1、1 Unit 6 When was it invented? Section A 3a-3c TeachingTeaching Aims:Aims: 1.1. LanguageLanguage Goals:Goals: (1) Key words: accidental, ruler, boil, remain, smell, national, trade, doubt (2) Useful Phrases: by accident, fall into, an open fire, not until, take place, around the world, even though,
2、without doubt. (3) Useful expressions: It is said that, It is believed that. 2.2. AbilityAbility Goals:Goals: (1) Learn to get information quickly from the passage using reading skills: skimming and scanning. (2) Be able to write a passage about the history of an invention using Passive Voice. 3.3.
3、EmotionEmotion Goals:Goals: (1) Get to know more about the history and usage of important inventions. (2) Try to be more creative. TeachingTeaching KeyKey Points:Points: 1. Make students get hold of the key words, useful phrases and useful expressions. 2. Improve students reading skills. TeachingTea
4、ching DifficultDifficult Point:Point: 1. Improve students writing skills. TeachingTeaching Aids:Aids: PPT TeachingTeaching Methods:Methods: Skimming, Scanning and Writing. TeachingTeaching Courses:Courses: StepStep 1.1. WarmingWarming UpUp 1. Riddle: Which letter is a drink? 2 StepStep 2.2. Presenta
5、tionPresentation 1. Watch a video about Chinese Tea Culture. Ask students to fill in the blanks below according to the video. Chinese tea culture has 1. Tea is usually drunk in 2. A tea set 3.a teapot and some teacups. Drinking tea 4.Peoples health. 5.green tea can prevent cancers. 6.tea is becoming
6、 more and more popular with people. 2. Ask students if they know how tea was invented. StepStep 3.3. ReadingReading ComprehensionComprehension 1. Ask students to skim the passage of 3a on Page 43 and try to finish task 1 and task 2 individually. Task 1: :What is the passage about? Task 2: : Read the
7、 passage quickly and match each paragraph with its main idea. Paragraph 1Lu Yu and his book Cha Jing Paragraph 2How tea spread to other countries Paragraph 3How tea was invented by accident 2. Ask students to scan the passage and finish task 3, task 4 and task 5 in groups of four. Task 3: Read the f
8、irst paragraph and fill in the chart. What was invented? Who invented it? When was it invented? Where was it invented? How was it invented? 3 Task 4: Read the second paragraph and complete the mind map. The saint of tea, his book, describesdiscusses how.where the finest tea tea plantsto make tea.lea
9、ves. what kinds of water . Task 5: Read the third paragraph and find out how tea spread to other countries. Tea was brought to Korea and Japan. In England, it didnt appear. But it had become the national drink. The tea trade from China to Western countries took place. StepStep 4.4. OralOral WorkWork
10、 Ask students to try to retell the passage with the help of the Information of task 3, task 4 and task 5. Give students 3 minutes to prepare and then invite several to retell the passage. StepStep 5.Think5.Think andand FindFind outout 1. Ask students to think about what tense and voice does the writ
11、er use in the passage and finish task 6. 4 Task 6: TenseVoice 2. Invite two students to tell the whole class their opinions. 3. Ask students to find out Passive Voice used in the passage and finish task 7. Task 7: Write down Passive Voice used in the passage. StepStep 5.5. LearnLearn toto writewrite
12、 Task 8:Ask students to write a passage about the history of bikes using Passive Voice according to the information in the chart below. 1.Ask students to write five sentences using Passive Voice individually and ask some students to write down their sentences on the blackboard at the same time. For
13、example: The first bike was invented by Syvrac. 2.Ask students to work in groups: to make the sentences better using the expressions below. (1)Did you know that?(2)Many people believe that (3)It is said that(4)It is believed that For example: Did you know that the first bike was invented by a French
14、man called Syvrac? Whatthe first bike WhoSyvrac When1790 WhereFrance was made ofwood was used forsend letters and newspapers 5 3.Invite several students to read out their sentences to the whole class. 4. Ask students to finish writing the article. 5. Choose some students works to show to the whole c
15、lass. 6. One possible version for students. Did you know that the first bike was invented by a Frenchman called Syvrac? Many people believe that the first bike was invented in 1790 and it is said that the first bike was made of wood. It is believed that the first bike was used for sending letters an
16、d newspapers. StepStep 6.6. ConclusionConclusion 1. We learnt about something about tea: how tea was invented; a book about tea written by the saint of tea, Lu Yu; how tea spread to other countries. 2. We learnt how to read and get information quickly. 3. We learnt to write a passage using passive v
17、oice. StepStep 7.7. HomeworkHomework 1. Finish your writing. 2. Retell the passage using the information of task 3, task 4 and task 5 to your classmate after class. 3. Finish 3c on page 43 of the textbook. TeachingTeaching Feedback:Feedback: 1、 这是一节阅读课，导入分成两步：以猜谜（which letter is a drink？） 引入这节课的话题 t
18、ea；接着用一个视频让学生对中国的茶文化有初步的了 解，同时为了训练学生的听，给学生设计了听力任务。 2、 在阅读上运用了 Skimming 和 Scanning 的方法。在 Scanning 部分的练习进 行了设计：第一段设计的是完成表格，让学生找出 4 个 W 和 1 个 H。第二段 设计的是 mind map, 让学生简洁明了地了解茶经这本书的大致内容。第 6 三段设计的练习目的是让学生很直观地看出茶对外普及的大致过程。 3、 课文学习完之后，让学生根据三个段落的三个练习里的信息复述全文，检测 学生对整篇文章的把握及锻炼他们的复述能力。 4、 让学生分析文章所使用的时态与语态，这个环节的设计目的是为了让学生了 解描述一项发明的历史可以运用的时态与语态。 5、 最后一个环节是写作。为了让学生更容易下手，写作分三步走：第一步让学 生根据表格信息造 5 个被动语态的句子；第二步给出文章中的一些 expressions 让学生把自己写出来的句子美化；第三步把句子整理成文。
