Task(2): Helping poor children: Skills building 3第二课时教学设计

M6U4 Task

Helping poor children教案

编制：平江县第七中学

黄桂林

Teaching Objectives：

After this class, students will: 1.

be able to have a better understanding of the children in the northern Thailand. 2.

be able to talk about ways to help children with their partners. 3.

be able to write a proposal suggesting ways to help poor children.

Focus of the lesson: How to write a proposal. Predicted teaching difficulties:

How to express opinions. Teaching procedures: Step 1 Lead in Teacher: When I come in the classroom, there is a word in my mind. Can you guess the words? Students:…

Teacher: Lucky. Do you know the reason? Students: No. Teacher: After seeing the short video, you will know the reason. Short video: The Poor Children

Step 2 Reading Exercise Read a news report about the problems of villager in northern Thailand, and fill the table below.

As you can see, the families living here are in very poor conditions. There is no running water

and no electricity in this village.

Water has to be collected from the river ten minutes’ walk away. The water then needs to be boiled before it can be used. The result of not boiling the water is

illness. As you can see, the villagers’ houses are built of wood and are not very strong. This is because they have no money and cannot get any other materials.

As I said earlier, there is no electricity in this village, so when it is dark, the only light comes from the small fires that the family cooks over.

Unfortunately, much of the forest around the village has been cut down, so the villagers have to walk further and further away from the village to get wood.

Over there you can see the school. As the village is of poverty, the school has no roof. There are no chairs either, so the children have to sit on the floor. When it rains, school is stopped. Many children especially the girls, do not go to school because they have to stay at home and help their

parents or grandparents with the farming of their small pieces of land. All the farming is done by hand since they do not have enough money for equipment. It is difficult to raise animals because of the small amount of land and water available. Because of

this and the

lack of fresh water, many of the children have poor diets and do not eat enough meat. As a result, they do not grow properly and can not concentrate on learning. Another problem is that many of the children’s parents have died because of AIDS. This means that

the grandparents have to bring up the children. That is very difficult because they are already old and poor. Key points Water House Light School/Education Food/ Diet Problems Need to be collected from river Built of wood, not___________ Causes no____________ no______________ The only lights comes from small fires no_________________ School has no roof or chairs Children have __________ p_____________ Lack of _________ Check the answers. The right answers: running water

strong

money

electricity

poverty

poor diets

fresh water

Step 3 Discussing in groups Discuss ways to help poor children in the northern Thailand with your partners.(eg. Raise money, donate books and clothes, pay for a child’s education…) S1：I feel really sorry for them. What do you think we can do to help them?

S2: I think it would be a good idea to raise some money.

S3: Yes. We could help by donating our pocket money. S4:

Yes, it would be a good idea if we could call on more students to join us. Dose anyone have any other ideas? S3: I think we should donate some English books for them.

S4:…

Students show their dialogues in front of the whole class. Step 4 Writing Writing a proposal to UNICEF(联合国儿童基金会）

about how you can help the children in northern Thailand. Dear sir/madam,

We have been researching the problems faced by children in northern Thailand. There are Thailand where children do not have enough food/classroom/warm clothes….We are really sorry for that. Therefore, we consider that it’s our obligation to help them. Following are our proposals.

First of all,…_____._________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _____In addition,________________________________________________________________

many villages in northern

What’s more,…

Looking forward to your replay.

Li Hua

Sample: Dear sir/madam,

We have been researching the problems faced by the children in northern Thailand. There are many villages in northern Thailand where children do not have books, even drop out from school because of poverty. We are really sorry for that. Therefore, we consider that it’s our obligation to help them. Following are our proposals. First of all, I think it would be a good idea to post our proposal on the Internet, which can help us call more people to join in us. In addition, we could help by giving out leaflets to ask people to donate money, books and other school supplies to them. What’s more, it would be a good idea if we could organize more volunteers to be a teacher there. We would be pleased if you would approve our proposal. If you require any further information, please get in touch with us.

Looking forward to your replay.

Li Hua

Step 5 Homework Perfect your writing and hand in.

教学反思：

本堂课，定义为一堂写作课，所以，教学重难点都放在了写作上。但同时也涉及到了英语的说和读的基本能力的训练。以lucky这个词汇吸引学生的注意力，然后对学生进行情感教育：他们能坐在干净温暖的教室学习是一种lucky and happiness. 进而用一个联合国儿童基金会的公益视频引入主题。接下来通过一篇关于泰国北部儿童的艰苦生活的短文对学生进行阅读能力的训练。进而就短文中泰国孩子们遇到的一些问题以小组对话的形式进行讨论，训练了学生的口语表达能力。对话练习之后，学生上台展示，将整堂课推向高潮。最后，将讨论结果落实到本堂课的重难点——写作上。就泰国北部孩子们的困境向联合国儿童基金会写一封how to help the poor children 的建议信。

整堂课，都按照预期进行。引入3分钟时间，阅读10分钟，学生自由讨论8分钟，上台展示9分钟，写作15分钟。每个步骤的时间都按照预期进行。前面三个步骤完成时间与预期完全一致，直到最后的写作时间，因为没有预期学生上台板书的速度比较慢，所以导致后部分时间比较赶，稍微延迟了一分钟才下课。

优点：课堂实用性比较强；学生作文批改细节处理挺好；整个课堂环环相扣，逻辑性比较强。

不足之处：投影仪效果导致作文批改情况展示效果不好；语速过快。