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2007校级课堂教学比赛M1 U3 Looking good, feeling goodReading: Dying to be thin The analysis of this part:The reading in this unit is designed to help students learn English through reading. The reading material in this part is for students to learn the importance of living a healthy life and have a better understanding of beauty. Students are encouraged to take a positive attitude toward ones appearance. Teaching aims:1. Enable the Ss to read the E-mails “Dying to be thin”.2. Enable the Ss to grasp the words and expressions in the emails.3. Enable the Ss to have the confidence to talk about the topic.4. Develop a correct attitude toward beauty. Teaching important points: 1. Enable the Ss to understand the contents of the e-mails. 2. Enable the Ss to use the information in the e-mails and talk about the topic with the information. 3. Develop a correct attitude toward beauty. Teaching difficult points: Enable the Ss to understand the contents of the e-mails. Enable the Ss to perform a interview. Teaching methods:Task-based learning and cooperative learning. Teaching aids: Mass media Teaching procedures:Step 1.lead-in In this part, I will let students watch a video showing a girl who was slim but now she is fat to arouse students interests. And some pictures about fat people around us. Q. Can you tell fat people some different ways to lose weight?You have listed some ways to lose weight. There is a girl named Amy who is worried about how she looks. Lets come to the text and find what way the girl used to lose weight.Step 2 Pre-readingLook at the title, “Dying to be thin”,Q. how can you understand the title?Step 3 While-readingFast reading: complete the table Date:From:To:Subject:2 May 20032 June 20034 June 2003Detailed readingE-mail 1A. Answer some questions Q1.What way did Amy use to lose weight ? Q2.Why did Amy want to lose weight? Q3.Whats her mums response?B. Retell the story.E-mail 2A. Fill in the blank Where _ What _ Why _B. T or F Exercise1. Amy is now recovering from a bad cold in hospital. ( )2. Amy follows doctors advice and often goes to the gym. ( )3. Now Amy eats lots of fruit and vegetables. ( )4. For a slim and attractive figure, we can damage our health. ( )Q. If you were Amys friend, what would you say after learning those things?E-mail 3Find out Zhou Lings advice in the third E-mail.Step 4 After readingA: Go through the text again and fill in the blanks.Letters Names of the writers 2._that the writers belong toWhat they are aboutMore details Letter 1Amy 3._Amy takes 5._ pills and looks slimmer.She wants to stay slim because she is 8._ for a TV show.Letter 2 1. _CanadaTaking the pills causes liver 6. _ and will completely destroy her liver if continuing doing so.She is recovering because of 9._ good medical treatment.Letter 3Zhou Ling 4. _ One shouldnt be embarrassed about his weight. Nothing is better than 7. _.She hopes that people can 10._ from Amys story.B: Interview:Here we have a problem. Health is very important. But young people also like to be beautiful. So beauty or health, what will you choose?After Amy recovered, she held a news conference. You know, Amy is an actress.Do group work. One is Amy, and the other are reports or fans. Ask Amy questions about health and beauty. Step 5 Further discussionWhat else do you think beauty means besides a good-looking face and a slim figure?What do you want to do to make you more beautiful?I think beauty also means_. You can _ to make you more beautiful.Step 6 HomeworkSuppose your best friend is over-weighted, he/she is dying to be thin. Write a letter to him/her to give him/her some useful advice.Directions:This teaching plan is designed to emphasize on improving students ability in reading comprehension and applying what they have learned to practice. The first few pictures are used to arouse their interests in the topic and attract their attention. The importance of interest in learning can never be emphasized enough. Without interest students cant learn anything enthusiastically. Only when the students become interested in the topic will they focus their attention on the topic. They will understand the contents more quickly and will be active enough to think of new ideas.By fast reading, the students will practice their reading skills and get a general idea of the emails. Different reading skills need different practice. In order for the students to better understand the emails, detailed reading is required. So the next step will be detailed reading. In this step, some forms and questions are prepared to check and guide the students. Different approaches are used to deal with different parts so that the students will not feel bored and their high enthusiastic mood will not be lowered. After completing these tasks, they will get a clear idea of the contents of each email. After reading each email, some exercises are provided to strengthen the students understanding of the passages, so the students will be able to use the information they have got through reading to complete the further tasks. Some other exercises are also provided to let the students have enough information. This is also required by the task-centered teaching theory-the students are getting ready for the final task by completing all these former tasks. After all these preparations, the students will have some confidence in the TV show and so will be active in preparation part. On the one hand, The topic is interesting and has something to do with their daily life: some of the students are also considering going on diet for a slim figure just because their classmates and they themselves have negative attitude toward shape. On the other hand, they have got enough information from reading and enough ideas from debating. That is, they have something to talk about, they will feel a sense of achievement by acting. Thats why the interview is assigned to them.Last but not least, students will learn their moral lessons in many cases, including English classes. When we are developing students ability in using English, we are also required to develop their positive qualities. The last task is intended to guide students have a correct attitude toward their shapes in their daily life. In teaching the part reading, teachers used to concentrate only on the understanding of the materials and the usage