1、Unit 5 MusicReading and ThinkingThe virtual choirTeaching material analysisStudents analysisTeaching aimsImportant and difficult pointsBlackboard designTeaching proceduresTeaching methods080706050403020187654321Contents1.Teaching material analysisdTEXT BOOK VERSIONUnit 5 MusicReading and ThinkingTHE
2、 UnitTHE COTENTTYPE ExpositionThe Virtual Choir2.Students analysis6Senior high school students,Grade 1They have some basic reading skills but dont master reading strategies（scanning,skimming）They are interested in learning something about music3.Teaching Objectives英语学科素养Language abilityCultural cons
3、ciounessThinking qualityLearning abilityABCDBy the end of this class,students should be able to:Know what a virtual choir is and how it is formedLearn how to scan for the specific information and know the diffrence of skimming and scanningRealize music is the universal language of mankind and it can
4、 bring people together Learning objectives4.Important and difficult points11 2.Learning the important reading strategy-scanning2.Summarizing the reasons for the success of Eric Whitacres virtual ChoirImportant points 1.Comprehending what is a virtual choir and its birth,development,value and creator
5、Difficult points1.Understangding the deep meaning of the changed numbers in para35.Teaching methodsTeaching methods 13）6.Teaching proceduresLeading-in(3 minutes)Pre-reading(4 minutes)While-reading(28 minutes)post-reading(4 minutes)Homework(1 minute)Teaching proceduresBlackboard DesignStep1Lead-inDes
6、ign purpose:1.To arouse students background information of reality choir lead in the topic:The Virtual choir2.To introduce new words:performer,conductor,stage1.Show students the picture of reality choir 2.Ask them three questions who are those people?who is the man?where are those people singing?Ste
7、p1Lead-in COVID-19Q:Was it still possible for them to have face-to-face contact and sing a choir together?Design purpose:To lead in the topic:The Virtual choirStep2Pre-reading 1.Watch a video of a virtual choir2.Ask students to tell the difference between the reality choir and this kind of choirThe
8、Virtual Choir3.Predict from the title what this passage is going to talk about.Design purpose:1.To help students to know what is a virtual choir more vividly2.To develop students skill of predicting the content from the title.Step3While-reading 1.Ask students to skim the passage and match the main i
9、dea of each paragraph2.Ask students to identify the genre of this passageDesign purpose:1.To make students learn the passage structure and get the main idea by skimming2.To let students know the structure of expositionStep3While-reading (para1)Ask students to read para.1 and answer two questions How
10、 a virtual choir works?What are the advantages of the virtual choir?Design purpose:1.To let students know some basic information and the advantages of the virtual choirStep3While-reading (para2)1.Ask students to read para.2 to find who is the creator.2.Introduce the reading skill-scanning and tell t
11、he difference between skimming and scanningDesign purpose:1.To guide students to learn a new reading skill-scanning.2.To help students identify the difference of skimming and scanning,so that they can use the correct reading skills while readingStep3Design purpose:1.To practice scanning2.To guide st
12、udents to clear the timeline and what happened to Eric Whitacre at each time3.Guide them to summarize the reason of the creation the virtual chiorWhile-reading (para2)3.Ask students to scan and circle the times and try to find out what happend to Eric Whitacle?Step3While-reading (para3)1.Ask student
13、s to scan para.3,circle the numbers and finish the table2.Ask the question:What can you learn from the numbers?Design purpose:1.To guide students to practice scanning again.2.To cultivate their thinking quality.3.To guide students to summerize that the virtual choir has reveived a great success and
14、popularity from the changing of the numbers.Step3Thinking and Discussion Students discuss the question:Why his virtual choir can recieve such a great success and popularity in their group.Design purpose:1.To develop students cooperative skills2.To check whether they have understood the passage Step3
15、While-reading Play a virtual choir-we are not srangers which is sung by those students from different countriesDesign purpose:1.To lead to the value of virtual choir in para.42.To motivate students to realize music is the universal language of mankind and it can bring people together.Step3While-read
16、ing(para.4)1.Ask students to fill in the blanks and then read it together2.Guide the students to summarize the value of virtual choirStep4Post-readingAsk students to infer the authors attitude towards the virtual choir and list those supporting words or sentences.Design purpose:1.To test students ab
17、ility to understand the authors opinion,feelings,attitudes,purpose and intention.Step4Post-readingDivide sudents into two groups to sing with one voice-Dream it possibleDesign purpose:1.To give students a chance to experience and feel the power of virtual choir.2.To create an active classroom atmosphere to end this class.Step5HomeworkDesign purpose:Based on an understanding of the text,to practice the learned knowledge about virtual choir7.Blackboard DesignUnit5 The Virtual Choirperformerconductorstageconvinienceadvantagesloveknowledgepopularityfanstechnology.success
