Period (2)
教学题目：9A Unit 1 Reading (1)
教学课时：Period 2
教学部分：Page 8－11
教学课型：新授课；阅读课
教学目标：通过各种阅读手段了解各星座的时间和名称；了解与性格有关的词汇
教学内容：归纳各星座的人物所拥有的性格特征，了解文章大意
教学准备：录音机，多媒体，投影仪
教学步骤：
Step 1 Revision
1.Finish some exercises.
2.Review the star signs: look at the star signs and name them. Read together after the teacher.
3.Guessing game: (Test who has the best memory) Teacher will say the Chinese name of the star sign; students try to find out the right picture and say the name in English.
Step 2 Lead-in
1. Free talk:
(1)What is your star sign?
(2)Can you tell me something about yourself? ( abilities, special qualities, characteristics)
(3)How many students are under the same star sign as you? (Yesterday’s homework)
(4)What are they like? (clever, kind, generous, hard-working, brave, patient, polite….)
(5)Do you share similar characteristics?
(Let students speak out as many adjectives about characters as possible.)
2. Do you know these words? They are also used to describe people. (Teach the new words, and finish Exercise B on P10.)
3.Read the new words after the teacher. Then let students read the sentences by themselves.
4.Do some more exercises to see if students have known all the words’ meanings.
Step 3 Reading
1.T: It’s said that star signs can represent a person’s characteristics. Let’s check if it is true. Please listen to the tape and learn something about them.
2.Reading task 1: After listening to the tape, do “T” or “F” questions.
3.Reading task 2: Ask students some questions to check if they have known the main idea, with the books open.
(1)Is Aries lazy?
(2)Which star sign likes saving money?
(3)Does Sagittarius like telling jokes?
(4)Which star sign has the best imagination?
(5)your birthday is on 13th September, what is your star sign?
4.Make students read the article passage by passage and try to find out the adjectives to describe people’s characteristics with the picture of each star sign. (Esp. their own star sign)
T: Whose star sign is Aries?
When is your birthday?
What characteristics do you have/ do this star sign have?
Aries: energetic, active, impatient, selfish
Taurus: stubborn, hard-working, patient
Gemini: curious, clever, outgoing
Cancer: kind
Leo: strong, confident, generous
Virgo: modest, practical
Libra: polite, fair, elegant
Scorpio: powerful, silly
Sagittarius: humorous, lucky
Capricorn: successful, patient
Aquarius: kind, wise, strange
Pisces: generous, kind, gentle, easy-going,
creative, imaginative
5. Discussion:
What is your star sign?
Do you have the same characteristics as the star sign says?
Do you think what the star signs say about people are facts?
-- So we can have a conclusion: What the star signs say about people are not facts. We can just learn about star signs for fun.
Step 4 Some More Exercises
1.What are your characteristics?
Write a short description of your own characteristics.
2.Then show your description to your partner.
3.Discuss with your partner whether or not you agree with each other.
Step 5 Homework
1.Read the passage three times.
2.Remember all the adjectives which describe a person’s characteristics.