1、Lesson4 Lets Dance 教案 Teaching aim: 1.To pr actise reading a text q uickly to identify the type/ genre. 2. To re ad a text with gapped sentences and be able to complete the gaps using topic, linking and ref erence clues. 3.To practise vocabulary related to music and dancing. 4. To talk about prefere
2、nces about music and dancing. Teaching difficult points: 1. How to put the sentences in the correct gaps in the text. 2. To learn some useful words and phrases about dancing. Teaching steps: 1. leading in Through two short movies and some pictures, get the students to know the types of dancing, and
3、encourage the students to say something about the dancing they know. Then they listen to the musical extracts on the cassette and identify the danc es. 2. Get the students to do exercises 2 .Ask students to look at the text quickly and decide where it is from. Ask students for their answers and ask
4、them to give reasons. 3. skimming: Read the Reading Strategies box with the class, studying the example given of Paragraph 1 and sentenced. Get the Students then follow the stages in the Strategies: (1)read the text to get a general idea of the content (2) look at the missing sentences and gaps (3)
5、think about the sentence topics and paragraph topics and match them (4) check that sentences fit the text by focusing on linking wo rds and pronouns. Students can compare their answers in pairs before checking answers as a class. 4. scanning: read the text and answer these questions 1. who started f
6、olk dances? 2.what is the mai n differences between folk and popular dances? 3.what is a ballroom dance that came from folk dances? 4.Why did a lot of new dances come from the United States? 5.What type of solo dancing became popular in the mid-1980s 5. intensive reading True or false questions 1.Ba
7、llet is an important art form in Western culture. 2.China has not produced any ballets. 3.Folk dances are usually solo 独个 dances. 4.Dragon dances and the lion dances are folk dances in China. 5.Popular or social dances are usually popular for a long time. 6.Ballrom dancing was a formal dance in a la
8、rge room. 7.In the United States, there were only old forms of dance. 8.People danced with their partners with disco music. 3. post-reading filling the missing words according to the text. Dance People Place for performance Area Types Ballet Folk dance Popular dance 6. language points 1. from one ge
9、neration to another 代代相传 2. many different types of 许多不同 类型 3. on special occasions 在特殊场合 4. dress in / be dressed in 穿着 5. back and forth 来回地 6. to the rhythm of 和着。 。 。的节拍 7. make sure 确保 8. Make sure (that) +句子 9. Make sure of + sth. “弄清楚” 10. refer to 指的是 11. In the 1920sin the 1920s 20 世纪 20 年代 7. homework 1. use the students own words to describe the types of the dancing they learn from the text. 2. do the exercises on the book.
