Unit 6 Going West
I. 单元教学目标
技能目标Skill Goals▲ Talk about perseverance and success ▲ Practise talking about ability ▲ Review the Attribute ▲ Write a story
II. 目标语言
功 能 句 式 Expressing perseverance and successI believe in myself and know ...I am more of ...I know exactly ...I stand for what I say ...I am honest with myself and ...I always finish what I have started.I am never disappointed for very long.I can quickly adapt myself to ...I am strong and ready for any challenge.I don’t lose heart when I fail to do something.
词 汇 1. 四会词汇 quit, circumstance, assessment, survival, biscuit, alcohol, goat, flour, nail, razor, bedding, beyond, frontier, salty, pond, burden, desperate, beast, accustomed, thirst, starvation, anxiety, shallow, legendary, tax, anniversary, granddaughter, flu, throat, catastrophe, relief, deliver, Arctic, tough, quilt, packet, ray, bark, sculpture, memorial, retell2. 认读词汇 perseverance, Robinson Crusoe, axe, the Rocky Mountains, wagon, Kansas, barren, patch, Anchorage, Nome, front-page, Curtis Welch, diphtheria, vaccine, Nenana, wrap, stake, at stake3. 词组 apply(...)to ..., add up, lose heart, take it easy, keep up, common sense, leave behind, lose one’s way, come to an end, go for4. 重点词汇 quit, apply(...)to ..., add up, circumstance, lose heart, assessment, take it easy, keep up, common sense, survival, leave behind, lose one’s way, come to an end, go for, burden, desperate, accustomed, starvation, anxiety, shallow, flu, relief, deliver, retell
重 点 句 子 1. I was so weak and tired that I got onto my knees and started moving across the sands on all fours. P502. When we saw the valley with fat cattle and horses, we thought we had reached the promised land. P503. If untreated, it would produce a powerful poison that would kill the patient. P534. No pains, no gains! Don’t step away from challenges, but go for it. P54
III. 教材分析与教材重组
1．教材分析
本单元以“西进运动”为话题，旨在通过单元教学，使学生了解美国的西进运动及其所代表的美国人勇于开拓、不畏艰辛的西部精神。并能正确运用表示“不屈不挠”及“成功”类的交际用语，学习相关语法，同时扩大知识视野。文章通过介绍西方的文化历史，激发学生主动参与、主动探究的求知欲。
1.1 WARMING UP是一份自测的问卷。 通过自我打分，了解自我评估结果，引出本单元主要谈论的话题-perseverance and success，为下一步听、说、读、写打下基础。
1.2 LISTENING部分提供一种情景--荒岛求生,其练习的设计体现了听力过程中对要点与细节的理解。通过听前回答问题,帮助学生提高分析总结听力内容的能力。
1.3 SPEAKING部分要求通过想象与鲁滨逊克鲁索遭遇相同的事件,并就如何在荒岛上通过所提供的有限资源自救进行表达,从中培养学生想象的能力。
1.4 PRE-READING是READING的热身活动。要求学生采用讨论交流的方式,了解美国的历史,激发他们对阅读主题文章的欲望。
1.5 READING 一文采用叙事的写作手法,介绍了作者一家迁移过程中所遭受的种种艰辛,进而阐明要想成功就需要“不屈不挠”的精神。主题鲜明，容易引起学生的阅读兴趣和共鸣。
1.6 POST-READING从回答问题、概括提炼中心思想和小组讨论三个方面逐步推进，激发学生的求知欲，并充分利用学生已有的知识达到运用英语进行交际的能力。
1.7 LANGUAGE STUDY分词汇和语法两部分。词汇学习分三个部分，练习一是训练学生对单词的理解和用英语解释英语的能力。练习二和练习三训练学生对一些重点单词和短语的理解。语法学习是复习定语，通过判断和填空加以巩固。
1.8 INTEGRATING SKILLS中的Reading和Writing是一个整体训练材料。Reading是关于安克雷奇诺姆狗拉雪橇的由来，从而延伸了主课文的中心。Writing要求根据图片重写这篇文章，使学生再度加深对文章内容的理解，锻炼学生捕捉信息的能力，并提高写作能力。
2．教材重组
2.1 从话题内容上分析， WARMING UP与SPEAKING相一致；而从训练目的上分析与Talking比较一致。所以可将WARMING UP， SPEAKING和Workbook中的Talking整合在一起，设计成一节“口语课”。
2.2 将LISTENING和Workbook中的Listening整合在一起，设计成一节“听力课”。
2.3 将PRE-READING，READING和POST-READING三个活动整合一起，上一节“阅读课”。
2.4 将INTEGRATING SKILLS中的Reading和Workbook中的Integrating Skills中的Reading整合在一起上一节“泛读课”。
2.5 将LANGUAGE STUDY与Workbook中的Practising语法练习题整合在一起上一节“语法课”。
2.6 将INTEGRATING SKILLS的Writing和Workbook中Integrating Skills的Writing整合成一节“写作课”。
3. 课型设计与课时分配（经教材分析，根据学情，本单元可以用六课时完成）
1st Period Speaking
2nd Period Listening
3rd Period Reading
4th Period Language Study
5th Period Extensive Reading
6th Period Writing
Ⅳ. 分课时教案
The First Period Speaking
Teaching goals 教学目标
1. Target language 目标语言
a. 重点词汇和短语
quit, apply(...)to ..., add up, circumstance, lose heart, assessment, take it easy, common sense, survival, biscuit, alcohol, goat, flour, nail, razor, bedding
b. 重点句子
I believe in myself and know I can achieve my goals.
