The Second Period
Teaching Aims:
1.Learn and master the following:
deal with,burn down,aim at,in honour of,in vain,proud of,be determined to do,once again
2.Train the students’ reading ability.
3.Help the students learn about the American South.
Teaching Important Points:
1.Improve the students’ reading ability.
2.Master the useful phrases appearing in the reading passage correctly.
Teaching Difficult Points:
1.How to help the students understand the reading material better.
2.How to make the students finish the concerned exercises after reading.
Teaching Methods:
1.Fast-reading to help the students get the general idea of the text.
2.Careful-reading to get some detailed information about the passage.
3.Discussion to help the students finish the concerned exercises.
4.Individual,pair or group work to make every student work in class.
Teaching Aids:
1.the multimedia
2.the blackboard
Teaching Procedures:
Step Ⅰ Greetings
Greet the whole class as usual.
Step Ⅱ Revision and Lead-in
T:In the last period,we talked about our hometown.I have felt that everyone loves his/her hometown,but do you know what your hometown looked like 20~30 years ago?
S1:I have ever heard about it from my Dad.
T:Please tell us about your hometown in the past.We are glad to learn about it.
S1:Thirty years ago,my hometown was very poor.People lived a hard life.There was not enough food and clothing.The living conditions were also very bad.At night,they had to light up the oil lamp to give light.There was almost no entertainment for them then.
T:It seems that they did live a hard life.Now we have said “Goodbye” to the times.Happy life does not come easily,so we should value it.Meanwhile,we shouldn’t forget the past.
Step Ⅲ Pre-reading
T:Now,please turn to Page 43 and look at Ex.1 in Prereading.Make a simple timeline of your cities or villages.Make a list of important events and changes and discuss causes and effects in groups of four.While discussing,you may consider the following areas:employment,education,
population,buildings and streets.Five minutes later,I’ll ask some students to report their answers.Is that clear?
Ss:Yes.
T:OK.You can begin.
(Teacher goes among the students and joins them in their discussion.)
T:(Five minutes later)Are you ready?
Ss:Yes.
T:Who’d like to report your result of your discussion?
S2:(The student first shows his timeline to the class and then says the following.)
…before 1945…1945…1958…1978…now
Before the year 1945,our village was very poor.Most people there were illiterate persons.They lived in old and shabby houses.They worked for landlords.In 1945,the village was liberated.They had their own fields and had the right to receive education.In 1958,an agricultural producers’ cooperative was founded.They built houses made of earth and wood.Their life improved.The population began to grow.The land reformsystem was carried out in 1978.Some of them began to open up factories and do business.Life was becoming richer and richer.They moved into new houses made of bricks and tiles.Now people there have become much richer.They build villas and buy their own cars.Mud roads have been replaced by cement roads.Their factories are doing well,attracting people from different places.Among the young,college students are becoming more and more.Some of them have returned to the village to work.
T:Well done!What do you think are the reasons for the changes?
S2:The leadership of the Party and the Reform and openning Policy.
T:Quite right.Now let’s turn our attention to the USA.Yesterday I asked you to surf the Internet to get some information about the history of the USA.Have you finished it?
Ss:Yes.
T:OK.Let’s do an exercise to see whether you’ve learnt about the history of it.Please look at the screen and put the events in th
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