一、教学说明 (Teaching Remarks)：
本堂课把读前(Pre-reading)和阅读(reading)结合在一起。Pre-reading使学生熟悉话题,预测阅读内容，激发阅读兴趣和欲望。Reading是一篇说明文，是对“外语学习究竟难不难”提出看法并说明理由，设法使读者信服，达到启发思维、提高认识、增长知识的目的。
教学设计充分利用了多媒体电脑的优势，把搜集到的相关知识和课文中的内容相结合，择机设计一些活动，帮助学生化难为易，提高自信心，明确阅读的重点，达到启迪心智、增强理解能力的目的。
二、教学目标（Teaching Aims）：
知识目标：通过阅读 Reading这篇文章，学习文中的一些有用的词语和句型扩大学生的词汇量，提高语言运用能力。
能力目标：1. 采用不同的阅读方法理解课文，提高学生的阅读能力。
2. 学习文中成功的语言学习者的优秀品质，并鼓励学生将其运用到实践当中,以便提高自己的英语学习能力。
德育目标： 教导学生：好的学习方法固然重要,但勤勉更重要。“no pains, no gains.”
三、教学重点（Teaching Key Points）：
1．采用不同的阅读技巧，让学生了解文章大意，并归纳每段文章的中心意思(main idea)和文章的主旨(purpose of the text)。
2．掌握文中的重点词汇、短语和句型。
四、教学难点（Teaching Difficult Points）：
把文中所学到的有用的外语学习者的经验运用到学生的英语学习上，以便于提高他们的英语水平。
五、教学方法（Teaching Methods）：
1. Ask and answer 和 pictures 相结合，导入课文。
2. Fast reading 归纳每段文章的中心意思(main idea)和文章的主旨(purpose of the text), 提高学生的阅读能力。
3. Careful reading 回答问题，了解文章细节内容。
4. Group work 讨论成功语言学习者的经验和特点。
5. Explaining and learning 掌握文中重点词汇、句型。
六、教学辅助（Teaching Aids）：
Multi-media Computer，tape
七、媒体的设计：
首先利用课文标题 “Learning a Foreign Language: Twice as Hard?” 问学生 “How do you think of this question?” 让学生讨论导入。然后利用图片与Pre-reading部分的问题相结合的方式，展开讨论与问答，启发学生思考，引起联想，使学生对语言学习这个问题产生更浓的兴趣，以促使他们学习方式的优化，提高其自主学习的能力。由于Pre-reading部分内容都在 “Reading”部分要进一步阐明，这就让学生先行考虑, 做好了准备，使他们提高阅读的自主性。
图片与问题设计如下：
Question1. How do we learn our mother tongue? 配以 “中国孩子认汉字、学古诗”和“外国孩子学母语，”的图片，学生根据图片和自身的经历便可轻而易举地回答此问题。
Question2. What are the difficulties we must face in learning English?
Question3. How is learning a foreign language different from learning our mother tongue? 配以孩子们围绕着电视看卡通米老鼠学英语的图片。让学生感受到我们从小是如何学英语的以及学英语和学母语 的区别。
Question4. What are the characteristics of successful language learners?
Question5. How can we develop our confidence?
Question6. What can we do to learn better and faster?
配以李阳疯狂学英语和全国中学生英语口语大赛图片，学生从问题和图片中就可以体会到成功语言学习者的优秀品质，降低了回答以上问题的难度。
有了以上的准备工作，让学生进入Reading 快读。首句阅读并skim the whole text，找出每段的大意，呈现于屏幕上，检查学生阅读的效果，把握学生对文章的总体理解程度。
第三步进入课文精读。此部分内容的设计目的是使学生读懂文中的细节，从而找出文中的难点。问题按文中段落依次设计如下： Question1. How do we acquire our mother tongue? (paragraph1)
Question2. How do different people explain our ability to learn our mother tongue? ( paragraph2)
Question3. At what age have most children mastered their mother tongue? (paragraph2)
Question4. How is learning a foreign language different from learning one’s mother tongue? (paragraph3)
Question5. In the writer’s opinion, which is faster learning mother tongue and learning foreign language? (paragraph3)
Question6. Why are some people better at learning foreign language than others? (paragraph4)
Question7. Why are successful language students able to gain confidence and to relax and enjoy learning?
(paragraph5)
Question8. In which areas are the successful language learners better? (paragraph5)
Question9. How can the learners make their language acquisition better? (paragraph5)
Question10. How can we become successful language learners? (paragraph 6)
重点词语讲解，排忧解难。把文中出现的重点词语呈现于屏幕上，进行讲解，使学生达到熟知会用。为了进一步为学生的交际创设情景，让学生用自己的话把文中成功语言学习者的经验做一归纳，于屏幕上显示出来，以便加深学生对这些特点的印象，从而加以利用。反馈检测练习的设计重在检测学生对文中重点词汇的掌握，因此以短文填空的形式出现。八．教案
Teaching Plan
(Pre-reading and Reading Unit 8 Senior 3)
Ⅰ.Teaching Aims
1．Improve the Ss’ reading ability.
2．Develop the Ss’learning language ability.
3、Learn some useful expressions and sentences
4、“No pains,no gains.” Diligence is the key to success.
Ⅱ.Teaching Key Points
1. Improve the Ss’ reading ability. Sum up the main idea of each paragraph and the purpose of the text.
2.Learn some useful expressions and sentences
Ⅲ. Teaching Difficult Points
1. How do the students use the characteristics of the successful learners to improve their English study?
Ⅳ. Teaching Methods
Ask and answer
Fast and careful reading
Group work
4. Explaining and learning
Ⅴ. Teaching Aids
Multi-media Computer, tape
Ⅵ. Teaching Procedures
Step1. Greeting.
The teacher and the students greet each other.
Step2. Lead-in.
Step3. Fast-reading to find out the main idea of each paragraph and the purpose of the author.
Step4. Careful reading to answer some questions.
Step5. Explain and memorise the useful expressions and sentences.
Step6. Listen to the tape and then read the text aloud. Pay attention to the pronunciation and intonation.
Step7. Test
Step8. Summary
1. the characteristics of the good language learners.
2.the useful expressions and sentences
Step8. The design of the writing on the blackboard
Useful expressions:
1.communicate with sb./sth.
2.make sense of
3.be equipped with
4.adjust oneself to sth. / adapt to sth.
5.regardless of
6.take chances / a chance
7.take risks / a risk
8.experiment with sth.
9.contribute to sth ./ doing sth. Sentence： Not all of us want to be translators or interpreters.（原文）部分否定句的构成：not all / both / every---- =all / both / every----not----
eg. All the answers are not right. = Not all the answers are right.
Both of the books are not useful. = Not both of the books are useful.
Not every student wants to take part in the game. = Every student doesn’t want to take part in the game.
Step9. Extra work
Retell the text according to the main idea of each paragraph. Step10. Record after teaching
