Lesson4Superhero (2).doc

Superhero 商丘市第四高级中学 翟国峰Teaching objectives:1. Knowledge objective:The students can grasp some important phrases and sentence structures and use them to express their thoughts in the proper situation.2. Ability objectiveTo improve the students reading ability, especially their skimming and scanning ability.3. Moral objectiveEnable the students to learn from Christopher Reeve and increase their confidence in overcoming difficulties.Teaching Important & difficult points1. Some new expressions: raise; promote; on ones own; get involved in; 2. Enable the students to guess the meaning of new wordsTeaching methods Teacher-guided and students-centered ApproachCommunicative ApproachTask-based Language Teaching Cooperative LearningExploring Study Teaching procedureStep 1: Lead-inFirst, use a song “Magic” to warm students up and ask them whether to have a feeling of flying like a superman. Then, make an imagination that if they were a superman, what they would like to do.Third, look at some pictures and please discuss what qualities should a hero have?Fourth, ask two questions that who played the role superman and why Christopher Reeve is a superheroStep 2: 1st reading Match the topics with proper paragraphs1. the riding accident2. his marriage3. his feelings after the accident4. his death5. his parents6. his belief7. how he get involved with charity work8. his work9. his life before the accidentStep 3: 2nd Reading Paraphrase the underlined words1. Unfortunately, disaster came in 1995 when he fell from his horse and broke his back.2. At first, he couldnt breathe without a machine, but he learnt to breathe on his own.3. He also raised a lot of money to promote medical research into back injuries.4. I am confident that people like me would be able to walk again one day.5. They divorced when I was four.Step 4: 3rd Reading Fill in the blanksChristopher Reeve was born in September,1952 in the USA. During his childhood, he began to 1 in TV shows and films, of which the most 2 one is Superman.Unfortunately, an 3 happened to him when he was 43. Out of 4 , he learnt to breathe 5 and pulled through.In 1996, he returned to 6 films. Meanwhile, he raised a lot of money to 7 the medical research into back injuries.After the accident, its his wife-Dana who encouraged him a lot and therefore, he got 8 _in the charity work and became more 9 that people like him would walk again with the rapid progress of the medical research.Sadly, he died at the age of 53, but forever 10 by people all over the world.Step 5：Listen to the tape and check your answersStep 6：Discussion Why is Christopher Reeve a superhero?What can you learn from him?Step 7： Homework1. Finish Exercise 6 and 7 on P292. Try your best to retell the text.Step 8：Teaching Reflection In terms of my organization of the class, there were seven steps in detail. They were Lead-in, First reading, Second reading, Third reading, Listening, Discussion, and Homework. The teachers listening to my class said that the organization agrees with the theory of Constructism. I was quite satisfied with the part of lead-in, because every student participated in talking and brainstorm. They could give their opinion when they stood up. The feedback information was ideal at this point. Meanwhile, I was not satisfied with the part of Second Reading Paraphrase the underlined words. Although students try their best to paraphrase the underlined words, they didnt work out the meanings well because of their shortage of vocabulary. The part of discussion was related to the theme of the class, however, because of the limited time, I didnt realize the teaching aim of this part.All in all, this was a comparatively successful class. During this class, I found some unsatisfactory elements in my teaching. I think it would be better for me to improve the teaching procedure for future use. In addi