I am more of a leader than a follower.
I know exactly what I want in my life.
I stand for what I say, and always act according to my beliefs.
I am honest with myself and know my weaknesses.
I always finish what I have started.
I am never disappointed for very long.
I can quickly adapt myself to new circumstances.
I am strong and ready for any challenge.
I don’t lose heart when I fail to do something.
2. Ability goals 能力目标
Enable the students to talk about perseverance and success with the target language.
3. Learning ability goals 学能目标
Through oral practice, enable the students to learn how to talk about perseverance and success.
Teaching important points 教学重点
Learn how to survive on a desert island with limited food, tools and materials.
Teaching difficult points 教学难点
Help students learn how to overcome all sorts of difficulties in order to survive.
Teaching methods 教学方法
1. Talking;
2. Discussing;
3. Students-centered approach.
Teaching aids 教具准备
A computer and a projector.
Teaching procedures && ways 教学过程与方式
Step Ⅰ Revision
T: Good morning / afternoon, boys and girls! Let’s check the assignment for last unit. First, let’s have a dictation.
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Step Ⅱ Lead-in and Warming up
T: Boys and girls! Look at the two pictures. Do you know who he is?
Ss: No.
T: He is Lance Armstrong. I’ll tell you a story about him.
When Lance Armstrong zipped past this field of sunflowers during the Tour de France, the 27-year-old cyclist already had reason to celebrate. In 1997, doctors diagnosed the Austin, Texas, native with testicular cancer, which had spread to his abdomen, lungs and brain. Armstrong was given only a fifty-fifty chance of survival. He fought those odds with a risky cancer treatment and continued to train between chemotherapy sessions. Armstrong not only beat the cancer, but when he zoomed across the finishing line in Paris on July 25, 2000, out-pacing his closest competitor by seven minutes and 37 seconds, he became only the second American to win cycling’s premier event.
T: What makes him beat the cancer and succeed? I’ll give you two minutes to discuss with your partners.
Two minutes later.
T: What’s your answer?
SA: Perseverance.
T: Good. What kind of person do you think can succeed?
SB: No matter what difficulty he comes into, he always believes that he will succeed and never gives up his goals.
T: Do you know what kind of person you are? Let’s do the quiz below on P46. Read the instruction and then add up your score.
After students finish the quiz.
T: OK, now you may make a self-assessment according to the results on P47. You will know about yourself.
Step Ⅲ Speaking
T: Have you read the book “Robinson Crusoe”? Who wrote “Robinson Crusoe”?
SC: Yes, I have. Daniel Defoe wrote the book “Robinson Crusoe”.
T: Could you tell us the general idea of this book?
SC: Yes. The story starts with Robinson Crusoe’s running away from home. An inexperienced teenager and a young man full of bright fancies about the future, he naturally chooses to go to sea, because in those days it meant a chance to live a chivalrous life, to see the wonders of the world and to make a fortune. After many setbacks and adventures on the sea, he settles down in Brazil as a planter. But the call of the sea is so strong that he soon embarks on another voyage, this time, to Africa. Unfortunately a big storm blows the boat off its course and shipwrecks it near an island.
