Love narrows the gap (Reading)
上海市青浦區第一中學 董紅英
第 周 第 課時 教案總序號
課 題 Love narrows the gap (Reading)
知識、技能目標
1. To get the students to understand the text
2. To get the students to practice reading skills including prediction, skimming, scanning
過程、方法目標
1. Get them to understand new words by context.
2. Get them to understand the passage by skimming and scanning.
情感、態度、價值觀目標
To discuss with them to deal with conflicts between two generations by love, understanding and communication
教學重點、難點
1. Understand the text
2. Practice some reading sills
3. How to narrow generation gap.
教學流程及任務分析
本節課要求了解一個概念：什么是代溝。
介紹和練習三種閱讀技巧：理解標題預測內容，用跳讀的方式了解文章結構及作者觀點，根據上下文理解生詞意思。
一個符合兩綱要求的教育基點：用愛，理解和交流處理好父母子女兩代人的關系。
教 學 過 程
教 師 活 動 學 生 活 動 說 明
Pre-reading 5’
1. Warming-up
What’s a generation gap?
T: There is a gap in the wall, Is the wall beautiful? Is it safe?
T: Sometimes there is also a gap between our parents and us, for example, in the previous text “Father and Son”, Luo Kahing likes making films but his parents want him to get good results in his exams.. There is a conflict between them, how about your parents and you?
Ask them to find words in the passage to take the place of the words underlined.
A gap in the wall
Since the wall has a gap, people want to repair it, to narrow the gap, or to remove the gap.
The gap is common and natural in our life, and it usually leads to conflicts, quarrel, unhappiness. So what can we do to narrow the gap? Read the text, and it will give us some suggestions. 通過展現墻上的裂縫，引出gap一詞的意思，進而啟發思考：父母與子女在某些方面的分歧，矛盾也是一種gap,叫做generation gap.
板書設計
A Gap in the wall Love Narrows the Gap
教 師 活 動 學 生 活 動 說 明
T: Read the first paragraph together and give me the definition of it. (What is generation gap?)
Look up in the dictionary./ Try to guess the meaning according to the context. （閱讀指導1）
2. Get the meanings of the new words by understanding the sentences. 5’
Ask them to read and spell the words twice.
While-reading: 10’
1. Read Para3 and tell me the writer’s attitude towards generation gap.
2. Read Para4-5 and tell me the writer’s suggestions on closing the gap.
3. If you do as the writer suggests, what will happen?
Generation gap is a term coined by sociologists in the 1960s to describe differences in beliefs and values, family and friends, work and study, career and life goals between young adults and their parents.
Here we have new words, and what will you do if you meet with new words when reading?
1. To our surprise, this book caused excitement for a long time.(generate)
2. Who invented the term “dot-com”?(coin)
3. Owing to his efficient management, his business is developing well. (thrive)
4. These official papers contain the king’s signature. (Document)
5. The old man’s children are fighting over the estate. (offspring)
6. A: Do you think we can ask him for help?
B: Sure. He is an expert who studies societies and human behavior in groups. (sociologist)
S: The gap is not always negative. The gap can help people realize their own problems, e.g. lack of respect, lack of communication, lack of tolerance of imperfection and so on.
S: 1) Through efforts (generated by love and understanding between parents and their offspring)
2) the generation gap is a very natural thing, and a positive attitude and communication between parents and children will help.
S: problems get solved, personalities change, conflicts turn into harmony and the family thrives.
另外與之配對的六句在課文中標出。
學生通過上下文的理解，推測單詞在文中的意思。
其中coin 和document在詞匯手冊中沒有出現，需要學生猜測出意思。
引導學生做第六題，在做其他。請5位同學說答案。
Topic sentence
Support sentences
(閱讀指導2)
教 師 活 動 學 生 活 動 說 明
Post-reading
1.Let’s go back to the title. Try to ask questions about the underlined word. 5’
Extensive Reading 10’
“The disappearing generation gap”
Shanghai Students’ Post March 28, 2017-04-21
1. Read the passage and match the title with the contents.
2. Read the passage again, and find out the writer’s attitude towards the new equality between parents and children?
3.Today we have talked about generation gap, and what’s your opinion on it? Is it positive or negative, use the beginning to think about at least 5 sentences to show your opinion. 5’ Love Narrows the Gap
S: What is the gap?
Why should we narrow the gap?
How can we narrow the gap?
Before reading, you can analyze the title carefully and you can know what will be written in the text. It’s a good reading skill.
Let’s read the following titles and passages and match the titles with the passages.
A. Downsides of being equal
B. The new equality in family
C. Generation gap widens in China
D. Generation gap is a natural thing
S: The result can be a rewarding closeness among family members. Conversations that would have been awkward on subjects such as sex and drugs now are comfortable and common between western parents and children.
In my opinion, it is negative (positive) in the following aspects. First, furthermore, last but not the least. In a word.
As far as I am concerned, generation gap is both negative and positive.
閱讀指導3
理解標題，將標題與文章內容配對。
請學生翻譯標題
給話題，說至少5句話。
課后要求及作業 Composition: A story between my father (mother) and me (conflict) 200 words.
課 后 反 思
結合新課程標準和高考重點的趨勢，閱讀在高中英語教學中有著越來越重要的作用。在高一，高二給學生介紹一定的閱讀方法，結合文章閱讀進行閱讀技能的培養非常重要。
在牛津英語教材中，閱讀技巧主要是skimming和scanning，每篇課文都訓練到這兩個技能來理解文章大意和一些細節問題。學生在閱讀實際中，通過快讀掌握大意，通過尋讀尋找細節，基本掌握了這兩項閱讀技巧。但是，要提高閱讀速度和獲得準確的信息，這兩個閱讀技巧是遠遠不夠的。通過閱讀和總結，我覺得還有以下幾點基本閱讀技能要求學生掌握：預測。（根據標題預測內容，根據上文預測下文或結果）根據上下文猜新詞意思�？偨Y文章大意或段意。理解文章結構。讀懂作者意圖和觀點。讀出詞或句的隱含意義。
在本課中，以Love Narrows the Gap為載體，訓練了學生根據上下文理解詞義的技巧，改變他們碰到生單詞就查詞典，浪費時間的方法。同時，將英文解釋帶到課文中去翻譯文中三個長句，加深對詞匯的理解，也熟悉了該文中長句的意思，降低了閱讀的難度。在六個猜詞題目中，注意了老師先示例，學生后練習，在核對檢驗的過程，讓學生在猜詞過程中有一定的梯度，不會覺得很難。
第二，教師對標題的提問，啟發學生分析標題。學生在回答提問過程中發現作者在文中就是圍繞標題來寫的。所以，分析標題就能預知全文內容，體現了認真閱讀標題的重要性。通過標題的問答，學生清楚地了解了文章的結構布局是由代溝概念---對待代溝的態度--- 怎樣縮小代溝來謀片布局的。特別是第三段，作者的觀點句是首句：The gap is not always negative. 緊接著是支撐：The gap can help people realize their own problems, e.g. lack of respect, lack of communication, lack of tolerance of imperfection and so on.通過對學生分析文章的布局結構，讓學生更好的理解作者主旨。
第三，通過上海中學生星報的一篇有關代溝的同話題文章的閱讀，指導學生利用剛剛學過的閱讀技巧來為段落配標題，尋找作者的觀點及其支撐句，現學現用，效果較好。