授课日期 2005.03.11
共 7 课时，第 2 课时 总第 22 课时 课 型 Reading
教学目标 1、 知识与技能：To get the general idea of the text.
To practice the student’s reading ability.
To learn to grasp the structure of a reading passage.
2、 过程与方法：Reading and Analyzing
Asking and answering questions and summarizing.
3、 情感态度与价值观：To learn the necessity of protecting water as well
as the earth’s environment.
教学重点 To find answers to questions about the details in the text.
教学难点 Analyze the structure of the whole text and obtain the general idea.
教学方法 Reading, analyzing and discussing.
教具准备 A tape recorder, textbook, question papers.
板 书 设 计
Students’ examples to the useful expressions:
1. If we … we can….
2. What will we do if …
3. It could be better to …
4. … is used to / for …
…………………………… Outline of the text:
Part 1. Para. 1 … Questions to help:
1. What does the writer mean by “…”?
2. Why can water break down almost everything?
3. What takes the biggest part in seawater? .………..
Part 2
… Para 2 …
Para 3 …
Para 4 …
Para 5 … Para 6
…
Part 3. Para 6 …
教学过程 互动感悟
Step 1. Greetings and Revision.
1. Greet the students in daily English.
2. Revise the useful expressions learned in yesterday’s lesson by asking some students to make several sentences on the blackboard.
3. Check their work with the whole class.
Step 2. Presentation.
Tell the students, we have learnt a lot about water in Warming up and Speaking. And we have already known that water is widely used in almost every aspect. So, today, we are going to learn more about it.
Step 3. Listening.
Play the tape for the students to listen and answer the following question:
What makes water move?
教学过程 互动感悟
Check the answer with the class.
Step 4. Reading.
1. Ask the students to read the titles of each Para and guess what will be discussed in this passage and how?
2. Ask the students to read the text and try to work out the main structure of the text.
Part 1. Para. 1 …
Part 2
… Para 2 …
Para 3 …
Para 4 …
Para 5 … Para 6
…
Part 3. Para 6 …
3. List the proper outline on the blackboard.
Step 5. Discussion.
Write down the following questions on the blackboard. Ask the students to discuss them with each other and then give out proper answers.
Questions:
What does the writer mean by the first sentence?
Why can water break down almost everything?
What takes the biggest part in seawater?
Why would the oceans not be frozen solid?
In what aspect does the sea affect the temperature of the earth?
Try to describe ocean motion and tell us why?
Why do we have to learn about water?
作业布置 巩固作业：Read the text again and underline any difficult words or
expressions or sentences.
预习作业：Finish exercises 1 and 2 on page 36-37.
教后反思 Major students have learned how to find out answers to certain questions, but there are still several ones who are just not willing to participate in class activities.