Unit1thenightofthehorse阅读课教学设计牛津上海版（试用本）九年级英语上册

LessonPlanforTheNightoftheHorseUnit1AncientGreece,OxfordEnglish,9A

Backgroundinformation

Teachingmaterial

OxfordEnglish,9A

Teachingcontent

Unit1AncientGreeceReading

TheNightoftheHorse

Teachingsubject

JuniorMiddleSchoolStudents,Grade9.

Lessontype

Reading

Analysisofteachingmaterial

What

Topic

thenightofthehorse

Theme

Humanandsociety

Content

Thenightofthehorseisastory,whichmainlynarratesthenightthattheGreekArmyusetheintelligentstrategytowinthewar.TheintelligentstrategyisthatsixGreeksoldiersecretlyhindinabighorsewhichtheTrojansbelievetobetheTrophyoftheirsuccess,andtheninthemidnight,thesixGreeksoldiersclimboutofthehorseandopenthegatefortheGreekArmytoletthemconquerthe

cityofTroy.

How

Language&

Structure

Thestorymainlyusessimplepasttensetodescribethenight.Theexpressionsandvividandnotdifficulttounderstand.

Thepassageisanarrationwhichfollowsachronological

order.Itmainlyconsistsof“fiveelements”:what,when,where,whyandhow,whichleadsstudentstoreadlogically.

Why

Writer’s

intention

Thepassageaimstoarousestudents’interestinexploringthereasonwhytheGreekswinthewarandimprovetheirreadingskillsbyintroducingthreestepsofdoingreading

prehension.

Analysisofstudents

Grade

Year9studentsofaveragelevel

Cognitive

Psychology

Thestudentsarecurious,motivatedandinterestedinreadingwarstories.Theylikeactingoutstoriesintheclassroomandpreferactiveclassroomatmosphere.

KnowledgeBasis

ThestudentshavelearnedtheTrojanwarinhistoryclassandtheyhavemasteredthepastsimpletensebutoftenmakemistakingin

itsusage.

Capability

①Thestudentshavealreadymasteredsomeeffectivereadingskillsbutlackofpractice;

②Thestudentscancapturekeyinformationofpicturewithdeductiveabilities;

③Testudentshavetroubleinretellingthewholestorybythemselves.

Analysisofteachingobjectives

Bytheendofthislesson,studentsareableto

Languageability

Mastersomekeywordsandkeyphrasessuchasplain,Greek,makejokesabout,succeedin,etc.

Catchthedetailedinformationofstorythroughcarefulreadingofdifferentpartsofthespecialnight.

Retellthestoryaccordingtothetimeline.

Culturalawareness

KnowmoreaboutthedetailsofthehistoryoftheTrojanWar.

LearnfromthewisdomandcourageoftheGreeksanddevelopgoodqualitiessuchasmodestyandintelligence.

Thinkingcapacity

1.Developcriticalthinkingabilitybyexploringthedetailedinformationofthestory,analyzingthesuccessandfailureofthe

twoarmiesandsummarizingthemainideaofthestory.

Learningability

Improvetheirreadingskillsbyconsciouslyusingreadingstrategies,suchasskimming,scanningandlocatinginformation

Cooperatewithgroupmemberstoanalyzethereasonofthe

Greeks’successandtheTrojans’failure.

Teachingfocusanddifficulties

Teachingfocus

Improvestudents’readingskillssuchasskimming,scanningandlocating;

Catchthedetailedinformationofthestorythroughcarefulreadingofdifferentpartsofthespecialnight.

Teachingdifficulties

AnalyzethereasonsofthesuccessoftheGreeksandfailureoftheTrojansandlearnlessonsfromit.

TeachingStrategies

SituationalTeachingApproach;Taskbasedapproach;PWPmodel.

TeachingConcepts

Studentcentered;Contextbased;Cooperativelearning.

TeachingAids

Blackboard;Multimediadevices;pictures;magnets.

TeachingProcedures:Leadin

TheFamousWarIknown

Iaskstudentstosharesomefamouswartheyknownandthenintroducetheessentialwaroftoday’sclasstheTrojanWar,whichtheyalreadymasteredinthehistoryclass

Justification:Toleadinthetopicandactivatestudents’schema.

TimeTravel

Situationalcreating:IuseDoraemon’stimemachinetobringallmystudentsbacktothenightofthehorsetolearnwhatexactlyhappenatthatnight.

Justification:Tomakestudentsbepersonallyonthesceneandarousetheirinterests.

Prereading

Lookandguess

Withthehelpofthepicture,Iguidestudentstomakeapredictionofthestoryandpayattentiontothe“fiveelements”ofthestory:what,who,when,where,why.

Justification:Tointroduce“fiveelements”ofthestoryandgetstudentspreparedforthefollowingreading.

Whilereading

Activity1:Studentsskimthepassageandmatchthepicturesintherightorderaccordingtothetimelineofthestory.

Justification:①Tohelpsstudentsunderstandthemainideasofthestoryandpayattentiontothetimelineofthestory.

②Tohelpstudentspracticethereadingskillofskimming

Activity2:Studentsreadthepassagecarefullyandscanthetextto

pletetheblanks.

Justification:Tohelpstudentspracticethereadingskillofscanningandlocatinginformation.

Activity3:Teacherguidesstudentstoexplorethedetailedinformationofdifferentpartsofthenightbyusingquestionchains,andatthesametime,introducesthethreestepsofdoingreadingprehensiontostudents.

Justification:①Tohaveafurtherunderstandingofthedetailedinformationofthestory.

②Toimprovetheirreadingskillsbyguidingstudentstousereading

strategiesconsciously.

Postreading

Activity1:StudentsareaskedtodiscusstheiropinionsofthelessontheylearnedfromthisstorywiththeirgroupmembersandIguidethemtothinkaboutthisquestionfromthefollowingtwoaspects:

WhydidtheGreekswinthewar?WhydidtheTrojanslosethewar?Afterdiscussion,somestudentsareaskedtosharetheiropinions.

Justification:Toguidestudentstothinkcriticallyandrelatethelessonstheylearnedfromthisstorytoth