八上 Unit 4 Do it yourself ReadingⅠMy cousin and DIY
Background:My DIY jobs
Key words:DIY jobs
Ⅰ Background information
In this unit，students learn mainly about DIY.DIY stands for“do it yourself”.Students can know some funny things about DIY according to Suzy's story.Suzy's cousin Andrew is crazy about DIY but he is not good at it.
Ⅱ Type of the lesson
Reading lesson
Ⅲ Teaching aims and learning objectives
By the end of the lesson，the students will be able to:
1.Understand the meanings of the new words and use them in proper situations.
2.Understand the passage and finish the exercises.
3.Describe a DIY activity with some new words.
4.Show great interest in DIY.
5.Analyze the phrases and sentences to get a better understanding.
6.Get more detailed information about Andrew and his DIY jobs.
Ⅳ Teaching content
1.New words
2.Different reading skills
Ⅴ Focus of the lesson and predicted area of difficulty
1.New words
2.How to have a better understanding of the passage
3.Different reading skills
Ⅵ Teaching aids
1.Blackboard
2.Multimedia
Ⅶ Teaching procedures
Step 1（Warm-up and lead-in）
（1）Free talk
【设计理念:通过一些简单的对话，让学生熟悉英语的语言环境，引起学生对DIY的学习兴趣，用师生对话活跃课堂气氛，调动学生的学习积极性。】
T:What do you often do in your free time？
Guess what I often do in my free time.
Do you know DIY？
Do you like DIY？Give us some examples.
Do you want to know my DIY stories？
（2）Show my DIY story
【设计理念:通过老师的DIY故事，了解制作丝网花的过程，把一些重要的短语导出来，让学生在听故事的同时可以了解生词，扫清阅读的障碍。】
T:Look at this.（展示一个手工发卡）What's this？A hair clip.Is it beautiful？It's special for me.
Because I made it instead of buying it.
I am crazy about DIY.I am also crazy about making stockings flowers.But at first，I was not very good at making them.So once I made a mistake.I wanted to make a rose.But it looked terrible.
Did it look like a rose？
It didn't look like a rose.Instead，it looked like a lily.It looked like a lily instead of a rose.
What should I do？My sister advised me to take a course in making flowers.So I attended the lessons and the teacher asked me to buy some books.And I put up a shelf.Put those books on the shelf.
After attending the lessons，I got better at making stockings flowers.Now not only my sister but also I like making stockings flowers.
Step 2 Reading
（1）Pre-reading
【设计理念:在读文章之前让学生对文章有一个大概的预测，提高之后阅读的准确性。】
T:Do you want to know more about DIY？Suzy's cousin Andrew is also crazy about DIY.Is he good at DIY？
（2）While-reading
【设计理念:通过不同形式的练习让学生对文章有更加深入的了解，形式单一的阅读题目会让学生觉得枯燥和乏味，失去对阅读的兴趣，所以不同的题型有助于激发学生的阅读兴趣。】
①T:Can you find out the main idea of each paragraph？
·Para.1 Introduction of Andrew
·Paras.2－4 Andrew's DIY jobs
·Para.5 Advice from Suzy
②Read Para.1 and answer questions.
·a.What does he love doing？
·b.How is the house when he finishes？
③Read Paras.2－4 and find out problems Andrew caused.
a.Putting in a brighter light—The whole house had a power cut.
b.Putting up a picture—He hit a pipe and filled the room with water.
c.Painting the living room blue—Now the living room has not only blue walls but also a blue ceiling and floor.
d.Putting up a shelf—No books could stay on the shelf because one end of the shelf was much higher than the other.
④Pair work
Suzy:I want a shelf…bed.
Andrew:No…
（half a day later）
Suzy:Wow，how long did you do it？
Andrew:I spent…putting up the shelf.Isn't it great？
Suzy:Whoops.The books cannot stay there because…of the shelf is…than…
⑤Further thinking
【设计理念:启发学生的想象力和思维，让学生更加积极地参与课堂。】
T:We know one end of the shelf was much higher than the other.
Think about the ways to solve the problem.
⑥Match the jobs with the problems.（B2）
putting in a brighter light c.The whole house had a power cut.
putting up a picture b.He hit a pipe and filled the room with water.
painting the living room d.The cat is blue now.
putting up a shelf a.No books could stay on it.
⑦Read Para.5 Advice from Suzy
Suzy________some books about DIY for Andrew and also________him to take a course in DIY.But this made him________because he says he knows________about it.So________，Suzy is reading all the books herself and________lessons every Saturday.Now she knows________more about DIY than Andrew.
⑧Further thinking
【设计理念:增加阅读文章的趣味性，同时也增加文章阅读的深度和广度，让学生不仅仅思考文本，而且拓展学生的思维，为想象力插上翅膀。】
a.What should we do when we do DIY jobs？
b.What do you think of Andrew？
Be crazy about DIY
Never give up DIY
Not really good at DIY
Stubborn
⑨Read and do T／F questions（B3）
Suzy's cousin loves doing DIY.
Suzy's cousin failed to put in a new light in his bedroom.
Suzy's cousin put a picture on a pipe.
Suzy's cousin thought the cat was boring，so he painted it blue.
It took Suzy's cousin only a few minutes to put up the shelf on the wall.
Suzy's cousin wants to get better at DIY.
⑩Complete the conversation
Suzy:My cousin Andrew is（1）____________about DIY.He loves to（2）____________things and decorate his house.
