Module 9 Unit 4 Period one Reading Teaching aims: 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. Teaching important and difficult pionts: Gain some knowledge about idioms, and improve their overall ability Teaching aids:A tape recorder and a computer. Teaching Procedures Step 1: Lead-in Show pictures to students, and introduce something about the Bible. Step 2:Fast reading Read the Internet article care
fully and answer the following ques
tions:] 1). What is an idiom? 2). Which languages was the Bible first written in? 3) Why does the Bibl
e have a lot of idioms? 4)How many years ago was the B
ible translated
into English? Step3: Careful reading Match the following idioms with their meanings. 1.feet of clay
a..to have a large celebration 2.by and by b.a hidden weakness in sb we admire 3.kill the fatted calf c.before long 4.apple of their parents’ eye. d. very good and honest person 5.the salt of earth e.People know sth but not the one who told them the information 6. a little bird to
ld me. f.children their parent love very much and are very proud of . Step 3: Detailed reading for important information. Fill in the following chart according to the passage. Title 
Biblical idioms in English   1 An idiom is a group of words or an expression whose meaning often can’t be understood by looking at the separate words in it.   Origins  2  ★Many Hebrew or Greek idioms have become part of English. 3 ，many have either lost their original meanings or have only a vague or loose connection to them now. ★Biblical idioms originally had straight -forward and clear meanings to underline the moral of a story and it give audiences an image to help understand the story __4 . ★Many idiom use ani
mals to create an 5 . [来源:学科网] ★Anot
her fo
cus of Biblical idioms is often food or things 6 to food. ★‘By and b
y’ now means ‘before long’,but meant‘immediately’ before. ★ Feet of clay’means a __7 weakness in sb we admire. ★‘Kill the fatted calf’means ‘to have a large celebration’. ★‘Apple of their parents’and ‘the salt of the earth’   8 of idioms Idioms are used in everything from literature to films and newpapers.Studying them can help 9
your comprehension and communication skills.Idioms are 10 of history and culture.  1.Definition 2.However 3.Examples 4.better 5.hidden 6.image 7.related 8.Importance 9.improve/better10.carriers Step 4: Homework Design for blackboard writing. 二次备课补充处 二次备课补充处 Note after teaching

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