教学目标:

1. 能够掌握基本的构词法来猜单词的意思。

2. 能够在阅读中使用通过构词法猜词义这一阅读技巧提高自己的阅读能力。

重点难点:

掌握阅读技巧培养和提高学生的阅读理解能力。

教学准备:

PPT

教学过程:

Step 1 Revision and lead-in

Ask a student to tell the others as much as possible about Anne Frank and her book.

Step 2 Presentation

1. T: Now Millie has found more about Anne Frank and her book—A Diary of a Young Girl. But there are some new words in a paragraph. I believe you can work them out. Now let’s read it and try to help her guess their meanings.

2. Ask two students to tell their answers and give short reasons one by one.

3. Try to find out how they are formed, and sum up the rules with them.

Step 3 Learning more

In order that the students can grasp this skill—Guessing the meaning of a word by its formation, the teacher sums up Word Formation for the students.

Step 4 Practice

Show the following exercises and let the students finish them.

Match the right words from the right column with the words on the left.

( )1. enrich A. trying to find jobs

( )2. semicircle B. of, having, using imagination

( )3. troublesome C. make or become sharp

( )4. sharpen D. half a circle

( )5. job-hunting E. causing trouble

( )6. limitless F. make rich, improve in quality, flavor, etc.

( )7. imaginative G. without limit

Step 5 Summary

T: From the practice, we know when we deal with the problems in reading comprehension, we can use Word Formation to help us, but the ccontext is also very important.

Step 6 Homework

1. Go over what they’ve learned in this unit.

2. Prepare some notes about the person who has influenced them most by answering

the questions in Part B on Page 61.