Of all the ship’s crew Robinson alone escapes to the shore after strenuous efforts. After salvaging from the wrecked ship some stores of necessity such as bread, rice, barley, corns, planks, lead, gunpowder, an axe and two saws, which he later manages to bring to the island with a self-made raft. After several futile attempts to leave the island, Robinson settles himself down to a hard and lonely life. He grows crops, domesticates animals and builds comfortable homes for himself. His life turns better when he saves a young Negro from the hands of savages, whom he names Friday. Robinson teaches him English and educates him in such a way that Friday soon becomes a loyal servant and an indispensable help to him. He struggles to live for 27 years there and finally gets relieved and returns to England.
T: You’ve done a good job. Do you understand what he said?
Ss: Yes.
T: Robinson managed to survive on the island for more than 27 years. Suppose you were cast away on a desert island in the Pacific Ocean, what would you do to survive? Turn to P48, read through the part of Speaking and discuss with your partners. I’ll give you ten minutes to prepare it.
After ten minutes.
T: Have you finished? That must be an unusual experience. What can you do there? Can you make other tools based on the tools and materials you have? What can you make? What spirit you think you should have to overcome all sorts of difficulties? Volunteer?
SD: If I were cast away on a desert island in the Pacific Ocean like Robinson Crusoe, I would not know what to do but feeling sad, sullen, and lonely. Living in a desert, I would miss my parents and friends. But soon I would cheer up and do something to make myself happy. Though I couldn’t make a tool, I could make full use of the things I had. I could not only use axe to chop wood but also go hunting with gun. Wood would be used to warm myself and cook food. The important thing is that I believe as long as I am alive, I’ll have a chance to go back home. I think strong will and never-give-it-up spirit make me overcome all sorts of difficulties.
SE: I wouldn’t know what to do but crying and feeling lonely. I would feel sad for a long time because I would have to do everything myself. If my families lived with me in the island, I think it would be better than living in the city full of pollution. I would use ink and paper to practice painting day by day. If I could return my home, I wished I would become a famous painter. I think hope makes me overcome all sorts of difficulties.
T: Good. We should be optimistic about difficulties and never give up.
Step Ⅳ Talking (P186)
T: Everybody had a dream when he was a child. Could you tell me what your dream was?
SA: I want to be a doctor. I think a doctor is a great person because he can save people’s lives.
SB: I want to be a lawyer. They earn a lot of money, have a high social status and are respected by others.
T: Good. Do you think it is easy to realize your dreams? What obstacles do you think will be on the way? Are you prepared for them? Think about it. Now turn to P186, I’ll give you ten minutes to finish two dialogues with your partners according to Talking and then some of you will be asked to act out your dialogues.
Ten minutes later.
T: Would you like to act out your dialogues?
SC and SD: Yes.
SC: What are going to be when you grow up?
SD: Sorry, I don’t know. I’ve never thought about it. How about you?
SC: I want to become a famous singer.
SD: To be a singer? I don’t know I should congratulate you or not. I think becoming a singer is very difficult.
SC: Yes. Being a singer isn’t easy. However, I am qualified to be a singer, because I sing well and am good at communicating with others. Don’t you think I am an accomplished girl?
SD: I think you are. Although you are pretty good, I think there will be many obstacles. In the first place, you have little experience in singing on stage. In the second place, your parents don’t back up you.
SC: I have enough confidence in overcoming them.
SD: Maybe you can become a successful singer, but you haven’t enough time to take care of your parents and go shopping and so on.
SC: It doesn’t matter. I can get someone to look after them. I think I will be a promising singer because I won the first place in the singing contest in our school last year.
SD: I wish your dream come true.
T: Fantastic. One more dialogue, please?
SE and SF: We’d have a try.
SE: Hello. Fancy meeting you here. Long time no see.
SF: Glad to meet you.
SE: Me too. I’ve heard you want to go to Peking University to study English.
SF: Yes. How do you know?
SE: It is not important. I think your hope is too high. It would be better for you to study in Nankai University. Do you know it needs a lot of money to study in Beijing?
SF: Yes, I know. There will be other obstacles. For example, my parents will not support me and I may get homesick. But I have confidence in overcoming them.
SE: Really? You are always compliant with your parents.
SF: Trust me. I’ll make my parents back up me.
SE: Can you be accustomed to the climate in Beijing?
SF: I think I can. To go to Peking University is my dream when I was a child. If I can not get what I want, I’ll be in despair in the future.
T: Well done.
Step V Homework
T: Find more information about Robinson’s adventure, to see how he survived on the island. You may borrow the novel from library or search on the Internet. So much for today. Bye!