Period 2 Reading and Vocabulary

Teaching Goals:

1. Get Ss to know the topic "my first day at senior high";

2. Get Ss to master the reading skills of scanning and skimming;

3. Let Ss master the language points in the textbook.

Teaching procedures:

Step 1. Leading-in

Purpose: To arouse Ss' interest in learning "My First Day at Senior High".

1. Group Work.

　　Ask Ss the following questions:

　　Last period, we have learnt something about American school. Now we are going to learn something about ours. Before we go to learn the text, I want to ask you some questions. You have been in our school several days, what is your feeling?

(1) What are the main differences between Junior High school and Senior High school?

(2) Do you think that work at Senior High school is harder than at Junior High school?

(3) Are Senior High teachers similar to Junior High teachers?

2. Ask Ss to express their own opinions.

Step 2 Pre-reading (Vocabulary Study)

Purpose: To let the students know some new words by asking and answering questions and make them easy to read the text.

1. Group Work:

　　While you are studying English, what is your feeling? Interested or bored?

　　Introduce a new word "enthusiastic" for Ss. It means very excited to do something.

All of these words are your attitude, which is the point of view.

Eg We must keep a firm attitude. 我们必须态度坚决。

常与介词to, towards连用：

Eg Her attitude towards me has changed. 她对我的态度改变了。

习惯与attitude搭配的动词有take, adopt(采取), keep, maintain（保持）。

2. Group Work When you are in English class, how about your acting? Listen carefully or get noisy?

This is your behavior. Can you guess what "behavior" means?

Behavior means ways of acting or manners. Its verb form is "behave".

3. I have taught you two lessons. What do you think of me? And what about my teaching? Do you think I should explain grammar, write new words on the blackboard, or something else? All these ways of teaching are my teaching methods. I hope they fit you well.

4. What do you find the most difficult about English? Reading comprehension, speaking, handwriting, spelling, understanding instructions, or something else?

5. And how about the textbook? Do you think it's very colorful? I mean it has a lot of photographs. What is the difference between this book and the one you used at Junior High?

Step 3 While-Reading

1. Skimming

Purpose: To get a brief understanding of the text.

(1) Ask Ss to read the passage and try to answer the questions in Activity 3 and 4.

(2) Read the text again, perfectly the first and the last sentences of each paragraph, and try to put