Unit 4 Lesson 12 Generation Gap
教材分析:1.本课时选自 Unit4 Dealing with Problems,是整个单元的阅读部分 Lesson 12
Generation Gap.
2.本课时出现的有些词汇和句子较难,因此,快速获取关键信息,理解课文细节
是难点。
3.本课旨在教会学生要分别站在学生和父母的角度,反思代沟形成的真正原因。
教学目标:1.掌握词汇 generation gap, set a password, enter the password, get praise from,
care about, except 等;
2.能够运用阅读策略,根据图画、标题、和其他线索预测本文大概内容;
3.引导学生在阅读活动中,获取有关学生及其家长遇到的问题信息;
4.组织学生开展角色表演活动,讨论学生与父母之间的矛盾问题;
5.让学生领悟到父母是真正关心爱护我们,希望我们成为更优秀的亲人,只要与
父母进行及时有效沟通,相互理解,代沟最终会消除。
教学重难点:重点:运用阅读策略预测文本大概内容,在阅读过程中快速获取关键信息,
精读课文获取细节信息。
难点:能够归纳父母与孩子之间产生的矛盾问题
教学理念、方法和技术:北师大版教材对于学生来说有些偏难,是一种挑战。但学生之前
学习过本单元重点句型---条件状语从句,并且讨论过如何解决父母与孩子之间
的矛盾问题,所以选择的这个话题对于学生来说并不陌生,应该有话可说。具
体方法如下:
1.通过几个孩子与父母之间由于观念不同而导致的笑话引入话题 Generation
Gap, 激发学生的阅读兴趣。
2.设置任务和不同活动方式,使阅读更具目标性。
3.关注阅读技巧的培养和阅读策略的指导。
4.将信息技术运用于教学,与学生生活紧密联系,激发兴趣。
5.运用视频触发学生的感官,让学生有感而发,表达自己情感。
教学设计
授课教材版本 北京师范大学出版社英语八年级下册
单元名 Unit4 Dealing with Problems
标题 Lesson 12 Generation Gap
年级 Grade 8
课型 阅读课
话题 Talk about problems、generation gap
Generation Gap
教学过程
Steps Purpose
Step 1: Lead-in
1. Tell some jokes between parents and
students because of their different
1. Arouse students’ interests in class,
Elicit the topic of the text ---“Generation
views on something.
T:You wear new clothes, you show them
to your parents, you ask “mom, 有 范
吗 ? ’’ Your mom answers: “Yes, it’s in
the Cooker.”
T:You were playing a game, your mother
asks: “What are you doing?” You
answer: “I’m playing Nongyao.” Your
mother came over and gave you a slap.
“Do you want to die?”
T: You like a star, you wrote his name on
your exercise book. Your mother found
this book on your desk, she was very
angry .She thought you were copying
others’ homework.
T: You spent 500 yuan on a pair of
trousers(破洞牛仔裤),and was ready to
put them on the next day. But the next
day ,you found that your mother had
mended all the holes.
2. Ask students what makes the things
happen.
Gap”.
2. Let students think about and
understand the meaning of “Generation
Gap”.
Step 2: Pre-reading
1. Let students think about the
relationship with their parents ,if they
often argue with them and what do they
argue about.
1. Direct students to the key words and
help them know words to talk about
problems with their parents.
Step3:While-reading
1. Predicting :Use Reading Help to let
students predict what the passage is
about.
2. Fast-reading: Look through the passage
very quickly. Match family members
have different opinions on three things:
A. studies B. life habits C.
making friends
3. Careful-reading: Read the whole
passage carefully, and answer “What do
the students and parents argue about?”
4. Intensive-reading:
1) Read the first family and answer the
1. Help students predict the main idea of
the text.
2. Teach students to catch the key words,
master the reading skills.
3. Help students summarize problems in
the text.
4. Check out if students are clear about
details of the text in each family.
questions.
“Do you think Andy is a good
student at school? How do you
know that?”
“What does Andy need? ”
“What do you think Susan
wants Andy to spend time on? ”
2) Read the second family and check
the sentences.
Jessica thinks her mother
controls her a lot.( )
Karen is worried that Jessica’s
friends don’t like her.( )
3) Read the third family and fill in the
blanks.
Edward can have friends
__________to his house any time .
He never argues with his father
______ when his father makes him
____________.But he thinks he can
find things __________if they are
_________.
George lets Edward bring
friends home whenever he wants.
He is an__________ father. But he
complains that Edward’s room is
_________sometimes. He says
Edward never _____________and
hates _____________.
4) Ask students “What do the students
in the text really need?” and “What
do their parents want their children
to do ?”
5. Role-play time:
Role-play a student and a parent from
the reading.
T:“Choose one student and parent.
Role-play the student and parent. Try to
communicate with each other”.
Understand the formation of
contradictions between parents and
children.
5.Role-play the characters in the passage, let
them say their problems.
Step4:After-reading
1. Watch a video about parents care about
their child.
1. The video is so moving that it educates
students to understand the love from
T:Every family has its problems.
Every family has different
environment, circumstances.
Every child has different
personality , interests, ideals.
Every parent has different
requirements, expectations, ways of
raising child.
But parents’ love for their child is
the same.
2. Speak out the true feelings.
T: Students say something to their
parents by sending a WeChat.
3. Students receive a message from a
mother.
4. T: “When your parents are strict with
you, it doesn’t mean they don’t
understand you, they only want you to
be a better person…”
their parents.
2. Let students express their true feelings
to their parents.
3. Students know their parents’
innermost thoughts and feelings.
4.Let students know their parents are the
persons who really care about them.
Step 5: Homework
1. Write a letter or send a message
to your parents to speak out your
feelings.
1. Homework is designed to help students
to solve their own problems by
communicating with their parents.
板书设计
Unit 4 Lesson 12 Generation Gap
text your friends
set a password
enter the password
get praise from
except
Andy needs free time to
relax.
Susan wants Andy to
spend more time on
studies.
Jessica needs freedom. Karen is worried that
Jessica makes bad friends.
Edward needs to be relax. George wants Edward to
get into good habits.
教学反思:
本节课我通过创设有趣情景,以生动有趣的父母与孩子之间由于理解差异造
成的笑话,将学生带入一个轻松的学习氛围中,以激发学生学习兴趣。设置
活泼语言交际情景,给学生提供充分口语表达机会。在学习过程中,我设法
将教材内容变成活泼的语言交际情境,让学生兴致勃勃地参与语言实践。师
生双方通过在情感上的交流与沟通,激发了学生积极学习热情和创造意识。
本节课的不足之处在于:1.学生在表演父母与孩子之间对话时,没有最终达成
和解。2.由于想让更多的学生有机会回答问题,在等待学生举手时浪费了些时
间,导致节奏有些慢。