解读:单元标题是What’s he like?,主题是描述人的特征,在本单元主要是性格特征。本故事的场景是足球赛,话题是“A new PE teacher”。 方法1:让学生选择或者自拟故事标题方法2:呈现图1,让学生回答What’s Zoom/Zip/the elephant like? 为了给学生增加难度,可以先问What’s the weather like?然后再问人的情况,看看学生能否转过弯来。 方法3:呈现不同体型、外形、性格的卡通动物的卡片(反面有相应的信息),学生询问教师关于这些动物的信息,教师回答后,问学生:Can the tiger be a music teacher?等问题。然后抽出狗、象、Zip和Zoom这四个喜欢踢球的角色组队踢足球,就进入了故事场景。
解读:这个故事的主题语境是“人与社会”,具体而言是“人不可貌相”。 方法1:增加讨论,说一说自己的同学中存在的“人不可貌相”的现象。可用的语句结构示例:Lily is a girl, but she can play basketball very well. 方法2:可以增加语言拓展阅读,进一步强化“人不可貌相”的寓意。 比如,在语言能力强的班级中,可以改编一下这个著名的关于Stanford University的故事:http://www.english-for-students.com/do-not-judge-a-book-by-its-cover.html (凌哥改编的版本见本文末尾。)
四| 语言内容
解读:故事语言中有一些新词(shoot,miss,join,score,goals,win),基本上是实词,通过情境和语境还是比较容易理解的,所以并不难解决。 方法:通过做动作(shoot),观察图片和语境(Oh, no! I missed),添加语境(I want to play football with you. Can I join you?)(Dog, Dog, we win! Yeah!),观察图片和数数(Rabbit scores ten goals.)等让学生理解语义。
附:故事改编
An old lady and his husband in old clothes go to Harvard University to visit the president of the university.The secretary asks them to wait outside. "The president is busy," he says to them."OK. We'll wait," the lady says.They wait for a very long time. So the secretary goes and tells the president, "Maybe if you see them a short time, they will go back home."The president walks out to meet them."We had a son. He was a student in Harvard University. But he died last year." the lady tells the president. "My husband and I want to put up a memorial to our son in the university.""Sorry, madam, we can't have a statue like that in our university", the president says to her."No, we want to put up a building.""A building?" the president looks at their old clothes. "How much money do you have? All the buildings in Harvard University are over seven and a half million dollars."The lady is quiet for a moment. Then she looks at her husband. "Seven and a half million dollars to build a university? Maybe we can start a university."Her husband nods his head. They say goodbye to the president and leave Harvard University.They go to California and establish a university with the name "Stanford".