Lesson4 Let’s Dance教案

teaching aim:1.to practise reading a text quickly to identify the type/ genre.
2. to read a text with gapped sentences and be able to complete the gaps using topic, linking and reference clues.
3.to practise vocabulary related to music and dancing.
4. to talk about preferences about music and dancing.teaching difficult points:1.       how to put the sentences in the correct gaps in the text.2.       to learn some useful words and phrases about dancing.teaching steps:1.       leading inthrough two short movies and some pictures, get the students to know the types of dancing, and encourage the students to say something about the dancing they know. then they listen to the musical extracts on the cassette and identify the dances.2.       get the students to do exercises 2 .ask students to look at the text quickly and decide where it is from. ask students for their answers and ask them to give reasons.3.  skimming:read the reading strategies box with the class, studying the example given of paragraph 1 and sentenced.  get the students then follow the stages in the strategies: (1)read the text to get a general idea of the content (2) look at the missing sentences and gaps (3) think about the sentence topics and paragraph topics and match them (4) check that sentences fit the text by focusing on linking words and pronouns. students can compare their answers in pairs before checking answers as a class.4.  scanning:read the text and answer these questions1.who started folk dances?2.what is the main differences between folk and popular dances?3.what is a ballroom dance that came from folk dances?4.why did a lot of new dances come from the united states?5.what type of solo dancing became popular in the mid-1980s5. intensive readingtrue or false questions1.ballet is an important art form in western culture. 2.china has not produced any ballets.3.folk dances are usually solo獨個dances.4.dragon dances and the lion dances are folk dances in china.5.popular or social dances are usually popular for a long time.6.ballrom dancing was a formal dance in a large room.7.in the united states, there were only old forms of dance.8.people danced with their partners with ‘disco’ music. 3.       post-readingfilling the missing words according to the text.