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Instructional design Name: Subject: Lesson type: 邹颖

Grade: Senior 1 Australia’s Dangerous Creatures Reading and Writing

Teaching time: 40 minutes Overall Design and Guiding Principles This is a reading and writing lesson which aims to develop students’

ability in learning about Australia’s dangerous creatures and learn how to protect themselves from being bitten. Meanwhile, students’ linguistic and cultural knowledge is expected to be enriched through reading, speaking and writing activities. In this lesson I mainly employed Task-based Teaching Method and the Communicative Language Teaching Method in the hope of helping them build their confidence in learning English and learn something about foreign culture.

First of all, the lesson will start with a daily dialogue about our summer vacation to lead in the topic about “travelling”. Then the teacher will show a picture of Australia and a short video of Northern Territory to arouse students’ curiosity about travelling there. The teacher will tell the students her cousin is in a dilemma about whether to go camping in the Northern Territory by showing the letter. Thus, the teacher will ask them to help solve the problem and find more about Australia’s dangerous creatures. In the second section, I mainly use Task-based Teaching Method by setting five individual tasks of extensive reading to assist students to fully understand the reading materials and grasp the method of reading comprehension. With the former two sections, students will get the information about how dangerous the creatures are, then in the next section I will ask students to make a poster about how to avoid dangerous creatures in groups to train students’

ability of transforming input into output through writing, and develop their self-protecting ability. The students will be asked to make a presentation about their posters to train their speaking ability and improve their confidence as well. Finally, I will ask students to think about their decision about whether my cousin should go camping or not and list the reasons. They need to finish the reply after class as homework.

Teaching Context Analysis of teaching material: This is a reading and writing lesson. The lesson focuses on learning the Australia’s dangerous creatures, aiming at developing students’

ability of reading comprehension and writing. The topic of this unit is closely related to students’ real life, thus students will be interested in it. This lesson’s task of making posters and presenting can build

students’ interest and confidence of English learning.

Analysis of students:

The objects of this lesson are students in Senior one. Students in this phase have already grasped enough words and expressions to understand this text, and students in Senior one are also very active.

However, they still have some new words in reading and difficulty in applying input into output. What’s more, some students have no confidence of English learning. Therefore, it requires teachers to set up the tasks from easy to the advanced to guide them.

Teaching Aims Aims of knowledge: (1) To master and use some important words, such as: territory, approximately, paralyze and so on. (2) To enable the Ss to get some basic knowledge about dangerous creatures in Australia.

Aims of ability: (1) Be able to get correct information from reading material. (2) To master some relevant reading skills including skimming, scanning and finding details (3) Be capable of making a poster and presenting (4) Be able to write a reply

Aims of emotion: (1)

To help Ss learn how to protect themselves from the dangerous creatures in Australia (2)

To build confidence (3)

Be active and cooperative in team work, enjoy the sense of achievement in cooperation. Key Points and Difficult Points Key points: 1. Mastering of the key words. 3. Relevant reading skills.

Difficult points: 1.Getting the correct information about Australia’s dangerous creatures. 2. Teaching the Ss how to figure out the best ways to stay safe while camping outside Teaching Methods 1.Task-based Teaching Method 2.Cooperative Learning Method

3. Communicative Language Teaching Method 4.Computer-assisted Instruction Teaching Aids 1. text book 2. power point 3. a video clip

4. posters. Teaching Procedure Step 1：Lead-in Have a small conversation with students on travels, and introduce Australia.

Then I will show students a video clip concerning the Northern Territory. The purpose of my design:

(1) to catch students’ attention and arouse their interests.

Step 2: Warming up

Tell students that my cousin sent me an email asking about my advice on whether to go camping in Northern Territory. Then ask students to solve her problem by studying some Australia’s dangerous creatures. The purpose of my design: (1) to liven up the lesson and lead in the topic----- Australia’s dangerous creatures.

Step 3: Group Work of Extensive Reading:

Skim through all the pictures in the book. Work in groups and ask students to find out the details based on certain elements.

Present the answers orally in class.

The purpose of my design: (1) to enable students to grasp the main information of the reading material.

(2) to develop students’ reading skills and confidence in speaking ability. (3) to improve their cooperative learning method Step 4:Group Work of Making Posters

Let the students work in pairs and make a poster about their individual theme about “how to avoid ____ bites”.

Ask one student in each group to present their posters. The purpose of my design: Based on the information in extensive materials in extensive reading, the task is designed to develop students’

summarizing abilities and selecting information. They can also learn how to make a poster and develop their ability of reporting in class.

Step 5: Writing

Let students make a choice about whether to agree to my cousin’s plan of going

camping in Northern Territory and list the reasons. Then write a reply.

The purpose of my design: This section aims at training students’ ability of transforming what they have learnt into the words that they could write. They need use the words and expressions they learnt in class today as many as possible.

Step 6: Homework

Write a reply. The purpose of my design: To help students develop their writing skills. Teaching Evaluation Evaluation content：

1.

knowledge about the Australia’s dangerous creatures. 2.

mastery of the relevant skills of reading. 3.

students’ interests in learning initiatively. 4.

students’ ability of transforming input to output through writing. 5.

students ability in oral communication and reporting.

Evaluation approaches：

The teaching and learning activities of this lesson will be assessed as it progresses. Five methods are adopted: 1)

observation 2)

questioning 3)

group work 4)

demonstration 5)

assignment