Unit 10 I’ve had this bike for three yearsSection B Reading: Hometown Feelings 教学设计武汉市常青一校 黄小蕾I. Analysis of teaching materialThe topic is about hometown. And such a topic is so related to our daily life that it’s easy to arouse students’ learning interests. In accordance with the teaching material and the new syllabus of English, I designed the following objectives:II. Teaching objectives:1. Knowledge and abilities: To let students be further familiar with the grammar structure “present perfect tense”: To train students’ comprehensive abilities of listening, speaking, reading and writing 2. Procedures and methods: To help students learn how to use the reading strategies in the reading comprehension, such as prediction, skimming, scanning, and guessing the meaning of the words from the context.3. Emotional attitudes and moral values: To let students express their hometown feelings and arouse the students’ love to their hometowns.III. Teaching key points and difficult points:Key points: 1. To let the students learn how to use the reading strategies in reading comprehension.2. To use present perfect tense to talk about changes in hometowns.Difficult points: 1. To let the students use suitable reading strategies in different reading tasks.2. To use present perfect tense to talk about changes in hometowns.IV. Teaching approaches and learning methods1. Teaching approaches: I will adopt task-based language teaching approach and situational teaching approach 2. Learning methods:Cooperation and self –studying will be taken.V. Analysis of the studentsStudents in Grade 8 have learned English for some years. And they can communicate with others in English, using simple words and expressions. In the previous two units, they have already learned basic structures of present perfect tense.VI. Teaching aids: AiSchool SystemVII. Teaching proceduresStepsTeacher’s activitiesStudents’ activitiesPurposeStep 1 Lead-in Introduce the topic of the text---hometown by using a guessing game.1. Guessing game: Read the following sentences and guess where it is.It is a place. It gives you sweet memories.You were born there.You spent your childhood there. You grew up there. 2. How many of you came to Wuhan when you were a child? And where is your hometown? What do you feel about your hometown?Stimulate the students’ learning interest and lead in the topic: changes, hometown feelings.Step 2Pre-readingEncourage students to discuss the questions relating to the text before reading it.Discuss the questions:1. Why do millions of Chinese leave the countryside every year?2. How often do you think these people visit their hometown?3. How do they feel when they are far from hometowns?Train students’ ability to use their former knowledge to predict what the text is about.Ask students to guess the main idea through the title and the pictures.Try to guess the main idea with the help of the title and picturesQ: What does the passage mainly talk about?A: Hometown stays the same.B: Hometown has changed.Train students’ ability to use the title and pictures to predict what the text is about.Step 3While-readingFast readingAsk students to read the text quickly and match each part with the main ideas.Read the text quickly and match each part with the main ideas:Part 1 Many Chinese leave hometowns to search for work, such as Zhong Wei. Part 2 Their hometowns have changed. Part 3 Some things will never change, like many soft and sweet memories. Train students’ fast reading ability by looking for the key words in each part.Careful readingPart 1Ask students to read part 1 and finish the exercise.(Use AiSchool system)Read part 1 and finish the T/F exercise1. Zhong Wei is a 40-year-old husband and father. (F)2. Zhong Wei has lived in Guangzhou for more than ten years. (F)3. He left his hometown to search for work. (T)4. He didn’t return to his hometown last year. (T)5. He thinks it's OK to not return home. (F)1. By doing the exercise， students can clearly grasp the information of part 1.2. To provoke students’ thought and facilitate the following reading.Part 21. Encourage students to make a prediction.2. Let the students read part2 and finish the chart.(Use AiSchool system)1. Prediction: What may have changed in the hometown?2.Read paragraph 2&3 and finish the chart Great Changes of Their HometownsBuildings: Perhaps ____________have appeared.Teachers:The government ____teachers from the cities __________.Students: Students ___________ to read and ____since the mid-20th century.Zhong Wei thinks such developments are _______,and he also knows that _________.1. Develop students’ ability to guess the content of the text according to the context and arouse their interest in further reading.2. Let students figure out the changes in Zhong Wei’s hometown by finishing the chartPart 3Ask students to read part 3 and finish the exercise(Use AiSchool system)Find out the things that haven’t changed in part 3 and finish the exercise.,Multiple ChoiceWhat things will never change in his hometown?（ABD）A. The happy childhood B. The soft and sweet memories C. The old school. D. The symbol of the place.Help students to figure out Zhong Wei’s unchanged sweet memories about his hometown.Step4Post- readingPair work：Hometown show. Ask students to work in pairs and tell each other their answers regarding the questions.(Use AiSchool voting function).1. Think of changes that are happening in your town or city today. Which changes are generally good? Which changes could be seen as bad? When you grow up, would you like to stay in your hometown or leave? Why?2. Two students work in pairs and talk to each other about the answers regarding the above questions. Choose several students to give a presentation about their answers.3. The whole class have a vote to choose the best presentation.1. Develop students’ listening, writing, speaking and cooperating ability by doing pair works.2. Consolidate the knowledge they have learned in this lesson by describing the changes in their own hometown.Step 5SummarySummarize the lesson.Summarize the lesson from the dimensions of knowledge, ability and moral values.Review what have learned in this lessonStep 6Homework1.Write a short passage about your hometown. In the passage you should write what have changed, what haven’t changed, which changes are good, which changes are bad, and when you grow up, you would like to stay or leave.。