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A Teaching Plan for Module 6 Cultural Corner By Peng Feifei, Meishan NO.1 Middle School I. Brief Analysis This period is to be designed on basis of cultural corner of Module 6. The material is limited, so extension and further interpretation is in need. In my opinion, the most important thing in culture learning is comparison which is also the most effective way of learning and teaching culture. So after the first part of lead-in and the second part of reading, the third part will be designed to introduce to the Ss net language in China. This part is supposed to arouse their interests. The next part will be consolidation, in which part the Ss will be asked to put what they have learnt into practice. The final part will be a debate on whether net language should be encouraged. II. Teaching Aims i.

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Knowledge and Skills Train the Ss’ reading ability. Learn the following words: shorten, sideways, punctuation, invert, comma, emoticon iii)

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Learn the following phrases: take out, instead of, a series of Learn the following sentence pattern: Here is an example. Here are some others. ii.

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Process and Methods Make the Ss know more about text messages and emoticons by designing some reading activities. ii)

Individual work, pair work as well as group work to get every student to participate in class. iii)

Explanation to make the Ss master some difficult points that appear in

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Emotion and Values Make it fun to communicate with others. Try to raise the Ss’ cooperation awareness in their study by pair work or group work. iii)

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Lead the Ss to enjoy the Internet as well as telecommunications. Lead the Ss to consider things from both sides and develop their ability to make a dialectical judgment. III. Important Points i.

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Learn to research by cooperation. Know more about text messages and emoticons. Master and apply what they have in this passage. IV. Difficulties i.

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Lead the Ss to be active in class. Develop the Ss’ reading skills. Apply important language points proficiently and correctly. V. Teaching Aids i.

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PPT Bb Four mobile phones Ten table-tennis paddles VI. Teaching Procedures Step 1 Review and Lead-in Greet the Ss. How do you usually communicate with your friends? Show them the major accesses to the Internet. Lead them to the question: what can we use mobile phones to do? Show them the pictures.

We can use mobile phones to send text messages. Do you know how many words at most can we write in one piece of message? There is a limit. So when we have a lot to say, what should we do? Shorten the text messages. Give the Ss the four mobile phones, ask them to check the text messages and invite some of them to read out to the whole class. 1.

Im hm nw, why nt gv me a cll? 2.

Do u wnt 2 g 2 th cnma tnite? 3.

Whr hv U bn? U R L8 4 th prty! 4.

Shes hvng a prty. Do u wnt 2 cm? So today, we’re going to talk about cultural corner of Module 6. And it’s about text messages. Step 2 Fast Reading Ask the Ss to read the passage very fast and find out the meanings of the four text messages. Invite some of them to read out the meanings. Step 3 Intensive Reading Show them the four questions and ask them to read the passage to find out the answers. Play the MP3 while they’re reading. 1.

Why do people use text messages and emoticons? 2.

What are the three ways of shortening the words? 3.

What are called emoticons? 4.

What is this passage about? Invite some of them to answer these questions. For the last question which is about the main idea, first introduce to them several ways of finding out the main idea of a passage and lead them to apply to this passage. 1.

title 2.

first paragraph, final paragraph 3.

pictures/photos

Then ask them to use the rules of shortening words to guess the meanings: B4, 4ever, btw What kind of emotions do they show? Show them the emoticons. Step 4 Extension In this part, I’ll introduce first lead them to the term “net language”. Then introduce to them three kinds of net language in China. Ask them to guess the meanings. 1.

English Letters 2.

Numbers 3.

Chinese Characters In this part, the Ss’ interest will be greatly aroused. Step 5 Application Ask them to put what they have learnt into practice. Ask them to write their own text messages and send them to me. 1.

Use shortened words and emoticons. 2.

Try to make your text messages as short as possible. 3.

Send them to me. Share what they sent to me with the whole class. Step 6 Debate Ask the Ss to do group work preparing a debate on whether net language should be encouraged. Give them some advice. Save time or waste time? Enrich or endanger the language? To be or not to be? Invite ten Ss to present the debate. Five of them support net language, and the other five play as opposes. Make a conclusion after their debate. 1.

Every coin has two sides.

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We can not simply judge it as good or bad. 3.

Net language has both positive and negative aspects. 4.

Try to avoid the negative effects and make good use of mobile phones. Step 7 Assignments Ask the Ss to do some after class activities. Make up a text message with shortened words and emoticons. Send it to your friends and see if they can understand you.