1、Teaching aims: 1. Get students to know what school life is like in a high school in the UK. 2. Develop students ability of reading comprehension through:1) skimming and scanning. 2) Guessing the meanings of some new words from the context 3. To learn some expressions about school life.Teaching proce
2、dures:Step 1 Lead-in and PresentationSay the following to the students:Yesterday weve talked about the differences between the high school lives in the UK and in China. We know well about the high school lives in China, because we are Chinese. But we know a little about the high school lives in the
3、UK. Yeah? Today we are going to read a magazine article which is written by an exchanging student. She has been studying in the UK for one year. Now she gives a clear brief introduction about her school life there.(Bb: School life in the UK)Before we read the article, we are going to learn the readi
4、ng strategy: skimming and scanning. Please look at page 3: Reading strategy.(Bb the following while learning the reading strategy. )Skimming: to get a general idea of the article, without studying it in detail.Focus on the titles, headings, the first and last sentences or paragraphs, charts and pict
5、ures scanning: to find certain information in an article quickly.Look for key words and phrases, dates and numbers, etc.Step 2. Reading 1. Skimming:Question: How does Wei Hua feel about her life in the UK? 2. Scanning:1) Ask students to go through the three questions in part A and make sure that eac
6、h of them know the meaning of each question.(A Woodwork class is a class in which students make something from wood.)Ask students to read the passage as quickly as possible and try to find answers to the three questions. Remind students only to focus on and identify the most important information.2)
7、 Ask student to reread the passage and complete Part C1 individually. Then ask some of them to give the answers to the questions in Part C13) Ask students to finish Part C2 individually. Then get some students to share their answers with the whole class. Ask them to say the true sentences to correct
8、 the false ones.3 GuessingAsk students to finish Part D individually. Tell them not to look up the meanings of the words from the wordlists in the textbook. Let them guess the meanings from the context. Then check the answers with the whole class.Step 3 New Words in this UnitStudy the new words appears from page2 to page 5 (from attend to immediately) at page 68.Step 4. Homework.1. Complete part E on page 5.2. Read the two articles in reading on pages 82 and 83 in wb and answers the questions below them.3. Learn all the new words we learned today by heart.