Kitty:What kind of things does he do？
Suzy:He once tried to put in a brighter light in his bedroom，but he made a（3）____________，and his house had a（4）____________.
Kitty:Oh dear！
Suzy:And last month，he thought the living room was（5）____________，so he painted the walls（6）____________.But he also painted the ceiling，the floor and even the cat！
Kitty:Oh no！
Suzy:He once spent five hours putting up a（7）____________on the wall for me，but my books couldn't stay there because one end of the shelf was much（8）____________than the other.
Kitty:He should take a（n）（9）____________in DIY.
Suzy:But he says he already knows（10）____________about it！
（3）Post-reading
【设计理念:通过一些活动让学生对文章有更加深入的了解，复述故事可以提高学生的思维连贯性和语篇意识。】
Retell the story
Step 3 Group work
Making a love envelope
【设计理念:让学生通过本节课的学习掌握关于DIY制作的英文表达方法，从而尝试写出自己的DIY故事。这个活动旨在帮助学生练习巩固本节课所学的DIY制作的英文表达方法。】
T:Do you know why I love DIY so much？I am crazy about it not only because it is interesting but also because it can help others.We know many people in the world need our help.We can make a love envelope to help them.Do you want to help them？
Are you ready to make it？
Do you know how to make it？
1.Prepare a piece of heart-shaped paper.
2.Draw some pictures or write some sentences on it.
3.Remember to fold not only the two sides but also the bottom side.
Step 4 Homework
【设计理念:1.巩固课堂所学的重要的知识点。2.学会用英语描述自己的DIY故事。3.对有关英语的DIY学习产生浓厚的兴趣。】
（1）Recite the text.
（2）Finish the exercises.
（3）Try to write something about your own DIY stories.
Ⅷ Blackboard design
8A Unit 4 Do it yourself—ReadingⅠMy cousin and DIY
New words
·Para.1 Introduction of Andrew
·Paras.2－4 Andrew's DIY jobs
·Para.5 Advice from Suzy
Ⅸ Teaching reflection
本节课的教学目标是学会DIY的相关词汇，读懂并能理解文章的内容并完成相关练习，引导学生的DIY意识。
这是一堂英语阅读课。如何激发学生的阅读兴趣，在有限的时间里可以读懂文章，并掌握一些阅读技巧和方法，养成良好的阅读习惯，这是我在准备这节课之前一直考虑的问题。
我知道阅读的兴趣和能力的培养不是一蹴而就的，这需要老师精心设计课堂，以科学有效的方法来引导学生阅读，并且在阅读的过程中同时提高学生的听说读写能力。为了达成这些目标，我在这节课中进行了以下几个方面的尝试:
一、故事性的生词导入
Reading课型不可避免地会有很多生词，这是学生阅读中的拦路虎，为了消灭这些拦路虎，第一部分要在情景中导入生词，本单元是以DIY为主的，所以我选择的方式是用自己DIY故事来导入生词。通过自己制作丝网花的过程，让学生在听故事的过程中理解生词的意义。
二、多样的阅读题型训练
My cousin and DIY这篇阅读文章一共有5段，分为三个部分:Introduction of Andrew，Andrew's DIY jobs，Advice from Suzy。每一个部分分别设置不同的题型，比如介绍部分比较简单，可以设置比较容易的问答题。main body部分用图片的形式让学生加深对阅读内容以及细节的理解。最后一个部分设置成任务型阅读的题型，让学生对文章有更深层次的认识。
当学生有了阅读兴趣之后，有效的阅读技巧就显得尤为重要了。本节课存在的问题是对于阅读技巧的训练不充分，缺乏对学生阅读策略的指导，使得一部分学生在阅读过程中无从下手，不知道怎么捕捉有效的消息，阻碍了学生做出正确的推理和判断。
点评：
本节课的教学设计将培养学生的阅读兴趣和养成良好的阅读习惯放在了首要的地位。在导入新课时，教师和学生分享了自己的DIY的故事，并且展示自己的DIY作品，吸引学生的眼球，激起学生的阅读欲望。美国教育家哈曼说过:“那些不设法勾起学生求知欲望的教学，正如同捶打着一块冰冷的生铁。”一篇文章如果导入的精彩，就犹如给这篇文章披上一层神秘的面纱，使得学生跃跃欲试想一睹文章的芳容。课堂活动能吸引学生，那么学生就更愿意付出努力去阅读。接着教师鼓励学生大胆地猜测文章的内容，设计富有挑战性的阅读任务:找出段落大意、问与答、发现问题、两两对话、深层思考、匹配、提建议、讨论Andy这个人物的特点、补全对话等；教师引导学生在限定的时间内有任务地阅读、思考或讨论，得出完成任务的构思和方案，坚持让学生充分运用语言来解决一系列的问题，使学生感受到英语的魅力，激发学生的阅读兴趣。特别值得一提的是further-thinking、提建议和讨论人物的特点这些活动，教师对语言内容和情景进行适当的改编，使这些环节的活动更加生动、自然，富有感染力，激发学生的想象力，提升语言输出的质量。爱因斯坦曾说过，想象力比知识更重要，因为知识是有限的，而想象力概括着世界上的一切，是知识进化的源泉。
读后活动要求学生以小组为单位制作爱心信封，体现了教师重视对学生情感态度与价值观的培养。学生在动眼、动口、动脑、动手中进行小组合作，培养学生的合作精神。积极调动不同层次学生参与小组活动，展示特长，发挥作用，团结协作，激发持续的学习热情，不断使学生体验成功，实现学生的自我价值。