Teaching Contents: The passage is about the hot programs of talent shows, the trend of these shows and people' s opinions of thesetalent shows.
Teaching Objectives:
(1) Knowledge objective
Students can know some basic information about talent shows and master the usage of the superlatives.
(2) Ability objectives
① Students can improve their reading and speaking abilities.
② Students can learn to talk about the talent shows and use the superlatives correctly.
(3) Emotional objective
Students can be more confident to talk with others and learn to find some shining points of others.
Teaching Key Points:
How to improve shudents' reading abilities and help them to have a better understanding of talent shows.
Teaching Difficult Points:
How to apply the superlatives to tall about things and communicate with others correctly.
Major Steps:
Step 1 Pre-reading (4 minutes)
Ask students some questions and invite some students to tall about their opinions about these talented persons.
(1) Who is the most talented person you know
(2) What can she or he do
(Justification: Through the activity, students can have more thought about talented person. Meanwhile, studentscan learn some new knowledge, and lay the foundation for the next step.)
Step 2 While-reading (6 minutes)
1. Fast reading
(1) Ask students to read the passage quickly and then conclude the main idea.
(2) Ask students to find out the three talent shows mentioned in the passage.
2. Careful reading
(1) Ask students to read the passage again and answer the following questions:
① What do talent shows have in common
②Who decides the winner
③ Why do some people not like these talent shows
④Why do some people like these shows
⑤What do you think of these shows
(2) Ask students to underline all the superlatives in the passage and give explanation by giving some examples tohelp students understand them. Then ask students to work in pairs to make sentences using at least four of them.
E.g. best singer: In my class, Tom is the best singer because he can sing fast songs very well.
(Justification: Different ways of exploiting the text can help students not merely to cope with one particular textin class but to develop students' fast reading and careful reading abilities.)
Step 3 Post-reading (5 minutes)
1. Play the tape and ask students to read the short passage after the tape and pay attention to the pronunciations ofthe words and sentences.
2. Divide students into four groups and discuss who' s got talent in the class and then make a chart. Invite one ofstudents to report the results to the whole class.
(Justification: Reading after the tape helps students to pronounce the words correctly and enhance students'understanding of the topic of talents. Through the discussion, students can train their communication skills and learn tofind others' shining points.)
