Unit 3 Reading教案
教学内容分析
This is the first teaching period of this unit. The central part of this period is two sections in the reading passage titled Advice from Grandad and How Can You Stop Smoking?
Pre－reading provides some questions to help students focus on the topic of the reading passage and get the students to realize the harm of smoking. Teachers may provide students some advice on how to give up smoking.
Reading is in two parts. The first part is a letter from a grandad to his grandson. Grandad lives a long and healthy life，but he has ever been addicted to nicotine，so he lists reasons for being addicted and the harm of smoking. The second part gives advice about how to stop smoking.
Comprehending consists of three kinds of exercises for the students so as to help the students to get a better understanding of the text，that is to say，to help the teacher to check how much the students have understood the text. Exercise 1：fill in the form about the content of the text；Exercise 2：discuss the content of the text；Exercise 3：write down an outline on how to persuade people to give up smoking within five sentences.
三维目标设计
Knowledge and skills
1．To learn about some health problems and how to live a healthy life.
2．To develop the students' reading ability by skimming and scanning the passage. 3．To develop the students' speaking ability by talking about health problems. Process and methods
1．The teacher can lead in the topic of this unit by showing students some pictures of healthy or unhealthy activities. Students can practice their oral English by describing the activities. By reading a passage，students can have a better understanding of what is a healthy life.
2．During Pre－reading the teacher can go around the classroom and discuss the questions with several students. This discussion should be student－centered and help students understand the harm of smoking. The teacher should lead the students to look at the title and layout of the two sections in the reading passage and try to find out the main idea of the text by skimming.
3．While doing Reading and Comprehending，the teacher may first ask the students to read the text quickly to get the general idea of each paragraph. After reading the passage，students are encouraged to answer some questions and study the organization of the text.
4．To consolidate the contents of the reading passage，the students should be required to discuss some questions about the text at the end of the class.
Emotion，attitude and value 1．To get the students to reflect on some health issues which may concern them in the future and make sure they will be less likely to become addicted to risky behavior.
2．To develop students' sense of cooperative learning. 教学重、难点
1．To enable the students to learn about health problems and to develop their reading ability. 2．To enable the students to describe a healthy person or a healthy activity. 教学过程
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Step 1 Lead-in
Ask the students the question: What do you think is important in our life? Show them some pictures and ask them whether these things, including cars, houses, money and so on, are important. Then ask the students to look at the following pictures and see what they are doing，then judge which are healthy activities while which are unhealthy ones. The students should be encouraged to describe the pictures in their own words.
Picture one：They are singing.(Healthy)
Picture two：They are drinking alcohol.(Unhealthy) Picture three：They are doing Taiji.(Healthy)
Picture four：They are eating too much.(Unhealthy) Picture five：He is smoking.(Unhealthy)
Picture six：They are playing basketball.(Healthy) Step 2 Pre－reading 1．Discussion：
(1)Have you ever smoked?
(2)Is it easy for smokers to quit smoking? (3)In what ways is smoking harmful?
Give students some pictures to help students finish the third question. 2．Skim the text and answer the following questions. (1) How many parts does the reading text consist of? (2) Who wrote the letter and to whom? (3)What is the purpose of the letter? Step 3 Reading and comprehending 1．Fast－reading
Ask students to skim the passage so as to get the key words and general idea of each paragraph. Paragraph one：______ Paragraph two：______ Paragraph three：______ Paragraph four：______ Paragraph five：______
A．The writer leads to the topic of the letter by talking about James' problem of smoking. B．Introducing some different ways of becoming addicted. C．Telling the writer's hope for his grandson.
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D．Telling the harmful effects of smoking.
E．From the life the writer is leading now，we can know the importance of healthy life. F. The reason why James likes smoking Suggested answers：E A B D C 2．Detailed－reading
(1) Listen to the tape, and fill in the blanks to get the information of para.1 and para.2.
It is a beautiful day here and I am sitting under the big tree at the end of the garden. I have just 1__________from a long bike ride to an old castle.
It seems amazing 2_________at my age I am still fit enough to cycle 20 kilmetres in an afternoon. It’s my birthday in two weeks time and I’ll be 82 years old! I think my long and active life must be 3________ the healthy life I live.
This brings me to the real reason for my letter, my dear grandson. Your mother tells me that you started smoking some time ago and now you are finding 4________ difficult to give it 5_______.
Believe me, I know how easy it is to begin smoking and how tough it is to stop. You see, 6________ adolescence I also smoked and became addicted to cigarettes.
(2) Ask students to guess the meaning of the follow woreds
a. It is my birthday in two weeks time and I’ll be 82 years old? What does “it” refer to? A. distance B. place C. weather D. time
b. Believe me, I know how easy it is to begin smoking and how tough it is to stop? What does the underlined “it” mean?
A. to be addicted to smoking B. to give up smoking C. to start smoking D. to hate smoking
c. What does the word “adolescence”in the last sentence of paragraph two mean ? A. When you are a child B. When you are a teenager C. When you are a baby D. When you are a adult
(3)Ask students to read Para3 and fill in the bank. Information from the reading passage The ways to become 1.become____________ addicted to nicotine. addicted 2.become addicted through __________ to cigarettes 3. become___________ addicted (4)Divide all boys and girls into tow groups and have a competition between them. Do some true or false exercises about the text, in order to test which group know more about the text.
Rules:
Try to be the first to get the chance to answer the questions.
If an answer is given correctly, the group will get 10 points; if an answer is given wrongly, the group will get 0 point.
T or F Exercises:
a. The writer has known the harmful effects of smoking since he was a young child. b. If a young lady often smokes, she may give birth to a bigger baby in the future. c. People who smoke are more likely to suffer from heart disease.
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d. After smoking for a few years, a man e. may find that he can’t run as fast as before.
f. The cigarette smoke could do harm to the secondhand smokers.
g. The writer’s girlfriend didn’t care about whatever the writer had become.
h. The writer was a member of the school football team all the time during his school years. i. Smoking couples couldn’t become pregnant.
j. Not until he was kicked out did the writer realize that he should give up smoking. k. The writer’s girlfriend didn’t want to go with me because I was smelly.
(5)Ask students to read the second part of the text to get suggestions to quit smoking
Choose a day that is not ______ to quit smoking. Make a list of all the ______ you will get from stopping smoking.______ all your cigarettes at the end of the day before you plan to quit.______ the list of benefits you wrote when you feel like smoking. Develop some other habits like walking，drinking some water，cleaning the house and so on to keep yourself busy. If you feel nervous or stressed，try to do some ______ exercises like deep breathing. You can stop smoking with a friend or join a group. If you feel really bad，ask a doctor or ______ for help. The most important thing is to keep trying. Don’t feel ______ if you ______ and have a cigarette，because some people have to try many times before they finally quit smoking. Never give up and you will succeed.
3．Summary
Ask students to summarize the whole passage.
This text explains how people get addicted to ____________ and how smoking affects people’s __________. It also provides some advice on how to stop __________. Step 4 Discussion
Question: Suppose your father is a smoker, how will you persuade him to quit smoking?
Ask students to discuss the above question then write down their suggestions. The beginning and structure will be given them.
Dear daddy, smoking is really harmful to your health. For this reason, I am strongly against your smoking. In my opinion, / Personally speaking, / As far as I am concerned, / From my point of view, in order to get rid of it, you should …. Besides…. /In addition…, / What’s more……, / Furthermore … To sum up, / In conclusion, / To conclude, / In a word, / All in all …
Step 5 Homework
Ask students to do Exercise 2 on page 20. Next class we will check the answers together.
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