Unit2LearningfromHelenKellerGettingReady教案

Book 2 Challenging yourself Using a Dictionary Getting Ready and Reading Contents 1 Vocabuaries 1 words for Production 2 words for Recognition 3 the usage of accomplish consider come out 2 Structure 1 It took him over 27 years to write his book 2 At the age of 3 so that 3 Reading Noah Webster and the First American Dictionary Objectives 1 Instructional Objectives 1 making a prediction of the contents from the title 2 Reading skills skimming scanning 3 Knowing about the differences between BE and AE 2 Educational Objectives Learn about the life and the contributions of Noah Webster And why do the people consider him as an American hero 3 Personal Objectives Focal points 1 How to get the information you want 2 How to turn the information into other forms eg a table Difficult points 1 Learn how to write a summary 2 Learn how to get the information you want Stage1 Getting students ready for learning Step1 Greetings Step2 Routine task Stage2 Getting Ready Do you have an English dictionary What dictionary do you have Task1 Answer the following questions by ticking Yes or No 1 Do you often use your dictionary 2 Do you know how to decide if a dictionary is a good one 3 Do you know what information a dictionary has besides spellings and meaning 4 Do you know why you can improve your English by making good use of a dictionary Task2 Study your dictionary carefully and write down the information you may get from each entry And compare yours with your partner s My dictionary includes spelling pronunciation part of speech definition sample sentences collocation usage My partner s dictionary includes spelling pronunciation part of speech definition sample sentences synonym antonym Stage3 Prediction Task1 lead in Show a picture of a dictionary Let the students predict the main idea of the passage Task2 Margin Notes Help the students to deal with Margin Notes 1 The first farm means in Chinese 2 The second farm means in Chinese 3 Crammed means A filled B called 4 Accomplished here means A completed B wrote 5 Copyright n the right that a writer publisher etc hs for his article book etc 6 Americanize vt To make sb sth American in character Stage4 While stage Step1 Skimming Give the students 5 minutes to read the passage quickly and divide the passage into 5 parts and then match the main idea of each part Part1 para1 His family Part2 para2 His education Part3 para3 4 His first American textbook Part4 Para5 His first American dictionary Part5 para6 His other contributions Step2 Scanning Give the students another 5 minutes to read the passage again And finish Ex2 1 on page 27 Pay attention to the key words time Task1 Decide whether the following statements are T or F according to the passage 1 Noah Webster s father was a farmer and weaver and his mother was a housewife 2 Noah Webster went to college because his parents wanted him to go 3 A Grammatical Institute of the English Language was the first American textbook 4 Americans in different parts of the country spoke in different ways 5 Noan thought that Americans should speak and spell like the English 6 Besides teaching Noah did many other things in his life e g he worked as an editor Task2 Complete the table below WhenWhat happened 1758Noan Webster was born in the West Division of Hartford 1778 1783 1801 1828 1843 Stage5 Post stage Work in pairs to answer the following questions in your own words 1 Why didn t Noah Webster continue to study law when he graduated in 1778 Because his parents could not afford to give him more money for school 2 Why didn t Noah Webster like the American schools of that time Because many students of all ages were crammed into one room schoolhouse with no desks poor quality books and untrained teachers The study condition was very bad and their books came from England 3 Why did Noah Webster decide to write the first American dictionary He did that because Americans in different parts of the country spelled pronounced and used words differently He thought that all Americans should speak in the same way and should not speak and spell just like the English 4 What did the American people think of Noah Webster Noah Webster was considered an American hero 5 What kind of person do you think Noah Webster was Try to use some words and expressions from the text in your answer Noah Webster was a person who loved his country very much because he wrote A Grammatical Institute of the English Language as a textbook in America and he wrote the first American dictionary He did many things in his life which contributed to the development of his country Stage6