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——by 思维导图

Hu Xiaomin from Xiahui Middle school 【Teaching Objectives】

1. Knowledge Objective Students can know three kinds of exercises of main idea and mind mapping. 2. Ability Objective

Students can master how to finish exercises of main idea by using mind mapping. 3. Emotion Objective Students can recognize the importance of teamwork in learning and life.

【Teaching Important & Difficult Points】

Enable students master how to finish exercises of main idea by using mind mapping. 【Teaching Methods】

Task-based teaching and learning. 【Teaching aids】

The multimedia and other normal teaching tools.

【Teaching Procedures】

Step 1 Warming up Puzzle: Finish the puzzle and find what it is and what words in it.

Step 2 Presentation and practice Activity 1: Let's explore. 【题干类型】

1. 主题型：

What's the main point/main idea/central thought of the passage/paragraph 1? What does/is this passage mainly discuss/talk/about?

What's the topic of this passage?

What does the author want to tell us? 2. 标题型：

What's the best title?

The best title/headline for this passage might be______. The text (Passage) could be entitled __________. 3.写作目的型：

The main purpose of this text is ________. The author's purpose of writing this text is to _______. The passage is intended/meant to _____.

Activity 2: Let's practice and explore. Find the key sentences and key words in every paragraph and make the relevant mind mapping. Passage A ①Good Morning Britain's Susanna Reid is used to grilling guests on the sofa every morning, but she is cooking up a storm in her latest role —

showing families how to prepare delicious and nutritious meals on a tight budget. ②In Save Money: Good Food, she visits a different home each week and with the help of chef Matt Tebbutt offers top tips on how to reduce food waste, while preparing recipes for under £5 per family a day. And the Good Morning Britain presenter says she's been able to put a lot of what she's leant into practice in her own home, preparing meals for

sons, Sam,14, Finn,13, and Jack, 11. ③“We love Mexican churros, so I buy them on my phone from my local Mexican takeaway restaurant,”she explains. “I pay £5 for a portion(一份), but Matt makes them for 26p a portion, because they are flour, water, sugar and oil. Everybody can buy takeaway food, but sometimes we're not aware how cheaply we can make this food ourselves.”

④The eight-part series(系列节目), Save Money: Good Food, follows in the footsteps of ITV's Save Money: Good Health, which gave viewers advice on how to get value from the vast range of health products on the market. ⑤With food our biggest weekly household expense, Susanna and Matt spend time with a different family each week. In tonight's Easter special they come to the aid of a family in need of some delicious inspiration on a budget. The team transforms the family's long weekend of celebration with less expensive but still tasty recipes. 26. What does the author intend to do in paragraph 4?

A. Summarize the previous paragraphs.

B. Provide some advice for the readers. C. Add some background information.

D. Introduce a new topic for discussion. 27. What can be a suitable title for the text?

A. Keeping Fit by Eating Smart

B. Balancing Our Daily Diet C. Making yourself a Perfect Chef

D. Cooking Well for Less Passage B ①We've all been there: in a lift, in line at the bank or on an airplane, surrounded by people who are, like us, deeply focused on their smartphones or, worse, struggling with the uncomfortable silence.

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What's the problem? It's possible that we all have compromised conversational intelligence. It's more likely that none of us start a conversation because it's awkward and challenging, or we think it's annoying and unnecessary. But the next time you find yourself among strangers, consider that small talk is worth the trouble. Experts say it's an invaluable social practice that results in big benefits. ③

Dismissing small talk as unimportant is easy, but we can't forget that deep relationships wouldn't even exist if it weren't for casual conversation. Small talk is the grease(润滑剂) for social communication, says Bernardo Carducci, director of the Shyness Research Institute at Indiana University Southeast. “Almost every great love story and each big business deal begins with small talk,”

he explains. “The key to successful small talk is learning how to connect with others, not just communicate with them.”

④In a 2014 study, Elizabeth Dunn, associate professor of psychology at UBC, invited people on their way into a coffee shop. One group was asked to seek out an interaction(互动) with its waiter; the other, to speak only when necessary. The results showed that those who chatted with their server reported significantly higher positive feelings and a better coffee shop experience. “It's not that talking to the waiter is better than talking to your husband,”

says Dunn. “But interactions with peripheral(边缘的) members of our social network matter for our well-being also.”

