Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、ComprehendingPPT专用课堂实录内容

BOOK7Unit4

Sharing Students: Senior3

Period: Period 1 Lesson type: Reading

Time: 40ms

learning aims: 1.learn more information about Jo’s job and the conditions of her teaching. 2. Know more about the customs of local people. 3. Discuss how you would do if you were a volunteer like Jo 4. Get more reading skills. Teaching method 1.task reading 2.cooperative learning

Step 1: pre-reading: answer two questions according to the passage: What was Jo’s job in PNG?

What kind of students were in her class? Step2: Fast reading(fill in the blanks) 1._____ is a young Australian women. 2.______

was dying to hear all about Jo’s life in Papua New Guinea.

3. _______ walked a long way to get to the school.

4. _______

didn’t have any textbooks.

5. ______ became a lot more imaginative when teaching. 6. _____ started jumping out the windows during a chemistry experiment. 7._______ visited a village that was the home of one of the boys, Tombe. 8. ______ started crying “ieee ieee” to welcome them

9. ________ led us to a low bamboo hut. 10. ________ was going to share the platform with Jenny and Jo.

11. ___

softly talked to each other in their language Jo didn’t understand.

Step3. True or false 1. The classrooms are made of bricks and the roofs of grass.(

)

2. It always takes the boys only a few minutes

to get to the school.(

) 3. Science is the most challenging subject for Jo.(

) 4. When Jo and Jenny arrived at the village,they shook hands with all the villagers.(

) 5. Tombe threw out

the tin can because it’s very dirty.(

) Step4. Skimming and then answer the following questions: 1.Why did Jo send Rosemary some photos? 2. Why was the high school called a bush school? 3. Were the boys and villagers friendly to Jo? How do you know? 4. Why was Science the most challenging subject for Jo? 5. Why did the boys start jumping out the window? 6. Why should it take Jo and Jenny two and a half hours to get to the

village?

Step5. Scanning and then anylize the structure of the text.

A Letter Home Part 1 (para.1)

An introduction

Part 2 (para.2-3) the Para.2 Something about my high school: condition school of the 2____ Opening of the letter: 1.____ Para.3 Poor teaching conditions: 3.____ Part 3

(para.4-7) Para.4 My first visit to a village. how I get to know the Para.5 4.____ local people Para.6 5.____ Para.7 6.____ Part 4 (para.8) the Para.8 The close of the letter. ending A. We had a meal and I saw a strange custom. B. The experiment frightened the boys. C. I am glad to receive Rosemary’s letter and I’ve included some photos. D. I left and I felt privileged. E. I saw the poor condition of the room. F. It’s a bush school and the students live far away.

Step6. Detailed reading Read paragraph 1-3 and finish the questions

1.Why does Jo call the high school a “bush school”

2.Were the boys friendly to Jo? How do you know?

3.How long does it take the students to go to school?

4.Why was science the most challenging subject for Jo?

5.Why did the boys start jumping out of the windows?

6.Why does Jo wonder how relevant chemistry is to the kids?

Step7.consolidation

What have you learned about the customs and lives of the people in Tombe’s village? Read Jo’s letter and look at her photos. Then complete the table below: Type of houses Men’s hut is a _________with _____________. No ________, small ________. Floor was covered with _________. Family relationships Cooking methods Everyone seemed to be a _____ of Tombe’s. (large extended family) ________ are placed in an ______, then _______ are placed in the drum, covered with _________ and steamed.

Sleeping arrangements Diet Possessions Kiak usually slept in her _________. A newly made ________ for Jenny and me to sleep on.

__________, _______ and ________. I could only see one broom a few ________ ___

and a couple of _____. Agriculture Beliefs

Tools are very basic. There is no ________. The villagers believe in __________. They believe that leftover food _________ evil spirits so that dry it out in a can over the fire. Step8. Fill in the chart:

What do you think are the positive and negative things about living in a village in Papua New Guinea. The first one is done for you.

Positive aspects 1.

2. 3.

4.

Step9. Discussion in groups:

1. Compare the differences between our school and the school described in the letter Conditions

Our school

The school described in the letter

Classrooms (equipment or no)

Students’ future

Negative aspects 1.

2.

3.

4.

Electricity and water (Y/N)

Textbook

(Y/N)

Chemistry experiments (many/few)

Step10.Homework: Surf the Internet to find some information about the volunteers working in poor areas.