Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending名师教学设计

Unit 3 Australia Teaching Design (Period 2)

Analysis of the Teaching Material:

The central topic of this unit is "Australia". The main content covers Australia's geography, history, major cities, natural scenery, wildlife, customs, habits and so on. In the warming up part, some pictures about big cities and famous scenic spots in Australia are used as a transition to the topic of this unit. The pre-reading section is designed to train students' reading skills. Students are asked to quickly scan through five passages and then answer three designed questions. The reading section contains five short articles with the same theme but different styles, including encyclopedia excerpts, news reports, advertisements, postcards and travel brochure articles, which provide a comprehensive overview of Australia from multiple perspectives. The comprehension section consists of three exercises, exercise 1 corresponds to the Pre-reading section, which also requires you to learn to read the text quickly, in order to train your skimming skills. Exercise 2 ask the students to answer the questions carefully and read the text carefully. At the same time, mark some information about Australia that they didn't know before. Make a list of the five most interesting items and discuss them with a partner. This exercise is relatively simple in form, but it enables students to actively process the information in the text and upgrade it from the cognitive level to the thinking level, so that the book knowledge is incorporated into their own knowledge system. Exercise 3 is to expand the content of the text and train students' logical thinking ability and expression ability. Since most of the five essays are declarative and descriptive language, and there are no sentences to express personal opinions, this exercise uses some facts mentioned in the passage to stimulate students to think deeply about the content of the passage.The answer to the question can't be found directly in the passage, and students are asked to express their opinions with good reasons.

Teaching Aims:

1. Enable students to be clearer about more details of Australia by careful reading the text. 2. Stimulate students to think deeply about the content of the passage to cultivate their logical thinking ability and expression ability by expressing opinions about some facts mentioned in the passage.

Teaching Focus:

Enable students to be clearer about more details of Australia by careful reading the text and cultivate their ability of reading for details.

Teaching Difficulties: Stimulate students to think deeply about the content of the passage to cultivate their logical thinking ability and expression ability by expressing opinions about some facts mentioned in the passage.

Teaching Approaches:

Tasked-based Approach; Communicative Teaching Approach

Teaching Procedures:

Step 1: Lead-in 1.

Greetings 2.

A brief review of last class.

Step 2: Careful reading (Individual Task) 1.

Ask students to read five texts carefully and finish the following tasks.

Underline any information about Australia that you didn’t know before.

Write down five facts that you consider to be the most interesting.

Ask students to share their facts with others in class.

Step 3: Discussion. 1.

Divide students into six groups. Each group will get one topic by drawing lots.

Topic 1: What kind of people do you think make Australia their home?

Topic 2: Each year large numbers of people become Australian citizens. Why do you think they choose to become citizens?

Topic 3: When do you think travelling by train across Australia would be appropriate and when do you think travelling by plane would be more suitable? Give more than one reason.

Topic 4: In what part of Australia do you think most agriculture takes place? Give reasons.

Topic 5: Why do you think the population of Australia is so small when it is such a large country?

Topic 6: Choose five words or phrases to describe Australia. Why do you choose them instead of others? Ask students to discuss with their group members about their question and be prepared to show it later. Remind them that their reasons should be logical. Invite each group to present their ideas in front of the class.

Conclusion: A brief conclusion about things covered in this class. Stress the teaching focus and point out the difficult points.

Homework: Write a passage about the topic you get during discussion. You can consult the internet for your arguments if needed, but always remember to be logical. Employ as many as possible words, phrases and sentence patterns we lately covered during your writing.

Find out the language difficulties in the text and consult dictionaries for their usage to be prepared for next class’s explanation of vocabularies and expressions.