⑤Dunn believes that people who reach out to strangers feel a significantly greater sense of belonging, a bond with others. Carducci believes developing such a sense of belonging starts with small talk. ＂Small talk is the basis of good manners,” he says. 32. What phenomenon is described in the first paragraph? A. Summarize the previous paragraphs.

B. Provide some advice for the readers. C. Add some background information.

D. Introduce a new topic for discussion. 35. What is the best title for the text? A. Conversation Counts

B. Ways of Making Small Talk C. Benefits of Small Talk

D. Uncomfortable Silence

Step 3 Production Activity: Choose one of the passages and make the mind mapping.

Passage C ①Some of the world's most famous musicians recently gathered in Paris and New Orleans to celebrate the first annual International Jazz Day. UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) recently set April 30 as a day to raise awareness of jazz music, its significance, and its potential as a unifying(联合) voice across cultures. ②Despite the celebrations, though, in the U.S. the jazz audience continues to shrink and grow older, and the music has failed to connect with younger generations. ③It's Jason Moran's job to help change that. As the Kennedy Center's artistic adviser for jazz, Moran hopes to widen the audience for jazz, make the music more accessible, and preserve its history and culture. ④“Jazz seems like it's not really a part of the American appetite,” Moran tells National Public Radio's reporter Neal Conan. “What I'm hoping to accomplish is that my generation and younger start to reconsider and understand that jazz is not black and write anymore. It's actually color, and it's actually digital.”

⑤Moran says one of the problems with jazz today is that the entertainment aspect of the music has been lost. “The music can't be presented today the way it was in 1908 or 1958. It has to continue to move, because the way the world works is not the same,” says Moran. ⑥Last year, Moran worked on a project that arranged Fats Waller's music for a dance party, “Just to kind of put it back in the mind that Waller is dance music as much as it is concert music,”

says Moran. “For me, it's the recontextualization. In music, where does the emotion(情感) lie? Are we, as humans, gaining any insight(感悟) on how to talk about ourselves and how something as abstract as a Charlie Parker record gets us into a dialogue about our emotions and our thoughts? Sometimes we lose sight that the music has a wider context,” says Moran, “so I want to continue those dialogues. Those are the things I want to foster.”

31．Which of the following can be the best title for the text? A．Exploring the Future of Jazz.

B．The Rise and Fall of Jazz. C．The Story of a Jazz Musician.

D．Celebrating the Jazz Day. Passage D ①Languages have been coming and going for thousands of years, but in recent times there has been less coming and a lot more going. When the the world was still populated by hunter-gatherers,small, tightly knit (联系)groups developed their own patterns of speech independent of each other.Some language experts believe that 10,000 years ago, when the world had just five to ten million people, they spoke perhaps 12,000 languages between them. ②Soon afterwards, many of those people started settling down to become farmers, and their languages too became more settled and fewer in number. In recent centres, trade,industrialisation. the development of the nation-state and the spread of universal compulsory education. Especially glbalisation and better communications in the past few decades,all have caused many Languages to disappear,and dominant languages such as English．Spanish and Chinese are increasingly taking over. ③At present, the world has about 6 800 languages. The distribution of these languages is hugely uneven. The general rule is that mild zones have relatively few languages. Often spoken by many people while hot. wet zones have lots, often spoken by small numbers.Europe has only around 200 Languages: the Americas about 1,000. Africa 2 400; and Asia and the Pacific perhaps 3,200, of which Papua New Guinea alone accounts for well over 800. The median number (中位数)of speakers is a mere 6.000, which means that half the worlds languages are spoken by fewer people than that. ④Already well over 400 of the total of, 6,800 languages are close to extinction(消亡), with only a few elderly speakers left. Pick, at random, Busuu in Cameroon (eight remaining speakers),Chiapaneco in Mexico(150). Lipan Apache in the United States(two or three)or Wadjigu in Australia (one, with a question-mark): none of these seems to have much chance of survival. 31. What is the min idea of the text?

A. New languages will be created.

B Peoples lifestyles are reflected in languages. C. Human development results in fewer languages.

D. Geography determines language evolution.

Step 4 Summary and homework

Find a short essay and DIY, and then exchange it with as many classmates as possible.

【Teaching Reflection】

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