Task(1): Writing to a foreign friend: Skills building 1 and 2教学设计(第二课时)

Brief Teaching Plan for Task (U1M6)

Brief Teaching Plan Task: Writing to a foreign friend (Unit1 Module 6) This section consists of a series of activities which provide students with opportunities to learn and practice the listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. This section is divided into three steps and each step is preceded with a skills building part. Through listening and reading, students will get information about Chinese crosstalk. They are asked to use the information they have got to write an e-mail to a foreign friend answering his questions about Chinese crosstalk. Step1: Answering questions

A. Introduce to students Bill’s request so that they are aware of the task in this lesson 1. Introduce Bill’s message left on the answering machine 2. Listen to the message for the first time with a question “Why did Bill call?”

3. List all the questions Bill has asked

4. Focus on Skills building 1: identifying priorities

5. Listen to the message for the second time with the task to decide which requests are the

most important, somewhat important or the least important B. Listen to a radio talk show, looking for useful information to answer Bill’s questions

1. Listen to the talk show with the task to underline the parts with mistakes

2. Listen to it again with the task to correct the mistakes

3. Check students’ work

4. Go back to Bill’s questions to answer questions No.1,2.3,4 and 12.

5. Do a blank fill-in exercise to consolidate gained information and to present it in the form of

a short passage, making preparations for the later writing.

6. Present the rest questions to find answers to. C. Read a magazine article to collect more information that Bill asked for.

1. Read the article Famous crosstalk master gives lessons to foreigners to collect more

information

2. Go back to Bill’s questions to answer No.8,9,and 10

3. Present the rest questions to find answers to Step 2: Taking part in a radio talk show

1. Present comic pictures of famous crosstalk masters

2. Briefly introduce two of them – Ma Sanli and Zhu Shaowen

3. Go back to Bill’s questions to answer No. 5,6, 7and 11

4. Focus on Skills building 2: asking questions orally

5. Get students to work in pairs, asking and answer questions about famous crosstalk

performers

6. Check students’ work in the form of a radio talk show Step3: Writing an e-mail

1. Focus on Skills building 3: answering questions in an e-mail

2. Get students to work in groups of 4, writing a part of the e-mail regarding the most

important questions or the somewhat important ones either in a formal or an informal style

3. Present what they have written Homework

Write a complete e-mail to Bill according to a given model of an e-mail.

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Brief Teaching Plan for Task (U1M6)

Students’ Exercises I. Complete the following passage Crosstalk, a traditional form of Chinese _________, started during the ________ Dynasty, over _______ years ago. Performed by one or more people, a crosstalk performance usually involves four basic elements, known as _______, imitating, ______________ and _________. The performers use language in clever ways that make people __________, and as a result, to understand both the __________________ and Chinese _________ is a must for one to enjoy a crosstalk performance. II. Write a part of the email Formal expressions

Informal expressions In reference to your question about ...

You asked me about...

Regarding your question about...

You wanted to know...

In answer to your question about...

Since you asked about...

I know you need/want/ would like...

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Brief Teaching Plan for Task (U1M6)

III. Homework: Write a complete e-mail to Bill

To:

From:

Subject:

Date: _____ Dear Bill,

Glad to hear from you! It’s great you are so interested in Chinese crosstalk and here is some information that may be of some help.

_______________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________

Good luck with your report! Don’t hesitate to call me if you have more questions. Keep in touch!

Love from,

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