1、优质文档优质文档Unit 1 How do you study for a test? Reading: How do we deal with our problems?The Seventh PeriodTeaching Aims and Demands1Knowledge ObjectsKey Vocabulary：ashamed, behind the times, fashionable, SMS, status symbol, fit in and so forth.Text: Old phone, true friend2Ability ObjectsTrain students
2、 ability of identifying main idea.Train students ability of understanding words in context.Train students ability of reading for special information.3Moral Object来源:Zxxk.ComAs the saying goes, old friends and old wine are best. We must treasure our old friendship.Teaching Key P ointsKey vocabularyRe
3、ad the text to identify main idea.Read the text to understand words in context.Read the text for special information.Teaching Difficult Point：Train students reading skill.Teaching Methods: Up-down reading method Pairwork GroupworkTeaching Aid：A projectorTeaching ProceduresStep Key VocabularyThis act
4、ivity introduces the key vocabulary words.Say the words and have students repeat after you again and again until they can pronounce them fluently and accurately.Step Part 1This activity is designed to activate students background knowledge before attempting the reading.Read the title Old phone, true
5、 friend to the class. Ask, What do you think the article is about?来源:学科网 ZXXKFocus attention on the chart. Say, Please fill in the chart about mobile phones. But dont look at the reading. Instead, use your background knowledge to answer the questions.优质文档优质文档As students work, walk around the classro
6、om checking progress and offering any help they may need.When most students finish filling in the chart, say, please talk about your answers with a partner.Answers will vary. If desired, ask a student for his/her answer.T: What mobile phone would you like to have?S: Nokia 2300.T: How long has that m
7、obile been around?S: It is on sale in February, 2004.T: What special things can it do?S: It can be used as s radio. Wherever I am, I may listen to my favorite programs.T: How much does it cost?S: About ￥ 1500.Step Part 2This activity provides practice in identifying main ideas.Look at the picture. A
8、sk students to describe what is happening in the picture.Place students into five groups. Give each group a paragraph. Say, Read the paragraph silently. Then summarize the paragraph in your own words and share your summary with your group. As the students are doing this, move around the room to make
9、 sure they discuss the topic in English.Each group chooses a leader to report their answers. Answers to this activity will vary.Step Part 3This activity encourages students to use the strategy of reading in context.Step Part 4This activity helps students read for special information.Read the instruc
10、tions to the class. Elicit the first answer from the students from memory. Ask students to do the activity on their own or in pairs. As they work, walk around the room offering help students may need. Answers may vary.Step 5aThis activity helps students think critically about what they have read.Dra
11、w students attention to the chart with headlines advantages and disadvantages.Get students to do the activity in pairs.Each person in the pair of students may choose to take one side of the arguments.来源:学+科+网Remind students to go beyond the reading and think of other reasons. As they work, walk arou
12、nd the classroom to make sure students debate the topic in English.Check the answers. Answers will vary. You may wish to ask different pairs of students 优质文档优质文档to give their answers in complete sentences.Step 5b来源:学科网 ZXXKThis activity helps students think what they have done so far and discuss the ideas in a group.Randomly select a student from each group to present their report. Answers will vary.Step SummaryThis class provides us a lot of reading and writing practice.Step Homework来源:学科网Read the story in Activity 2 again for further comprehension.
