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7A Unit 1 This is me! Reading

Ⅰ. Teaching objectives

1. Knowledge objective: Master new words, phrases and sentences

(1) Words: year; grade; reading; club; everyone; after; long; music; hard; short; swimming; wear; glasses; enjoy; polite; helpful; hobby.

(2) Phrases: …years old; the Reading Club; be born in; long black hair; come from; listen to music; short hair; wear glasses; play computer games; after school; polite and helpful.

(3) Sentences: I love playing football after school.

He enjoys playing computer games.

She is good at swimming.

2. Ability objective:

Students are able to introduce themselves and their classmates, friends, etc.

3. Emotional objective:

Learn how to communicate with others better and realize the importance of being confident.

Ⅱ. Important and difficult points

1. Important points:

(1) Understand the main idea of the reading passage.

(2) Students learn to introduce themselves and others appropriately.

2. Difficult points:

Students learn to introduce themselves and others in a proper way.

Ⅲ. Teaching methods and aids

1. Teaching methods:

The student-oriented communicative teaching method

2. Teaching aids:

A projector, multimedia, a tape recorder and a blackboard

Ⅳ. Teaching procedures

Step 1 Pre-test

v 年级 n. grade 喜欢 v. enjoy

v 阅读 n. reading 眼镜 n. glasses

v 音乐 n. music 有礼貌的 a. polite

v 游泳 n. swimming 乐于助人的 a. helpful

v 戴；穿 v. wear 业余爱好 n. hobby

The students are required to preview the reading passage before this lesson. In this step, the teacher asks students to translate the Chinese into English. The purpose is to test whether the students have made full preparation for this lesson.

Step 2 Presentation

In this step, the teacher presents six students from BeijingSunshineSecondary School. They are Millie, Simon, Sandy, Kitty, Amy and Daniel. The purpose of this step is to help students better know the six students introduced in this reading passage.

Step 3 Pre-reading

The students are asked to listen to the recording and answer the following two questions:

(1) How many students are there in this passage?

(2) Who are they?

In this step, the students are supposed to gain a general understanding of this passage.

Step 4 While-reading

During the while-reading step, the teacher divides the passage into two parts. First, the students are asked to read the first three paragraphs and answer the four questions:

(1) How old is Millie?

(2) What does Millie like doing?

(3) Where was Simon born? And where does he live now?

(4) What is Sandy like?

Second, the teacher asks students to read the next three paragraphs and answer the three questions:

(1) How old is Kitty?

(2) Does Amy have long hair?

(3) What does Daniel enjoy doing?

The purpose of this step is to enable students to get some detailed information from this reading passage.

Step 5 Post-reading

Task 1 Do the matching exercises

Task 2 True or false questions

Task 3 Talk about the table and fill in the blanks

The students are supposed to fulfill the three tasks in this step, which may help them fully understand this reading passage.

Step 6 Pair-work

The students work in pairs to discuss four pop stars: Selina, Jay Zhou, Jolin and Will Pan. The following is the sample dialogue:

A: Does Selina have long hair?

B: Yes, she does.

A: What’s her hobby?

B: She likes swimming.

Step 7 A guessing game

Step 8 Homework

(1) Write about yourself;

(2) Finish the exercises.