高一英语下册第三单元教案
Skills building 1: listening for the gist
To listen for the gist or general idea of a passage, you need to find out how many people there are, where they are, what they are doing and what they are talking about. You need only focus on the specific required information. If you hear a word you don’t understand, do not stop to think about what it means----keep listening. Remember that you are listening for the gist, not the details.
1. You have conversations with your friends, your relatives and other people every day. What decides the topic you are talking about? Will the topic be different if someone else joins your conversation? Will the topic be different if you move to another place to talk? Will it be different if you are doing something else while you are talking? Think about the past experience. To quickly understand what others are talking about and get involved in a new conversation, what do you usually listen to or pay attention to? Now let’s have a free group discussion. Then each group will report the result to the whole class.
2. Let’s read the four points in Skills building 1 on page 52. Please focus on what to find out about while listening for the general idea. Try to understand the instructions here. Listen to the tape and complete the note sheet. After we check the answers, I’d like all of you to think about your answers and the previous discussion. I want to see if you can find a useful listening strategy.
Step 1: finding useful expressions
When you practice listening, you are trying your best to improve your listening skills and to get the gist and sometimes the details. Now let’s listen to the conversation. Please take some notes while listening to the conversation in order to find out the general idea of the conversation. You need to circle the right words or expressions and fill in the blank. By listening, you will find useful expressions for giving a talk.
1. Have you ever given a talk? If you have, where did you do it? What was your topic? What did you say at the beginning and at the end of your talk? Did you ask someone for suggestions before the talk?
2. Next we will listen to the tape and do the exercise in Part A. Then we will check your answers as a whole class. Pay attention to the useful expressions used to give a talk.
3. Listen to the tape again and do the exercise in Part B. Think about the topic and add more useful expressions for giving a talk.
Skills building 2: describing illustrations
In this part you will learn how to describe illustrations. When you are asked to illustrate something, you must first learn to briefly mention the subject and then focus on the relatedbackground information about the illustration. You need to understand that general information is preferred to details when describing an illustration. So you should pay attention to the following points:
1. First please answer my questions: How would you describe an illustration? From an audience's point of view, what do you want to know most when seeing an illustration? How do you decide whether a description is good or not? Study the sampleillustration and have a discussion.
Sample illustration:
This is a cave painting in the 112th cave of the Mogao Caves. The caves are located in Dunhuang, Gansu Province, on the famous Silk Road.


2. When you are describing an illustration, you do not wish to point out every detail of it. The audience will not be interested in something they can see for themselves. They are more interested in things that are related to the illustration in a significant way. Therefore, when you are describing an illustration, you may briefly mention the subject of the illustration first, and then focus on the relatedbackground information about the illustration.
3. Now let’s come to page 54 and read the illustration and description in Part A. Please point out the subject and the background information in the description. Discuss whether or not this is a good
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