentence? 7. Word study: balance (1) Understand the word balance in the speech. T: Another way is to carefully plan your study, set clear goals and balance your schoolwork with other activities. (para. 5) Balance means to give
26、 equal importance to two contrasting things or parts of sth. (2) Introduce another important meaning of balance. T: Lets look at another sentence. Job losses in manufacturing were balanced by job increases in the service sector. Can you translate it? What does balance mean in this sentence? Here it
27、means to be equal in importance, amount, value, or effect to something that has the opposite effect. (3) Balance as a noun and its collocations T: If you cant keep your balance, you will lose your balance and youll try to recover/regain your balance. Read the examples and appreciate the usage of bal
28、ance. 8. Word study: responsible (1) Understand the word responsible in the speech. T: In the last paragraph, the principal makes a conclusion. Senior high school will help you learn and grow, yet you alone are responsible for realizing your great potential. (para. 6) You are supposed to be responsi
29、ble for yourself and your future. Here be responsible for means having the job or duty of doing sth or taking care of sb or sth, so that you may be blamed if sth goes wrong. Here is another example . Police believe that the same man is responsible for three other murders in the area. If someone is r
30、esponsible for an accident, mistake, crime, etc., it is their fault or they can be blamed. (2) Learn about different uses of responsible and make sentences. T: Look at these two expressions. Please translate: 你信任谁来负责为汤姆辩护？通知我们放 假是你的责任。 Step 3 Consolidation 1. Summary of vocabulary T: Today we have l
31、earned some expressions related to the following words. If possible, try to review as often as possible. 2. Ex. B1 T: Please finish exercise B1 on the textbook and check your answers. 【设计意图： 通过讲解、 学生的互动， 让学生了解这些重要词汇的用法且学会运用到语境里。 】 Step 4 Word formation Ex. B2: Introduce the use of suffix, such as -f
32、ul, -less, -al, -ive, -ous, and think out as many words as possible related to them. T: We can form adjectives by adding suffixes to nouns or verbs. Sometimes we need to leave out or change the final letter(s) of a word before adding a suffix, e.g. centrecentral, decidedecisive We also mentioned eff
33、ortless just now. So you must have learned some words before. Would you please list as many as possible. 5 【设计意图：学生真正掌握构成形容词的这几个后缀，学会从构词法的角度学习词汇，扩大 词汇量】 Step 5 Mini writing: parallelism Understand parallelism and try to make up a paragraph with it. T: Parallel structures use the same pattern of word
34、s or sentences. They can add balance to sentences and make the language more powerful and effective. And we have three kinds of parallelism. Can you find the examples from our passage? Since youve known something about parallelism, Id like you to use the parallel structure to encourage someone who is unhappy. 【设计意图：通过学习和理解平行结构，学生学会在具体语境中使用这种修辞手法】 V. Homework Look up in the dictionary or a reference book to find out more adjectives that are formed by adding a suffix to a noun or a verb.
