Period Section A (3a-3c)

                                      成都市第三十三中学校  邹 艳

                        Class 1, Grade 9    Name _______   No. _______

Teaching Objectives：

Knowledge Objectives:

1. To talk about what Candy used to be like and how she has changed.

2. To learn the new words and phrases: deal with, interview, private, guard, require…

3. To talk about what you and your family used to be like.

Ability Objectives:

1. Students should be able to use the skills of scanning,skimming and careful reading to catch some key information in a limited time.

2. Students should be able to combine individual learning and cooperative learning to get more in the process of learning.

Moral Objectives:

1. To encourages Students to use a positive attitude to look at yourselves.

2. To make Students to be brave and confidence.

3. To make Students develop the ability to cooperate with others.

Important and difficult points：

1.To understand and retell the passage.

2.To use what they learnt to deal with their own life,specifically, to  

 form an awareness of positive attitude in our daily life.

【Teaching Procedures】

■ 课前预习

1.自主预习3a,，写出以下重点短语。

从事唱歌 ____________________      克服她的羞怯______________________

敢做某事 ____________________      不再……    ______________________

受到极大的关注_______________      对……小心 _______________________              

放弃你正常的生活_____________      通向成功的道路 ___________________

奋力坚持；继续战斗___________      出人头地__________________________                   

2.自主阅读3a，关注“used to” 、宾语从句和状语从句。

■ 课中探究

探究一Pre-reading  Skimming

Look at the photo and the title of the passage, then answer the questions below.

1. What do you think the passage is about?       _________________________

2. What does the girl do?                     _________________________

3. What was the girl like in the past?            __________________________

探究二While-reading Scanning  (Work on 3a).

Read the article and identify(识别) the paragraphs [1-3] in which the information appears. Number the information(1-3).

探究三 Careful reading

Task 1. Read paragraph 1 and say True or False.

1. Candy Wang is 19 years old and she is from Asia.                 (   )

2. She used to be outgoing and dared to sing in front of her class.       (   )

3.Now she’s not shy any more and enjoys singing in front of crowds.    (   )

Task 2. Read paragraph 2 and fill in the blanks.

Good things (2)	Bad things(4)

Task 3. Read paragraph 2 and write the sentence using “to do”

Hanging out with friends is almost impossible for me now.

______ is almost impossible for me ______ ______ _____ with friends now.

Task 4. Read paragraph 3 and complete the sentences with the proper words.

Candy’s advice to young people who want to become famous:

1). People have to be _________ to ________ your ________ life.

2). You can never ___________ how difficult the road to _______ is.

3). You really require a lot of ______ and __________ to succeed.

4). Only a very small _______ of people _______ _______to the top .

Task 5. Work on 3b  Read the article again and complete the sentences about Candy.

探究四、Post reading

Task 1. Pairwork  (Work on 3c)

Suppose you are the interviewer and your partner is Candy. Ask and answer questions like this.

A: Hi, Candy. It’s a great pleasure to interview you.  

B: Hi, Tom. Glad to see you!

A: You used to be shy, didn’t you?              

B: Yes, I did. I used to be shy and took up singing to deal with my shyness.

Task 2. Groupwork: Discuss the following questions.

1) What can we learn from the sentence?

“She used to be really shy and took up singing to deal with her shyness.” 

2) What should we do when we face difficulties?

【美句欣赏】

1. To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. ____________________

2. Where there is a will, there is a way.                 ____________________

3. Rome was not built in a day.                        ____________________

■ 阅读拓展  Read aloud

                       Don’t be afraid of changes!

Some people are afraid of changes, but I think they need to change their opinions. I welcome changes and get excited about them. I have become better by making changes. Changes are chances to grow. Changes can make the world a better place to live in. Progress is impossible without changes so don’t be afraid of changes!

【Homework】

Write about a family member who has changed the most. What did the person use to be? What about now?

【自主反思】

1. 知识盘点：_________________________________________________________

2, 通过本课的学习，你还有哪些疑问_____________________________________