Teaching plan for Book 8B Unit 6 Ancient Stories
Teaching
material
Period 1 Reading
The Trojan horse
Students’ prior
knowledge
1.Students have already learned about the vocabulary in unit6
2. Students have understood some interesting stories in
ancient China.
Teaching Objectives:
By the end of the lesson, students are expected to:
* To understand the general meaning of the story.
* To expand extra-curriculum knowledge by sharing the story.
* To develop skimming and scanning skills.
* To enhance English expression ability.
* To enhance critical thinking ability.
* To cultivate the students’ abilities to cooperate with each
other in the group work
* To cultivate the correct view of success or failure.
Teaching &
Learning methods Task-based/pair work/Group Cooperative approach
Teaching Procedures & Purposes
Warm up
Do you like stories? To get the students interested.
I Lead-in
Understand the background by showing
some pictures and listening to a story.
To arouse students’ interest in the reading
topic.
II. Pre-reading
1) Listen to the story and predict the
story by asking the questions.
Q1: Do you want to know what
happened next?
Q2: Who won the war in the end?
1) To help students comprehend the
background of the story.
2) To help students understand the
correct order of making a cartoon.
III. While-reading
I.Read for details.
1) Read paragraph 1-3, answer the
questions and summarize the feeling of
the two sides.
Q:Why did the Greeks left the
wooden horse?
2) Read paragraph 4, answer the
questions summarize the feeling of the
two sides.
Q:How did the Trojans celebrate?
1) To help students understand the
beginning of this story.
2) To help students understand the plot
of this story better.
3) To help students understand the
ending of this story better.
4) To analysis for further study and the
feeling of the Captain
3) Read paragraph 5-6, answer the
questions summarize the feeling of the
two sides..
Q:Do you think the Greeks will win?
II.Discussion & Sharing:
1.What was the feeling of the
Captain at last?
2. What should the captain do so
that he wouldn't lose the war?
IV. Post-reading
1) Group Work: Work in groups to
draw a mind-map about the text, then
retell the text based on it in groups.
2) Summaize some famous saying.
1.Pride goes before a fall.
2.Don't pull all your eggs
in one basket.
3.All roads lead to Rome.
1)To help students understand the text
better and retell the text easily.
2)To help students understand the moral of
the ancient story.
3)To help students develop the ability of
retelling the story.
V. Homework
Imagine you are a soldier inside the wooden horse, write and tell the story to
your classmates.