Learning about Language教学设计实例

Unit 2 working the land (A pioneer for all people) Knowledge objectives:(1) to make Ss grasp the usage of words, expressions and sentence structures: statistics, struggle, thanks to, rid of, some patterns for persuasion, the “ing”

form as subject and object;(2)to use learnt knowledge to persuade sb. Ability objectives:(1) to develop Ss’

reading skills(skimming, scanning, word guessing);(2) to improve Ss’ speaking, communicating and cooperating skills. Emotional objectives:to make Ss know the contribution of Yuan,and learn his spirit and his simple life time. Teaching important and difficult points:(1) some words, expressions and sentence structures mentioned above;(2)the content of the text;(3)training their reading and speaking skills. Teaching methods: CLT, TBLT,QT. Learning strategies: CLS, QLS, TBLS. Teaching procedures: Step 1 lead-in: (1) teacher plays a piece of recent news from CCTV about the harvest of the super hybrid rice, and ask students whether they know Yuan or not, and talk about him and his contribution.(2)Brain storm: let Ss describe Yuan in their minds including his appearance, his living condition and so on.

Step 2 fast reading tasks:(1)teacher introduces Yuan and super hybrid rice(2)make Ss read the text as fast as possible with questions. Such as: what’s the general idea of this passage? What’s Yuan’ dream? (skimming and scanning skill) Step 3 intensive reading tasks(1)let Ss read the text silently, find topic sentence of each paragraph and draw the difficult sentences and the knowledge what they don’t understand.(words guessing)(2)teacher and Ss talk about the important words, expressions and sentences together, and ask Ss to retell the content of the text.(summarizing and paraphrasing)(3)teacher summarize this part.(4) read again following the courseware. Step 4 post-reading task. Group Discussion. (1)Teacher should divide Ss into

several groups to discuss the topic “would you like have a life like Yuan? Give reasons” (2)teacher summarize the discussion. Step 5 sum up. Let Ss sum up what we have learnt this class and teacher make a supplementary of it. Step 6 homework. Hand out another passage about Yuan, let students summarize the content of this passage on their notebook.