英语人教版八年级下册Unit4 To face stress bravely.docx

Unit 4 why dont you talk to your parents? The sixth period (reading) Teaching goals：1.Ss can read and understand the meaning of the passage.2.Lead students to use the word guessing approach and summarize the meaning of each passage to show how to understand the passage easily. 3.Make students think more about the topic and express their own opinions according to the language structures they have learned.Moral goals:Lead students to change their roles to think about something, help ss to set up the positive attitude and values of life.Teaching important points:1. Help students understand the whole passage.2. To use the reading strategy of guessing the meaning .Teaching difficult points:Express their own ideas about after-school classes and use the reading strategy of guessing the meaning .Step 1 warming up T : How was your last weekend? What after-school activities do you usually do?Check the work students did yesterday ._ Do homework _ use the internet _ Have after-school classes _hang out with friends_ Watch movies _ play sports or exerciseT : which activity is the most tiring for you ? why?Step 2 Before-reading(T :These days, many of Chinese children have to face a problem, that is besides doing much homework , they have to take all kinds of after-school classes on weekends. So we often say Chinese students are tired.)Q: How about American children ? Are they the same busy like us?T :Today Lets read a passage and find the answers. (渗透本篇课文阅读策略)Step 3 While-readingA. Read the article quickly and answer two questions.Q: 1.What is the common problem for Chinese American families?B.Read the second paragraph and finish the chart.Chinese Childrens problemthe reasonwhat they learnC.Read the third paragraph and answer the following questions.1. Who is Cathy Taylor?2. What after-school activities do her children take?3. Why doesnt she cut out a few of their activities?D. Read the third paragraph and find Linda Millers opinion. Fill in the blanks.In some families, competition starts very young and continues until the kids get elder. Mothers send their small kids to all kinds of classes. And they are always comparing them with other children. It s crazy. She doesnt think thats fair. She thinks people shouldnt push their kids so hard.E. Read the last paragraph , check the statements ture or False1. Too much pressure is not good for a childs development.2. All these activities can help students get into a good university.3. Kids shouldnt have too much time to relax.4. To want successful children is more important than to have happy childrenStep4. Further understandingT: From our understanding, I think this passage can be divided into two parts. How to divide them?Para_ and Para_ are the first part.Para_ and Para_ are the second part.What does each part mainly tell us ?The first part