1、Unit 4 Friends forever Understanding ideas 教学设计教学设计 科目：英语 课题：Understanding ideas 课时：1 课时 教学目标与核心素养： 1.Lead the students to be familiar with the topic make friends online and get them equipped with words, phrases and sentences related to the topic. Students can master more knowledge of English syntax
2、 and use the knowledge in context. 2.Help the students learn to compare cultural differences and similarities between western culture and eastern culture and form correct values and moral feelings about making friends online. Meanwhile, lead them to build positive self-confidence and self-improvemen
3、t. 3.Instruct the students to fully understand the reading passage and get what the author is trying to express and lead them to develop their dialectical thinking ability. 4.Help the students improve their reading skills, such as skimming and scanning. Encourage students to access learning resource
4、s from different channels, and learn more effectively. Choose appropriate strategies to monitor, reflect and evaluate their own learning process. 教学重难点 教学重点：1.Lead the students to understand the passage through reading. 2.Get to know the main idea of each paragraph. 3.Students learn about the stylis
5、tic features of argumentation. 教学难点：1. Help the students sort out the relevant details of making friends online. 2. Students get to know and judge the phenomenon of making online friends in a proper way. 课前准备：多媒体，黑板，粉笔 教学过程： 一、Pre-reading 1. Greeting 2. Leading-in 教师活动：教师问学生以下问题让学生用自己的语言回答： What kin
6、d of friends do you like? Honest, kind, helpful, loyal, selfless How many ways do you employ to make friends? Joining a club; using a social app; through other friends What do you think of making friends online? It has both advantages and disadvantages. 二、 While- reading 学生活动：完成活动 1。Look at the ques
7、tions about friendship and tick your answers. 1 How do you prefer to make friends？ Joining a club to meet people who share the same interests. Using a social app. Through other friends. Posting a friends wanted notice online. Taking part in community activities. 2 How do you prefer to communicate wi
8、th friends every day? Talking face to face. Using social networking apps. Writing letters. Writing emails. Telephoning each other. 3 How do you stay in touch with faraway friends? Using social networking apps. Writing letters. Writing emails. Telephoning. Visiting friends whenever possible. Fast rea
9、ding 1.What is the type of this passage? Argumentation. 2.What is the main idea of each paragraph? Para.1: Technology has changed the way of making friends. Para.2: Today its easy to keep in touch with friends. Para.3: Today its easy to find friends who share our interests. Paras.4-7: Its difficult
10、to judge whether online friendship is real or not. Para.8: We should take an unprejudiced attitude to online friendship. 3.What is the meaning of the title CLICK FOR AFRIEND Is it possible to find areal friend online? 学生完成活动 2 的练习。Find out the authors opinions about online friendship. In the authors
11、 opinion, the social media tools enable us to find people who share our interests and to stay in touch with the people that we want to remain friends with. But some people tend to hide something from others and make themselves appear happy and friendly. They are not true friends. Careful reading Tea
12、chers activity Ask the students to read the passage carefully and find out the answers to the questions and then check the answers with their partners in their groups. Ask some groups to show their answers. Ask the students to translate the important sentences and the teacher gives instruction. 1. W
13、hy does author ask questions in paragraph 1? 2. How does the digital age benefit us? 3. How can we judge if online friendship is real? 4. What does the sentence this doesnt mean that we should throw the baby out with the bath water mean? Suggested answers 1. The author asks two questions to introduc
14、e the topic. 2. We can move around the world and still stay in touch with the people that we want to remain friends with. Social media tools let us see what our friends are up to and maintain friendships. The digital age also enables us to find people who share our interests. 3. The real friends onl
15、ine always exchange true personal information online. 4. We shouldnt throw anything valuable away with something unwanted. 学生活动：学生完成活动 3。 Choose the authors purpose in writing the passage. 1 To prove that making friends was easier in the past. 2 To illustrate how it is better to make friends online.
16、 3 To persuade people to abandon traditional ways of making friends. 4 To discuss the advantages and disadvantages of making friends online. 参考答案：4。 学生活动：完成活动 4。 Past People lost track of their friends after 1 _ The only way to stay in touch was 2 _ Ways of making friendsPresent Its easy to 3_ with
17、social media tools. Online, people can easily make new friends with those who 4_ It can be real if people 5 _online. Online friendship: real or not?It might not be real because social media doesnt present 6_, and people tend to 7 _. 1 moving to a new town 2 writing letters 3 maintain friendships 4 s
18、hare their interests 5 exchange true personal information 6 the whole truth about a person 7 post only positive updates 三、After-reading 学生活动：Think & Share 1 Why does the author say But this doesnt mean that we should throw the baby out with the bathwater? Do you know of any similar sayings in Chines
19、e? 2 Do you prefer to make friends online? Why? 参考答案： 1 Because there are both advantages and disadvantages to online friendships, and the author wants to remind us to treat them rationally (理性地) and wisely. Similar saying in Chinese: 因噎 废食.It literally means to stop eating for fear of (因害怕) choking. Its used as a metaphor(比喻)of the action of stopping doing something for fear of its disadvantages. 2 Students own answers. 四、Summary 总结本节课所学。 五、Homework 1. Sum up what they learned in class and take notes. 2. Preview the next period.
