1、Unit 9 What does he look like? Section B 2a-2c Teaching goals: 1. Grasp these words：artist, put, each, way, describe, differently, another, end, real。 2. Know how to describe people after reading: The criminal is of medium height and young. He has long straight brown hair and big eyes. He is tall an
2、d thin, and he has curly blond hair. 3. Get the main idea and relevant information through skimming, scanning, and read in the context. Important and difficult points: Important points: understand and capable of using description words, adjectives and structures. Difficult points: make sure and guid
3、e students to read and understand what the pronouns in this article refer to. Teaching aids: the text book, multi-media Teaching procedures: Step 1 Warm up and lead in 1. Teacher greets the students and guide students to talk about 2 classmates Q: What does he/she look like? Is he/she tall or short?
4、 Is he/she thin or heavy? Is he/she young and old? Does he/she have curly hair or straight hair? Does he/she have short hair or long hair? 2. Teacher guides students to finish 2a very quickly by saying “He is/has” Step 2 Pre-reading 1. Prediction: T: Look at the title, guess! What is an interesting
5、job? Students give their answers and teacher evaluates if necessary. 2. T: lets read this newspaper article and find out. Step 3 While-reading 1. Read paragraph one First time reading (Skimming) Q: Who has an interesting job? Whats his job? Students find out the answer and read together. Second time
6、 reading (Scanning) Q: How does Joe Brown work? People see crimes and then talk to Joe. They tell him what the criminal looks like. Joe draws a picture of the criminal. Then the police put it in newspapers and on television to find him. (After students find out the answer, the whole class read these
7、 together, then teacher asks students to read paragraph one aloud together and think about his job.) 2. Read paragraph two Q: What does Joe want to do? Who is the real criminal? 3. Careful reading: read and find out the information One woman says Another woman says the real criminal is The real crim
8、inal is Why is Joe Browns job sometimes so difficult? 1._ 2._ (Teacher guides students to read paragraph two, finish this form here, find out the criminal together. Then read deeper, why? Then the whole class read paragraph two out aloud together.) Read carefully again and find out what those pronou
9、ns refer to T: I am happy that you can do these well. But I am also unhappy because something bad is happening to me. I spoilt some milk on my English book, and I can see some of the words, can you help me? Students read and say the missing word T: What does this word “he” refer to/mean? (Talk about
10、 other pronouns this way) Students read, think and answer. (Give students time to read.) T: How can we find the answer? How do we know? Students discuss, think and find out. (Mentioned before) Step 4 Post-reading 1. Discussion: Q: What do you think of his job? Do you want to be an artist? Students g
11、ive their opinions and teacher evaluate properly. 2. Writing: Please help Adam write a notice for his missing Child (Students write and then share some, teacher share hers) 3. Conclusion We can describe people in many ways. When we describe people differently, and we What does the criminal look like
12、? should never judge a person from his or her looks Teaching assessment: 1. More practice on time control is necessary. 2. Should focus more on the design of questions, i.e. how to arouse students interest and desire to read and think. 3. Post-reading activities should be more relevant to the readin
13、g material, such as discussion about peoples different description of the same person. Or even a little game on description. Teacher should guide students to think again, why is that? Could go deeper and students can have more moral education. 4. The teacher should have an open mind, try to make the class/classroom a natural language learning place, which requires more teaching practice, more excellent teaching design, and a modest mind to accept new things and ability to adjust quickly. 5. There is still a long way to go. Keep going!
