牛津高中英语教学设计与反思

单元：Unit1 School life

板块：Reading

靖江市第一高级中学 闻震宇

一·教学设计指导思想：

第一模块第一单元的主题为“School Life”, 整个单元内容的设计围绕高中生活这一主题展

开，本节课的教学内容为“Reading School life in the UK”课文理解。在这一部分，学生

将学会skimming &scanning阅读策略，并对英国学生的在校生活有所了解。

Teaching aims:

1. to read a magazine article about school life in the UK;

2. to learn to apply two basic reading skills: skimming and scanning;

3. to learn some expressions about school life;

4. to get some information about what school life in the UK is really like.

Teaching procedures:

Step1 Lead-in

Play the song of ‘High School Life’ and show students’ photos.

Can you guess the name of the song?

What can you think of when we talk about school life?

Now we are going to read a magazine article which is written by Wei Hua, an exchange

student. She has been studying in the UK for one year. She will give us a brief

introduction of her school life there.

Let’s first preview the words that will be used in the article, the definition of

the word is given, please match the meaning with the word.

Step2 reading

Before we read the article, we are going to learn the reading strategies: skimming

and scanning.

1. Reading strategy－scanning

We scan the text when we want to find certain information in a text quickly.

Apply scanning to finish PartC1.C2.

2. Reading strategy－Skimming

We skim a text when we want to get a general idea of what it is about.

Apply skimming to find the key sentences of the paragraph.

Find out the main idea of each paragraph and answer questions concerning the content

of each paragraph.

Part1:

School hours:

1. Was she happy with the school hours? ______________

2. School in Britain _______ around 9 am and __________ about 3:30 pm, while schools

in China begins before 8a.m. We believe that ___________早起的鸟儿有虫吃。

Part2:

Attending assembly:

1. Who was the girl sitting next to her on the first day?_____

2. The headmaster told them about ______ during assembly.

3. The best way to earn respect from the school was to _________and ___________.

Because____________________(知识就是力量）

Part3:

Teachers and classmates:

1. Who was her favorite teacher?_______.

2. Was it easy for her to remember all the Ss’ faces and names? Why ? ________.

Part4 / 5 / 6:

Homework and subjects:

1. The homework was not heavy, but why was it a bit challenging for her? _________.

2. Why did her English improve a lot? _________.

3. Did she enjoy cooking? How do you know? ________.

4. Do Ss have to learn all the subjects even if they don’t like them? ________.

Discussion: Do you think we should learn more foreign languages?

If you have a chance, would you like to learn a foreign language?

Part 7:

British food and her activities:

1. Why did she miss Chinese food a lot at lunchtime?_____.

2. She usually played on the school field. Sometimes ____. Sometimes _______.

Discussion: If you are abroad, what kind of Chinese food do you think you will miss?

Step3 Detailed reading

Read the text again carefully and find out the similarities and differences between

lives of British and Chinese students.

Step4 Consolidation

1. Task-based gap filling exercise

(1)___________ life in the UK

The (2)_____and (3)______

experience of school life in the UK On the first day, all students went to attend

(4)_______. During it, the headmaster told us about the rules of the school and the

best way to (5)________ respect from the school was to work hard and (6)_______ high

grades.

My(7)_______ teacher taught us English Literature.

Homework was not as (8)_______as what I used to get in my old school.

My English (9)______a lot as I used English everyday and spent an hour each day

reading English books.

Students can (10)______some subjects if they don’t like them.

2. Comprehension of the whole text.

Finish some multiple choices

Step4 Language focus

Showing some pictures (including attending class/school, attend a church, attend

assembly, attend a wedding) to indicate “attend”.

1. On the first day, all the students went to attend assembly.

(1) vt.出席，参加

(2) attend (on) sb. 照料某人，看护某人

attend to sb.

(3) attend to sth. 注意，专心干（某事）

Exercises concerning “attend”.

Distinguish the following four notions: “attend, join, join in, take part in”

1) He _______ the army in the year of 20xx.

2) How many of you will ____________ the coming sports meeting?

3) Who is going to ____________ the concert with me tomorrow?

4) Won’t you ________ us ______ the tennis match?

2. Students at that school have to study Math, English and Science, but can drop some

subjects if they don’t like them.

drop v. 放弃，落下，断绝（往来），减少，降低

Try to tell the meaning of “drops” in the following sentences.

1) It was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.

2) His voice dropped. / He dropped his voice to a whisper.

3) Please drop me at the Post Office.

4) It is wise of you to drop the habit of smoking. _______

Drop n.滴；点; 下降；落下；下跌

a drop of water 一滴水

eye drops 眼药水 teardrops 泪珠 a drop in the price of wheat小麦价格下跌

e.g.1.The worldwide economic recession has led to ___________in people’s salary.

（下降）

2. I didn’t see any _________ on Liu Xiang’s face when he quit running in the Olympic

Games

Vocabulary extension

drop in / by顺便拜访

drop sb. a line 写封短信

drop in on sb. 造访某人 drop in at a place造访某地

1) The headmaster asked me to_________ him at his office. 校长让我去他办公室。

2) _____________ when you have time. 有空时写封信给我。

3) I want to ____ out of math class, which is too hard for me. 我不想上数学课，它对我来说太难

4) I missed Chinese food a lot at lunch time.

miss v. 思念, 想念; 错过，避免，躲过；未击中，未抓住，未达到（目标）

n. 小姐

missing adj. 丢失的，不在的，失踪的

miss a chance 错过一次机会

Exercises,

1）He fired at the tiger but missed (it). miss means: ___________

2）Her son has gone to the USA, and she misses him very much. miss means: ___________

3) He missed the 9.30 train and therefore missed the accident. miss means: ___________

4) We missed seeing the film when it was at the local cinema. miss means:___________