8A Unit 1 Friends教學設計英文
step 2 the quickest, the best!when we read a passage, we can also use this method. you can find them from these seven points.(show students the sentences. ) now let’s try!can you find out the main points in the following passage? what is it about? ( mrs brown’s car stops at the crossroads)who is it about? (mrs brown)what happened? (her car stops and doesn’t start again.)where did it happen? (at the traffic lights)when did it happen? (one saturday)why did it happen? (because her car is too old.)how did it happen? mrs. brown is eighty years old. she has an old car. she always drives to the shops on saturday and buys some food. one saturday she stops her car at some traffic lights whey they are red. but it doesn't start again! the lights become green, then yellow, then red, then green again, but mrs. brown’s car can’t start. just then a policeman comes and says to her with a smile, “good morning. you like all of our colors, don’t you?”the method works, especially when the story is long. it is really difficult to remember everything from the very beginning. why not just remember the main points?step 3 reading to find the main pointnow please open your book to page 14. here is an article about a girls can your read and find the main points of it? what is it about? it’s about problems with a new school.who is it about? a grade 8 student called cindy.what happened? she changed to a new secondary school. she is unhappy, nervous and uncomfortable at the new school. she is always alonewhere did it happen? in sunshine town. when did it happen? after changing to the new school. why did it happen? she doesn't have friends there and she misses her classmates in the old school.how did it happen?step 4 putting in cindy’s shoesstudents are now in a new school. so it is easy for them to put themselves in cindy’s shoes. that is to say they can understand how cindy feels easily. make full use of this and get them to guess the meaning of some of the new words, such as ‘nervous’. get the student to read the whole passage loudly. help them to remember and understand the passage. i will get the students to focus on the following questions. what are cindy’s problems? why does cindy have these problems?how does cindy feel? why does she feel so. this passage is about the things at school. they are happening around the students. so it is not difficult for the students to have some images in mind while reading. therefore, we may find another good way to remember a story. that is to be a ‘film-maker’. try to imagine a cindy in your mind and remember the story by transfer the words into pictures.