Using LanguageⅡ教学设计第一课时

Teaching Design

New Senior Material English for China Student’s Book 11 Content Unit 3 Finding the correct perspective Writing: A letter of advice Language competence: Let students learn some useful structures and sentence patterns to write a letter of advice.

Teaching aims Cultural awareness: To appeal to more people to live a low carbon life and protect our own environment. Thinking quality: To cultivate students’ creative thinking and logical thinking. Learning capacity: Let students utilize skillfully some reading strategies such as scanning and summarizing. Teacher Zhao Li

from XFLS Students Class Three, Senior Three from XFLS Important points Difficult points Teaching aids Some useful structures and sentence patterns to write a letter of advice. Let students write a letter of advice with accuracy and coherence. PPT, learning sheets, two large pieces of paper and mark pens Teaching procedures Steps Learning activities The reporter talks about the latest trend of bike-sharing, including the past history, Teaching purposes Time Duty report the advantages of riding bikes and some

problems. Question: Will the trend of bike-sharing continue? To warm up and get students involved in the topic of environmental protection.

3 mins

Lead-in The teacher asks a question: What will happen to our earth if we do nothing about global warming. Then shows some pictures and let students realize the serious consequences of global warming. To lead in and arouse students’

3 mins awareness of the serious consequences of global warming. 1.

To cultivate students’

ability of scanning and let them brainstorm more suggestions. 2.

To direct the students to summarize the structure of the letter of advice. 3.

To cultivate students’

ability of self-directed study. 4.

To let students put what they have learned into practice. To let students put what they have learned into practice and cultivate their ability of solving problems. 15 mins Pre-writing 1.

Let students read a sample of a letter of advice, find out what the suggestions are and add more suggestions of their own. 2.

Let students find out the structure of the letter of advice. 3.

Let students find out some useful sentence patterns from the sample and add their own examples. 4.

Let students learn some useful structures from the sample and make up sentences by using the structures, Writing Each student writes a letter of advice on what we can do about haze. 12 mins Post- writing Two students evaluate the other two’s writing on the blackboard and the other students exchange and evaluate others’

writing according to the criterion. To cultivate students’ ability of 6 mins evaluation and giving suggestions. To let students learn from each 1 min other. To let students use different ways to solve the same problem and arouse more people’s awareness of environmental protection. To let students learn more from the website. Assignment Individual work: Polish your writing based on your partner’s valuable suggestions.

Group work: Make a poster on what we can do about haze (including a title, some suggestions, some pictures and a slogan.) Further study: Surf the internet and look for more information about environmental protection. Unit 3 Finding the correct perspective

Blackboard Structure Para. 1 Introduction: State the problem. design Para. 2 Body: Suggestions/measures. Para. 3 Conclusion: A slogan. Writing: A letter of advice

Teaching reflection Under the guidance of constructivist learning theory and process-genre approach, students are centered and I am just the organizer, instructor and promoter. I directed them to read the sample, know about the genre, analyze and learn some useful structures and sentence patterns from it. Then they can write their own letter of advice. I cultivated their ability of problem solving and aroused their awareness of environmental protection. I tried to make the lesson rich, effective, and instructive.

Limited by the equipment, the class has some limitations. Next time, I will show more students’ drafts by using the physical projector and encourage more students to give their evaluation.