1、Why Snails Move So Slowly Teaching material: Pan Deng English for reading, Level Four - Why Snails Move So Slowly Teaching aims and learning objectives: 1. Understand the story; 2. Act out the story and experience the snails feeling 3. Learn some reading strategies, such as guessing the meaning of t
2、he new words by observing the pictures and predicting more feelings of the snail 4. Improve critical thinking skills by guessing and predicting what will happen next 5. Understand the moral of the story Focus of the lesson: 1. Understanding the story; 2. Acting out the story, experience the snails f
3、eeling and predict more feeling and what will happen next Predicted area of the difficulty: Understanding the moral of the story Teaching procedures: Step 1 Warming-up 1. Greet the students. 2. Show a picture of the students, ask them to guess what they are looking for. Step 2 Step 2 Pre-reading 1.
4、Share how they like snails. 2. Look at the cover and guess. What is it doing? How does he feel? Is he moving quickly or slowly? Why? Step 3 While-reading 1. Fast reading : Where did the snail go? Did he arrive there? (1) Tell students you are having races to go to the sea, too. (2) Lead students to
5、understand Sammy the Snail had no house long ago. (3) Observe the map. What can you see on the map? Where is the snail? Who can give me direction to the sea? (4) Lead students to experience Sammys feeling in the rainy weather, hurt by the cactus. And ask them to think about other things the snail ma
6、y take. 2. Reading for details (1) Did he take some other things again? What else did he take? Why? Open the e-book. Read the story and then finish the matching. (2) Read the table together, and try to act it out with the material objects (3) Discuss in three or four: What else do you think he worry
7、 about? (4) Ask a student to carry the house. Ask the other students to ask Sammy some questions. Step 4 Post-reading 1. How do you like Sammy the snail? Is he clever? 2. If you are Sammy, what do you take for travelling? 3. What do you learn from the strory? If you care too much about gain and loss, you will never arrive. Step 5 : Homework and share 10 great reasons to read.
