深圳优质课教案 深圳牛津版英语8A U4 Great inventions

Unit4Inventions

Greatinventions

尹伊兰

Teachingobjectives:

Aftertheclass,thestudentsshouldbeableto

1.extractthegeneralanddetailedinformationfromthepassage

2.usetheirownwordstointroducelightbulb.

3.worktogetherasateamandhelpeachother

Teachingaids:computer,projector,exercisesheet

Focalpoint:togettheinformationfromthepassageandusetheirownwordstotalkaboutinventions

Difficultpoint:toworktogetherandusetheirwordstotalkaboutthefunctionofsomeimportantinventions

Teachingprocedures:

Warmingup

Playagame---Who’sstillstanding?

Step1Lead-in

Bywatchingtwovideosaboutancientlifeandmodernlife,studentsare

ledtocometoaconclusion---Technology/Inventionmakesourlifemoreconvenient.

Relatetostudents’lifeexperiencebyaskingthreequestionsandtellthem

they’regoingtoreadanarticleaboutthreemostimportantinventions.Step2Pre-reading

Prediction---lookatthetitle,thephotos,theintroductionandthesub-headingsofthearticleandanswerthequestionsbelow:

Whatthreeinventionswillthearticletalkabout?

Step3:Whilereading

1.Scanning

Studentsreadthewholepassagequicklyandfinishthemind-map.

2.StudentsreadPartOnealoudandanswerthequestionsbelow(1)Whathappenedaftertheinventionofwheels?

(2)Whendothefirsttrainsbegintocarrypassengers?

3.ReadPart2andtellwhetherthefollowingstatementsaretrueorfalse(T/F)andfindsupportingdetails:

Bellinventedthefirstpracticaltelephonesin1879.(F)

Peoplestillcannotspeaktoeachotheroverlongdistancesafter1876.(F)Todayfewpeopleacrosstheworldownmobilephones.(F)

4.ReadPartThreeandfinishthetable.

Invention

inventor

whenwasitinvented

lifebeforetheinvention

Lifeaftertheinvention

thelightbulb

_____________

in____

Peopleuse_________,__________,

or_______.

Peoplecan____________________

_______astheycaninthedaytime

Step4Post-reading

1.RetellPartThreebasedonthetableabove.

2.Group-work

Supposethattheywereleftaloneonasmallisland.Theyareallowedto

chooseonlythreeinventionstobringwiththem.Sotheyw