周 次 章节名称 第 周，第 1-3次课 编写时间 2018.9.20 Unit 1 The Pursuit of Dreams 教学目的与要求： Upon completion of this unit, teachers are expected to have enabled students (Ss) to: 1. have a thorough understanding of the text contextually and linguistically; 2. build up an active vocabulary to talk about the pursuit of dreams and know how to use the key words and expressions in context properly; 3. know what makes successful dream chasers; 4. talk about their own dream jobs and explain how to make their dreams come true; 5. write a well-developed paragraph with a clear topic sentence. 教学重点和难点： 1.教学重点: Understanding and analysis of the texts; Important language points in the texts 2.教学难点: 1) Speaking: talk about the pursuit of dreams; talk about their own dream jobs and explain how to make their dreams come true 2) Writing: Paragraph writing with a clear topic sentence 1
教学组织（含课堂教学内容、教学方法、辅助手段、师生互动、时间分配、板书设计等）： 教学内容: Part Ⅰ Text：Deaf DJ Part Ⅱ Reading 1 Janitor Filipaj, the Dream Pursuer Part Ⅲ Reading 2 From the American Dream to a Chinese Dream Part Ⅳ Theme-related Language Learning Tasks 教学方法: Students-oriented teaching approaches Group discussion; presentation 辅助手段: 多媒体 时间分配: This unit is designed for an eight-period class. In each of the periods, certain tasks are to be completed. Generally speaking, there may be several different ways to explore this unit. Here is a suggested teaching plan. Teaching Plan 2
Part One: Opener 1. Introduce the topic to the class either in English or Chinese. 2. Draw Ss' attention to the two pictures in Opener, help them use their cell phones to scan the QR codes for information about the two people in the pictures. 3. Ask them what questions they would like to ask about the two people in the pictures. Collect their questions orally, summarize them, and if possible, narrow them down to the three questions listed in Opener. 4. Ask Ss to work in pairs, discussing the three questions given in Opener. 5. After discussion, give pairs a few minutes to swap their answers with their neighbors. 6. Ask one or two pairs to give a brief report of their discussion. Part Two: Reading & Interacting 1. Introduce the topic of the text: a deaf DJ who chased a seemingly impossible dream. 2. Before moving on to the text, help Ss familiarize themselves with the new words in the margin, for example, by having them read the text out loud, paragraph by paragraph, collecting any words which they have difficulty pronouncing, writing the words on the board and reading the words out to them. Ss repeat the words together, going down the list one by one and then read the words selected by the teacher. Then some of them will be asked to read the words separately and others improve their pronunciation of these words. By now they should be clear as to how the words are pronounced. 3. Guide Ss to approach the text by studying the storyline of the writer's personal story--time order and some key elements of a story: setting conflict, development, and ending. Setting: The writer was born in England with perfect hearing. When he was five, his family moved to the United States. Because of ear infections, he went deaf in the right ear and was left with 20% of hearing in the left. Conflict: The young man who was almost deaf, however, got interested in deejaying which usually requires acute hearing. Development: At the age of 25, he began to receive tutoring from a famous New York DJ. He got jobs, deejaying at clubs and, for his excellent performance, won the name \3