Lesson4 Sea Stories(Unit 7)

Teaching aims:

1. Memorize the new words

2. Understand the text

3. Ask questions about their understanding of the text.

Teaching difficulties

1. Get students to learn to how to ask questions

2. Students ask questions by themselves

Teaching aids

1. Computer

2. PPT/blackboard

Teaching process

Step1 warm up

Get students to guess the meanings of the new words according to the pictures

Learn the new words one by one .

Step2 Reading and speaking

Students retell the text according to the contents of the text.and then give a possible essay. And answer the questions on Page 14.

Why did the writer’s young brother fall into the sea?

Why did the boat go towards the whirlpool?

Why did the writer tie himself to a barrel?

Why didn’t his brother do the same ?

Why didn’t his old friends recognize him?

Step3 Guidance

Teach students how to ask common questions and make them be familiar with some clues on some question patterns and how to deal with this kind of questions.

1．主旨大意题

阅读理解首先要做到的就是掌握所读材料的主旨和大意，它是全文的概括与总结。

 主题型：What’s the main idea of this passage?

 What does this passage mainly discuss?

 What’s the topic of this passage ?

 标题型：What’s the best title?

 The best title for this text is (to tell ) ______.

 目的型：The main purpose of this text is ________.

 The author’s purpose of writing this text is to ______.

 What’s the main purpose of the passage?

2. 词义句意理解题

 What does the underlined word/sentence mean?

 The underlined sentence may tell us that ______.

3. 归纳概括题

 What can we learn from the last paragraph ?

 According to the third paragraph ,the Britons think that___.

 In paragraph 2, the writer uses the example of the ancient Greek athletes to show that _____.

4. 观点态度题

 What’s the writer’s /author’s attitude towards …?

 The writer /author believes(implies, suggests) that ______.

 The writer /author seems to agree(think ) that _________.

 The writer / author tries to tell us _______.

 The writer’s / author’s tone would be best described as _______.

5. 推理题

From the passage we can draw the conclusion that ______-.

We can infer ( conclude ) from the passage that ________.

Where can you read this passage ?

6. 细节理解题

Which of the following is NOT true according to this passage?

Which of the following is TRUE according to this passage?

From the passage, we can learn …EXCEPT ________.

Step 4 Task

Read the story seriously again and try to ask many questions according to your understanding of the text.

Step 5 Assignment

Ask various questions based on the following reading comprehension.