英德一中 程美蓉

Unit18 Lesson1What Is Beauty?

What Is Beauty?

Analysis of the teaching methods

Teaching procedures

Teaching reflection

Analysis of the teaching aims

Analysis of the teaching background

1. About teaching material1. About teaching materialThis lesson is the first lesson in Unit18. It plays a very important role in this unit. If the students can learn it well, it will be helpful for them to learn the rest of this unit. After learning this lesson, the students can not only have a deeper understanding of beauty, but also can learn phrases and the usage of used to and would.

2. About the students and the topic

The students have learnt English for several years, so they must have a certain ability to read, but some of them are still lack of reading skills and their vocabulary is limited.

This lesson is about “ beauty ”, and this topic can easily draw the students' attention and help them to concentrate.

1.Knowledge1.Knowledge aimsaims

2.Ability aims2.Ability aims

3.Emotion aim3.Emotion aim

1).To master some new but useful words and phrases2).to practise using used to and would to talk about the pa

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1).To learn how to get the main idea of each paragraph2). to learn how to find the specific information

To have a deeper understanding of beauty

Key and difficult points

Key point: to practise using used to and would to talk about the pastDifficult point: To improve students’ reading skills such as how to get the general idea and specific information

Methods:Task-based language teaching approachMulti-media teaching methodCommunicative approach

not only make the contents easy to understand, but also improve students' reading skills and their language sense of English.

Step 1 warm up

Step 2 pre-reading

Step 3 fast reading

Step 4 careful reading

Step 5 grammar

Step 6 language points

Step 7 summary

Step 8 homework

Teaching procedures

Show some pictures and ask the students, “ Which one do you think is more beautiful?”

stimulate the students’ interest and get them to be familiar with the topic of this lesson

Step 1. Warm-up

Present some new words by some typical pictures.

help the students remember the new words quickly and also create exciting atmosphere

Step 2. Pre-reading

Step 3. Fast readingStep 3. Fast reading

Ask students to read the text quickly and match the six paragraphs with the main ideas.

train the students’ reading skill-skimming and help them get some basic knowledge about beauty

Read and match the paragraphs Read and match the paragraphs with the main ideas.with the main ideas.

Ideas of beauty change with time.

Inner beauty is more important than physical beauty.

There was no consistent view on beauty.

Ideas of beauty change with culture.

Beauty has more than one dimension.

There are no precise criteria for judging what is beautiful.

para. 1

para. 2

para. 3

para. 4

para. 5

para. 6

Task 1. Allow students more time to read paragaph 2 and 3 carefully and fill in the table.

Time (para.2)

In the 19th century

Women __________________to achieve a body shape that is considered unhealthy today.

Men_________________across their shoulders, which is no longer attractive.

In the past Some cultures used ______as an addition to costumes, to show family associations and to mark criminals.

Culture (para.3)

In some countries

Young women ________________________________ in preparation for wedding day.

In other cultures

_______________________is considered more attractive.

Step 4. Careful reading

1.Where can inner beauty be found?2.which kind of beauty is more important?3.which kind of beauty requires us to truly see?

check how much they have mastered and see if there are still any language problems to be solved.

Task 2. Read paragraph 5 and 6 carefully, and answer the three questions.

Step 4. Careful reading

would 和 used to 表示过去经常进行而现在不再进行的动作。但是 would 只描述动作 (activities) ， used to 描述动作和状态 (activities and states)

Step 5. Grammar

enable the students to learn the usage of used to and would in the context

Explain some important phrases of the text and ask students to make sentence with them.be consistent withbe considered to be…a wide range of

Step 6. language points

make the new language points more impressive and easier for the students to accept

1.The author argues that beauty is____ _____ ______ _____ the beholder, and standards of beauty change with______ and________. Besides, _______ beauty is more important than________ beauty.

2. The usage of used to and would

3.Some phrases: be consistent with / a wide range of / be considered to be...

Step 7. Summary

1.Read the text twice and retell the text to your partner.

2.Finish ex.6 & 8 on page 35.To help students to consolidate what they have learnt today

Step 8. Homework

The design of a reading passage is of great importance. We have to consider whether the teaching steps are suitable for our students or not. What’s more, we should be able to deliver the lesson to the students in an attractive way so that the students can be more interested in this lesson and we can achieve better results and effects. In this lesson, the steps are a little complicated for the students and they might feel it boring to finish all the tasks. I should change the design of the reading steps in more forms and simplify them.