江苏省苏州市高新区第三中学校八年级英语下册 Unit 4 A good read Reading（I）教案 （新版）牛津版.doc

unit 4 a good readreading (i)i. teaching aims and learning objectivesby the end of the lesson, the students should be able to:1. understand the extract from gullivers travels with the teachers help;2. understand the possible theme of the story;3. learn how to read a novel and develop a love for reading.ii. teaching contents1. new words and phrases: against, tie, over, stomach, until, finger, tiny, continue, either, manage, lift, army, must, unable, shoulder, by the time, be tired out, be tied to, look down, the same size as, fall over, continue doing sth., manage to do sth., a huge army of2. new structures: after our ship crashed against the rocks, i swam as fast as i could. i woke up as the sun was rising. it moved up over my stomach and neck until it was standing near my face. however, they soon got up again and continued moving across my body. i tried to pull one hand free and finally managed to break the ropes.iii. focus of the lesson and predicted area of difficulty1. to get a full understanding of the whole story. 2. to analyze the possible theme of the story. iv. teaching proceduresstep 1 lead-in 1. an introduction to gullivers travels(1) the teacher asks the students some questions about reading.a. do you like reading in your free time?b. what kind of books would you like to read best?(2) the teacher introduces the novel gullivers travels and its author to the students with the help of pictures. 2. look and answer the teacher shows students a picture and asks: what catches your eyes most in the picture? the possible answer can be: what impresses me most is the characters sizes: the huge gulliver and the small men. step 2 understanding the whole story 1. paragraph 1the teacher asks the following questions to help the students understand this paragraph:(1) what do you think of gulliver in this paragraph, lucky or unlucky? why?(2) what did gulliver do to save himself?(3) can you ask some interesting questions about “our ship”?(4) do you think this beginning of the novel is a good one? why?2. paragraph 2(1) what do you think of gullivers sleep in this paragraph, good or bad? why?(2) some people think “the sun was rising” tells readers more than “time” itself. do you agree? why? (3) how did gulliver feel when he found himself tied to the ground?(4) what might gulliver wonder?3. paragraph 3(1) how did gulliver feel about his leg?(2) what is “it”?(3) why did the writer use “something” and “it” instead of “someone” and “he”?(4) how small the man is?(5) why not cut out the sentence below? why?he was the same size as my little finger!(6) how did gulliver feel by asking the following questions? (7) can you ask more questions like these?4. paragraph 4(1) who do you think is more powerful, gulliver or small men?(2) why did gulliver shout at the small men, for fun or for safety?(3) can you imagine how loud the noise was?5. paragraph 5(1) did gulliver talk to the small men successfully?(2) what do you think made them fail to communicate? (3) how did they fight against each other?(4) how did gulliver feel at that time?(5) how do you understand the word “army”?(6) how do you feel after you read the last sentence of the extract from the novel?step 3 discussion about the theme of the storyt: gullivers travels is a great book full of amazing adventure stories. “conflict” is one of its possible themes. now lets discuss how the writer described the conflicts in the following aspects: characters, plots and settings.1. charactersstudents discuss the conflict about characters from these two aspects: size and number. 2. settingsparagraph 1: the students are expected to understand that gulliver was a survivor in an unknown place. however, the local small men were living in a familiar placetheir hometown.paragraph 2: the students are expected to understand that gulliver was trapped and the small men were free.3. plotsgulliver and the small men met three times in the story. the teacher encourages the students to point out their different behaviors in each round with the help of pictures. when the students are doing the task, they are also advised to think about gullivers different feelings and thoughts in different period