八年级Unit 5 Do you want to watch a game show? 教学设计

Teaching Aims

        Language goals

To learn to talk about preference.

        Key words and phrases

culture, famous, appear, become, rich, successful, might, main, reason, common, unlucky, lose, ready, be ready to, character, simple

        Key sentences

1. When people say “culture”, we think of art and history.

2. One of the main reasons is that Mickey was like a common man, but he always tried to face any danger.

3. Today's cartoons are usually not so simple as little Mickey Mouse, but everyone still knows and loves him.

Teaching Important Points and

Difficulties

通过运用skimming略读策略，能正确地完成时间轴，准确概括出2b全文及各段落的大意，借助回答问题和补全信息等方式，能梳理文章的脉络结构，提取关键信息。在阅读过程中关注和理解细节，深入挖掘文本内涵。

Teaching Aids

multimedia courseware or other realia that the T needs for teaching

Teaching Procedures

Tips

Step 1 Warming up

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        Ask Ss to answer the questions.

Step 1: Divide Ss into several groups, then ask them to discuss the questions:

What kind of TV shows are these?

Do you like to watch cartoons?

What's your favorite cartoon?

Why do you like it?

Step 2: After all the groups have finished discussion, T can choose some Ss to share their answers.

        Watch and say

Step 1: Show Ss a movie clip. Ask Ss whether they know the name of this movie. (Steamboat Willie. )

Step: Ask Ss to tell their partner Who is the main character in it?  Do you love him?  Do you know who created him?

        Talk about Mickey Mouse

Step 1: Tell Ss that they are going to learn something about Mickey Mouse in this lesson.

Step 2: Show Ss a picture of Walt Disney and introduce him to Ss.

Step 3: Look at the photo and guess what the passage may talk about.

        Let Ss learn some background knowledge about Micky Mouse

Mickey Mouse is an American cartoon character. It is a famous symbol of American culture. Mickey Mouse is a black mouse with two large round ears. It is cute and smart and it is popular among people.

Pair up,Look at the picture and read the first sentence of each Para. Ss should take turns to ask and answer the question:Which is the best title?

Step 2 Presentation & Reading

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        Read the passage quickly and find the main idea of each paragraph.

        Read the passage and complete the time line on the next page.

        Read Para.1 slowly and answer questions.

1.What does Mickey Mouse look like?

2.Which cartoon did Mickey Mouse appear at first?

3.Who was the man behind Mickey?

4.When did Steamboat Willie come out in New York?

5.How many films did Walt Disney make in the 1930s?

6.How old is Mickey now？

        Read Para.1 slowly again and complete the chart of Mickey’s information.

        Read Para.2 slowly and answer questions.

1.Why was he so popular?   2.Was Mickey lucky in the films? Why or why not?   3.What are his problems?    4. What did he do when he faced problems?     5.Did most of the people want to be like Mickey?

        Read Para.3 slowly and judge right(T) or wrong(F).

        Read the passage again and fill in the facts about Mickey in 2c.

        Read the passage again and discuss the questions in your group in 2d.

Post-Reading 

1.Think and retell.

Retell the passage according to the mind map.

2.Think and answer.

What can you learn from Mickey?

“All our dreams can come true—if we have the courage to pursue them.”

——Walt Disney

3.Look and say.

Who were “little Mickey” when we faced novel coronavirus(新冠病毒)?

Step 4 Summary & Homework

        1. Read the passage loudly and remember the new words and phrases in the lesson.

        2. Introduce(介绍） other cartoon character.（Writing)

        3. Collect stories about your favorite cartoon characters.

Teaching Reflection

In this period, the students' curiosity can be grasped by visual teaching in the form of pictures. Help to improve the enthusiasm of the students' participation in the class by asking questions. Let the students discuss the three questions of 2a in pairs. Then, learn the passage of 2b and finish the task of 2d. Through the study of 2b article and the following exercises, we help the students master the key words, phrases and sentence patterns in this class, and cultivate the students' comprehensive reading ability.