基于微信公众平台的初中英语阅读教学设计与应用研究

课前预习任务

活动设计

教学意图

完成词汇预习和句子翻译

教师提前发布课前导学案，让学生完成词汇预习和句子翻译任务。

学生提前在微信公众平台课前预习栏进行背景知识、词句课前预习的学习，以便更好地接受老师讲的知识，更好地跟老师进行互动活动，促进课程的开展。

观看泰国游客骑大象的英文视频，了解大象的习性和生活现状

教师在平台发布与保护大象有关的视频，学生可根据自己的学习兴趣自主点击资源。

课中教学设计

Teaching objectives

Teaching Objectives:

1.Knowledge objectives:

Students can master the following words,phrases,and sentences about saving animals .

Key words:save,symbol,flag,forget,place,water,danger,be in (great) danger,cut down,

tree,kill,ivory,over,zoo.

Sentences: The elephant is one of Thailand’s symbols.

But elephants are in great danger.

People cut down many trees so elephants are losing their homes .

Today there are only about 3,000 elephants (over100,000before.)

2.Ability objectives:

Be able to get information from reading materials.

Be able to choose the best title for a passage.

3.Emotion objectives:

Lead students to love animals and know more about saving wild animals.

Key points and Difficult points

Teaching key points:

1.Master the key words and sentences.

2.Be able to get information and the main idea from the reading materials.

3.Consolidate the knowledge in this unit and develop students’ comprehensive skill.

Teaching difficult points:

To learn the reading skills of skimming and scanning.

Teaching methods

Multimedia approach；Task-based method; Situational Action Approach

Teaching Procedures

Teaching procedures:

Step1.Review

T: Before this class ,we have arranged the review task in the Wechat Public Platform .let’s review the vocabularies and language points now.

(Teaching purpose:According to this step,students can review the important vocabularies and some important language points.)

Step 2.Lead-in

1.Guess :what animal is it?

It’s very big and heavy.It has a long nose.It can work for people.

(students answer:It’s an elephant.)

T：I think everyone must have watched a short video on our Wechat Public Platform.Can you learn something about elephants?

2.Let students answer questions according to the short video:

Where are the elephants from?—(Answer:They are from Thailand.)

What do elephants eat?—（Answer:they eat fruit,vegetables and grass.)

Can visitors ride elephants ?Why?(Answer:No,they can’t.Because it’s bad for elephants’ health)

Step3.Pre-reading

Look at the title and guess what the passage is mainly about .

Step4 While-reading

1. Skimming&scanning

Task 1:Skim the passage and choose the best title for the article.

Task2:Match the main idea of each paragraph.

2. Careful reading:

Task 1. Find the answers to the following questions

(1)Why are elephants important in Thailand?

(2)What can elephants do?

(3)Why elephants are in great danger now?

(4)How can they save elephants?

Task 2 .Complete the mind map according to your understanding of the passage.

Step5 Post-reading

T: I have shared the pictures of some endangered animals on the Wechat Public Platform and let’s now discuss how can we save them.

Task .Discussion:

1.What else animals do you think are in great danger?Why?

2.How can we help the animals in danger?What can we do to save them ?

Step6 Summary :Teacher makes a summary and elevates students’ emotions:

Animals are our friends so we must help to save them.

We should stop hunting and killing them .Instead ,we should make laws to protect them.

We must call on more people to stop buying the products made from wild animals.

We must live in harmony with wild animals and protect their habitats .

Step7 Homework

Writing

Choose one kind of animal in danger and write a short essay of 80 words. Your essay must include:

1.What the animal is and what the animal can do.

2.Why they are in danger.

3.How we can save them.

You may list a chart of that animal according to the teacher’s example and then write an outline.

Online resources

Some pictures about endangered species ; A video about the living conditions of elephants in Thailand .

课后教学设计

课后巩固学习任务

教学意图

1.Find more news and reports about protecting wild animals

2.Share your composition of saving endangered animals

对所学知识进行巩固练习与检测；分享优秀习作；