新世纪版高一上册英语《Using English： Using your dictionary》优秀教学设计

新世纪版高一上册英语《Using English： Using your dictionary》优秀教学设计

Teaching aims:

1. to read a magazine article about school life in the UK;

to learn to apply two basic reading skills: skimming and scanning;

to learn some expressions about school life;

4. to get some information about what school life in the UK is really like.

Teaching procedures:

Step 1 Lead-in

Play the song of ‘High School Life’ and show students’ photos.

Can you guess the name of the song?

What can you think of when we talk about school life?

Now we are going to read a magazine article which is written by Wei Hua, an exchange student. She has been studying in the UK for one year. She will give us a brief introduction of her school life there.

Let’s first preview the words that will be used in the article, the definition of the word is given, please match the meaning with the word.

Step 2 reading

Before we read the article, we are going to learn the reading strategies: skimming and scanning.

1. Reading strategy－scanning

We scan the text when we want to find certain information in a text quickly.

Apply scanning to finish PartC1.C2.

2. Reading strategy－Skimming

We skim a text when we want to get a general idea of what it is about.

Apply skimming to find the key sentences of the paragraph.

Find out the main idea of each paragraph and answer questions concerning the content of each paragraph.

Part 1:

School hours:

1. Was she happy with the school hours? ______________

2. School in Britain _______ around 9 am and __________ about 3:30 pm, while schools in China begins before 8a.m. We believe that ___________早起的鸟儿有虫吃。