1、SubjectEnglishStudentsGrade6Date TeacherTopic Helen Keller Place Multi-Media classroom Introduce to the Topic The title of the story is Helen Keller. Helen Keller was born in America in June, 1880. Everything was all right when she was born. But when she was 19 months old, an attack of fever left he
2、r blind and deaf for the rest of her life. She was so young when she became blind that as she grew older she did not remember being able to see; and she became deaf before she had any idea of the importance of human speech. She lived in darkness and silence. As she grew older, she, too, wanted to ex
3、press her ideas and feelings. But she realized she was cut off from others. Her parents were greatly worried. How could anyone make touch with Helens mind and intelligence in darkness and silence without speech? Helen was nearly seven before a teacher was found. Her name was Miss Sullivan. Miss Sull
4、ivan had a lot of difficulties in teaching Helen Keller. As the child could neither see nor hear, she had to use manual alphabet. But Helens energy and intelligence and strong spirit as well as Miss Sullivans skill and patience, overcame all the difficulties. As Helen grew up, she became an able stu
5、dent, passed examination and finally took a university degree in English literature. She then devoted all herself to helping the blind and the deaf. Her personal success, together with the work she had done for others, made her one of the greatest women in modern times. She wrote many books and “The
6、 Story of My Life” is a wonderful one. Information about the students There are 51students in the class. Their English level is the same with the average Grade6. Most of them love reading and interested in learning English. Teaching Objectives 1.Students will look through the pictures and predict th
7、e gist of the story. 2.Student will read for detailed information by matching the text with the pictures. 3.Students will choose one of the Dramatic fragments to act. Key points & Key points Students will be able to understand the story and Difficult points understan the meaning of the words in the
8、context or with the aid of the pictures. Difficult points 1. Students will be able to act part of the story. 2. Students will be able to make a Reading record card of the story. Materials and Teaching Aids PPT Read recording cards Video Teaching Procedures Steps Teachers Activities Students Activiti
9、es PurposeTime Lead-in Show a song about “what can you do?” Sing a song and answer “what can you do?” To attract students interest and share some ideas with each other 3 Pre-reading 1.Show the video of this passage 2.Ask students to read the whole passage freely 1.watch the video and order the pictu
10、res 2.read the passage and judge the sentences To ensure students read for gist 5 While-reading P1:Ask students to read picture1 silently and answer the questions “When/Where was Helen born?” Listen to the video and answer the questions. Look at the pictures and To attract students interest and shar
11、e some ideas with each other 17 Show pictures about “deaf” and “blind” P2:show the picture to students and ask students to find out the information Read picture2 with their partners and guess “what does her mother think about?” P3: show picture3 to students and ask a question “why Helen often got an
12、gry?” students read P3 together and find out the question. Summarize P1-P3 1.Show P4-P5 Read the passage silently and think about the question “who is Helens teacher? What are they doing?” 2.Show a video about how does Anne teach Helen the word “water” 3.Show the chant about P5-P5 get the meaning of
13、 the two words Look at the picture and find “what is Helens mother doing?” and the main idea of picture 2 Watch the picture and find out the answer from picture3 Read sentences from P1-P3 1.Find out why Helen was so happy after she met teacher Anne from P4-P5 2.Watch the video and known how does Hel
14、en learn the word 3.Read the chant together Read P6-P8 Find out the answer and discuss with their To enable students read for gist To enable students read and spot the information as required and evaluate what they have read To help students to understand how Helen and Sullivan learn and teach. To h
15、elp students to read and find the information Show a question “with Annes help, Helen can .” Show the picture of “university” Show two of Helens famous books partners Answer the question by themselves and encourage critical thinking After-reading 1.Show a question “what do you think about Helen/Anne
16、?” Then video about the other unable people. 2.Show three boxes and there are three different tasks in them. 3.Sing a song about Helen Keller 1.Findtheir groups freely andchoose the task they like. 2.Discuss the question with their partners and answer the question Thenwatch the video 3.singasong aboutHelen Keller together Toenable studentsto improve their abilitiesof thinking about Helens story. 15 Reflection
