教学设计
新课标高中英语教材第三册必修
Module 5 Great People and Great Inventions of Ancient China
Reading: Philosophers of Ancient China

1、教学课型：阅读课
2、教材分析：本篇课文介绍的是中国古代哲学家孔子、孟子和墨子。经过十几年的耳濡目染同学们对他们的观点较熟悉，也颇感兴趣，但这些内容以英语的形式出现会让他们略感惊奇和不适，因此要引导学生克服心里障碍，通过阅读和讨论，捕捉有效信息，学会用英语表达诸多哲学家的观点。
3、教学目标：
1、Help the students grasp the useful words, expressions and some important sentence structures in the text.
2、Help the students to develop reading skill
3、Encourage the students to find out more about European philosophers to compare with those of China so as to learn something necessary to their lives.
4、教学重难点：
1、develop reading skill
2、learn about philosophers home and abroad to enrich their mind.
5、教学过程：
Step I. Lead in
1.Show pictures of some famous philosophers the world has ever produced and their ideas such as Socrates, Higer , Laozi, Maozetong and so on.
T: Please look at these pictures to see if you know any of them, if so, talk about their ideas.
T: Could you tell us which philosopher you like best and why?
Ss:…….
2.Have the students name some philosophers they know.
T: Please name some philosophers you are interested in.
T: Would you like to major in philosophy when you go to college and why?
Ss:……
（设计说明）
In order to arouse the students’ interests in philosophers, we need to let them learn about some philosophers and their views, while at the same time make them guess the meaning of the word “ philosopher”, a key word in this passage, in which way the topic of philosophers is brought out.
Step II Reading
Task one: Leave the students some time to watch the video of this passage with the following questions in mind.
1、What are the names of the philosophers mentioned in the passage?
2、What are their ideas?
3、Whose teachings were very similar to those of Confucius?
4、Why did Mencius resigned?
5、What is the difference between the views of Confucius and that of Mozi?
T: Now I ’like you to watch the video with some questions in mind to get a general idea of the whole passage.
Ss:……….
（设计说明）
In learning a foreign language, listening should come before reading, especially for high school students who have no time to communicate with foreigners, and with some questions in mind while listening is helpful for them to grasp the main idea of the passage and avoid blind listening.
Task two:
Skimming
1.Leave the students five minutes to skim the passage and pick out the topics sentences of each paragraph
T. Now that you have got some idea about these philosophers, next go over the text quickly to pick out the topic sentences of each paragraph.
2.Show the topic sentences on the computer screen
(1)Confucius is the philosopher whose influence has been the greatest.
(2)Mencius was a thinker whose teachings were very similar to those of Confucius.
(3)Mozi founded the philosophy called Mohism.
(设计说明)
Going through the passage quickly to find the topic sentences is to help them improve their reading skill and in the long run to learn writing.
Task three:
Scanning: Let the students read the passage more carefully and finish the following exercise.
T: Please read the text in detail this time and then carry out the following activities.
1. fill in the blanks without looking at your books, each blank with one word.
(1)Confucius is the ________whose influence has been the greatest.
(2)Confucius ________the importance of kindness.
(3)Mencius was a thinker whose _______were very similar to those of Confucius.
(4)However, when he saw that the ruler was not following his advice, he _______.
(5)Mozi was another teacher who was very _________.
(6)He became famous for his unusual clothes and ____________.
2.Choose the right answers:
(1). Mozi spent many year trying to find
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