高中英語人教大綱第三冊：Unit7AChristmasCarol(第四課時)

1、The Fourth PeriodTeaching Aims:1.Review the Adverbial.2.Review the important words and expressions learnt in this unit.3.Do some reading and writing to improve the students integrating skills.Teaching Important Points:1.Master the following words and phrases:care about,date back to,in the.to come,on

2、 the contrary,toast to2.Master the following sentences:(1)Lets observe another little scene,as you might have in your life to come.(2)I think its because he walks slower than he used to,as of late.(3)Youve got it all wrong.3.Train the students writing.Teaching Difficult Point:Improve the students in

3、tegrating skillsreading skill and writing skill.Teaching Methods:1.Fast reading to go through the reading material.2.Discussion method to finish the questions and the writing task.3.Individual,pair or group work to make every student work in class.Teaching Aids:1.a computer and a courseware2.a tape

4、recorderTeaching Procedures:Step GreetingsGreet the whole class as usual.Step RevisionT:In the last period,we reviewed the Adverbial.Now Ill check your homework.Read the sentences youve written one by one.S1:.(Then teacher shows the suggested answers on the screen.)Step ReadingT:In the second period

5、,we read the first part of a story whose title is “A Christmas Carol”.Today we are going to continue with the second part of the story.First,lets learn the new words in it.Please look at them on the screen.(Show the new words on the screen.) (Teacher asks students to read the words and corrects thei

6、r mistakes if there are any.Then give students three minutes to remember them.)T:From the first part of the story,we know Scrooge,the mean and cold business man,is brought into his dreams.Do you guess what he can see in the dreams?Now read the passage quickly.Later,youll know what happens and how he

7、 feels.(Teacher gives students a few minutes to read the passage.)T:Now youve got the general idea.Read it again to find the important phrases and different sentences from it.Lets begin,please.(After students finish reading it,teacher asks them to give the phrases one by one.At the same time,teacher

8、 writes them on the blackboard:care about,date back to,in the.to come,on the contrary,toast to)T:Please look at the blackboard.Give the Chinese meaning of the phrase and try to make a sentence with each one.Li Ling,the first phrase “care about”.S2:關(guān)心。I dont think she cares about what happens to her

9、children.S3:追溯到。This castle dates back to the 14th century.S4:.T:OK.Now look at the examples on the screen.Pay attention to the usages of the underlined phrases.(Teacher shows the following on the screen.)1.care about(=care for):be concerned aboutDont you care about our countrys future?2.date back t

10、o=date fromThe old temple dates back to 600 B.C.3.in the.to come=in the .in the futureWe cant expect whatll happen in years to come.4.on the contraryIt doesnt seem ugly to me;on the con-trary,I think its rather beautiful.5.toast to=toast(vt.)Well toast the success of a new company.Id like to propose

11、 a toast to the success of a new company.(Teacher asks some students to read the sentences and translate them into Chinese.)T:There are two sentences.They are hard for us to understand.Lets analyze them on the screen.1.Youve got it all wrong.2.Lets observe another little scene,as you might have in y

12、our life to come.T:In the first sentence,the structure “get+sb./sth.+adj.” means “cause sb./sth. to be in a state”.s getting himself ready to go out.The word “as” in the second sentence is used to introduce an Attributive Clause.(Write the sentence patterns on the Blackboard.)Step Listening and Disc

13、ussionT:Now look at your books and listen to the tape.Pay attention to your pronunciation.(Teacher plays the tape for students to listen to.After that,teacher gives students a few minutes to read aloud the passage.)T:OK.Youve mastered the main idea of the passage.But there are several difficult ques

14、tions about the story.Lets have a discussion in groups of four to answer them.(While students are discussing,teacher goes among them to help them if necessary,then asks a few students to answer them.)Suggested answers:1.Santa Claus takes Scrooge on a journey through time.His role is to teach Scrooge

15、 a lesson.I think he is a guide.He wants Scrooge to know what he did and what will happen to him.In this way,Scrooge learns that the poor men are kind and his mistakes.As a result,he improves his life and becomes a kind,tolerant,merciful man.2.Scrooge says he doesnt want to watch the scenes Santa sh

16、ows him.That is because he doesnt want people to know what he did in the past.3.(1)The young Scrooge and the girl are talking about his changes.He isnt what he used to be.He doesnt care about her any more.All he thinks about is how to make money.She is going to separate with him.(2)I think she means

17、 money by saying “the golden idol”.(3)She doesnt love Scrooge any more.That is because he doesnt care for anyone,including her.He only has eyes for money.All his other hopes and dreams disappear one by one.(4)If people weigh everything by gain,people will become a selfish,mean man.4.Mrs Cratchit doe

18、snt want to drink a toast to Mr Scrooge.She thinks he is so mean,hard,selfish an old man.She thinks poorly of him and doesnt like a man like him.5.Tiny Tim is seriously ill,even cant walk.Maybe he is lame.I think if Tiny Tim would die in the future,Scrooge is to blame for it.Because Tims father,Bob,

19、works for him as a clerk.He pays him so little money,but makes him work so many hours.He never had money to buy medicine to treat Tiny Tim.Step WritingT:Now weve finished reading the passage“A Christmas Carol”written by Dickens.What do you think of the story?Now work in groups of four to discuss and

20、 review about the story.And give your opinion about the character of Ebenezer Scrooge,his experience and the way he changes his life.(A few minutes later,teacher asks one of each group to give their opinions.)Sample writing:“A Christmas Carol” is a novel about Christmas written by Dickens in 1843.Af

21、ter the novel is published,at Christmas there are such Christmas customs as the family get-together,exchanging gifts,the ceremonial dinner and “Merry Christmas”.It tells us that people will have a kind,merciful and tolerant heart.In it,Scrooge is a cold,mean,selfish old man.He makes his clerks work

22、so many hours and pays them so little money.He doesnt let them go home even on Christmas Eve to spend Christmas Day with their family.That is because he cant pay them a whole days wages without working at all.When people say“Merry Christmas”to him,he always laughs at them and says“Humbug”.When he is

23、 asked to open his heart to the poor,he says those who are badly off should be sent to prison.He doesnt care about anyone at all,including himself.He only has his eyes for money.At Christmas Eve,he was brought into dreams.In the dreams,he sees a kind boss dancing and singing happily with his workers

24、.He also sees a clerk of his and his family getting together with smiles on their faces,although they have no Christmas gifts and no turkey.Besides,he sees his lonliness without a friend and a relative when he is ill in the days to come.He sees his coldness and selfishness.All this wakes him up.He begins to think about what life is about.He finds giving is happier than taking.This way he changed himself completely.He becomes a kind,merciful man.The story advises people to be kind to others,have mercy on othe