英语人教版九年级全册Unit5 Section B 2b

A Teaching Plan for Unit5 Reading: Beauty in Common Things

Teaching aims:

1.Key vocabulary: its, form, balloon, scissors, lively, heat, complete, such as, turn into, at a high heat, send out, put on...

2. Help the students understand the passage about the special forms of traditional art.

3. Help the students to discuss the art forms in groups.

Ability skills: Help the students to master the reading strategies: Moving from general to specific.

Emotional aims：Feel the beauty in common things,

Love the traditional art , our country and our people. Important points： Reading comprehension and reading strategies.

Important and difficult points ：

1. Improve reading ability．

2. Help students to express their opinion freely． .

Teaching procedures：

Step1. Lead-in free talk

Step 2. Show the teaching aims:

Step 3 Learn the new words in this passage

Step 4. Show some traditional art pictures to lead into the new lessons.

Pre-reading Predicting: Ask: Do you know when people began to put such paper cutting on doors and windows when they held a wedding? Say: Yes, maybe long long ago. So it is a form of traditional art. (Teach: form)

Ask: Do you know any other traditional art forms like this?

Say: Books open! We’ll read the passage on P38. First, look at the title and pictures, then predict:

What the passage will mainly talk about?

Ask: What’s the title? What’s in the pictures?

What will the passage mainly talk about?

Step3 While-reading Task1:

Say: That’s good. Now let’s listen and look through the whole passage and tell me: How many parts can the passage be divided into?

Part 1(Para.1) A general introduction of Chinese traditional art

Part 2(Paras2-4) Some examples and details of Chinese traditional art (Teach: clay)

Listen and complete the chart:

Good! You know some reading materials are usually moving from general to specific, That is: a general introduction is usually followed by specific details and examples. So when we do the reading, we should pay attention to that. Are you clear?

Task2 Speed challenge 1. Close reading:

Say: OK, now let’s read the two parts more carefully, one by one. First, look at Para.1, it’s a general introduction of Chinese traditional art, right? Please read it and think about this question:

What do we know about Chinese traditional art according to Para1? (Teach: turn into) 2. Scanning:

Say: You did very well. We’ve got the general introduction of Chinese traditional art.

Let’s move on to the details and examples of them.

When Zhuge Kongming was in trouble, he sent out sky lanterns to ask for help

Scan Para.2 and answer 3 questions:

1. Are sky lanterns used at festivals and celebrations now?

Yes

2. What are sky lanterns like when they rise into the air?

Small hot-air balloons

3. What are the symbols of sky lanterns?

Happiness and good wishes

Common things/ Objects of beauty Symbols /bamboo Sky lantern /Happiness and good wishes

Paper---Paper cutting---Wishes for good luck and a happy new year

Scan Para.3 and say T or F to the statements:

( )1. Paper cutting sounds very difficult but it is easy to do。

( )2. The paper is folded before it is cut with scissors 。

( )3. They are put on windows, doors and walls as symbols of good luck。

clay /Chinese clay art/ Love for life and beauty

Scan Para4 and describe each picture (the processwith only one word.

Clay—shaped –dried—fried—polished--painted

Say: Point to the first column and say things like bamboo, paper and clay are common things. Point to the third column and ask: But how about them? (They are beauty in life)

Say: Yes. By making sky lanterns, paper cutting and clay art, the common things are turned into beauty. That is: these traditional art forms turn the common things into beauty.

Ask: Which art form do you like best? Why?

Task 3. close reading:

Read the whole paragraph again and point out the verbs with the structure of the passive voice

Task 4. close reading:

Read the whole paragraph again and point out the main phrases in the passage:

Close reading

Beauty comes from life, life itself is beauty, love our life and creative beauty.

Sum up : (ask a student to sum up what we have learned in this class)

Do some exercises to practice the words and expressions in this class

Homework: write a short passage according to 2B.

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