Picture Book
-Mr.Fool the Mountain Mover
The analysis of the text：
This text is a Chinese traditional story. It is a story about Mr.Fool,the mountain mover. I divide the story into 2 parts. In the process of reading, students will get to know the truth in the story.
The analysis of students：
This lesson is for the students in Grade 5 who have been learning English for 3 years already. They have a certain vocabulary foundation.
Important points and difficult points：
Important points:1. Students are able to grasp the pronunciation of the new words.
2. Students are able to understand the story and its deep meaning.
Difficult point: Act the text fluently and emotionally.
Teaching aims:
Aims on language ability
Students will be able to: 1. Grasp the main idea of the story.
2. Act the story.
Aims on thinking quality
Students will be able to: 1. Think and analyze the characters’ emotion.
2. Think and experience the inspiration of the story.
Aims on culture sense
Students are able to know the importance of having determination and courage.
Aims on learning ability
Students are able to know how to read and think about the deep meaning.
Teaching procedure：
Teaching steps
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
Teaching purpose
Warm-up
1. Greeting.
2. Listen to an English song.
1. Speak English .
2. Sing the English song.
Enable Students to be impressed with the words:
mountain
there is...
Lead-in
and Presentation
1. Ask students to read P63 -Robin draws and ask two questions:
What’s in the park?
What’s in front of the mountain?
2. Listen and read the text to find the answer.
Listen and read the text to find the answer:
There is a high mountain in the park.
There is a small village in front of the mountain.
Enable students to know the basic information of the following story.
Learning of the first part of the text.
1. Ask Students to read the first part.
2. Help students find the new words in the first part: fool dig ...
3. Ask them to listen and repeat the sentences.
4. Task 1:
What is in front of the village?
Why does Mr. Fool move the mountains?
1. Read the first part of text and try to find the answers with teacher: There are two high mountains in front of the village.
It is hard to go out of the village.
2. Imitate the pronunciation and intonation.
Students are able to know the reading skills and try to read with correct
pronunciation.
Read in roles.
Ask students to read the conversation between Mr. Fool and his family member.
1. Imitate the pronunciation and the emotion.
2. Read in pairs and then show it with emotion and action.
Students are able to experience the motion of the main characters and improve their reading
ability.
Learning of the second part of the text.
1. Lead students to read the second part .
2.Ask them to listen and repeat the sentences.
3.Task 2:
Who talked to Mr. Fool?
Did Mr. Fool move the mountains?
1. Read the second part in groups.
2. Find the answers in the book.
Students are able to read in details by themselves.
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Review the whole text.
Ask the students to read the whole text in groups and experience the feelings.
Students try to read the whole text with correct pronunciation, intonation and emotion.
Enablestudentsto experience the feelings and try to read the whole
story with emotion.
Act the story out.
Ask the students to act the story. Six students as a group.
Students prepare to act this story out. Pay attention to acting with emotion.
Cultivate students’ quality of thinking, and try to say out their own ideas.
From learning the story to
the real life.
Final task
What can we learn from this story?
If we want to overcome the difficulties, we should have great determination and courage. So study hard no matter what the difficulties are! Where there is a will, there is a way.
Students are able to know the importance of having determination and courage.
Homework
1. Read this story to your friends.
2. Choose one of the following stories and read.(Kuafu chasing after the sun. Jingwei trying to fill up the sea.)
Students can learn famous traditional Chinese stories.
Students are able to read and find more things in the stories.
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