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111Unit 4 Behind beliefs课 题M9U4 课时9-4Reading 1主备人授 课 时 间教 学 目 标1. Enable students to gain some knowledge about idioms, understand their original meanings and learn about their practical usage in English.2. Students are expected to practice and reinforce their reading comprehension and improve their overall ability.教学重、难点Gain some knowledge about idioms, and improve their overall ability教、 学 具slides预 习 要 求Preview the new words in the text.教师活动内容、方式学生活动内容、方式旁 注Step 1: GreetingStep2: Lead-inAs we all know, there are many idioms in English, and most of them come from the Bible. First lets look at the following dialogues. Can you guess the meanings of the underlined words?1. A：Oh, my God! What happened? Why are you black and blue?B：I got beaten by Peters brotherA：Thats a bad apple! Lets think up a way and teach him a lesson2. A：Give the skates to me!B：You shut up!A：If you dont know how to skate, why dont you give the skates to me? Dont be a dog in the manger.Boys and girls, from the above examples, we know that idioms play an important part in learning a language and can enrich the language we use. Now read the following sentences and guess what each idiom means.1. A：Theres no point in losing temper on me. Its unfair! (没理由)B：What did you do to him?A：If I did something bad, I wouldnt blame him for getting angry with me. The point is that I did nothing wrong.B：Maybe he thought you reported him to the manager.Step 3: Fast reading for general ideasGo through the passage as quickly as possible and try to find answers to the three questions in part A on Page 50. Pay attention to the most important information.Answers:1. An idiom is a group of words or an expression whose meaning often can not be understood by looking at the meanings of the separate words in it.2. In Hebrew.3. Apple of their parents eye.Step 4: Detailed reading for important information1. Read the passage a second time and complete Part C1.2. Read the article again and complete Part C2.Step 5:Practice:1. Complete Part D. You may refer to the reading passage on pages 50 and 51 for some help.2. Part E is a short passage about idioms from the bible. Read and fill in the blanks.Step6: Post-reading activities1. First role-play the dialogue in Part F and then forms groups of four to discuss the three questions that follow.2. Look at the following idioms. Do you know the origin of them? Try to make sentences with the idioms. propose a toast ( In the past, people liked to dip a piece of toast into their wine or beer. This would make the toast tastier. Now this idiom refers to wishing someone will have a happy or successful life by raising a glass and drinking.) pull the wool over someones eye ( At the time when people wore wigs made out of wool, if people pulled the wigs down to cover their eyes, they would not be able to see. Now this idiom means to hide the truth from somebody.) kill the goose that lays the golden eggs ( In an ancient Greek legend, there was a farmer and he had a goose that could lay golden eggs. The farmer thought that he could be richer by killing the goose to get all the golden eggs inside. However, the farmer ended up with nothing. Now this idiom refers to destroying something that would bring about something more valuable.)3. Find the origin of more idioms and report your findings.Step7: Homework1. Read the text again and again. Try to memorize the language points.2. Parts A1 and A2 on page114 in Workbook.翻译：1. 甲：噢，天哪！怎么啦？你身上怎么青一块紫一块的？乙：彼得的弟弟把我给打了。甲：这坏蛋，咱们来想个法来教训教训他。2. 甲：把冰鞋给我！乙：你闭嘴！甲：你若不知道怎么滑冰，干吗不把冰鞋给我？别占着茅坑不拉屎了！Check the Answers together:111
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