《unit2 The_United_Kingdom》说课稿
Good afternoon,ladies and gentlemen. It is a great honour to stand here and talk about my teaching ideas. Today, I am going to talk about the teaching of Unit 2 from book 5: The United Kingdom. I will divide my instruction into five parts. Part 1: Teaching material analysis. Part 2: Students analysis. Part 3: Teaching methods . Part 4: Teaching procedures and Part 5: Blackboard design.
Part 1 Teaching material analysis(教材分析)
First of all, analysis of the reading material. （资料分析）Let me talk
about my understanding of this unit. Unit 2 plays a very important role in the teaching and learning of this unit. It connects unit 1 a scientist from England and the following units together. It tells us some information about the geography and history of the United Kingdom. Getting to know the country better has a good effect on the studens’ learning English. The reading passage is of course the most important part of this unit. It is made up of three aspects: What the UK concludes；Thegeographical division of England；The important role London plays as a cultural and political center of the UK. This reading material combines knowledge and culture together, and certainly it will arouse the sudents’ interest. By learning this passage, stendents are expected to achieve the following aims.
Second, teaching aims.(教学目标)
Knowledge aims（知识目标）:
1. To learn the usage of the important words and phrases. 2. To learn some information about the United Kingdom. Ability aims （技能目标）:
1.Enable the Ss to read effectively under the guidance of the teacher, and make them have a better understanding of the United Kingdom.
2.To develop the students’ autonomous learning ability, coorperative and investigative learning abilities.
Emotional aims（情感目标）:
1.Widen the Ss' international vision.
2.Form the Ss' consciousness of cross–culture communication.
Third, teaching importances and difficulties. （教学重难点）
Important points （教学重点）:
1. Have a total and detail comprehension of the UK from history, geography, politics, and culture etc.
2. Help the Ss to learn different reading skills.
Difficult points（教学难点）:
a. Some sentences are hard to understand. b. How to improve the Ss’ fast reading ability.
Part 2 Students analysis（学生分析）
Ss: junior high school students, Grade 2.
They have alreadyhad a basic reading skill, however they are lacking in the background knowledge of he United Kingdom, such as history ,geography ,and culture etc. .The students don't have an awareness of using reading strategies, not to mention use them in the reading process. But they have a great interest in learning about cultural differences. Stedents certainly can solve some of their puzzles in this cultural field. So in order to achieve our teaching aims, I will adopt the following teaching methods.
Part 3 Teaching Methods（教学方法）
According to the above analysis, I will try to use the following teaching methods: 1. Skimming ＆ scanning method to make the Ss better understand the whole passage.
2. Task based teaching method to let the students futher understand the passage. 3. Discussion method to make the Ss understand what they've learnt in the class.
4.Coorperative teaching method to get every student to take part in the teaching and learning activities.
Part 4 Teaching procedures (教学步骤 )
I will take 8 steps to deal with the passage.
Step 1. Warming up
Activity: pictures appreciation and talking
I will show some famous pictures of the UK and ask the students whether they can tell something about them. Let the students to have a short discussion about the pictures and then ask some of them to share their knowledge with us.
This activity is designed to arouse the students’ interest and practice their oral English. Then we can lead into the reading passage naturally. The students’ autonomous learning ability can be showed clearly in this activity.
Step 2. Pre-reading
Activity: look at the title and pictures
The students are required to have a look at the tittle and pictures to predict the content.
This activity is designed to develop students ability of prediction and guess, and it will inspire the students to read the passage more actively.
Step 3. Reading
Activity 1: skimming
The sudents are required to skim the passage, and answer the questions. 1.How many countries are the United Kingdom made up of?
2. How many invaders influence the UK? And which countries are they?
With these questions to skim the passage, students can have a focus in the reading process and these questions are suitable to most of the students. Task-bases teaching method is used in this activity to stimulate the students to read actively and effectively. After skimming, the students will get a basic understanding of the passage and get the general idea of the passage. Also their fast-reading skill will be developed at the same time.
Activity 2.: scanning
In this activity, students are required to read the passage again to find out the main ideas of each parts and fill the blanks.
By scanning, students will further understand the passage and catch some details. Their ability to catch the details is trained. Also, their careful-reading skill is developed.
Step 4. Post-reading
Activity: T/F exercise
Students are reqired to do some T/F exercise which focuses on this reading material. By doing this activity, students can consolidate the information they have learned in this class.
In this activity, students will be divided into four groups to have a competition. In this way, they will pay more attention to the reading material and participate into the discussion more actively. Cooperative learning method is used in this perod.
Step 5 Language point
Some important phrases are taught in this activity to make the students correctly
master the imortant sentences.
1.the differences between these words：to/ in/ off/ on 2. make the most of
3. be made up of/consist of
Enable the students get to know this three important language points and put them into practice.
Step 6. Role play
“Suppose you are a guide in your group，and the others are tourists. The tourists ask
you some questions about the UK and you should answer them.”
Four students a group to do a role play. They are encouraged to talk freely with their partners about the topic and then some are invited to the front to play their dialogues out.
This activity is designed to develop students’ cooperative ability and their oral English, after all, the most important thing in English is using it. So, this activity is one of the most important step of my theaching of this unit.
Step 7. Summary
Ask a student to summarize the information we learn today to develop their ability
of summary.
Step 8. Homework
1.Find out all the noun clauses in this text；
2.Write a passage to plan a visit to the UK and give the reason.
The first activity is a revision and further development of the knoledge we learn today. The second is an sctivity to inspire the students to find out more abou the UK and practice their expression and writing skills.
Part 5 Blackboard design
On the left part of the blackboard, some important words and phrases will be written down, and on the right, the competion between the four groups will be showed.
This is all my presentation, thanks a lot for your attention.