8BU4Reading1教案

Period 2 Reading (1)

Teaching content: Reading (1)

Teaching objectives:

1 To study the new words that appear in the novel .

2 To get the main idea of the passage.

3 To develop students’ reading skills by both skimming and scanning.

4. To improve students’ interest of reading famous novels.

Important & difficult points:

Words: against, tie, over, stomach, until, finger, tiny, continue, either, manage, lift, army, must, shoulder Phrases: by the time, be tired out , be tied to, look down, the same size as, fall over, continue doing sth, begin doing/to do sth, manage to do sth, a huge army of, run away, get away

Patterns: After our ship crashed against the rocks, I swam as far as I could.

It moved up over my stomach and neck until it was standing near my face.

However, they soon got up again and continued moving across my body.

I did not know what to say either.

I tried to pull one hand free and finally managed to break the ropes.

Gulliver found himself unable to move.

Teaching procedures:

Activity One Leading – in

Step 1 Show some famous novels

Step 2 Have a free talk..

Questions:1. Are you interested in reading stories? 2. What stories have you read?

3. Why do you like them?

4. Have you ever read the novel Gulliver’s Travels?

Step 3 Talk about the famous novel.

T：Gulliver’s Travels was written by the famous British writer Jonathan Swift. This novel tells us Gulliver’s amazing adventures in some countries, including Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa and

Houyhnhnms. Do you want to know more about this book?

Activity Two Pre-reading

1. Look and guess: What happened?

2. Show some important elements of the article.

Activity Three While-reading

Step 1 Read the first paragraph quickly and answer

1.What did Gulliver do after their ship crashed against the rocks?

2.Why did Gulliver fall down on the beach?

Step 2 Read paragraph 2 silently and do T or F questions

1. When Gulliver woke up, it was almost evening.

2. Someone tied Gulliver’s arms, legs, and hair to the ground.

Imagine : Can you read Para.2 with emotion

Step 3 Read paragraph 3 with surprise .

1. Where was I?

2. Who was this tiny person?

Step 4 Read paragraph 4 aloud and answer.

Why did the tiny men all fall over?

1. Why did Gulliver shout at them?

2. Did they care about Gul liver’s shout?

3. Why didn’t they care?

4. What do you think of the tiny men?

Imagine : If you are tiny men, what determination will you talk about ?

Step 5 Read paragraph 5 and fill in the blanks

Have a discussion : Could Gulliver run away at last?

Tell your friends about the story.

Activity Four Post-reading

What do you think of Gulliver ?

Activity Five: Exercises

一、用所给单词的适当形式填空

1. How many __________ (手指) does a person have?

2. I don’t like playing computer games, _________ (也)。

3. Look! There are a lot of _________ (极小的) ants on the ground.

4. The old computer _________ (break) down easily.

5. He finally managed __________ (open) he window.

6. She looked up for a moment, then continued _________ (drew).

7. The doctor looked over their _________ (胃)carefully.

8. He __________ (捆) the books with string yesterday.

二、选择填空：

( ) 1. Mr Wang is strongly _______ keeping animals in the zoo, because he thinks animals should also enjoy freedom.

A. up

B. for

C. against

D. down

( ) 2. Many people do not realize the importance of health________ they have fallen ill.

A. until

B. while

C. when

D. after

( ) 3. –Excuse me, can you tell me _________ get to the nearest post office?

-Sorry, I am new here.

A. how can I

B. How could I

C. how to

D. what I can

( ) 4. _______ the time I got to the bus stop, the bus had already left.

A. On

B. In

C. By

D. With

（）5. Tell the children___________ unhealthy food. It is bad for heath.

A. not to eat

B. not eating

C. to eat

D. eating

Homework:

1. Write a short passage about your idea.

2. Try to read the book of Gulliver’s Travels.

Personal reflection: