Reading Comprehension—how to make inferencesBy Sun YunpingGaoyou City No.1 Middle School Teaching aim:To i mprove the students’ ability of make inferencesTeaching difficult point:How to improve the students’ ability of doing task-based readingTeaching aid:MultimediaTeaching procedures:Step One: Lead-inHave a free talk with students and find out the difficulty that they have in doing reading Comprehension.1.How much time do you usually spend on this exam item?2. 解读2011年高考大纲中关于阅读理解的要求要求考生读懂简易的英语文学作品、科普文章、公告、说明、广告以及书、报、杂志中关于一般性话题的简短文章并回答相关问题。

考生应能：１、理解语篇主旨要义；２、理解文中具体信息；３、根据上下文推断生词的词义；４、作出简单判断和理解；５、理解文章的基本结构；６、理解作者的意图和态度;7 、根据所读，用恰当的词语补全文章提纲、概括关键内容或作关键词词语转换。

3．How many question types are there in this exam item?事实细节型；词义猜测型；主旨大意型；推理判断型Step Two: Finding out waysGive students a sample and then help them get the relative ways to solve each question type. Then let them do some practice.1).How to infer the implied meanings(推断隐含意义)【Sample】It is fun to turn over a big rock on the beach. Make sure you turn the rock back to the position it was in after you moved it. If you don’t turn it back over, all the sea animals under it or clinging to（依附）the underside will die.You can tell that rocks ________.(B)A. hurt sea animalsB. protect sea animalsC. won’t be found on beachesD. can’t be found on beaches【解题技巧】1.全面分析2.忠实原文3.不选表层信息【Practice】1. (2010江苏B)The real problem is that the areas where wolves can live are being used by people．Even if wilderness land is not used directly for human needs, the wolves can’t always find enough food. So they travel to the nearest source, which is often a farm. Then there is danger. The“big bad wolf”has arrived! And everyone knows what happens next．The last sentence“ And everyone knows what happens next” implies that in such cases.(B) A．farm animals will be in danger and have to be shipped awayB．wolves will kill people and people will in turn kill themC．wolves will find enough food sources on farmsD．people will leave the areas where wolves can live2. (2010全国卷II A）One day, as I was getting her food, Brownie chewed up(咬破) one of Dad’s shoes, which had to be thrown away in the end. I knew Dad would be mad and I had to let her know what she did was wrong. When I looked at her and said, “Bad girl.” She looked down at the ground and then went and hid. I saw a tear in her eyes.We can infer from Paragraph 2 that Brownie __.(B)A. would eat anything when hungryB. felt sorry for her mistakeC. loved playing hide-and-seekD. disliked the author's dad2).How to infer the author’s opinion and attitudes(推断作者观点或态度)【Sample】Why isn’t your newspaper reporting any good news？All I read about is murder, bribery(行贿)，and death. Frankly, I am sick of all the bad news.This author’s attitude towards the newspaper reporting is to _____.(A)A. complainB. apologizeC. amuseD. inform【解题技巧】1.注意作者表达感情色彩的形容词、副词、动词及所举的例子2.推断出作者的弦外之音3.站在作者的立场或角度【描述作者态度的词】objective; neutral; subjective; positive; negative; critical; pessimistic; optimistic; approving; disapproving; indifferent; ironic【Practice】（2010天津C）In the kitchen of my mother’s houses there has always been a wooden stand（木架）with a small notepad（记事本）and a hole for a pencil.I’m looking for paper on which to note down the name of a book I am recommending to my mother. Over forty years since my earliest memories of the kitchen pad and pencil, five houseslater, the current paper and pen cil look the same as they always did. Surely it can’t be the same pencil? The pad is more modern, but the wooden stand is definitely the original one.“I’m just amazed you still have the same stand for holding the pad and pencil after all these years.” I say to her, walking back into the living-room with a sheet of paper and the pencil. “You still use a pencil. Can’t you afford a pen?”My mother replies a little sharply. “It works perfectly well. I’ve always kept the stand in the kitchen. I never knew when I might want to note down an idea, and I was always in the kitchen in these days.”What is the author’s original opinion about the wooden stand? (B)A. It has great value for the family.B. It needs to be replaced by a better one.C. It brings her back to her lonely childhood.D. It should be passed on to the next generation.In the author’s mind, her mother is __.(B)A. strange in behavior.B. keen on her research.C. fond of collecting old things.D. careless about her appearance.3).How to infer the writing purpose(推断写作目的)【Sample】“Have you ever been out on a boat and felt it lifted up by a wave? Or have you jumped in the water and felt the rush of energy as waves came over you?”asked Jamie Taylor of the Wave Energy Group at the University of Edinburgh.“There is certainly a lot of energy in waves,”he said.The writer uses the two questions at the beginning of the passage to ______(B)A. test the readers’ knowledge about wavesB. draw the readers’ attention to the topicC. show Jamie Taylor’s importanceD. invite the readers to answer them【写作目的归纳】to entertain readers 娱乐读者，让人发笑,常见于故事类的文章。