Love narrows the gap (Reading)
上海市青浦区第一中学 董红英
第 周 第 课时 教案总序号
课 题 Love narrows the gap (Reading)
知识、技能目标
1. To get the students to understand the text
2. To get the students to practice reading skills including prediction, skimming, scanning
过程、方法目标
1. Get them to understand new words by context.
2. Get them to understand the passage by skimming and scanning.
情感、态度、价值观目标
To discuss with them to deal with conflicts between two generations by love, understanding and communication
教学重点、难点
1. Understand the text
2. Practice some reading sills
3. How to narrow generation gap.
教学流程及任务分析
本节课要求了解一个概念：什么是代沟。
介绍和练习三种阅读技巧：理解标题预测内容，用跳读的方式了解文章结构及作者观点，根据上下文理解生词意思。
一个符合两纲要求的教育基点：用爱，理解和交流处理好父母子女两代人的关系。
教 学 过 程
教 师 活 动 学 生 活 动 说 明
Pre-reading 5’
1. Warming-up
What’s a generation gap?
T: There is a gap in the wall, Is the wall beautiful? Is it safe?
T: Sometimes there is also a gap between our parents and us, for example, in the previous text “Father and Son”, Luo Kahing likes making films but his parents want him to get good results in his exams.. There is a conflict between them, how about your parents and you?
Ask them to find words in the passage to take the place of the words underlined.
A gap in the wall
Since the wall has a gap, people want to repair it, to narrow the gap, or to remove the gap.
The gap is common and natural in our life, and it usually leads to conflicts, quarrel, unhappiness. So what can we do to narrow the gap? Read the text, and it will give us some suggestions. 通过展现墙上的裂缝，引出gap一词的意思，进而启发思考：父母与子女在某些方面的分歧，矛盾也是一种gap,叫做generation gap.
板书设计
A Gap in the wall Love Narrows the Gap
教 师 活 动 学 生 活 动 说 明
T: Read the first paragraph together and give me the definition of it. (What is generation gap?)
Look up in the dictionary./ Try to guess the meaning according to the context. （阅读指导1）
2. Get the meanings of the new words by understanding the sentences. 5’
Ask them to read and spell the words twice.
While-reading: 10’
1. Read Para3 and tell me the writer’s attitude towards generation gap.
2. Read Para4-5 and tell me the writer’s suggestions on closing the gap.
3. If you do as the writer suggests, what will happen?
Generation gap is a term coined by sociologists in the 1960s to describe differences in beliefs and values, family and friends, work and study, career and life goals between young adults and their parents.
Here we have new words, and what will you do if you meet with new words when reading?
1. To our surprise, this book caused excitement for a long time.(generate)
2. Who invented the term “dot-com”?(coin)
3. Owing to his efficient management, his business is developing well. (thrive)
4. These official papers contain the king’s signature. (Document)
5. The old man’s children are fighting over the estate. (offspring)
6. A: Do you think we can ask him for help?
B: Sure. He is an expert who studies societies and human behavior in groups. (sociologist)
S: The gap is not always negative. The gap can help people realize their own problems, e.g. lack of respect, lack of communication, lack of tolerance of imperfection and so on.
S: 1) Through efforts (generated by love and understanding between parents and their offspring)
2) the generation gap is a very natural thing, and a positive attitude and communication between parents and children will help.
S: problems get solved, personalities change, conflicts turn into harmony and the family thrives.
另外与之配对的六句在课文中标出。
学生通过上下文的理解，推测单词在文中的意思。
其中coin 和document在词汇手册中没有出现，需要学生猜测出意思。
引导学生做第六题，在做其他。请5位同学说答案。
Topic sentence
Support sentences
(阅读指导2)
教 师 活 动 学 生 活 动 说 明
Post-reading
1.Let’s go back to the title. Try to ask questions about the underlined word. 5’
Extensive Reading 10’
“The disappearing generation gap”
Shanghai Students’ Post March 28, 2017-04-21
1. Read the passage and match the title with the contents.
2. Read the passage again, and find out the writer’s attitude towards the new equality between parents and children?
3.Today we have talked about generation gap, and what’s your opinion on it? Is it positive or negative, use the beginning to think about at least 5 sentences to show your opinion. 5’ Love Narrows the Gap
S: What is the gap?
Why should we narrow the gap?
How can we narrow the gap?
Before reading, you can analyze the title carefully and you can know what will be written in the text. It’s a good reading skill.
Let’s read the following titles and passages and match the titles with the passages.
A. Downsides of being equal
B. The new equality in family
C. Generation gap widens in China
D. Generation gap is a natural thing
S: The result can be a rewarding closeness among family members. Conversations that would have been awkward on subjects such as sex and drugs now are comfortable and common between western parents and children.
In my opinion, it is negative (positive) in the following aspects. First, furthermore, last but not the least. In a word.
As far as I am concerned, generation gap is both negative and positive.
阅读指导3
理解标题，将标题与文章内容配对。
请学生翻译标题
给话题，说至少5句话。
课后要求及作业 Composition: A story between my father (mother) and me (conflict) 200 words.
课 后 反 思
结合新课程标准和高考重点的趋势，阅读在高中英语教学中有着越来越重要的作用。在高一，高二给学生介绍一定的阅读方法，结合文章阅读进行阅读技能的培养非常重要。
在牛津英语教材中，阅读技巧主要是skimming和scanning，每篇课文都训练到这两个技能来理解文章大意和一些细节问题。学生在阅读实际中，通过快读掌握大意，通过寻读寻找细节，基本掌握了这两项阅读技巧。但是，要提高阅读速度和获得准确的信息，这两个阅读技巧是远远不够的。通过阅读和总结，我觉得还有以下几点基本阅读技能要求学生掌握：预测。（根据标题预测内容，根据上文预测下文或结果）根据上下文猜新词意思。总结文章大意或段意。理解文章结构。读懂作者意图和观点。读出词或句的隐含意义。
在本课中，以Love Narrows the Gap为载体，训练了学生根据上下文理解词义的技巧，改变他们碰到生单词就查词典，浪费时间的方法。同时，将英文解释带到课文中去翻译文中三个长句，加深对词汇的理解，也熟悉了该文中长句的意思，降低了阅读的难度。在六个猜词题目中，注意了老师先示例，学生后练习，在核对检验的过程，让学生在猜词过程中有一定的梯度，不会觉得很难。
第二，教师对标题的提问，启发学生分析标题。学生在回答提问过程中发现作者在文中就是围绕标题来写的。所以，分析标题就能预知全文内容，体现了认真阅读标题的重要性。通过标题的问答，学生清楚地了解了文章的结构布局是由代沟概念---对待代沟的态度--- 怎样缩小代沟来谋片布局的。特别是第三段，作者的观点句是首句：The gap is not always negative. 紧接着是支撑：The gap can help people realize their own problems, e.g. lack of respect, lack of communication, lack of tolerance of imperfection and so on.通过对学生分析文章的布局结构，让学生更好的理解作者主旨。
第三，通过上海中学生星报的一篇有关代沟的同话题文章的阅读，指导学生利用刚刚学过的阅读技巧来为段落配标题，寻找作者的观点及其支撑句，现学现用，效果较好。