1、Unit 8 Have you read Treasure Island yet? Lesson type: Reading Teaching methodology: Task-based teaching; cooperative learning Teaching equipment: computer, projector Teaching objectives: 1. Language knowledge: By the end of the class, students should be able to 1) Master the new words: ship, tool,
2、gun, sand, else, cannibal, towards, land 2) Correctly use the useful expressions: on the island, have nothing, bring back, wait for, go out with, not long after that, teach sb. sth., learn to do sth., give up, cut down trees, build a house. 3) Get to know the present perfect tense and the past parti
3、ciple. 2. Language competence: By the end of the class, students should be able to 1) Quickly catch the key information in a reading material. 2) Improve the ability of cooperating with others. 3.Affect: By the end of the class, students should be able to 1) Cultivate the spirit of enduring hardship
4、s and always being optimistic. 2) Get more motivation to learn English with oral English activities. Focal points: The usage of the new words and expressions. Difficult point: The present perfect tense and the past participle. Teaching procedure: Stage I Pre-reading Step1 Warming up 1. Activity: Get
5、 students ready for learning by reviewing the fairy tales theyve learned a few days ago. 2. Instruction: 1) Good morning, boys and girls. Welcome to my class and Im so glad to see you again. In todays class, were going to learn something interesting about Robinson Crusoe. Firstly, its the name of a
6、book. Secondly, its the name of this man. So whats the relation between this book and this man? Yes, Robinson Crusoe is the main character of this book. 2) Do you know any other books whose titles tell us their main characters? Weve just learned some fairy tales last week (Cinderella, Little Red Rid
7、ing Hood and Hansel and Gretel). Can you briefly tell the stories? Step 2 Leading-in 1.Activity: Get students to know the story of Robinson Crusoe by watching a video. 2. Instruction: 1) Now lets come back to Robinson Crusoe. Do you know anything about him? Ill give you some basic information about
8、him. Robinson Crusoe was born in a British middle-class family. He was an adventurer and he was always sailing (to travel on or across an area of water in a boat or a ship) in the sea. One day, a terrible rainstorm took his ship apart when he was sailing to Africa and he was trapped in an island alo
9、ne. 2) Can you imagine his life in an island? Is his life enjoyable? Or is the life too hard for him to make a living? Lets watch a short video and find out. There are seven pictures taken from the video. 3) Can you use your own words to describe what happened to Robinson in the video with the help
10、of the pictures? Ill give you five minutes to discuss with your desk mates. Step 3 Language preparation 1. Activity: Ask students to read the new words (ship, tool, gun, sand, else, cannibal, towards, land) out loud. 2. Instruction: This video is taken from a movie, which is based on the novel Robin
11、son Crusoe. In order to find out more details about Robinsons life on the island, lets read a short passage based on the novel. Before we read the passage, here are some new words we need to pay attention to. Please read after me. Stage II While-reading Step 4 Skimming 1. Activity: Ask students to r
12、ead the passage quickly and answer two questions (What does Robinson Crusoe wait for? Why does Robinson Crusoe call the man Friday?). 2. Instruction: Now, please turn to page 59. Listen to the tape and read the passage silently. Then answer these two questions. Have you found the answers? Who can te
13、ll us? Can you? Where did you find the answer? Step 5 Scanning 1. Activity: Ask students to read the passage carefully and find five words in the passage with certain meanings. This step gives students and opportunity to test their vocabulary. 2. Instruction: Lets read the passage again. This time y
14、ou need to find the words in this passage that have these meanings. Are you clear? Lets check the answers. How about this row? Tell us the answers one by one. Step 6 Scanning 1. Activity: Ask students to read the passage carefully and correct six sentences. This step is designed to test studentsread
15、ing comprehension. 2. Instruction: Well done! Now theres another task for you. Youll have two minutes to correct the following sentences. Lets begin! I need 6 students to share the answers with us. Please read out the whole right sentence and then translate it into Chinese. Are you clear? Stage III
16、Post-reading Step 7 Review 1. Activity: Ask students to close their books and complete the summary of the story of Robinson Crusoe. 2. Instruction: 1) After reading the passage for three times, I believe youre quite familiar with it now. So close your books and fill in the blanks quickly. Who would
17、like to share your answers with us? Please read the phrases after me. 2) Look at the highlighted words. Do they have anything in common? Can you try to tell us the common feature of these sentences? The predicate verbs have the same structure. Have/has plus the past participle of the verbs. This is
18、a structure of a new tense called present perfect tense. 3. Material: Step 8 Consolidation 1. Activity: Listen to a song of Westlife which is full of present perfect tense so that students could get a better understanding of it, and then complete the lyrics. 2. Instruction: Now lets enjoy some music
19、. Ill play a song of Westlife called Have you ever been in love, which is full of past participles. Listen and complete the lyrics with the words you hear. Stage IV Homework Step 9 Homework 1.Activity: Ask students to do some tasks after class. 2. Instruction: So much for today and here is the homework for you. Next time well learn more about the present perfect tense. See you next time! Blackboard design Unit 8 Have you read Treasure Island yet? adventurer sail shiphave/has + done trapped sunbath has found has brought has cut has built has taught Step 1Step 2 Step 7 Step 8Step 9
