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U4 Creatures Large and Small
Reading: Friend or Enemy?
1st period
Teaching Material: Creatures large and small (Oxford English S1B)
Teaching Objectives:
Knowledge Objectives:
a. To get students to understand the basic features of a play through role plays
b. To lead students to learn some facts about spiders and the topic-related vocabulary and expressions
Ability Objectives:
a. To enhance students’ listening, speaking and reading skills, such as skimming and scanning
b. To guide students to conduct group work and write a report on spiders
Emotion Objectives:
a. To familiarize students that spiders are actually friends to humans and enemies to insects.
b. To improve students’ awareness of understanding and protecting nature and natural creatures.
Difficult points:
Some facts about spiders, and how to understand that spiders are actually enemies to insects and friends to
humans.
Teaching aids:
multi-media classroom, Student’ book, blackboard design
Teaching procedures:
Stages Teacher’s activities Students’ activities Teaching purposes
Pre-reading
1. Show students a
riddle about
spiders
2. Show students
some pictures
about spider man
and lead them to
think whether
spiders are good
or bad.
1) Think and make a
guess.
2) Look at pictures
on spider man and
think about
today’s topic
whether spiders
are enemies or
friends to
humans.
To arouse students’ interest in
spiders and elicit the topic
While-reading
1. Skimming
List several questions for
students to answer before
skimming.
2. Listen and play
Guide students to listen to
the recording and read the
beginning of the play and
draw their attention to the
features of a play.
3. Read and think
a. Ask students to scan the
remaining part, and lead
them to think “What does
Winston tell Betty about
spiders then?”
b. Show students some
pictures on how spiders help
famers kill insects.
Present a table and ask
students to finish it.
c. Show students some
pictures and ask students to
summarize the properties of
spider silk and its uses.
4.Summary
Lead students to finish a
chart.
Think about the questions
and then skim the play.
Listen and read after the
text recording.
Play the beginning out in
pairs.
1) Scan the main body
of the excerpt and
underline those new
words.
2) Look at pictures, listen
to the recording and
finish a table.
3) Look at pictures and
think about the uses of
spider silk and poison.
Think and make a
summary of spiders’
benefits.
To help students
understand the general
idea and structure of
the play.
To learn about the
features of a play and
how to read a play
well.
To get the general idea
of spiders’ benefits to
humans.
To know the benefits
of spiders to famers.
To understand the
properties and uses of
spider silk and poison.
To better understand
spiders and the topic
of the play.
Post-reading Have Students conduct a
report on spiders
Discuss and finish a
report on spiders in
groups.
To learn to work in
groups and
consolidate what we
have learned in the
lesson.
Assignments 1. Search for more information on spiders on the Internet or relative books.
2. Polish the report on spiders and read it to your classmates.
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