Reading(2)：Stand up for your health!第二课时教案

An Instructing Plan for Task Section Unit 4, Module 6 Advance with English Instructor（指导老师）：罗江久（郴州市二中）

课题：Helping poor children 课型：Task-based teaching

教学目的（Instructing aims）：Help learners to be receptive, interactive and productive in different ways of language practice. Encourage them to take every chance that can stimulate them to make greater efforts to learn efficiently. 教学重点与难点（Important and difficult points）：Instruct how to read for current situations, how to discuss in groups and how to compose a proposal. 教学策略（Instructing strategy）：Leave students more time in doing exploration and co-operation. Work with them to find some effective ways to build their language skills as well as fulfill the tasks successfully. 教学用具：Computer, Tablet PC, music, the blackboard and a learning scheme. 教学步骤（Instructing procedures）：

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Independent reading beforehand Read part of a report about problems in northern Thailand and complete the table below:

One of the major problems

facing the children living in this mountainous area is poverty. Children do not get enough meat to eat. There is little money

coming to their families and often they cannot afford to purchase

important things like medicine. Health care is limited as there are no doctors or nurses in the villages—no one has the means to pay them.

Conditions can be primitive. The trees around the villages are gone, so people have to walk further and further away to obtain wood for cooking and heating. We recommend

they use other fuels such as coal. Water is also a constant problem. Some villages do not have a well and pump, so they have to fetch water with containers from miles away. Wells need to be dug and pumps need to be put in to pump water into some of the villages. However, if the pump breaks down, repairing it can be troublesome, as an engineer has to come from the nearest town to repair it.

Education is another area affected by hardship. Many schools are very small. Some classrooms do not even have a roof. Children sit on the floor, and there is often only one teacher to teach all the children even though they are different ages. There is not enough money to pay the wages of more than one teacher in a village. Another big problem is that many children do not go to school, because they need to help their parents farm the land, collect wood and fetch water.

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Major problems ①Poverty Recommended solutions ①Offer farmers some advanced technology.

(The answers can be various.) Lack of ②firewood ②Use other fuels such as coal ③No water because of no ③Train one person in each village to repair well or pump the pumps ④Limited / poor education ④Call on voluntary teachers to work there. (The answers can be various.)

Step One: Seasonal greetings and check-up. Ask some questions according to the independent reading passage. Make an exploration through the Internet to know about UNICEF and northern Thailand. Step Two: A summary on how to read for the information. Work in pairs and make dialogues to build more skills.

Task A: Practise asking for opinions about any solutions, using these questions:

What do you think?

Does anyone else have any suggestions / ideas?

Can you suggest anything else? Task B: Practise expressing agreement / disagreement about any solutions:

I agree / disagree because…

That’s a great idea, but…

I’m sorry but I don’t think that will work.

OK, that sounds like a good idea. Step Three: Further discussion. Have a discussion about what we can do to help. One person from your group should report your suggestions to the class.

In summary / In conclusion, our group has decided to: ●

(raise money for the poor children from people around us this weekend) ●

(send our good old clothes to Thailand) ●

(write a letter to encourage them) ●

(inform the UNICEF of the situations) Step Four: Instructions about how to write a proposal:

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Give a title saying what the proposal is about.

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Write down

the names of the group members

putting forward the proposal.

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Make an introduction giving the background to the problem.

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Compose the proposal: how you propose to help, giving explanations for your suggestions and identifying the steps needed to implement (实施) each suggestion, e.g., making posters to collect money, books, good old clothes, etc. Step Five: Co-operative writing. Work in groups to compose a proposal. Decide who will write each part of the proposal. Then put them together and improve the combined one. Choose one of you to present it and read it to your class. You are welcome if you are creative. Step Six: Present the proposal and read it to the class for comments. If time

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permits, make a summary of what we have learnt from this experience. What we have learnt from this lesson is …. Step Seven: Assignment. Write your own proposal on how to help poor children in about 100 words. The topics can be various.

OUR PROPOSAL (For Reference) Title: Helping the poor children in northern Thailand (The title can be various.)

Group members: ______________

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Introduction: We have been researching the problems faced by children in northern

Thailand______. There are many villages where children do not have drinking water,

firewood and books. Their classrooms have no roof. Some children can’t go to school. Our groups would like to help them.

Proposal:

We would like to help the children by:

●donating our pocket money and the money collected from our teachers and friends.

●donating some nutritious foods produced in our areas or working as volunteers.

●writing a letter to encourage them to fight with difficulty.

Benefits: What we will do can help the children go to school, live a better life and

know they are not alone in this world. It can also help us recognize that we are also

helpful and that there are still many people in the world who need help.

We would be pleased if you would approve our proposal. If you require any further information, please contact us. Our contact details (telephone number & address) are:

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