Appendix I Strategies教学活动设计方案

Teaching design Teacher: Content: Time period:

The analysis of teaching material: The content of this lesson is a reading material named Life in a Day. It introduces a meaningful film which shares the same name with this passage. It can be divided into two parts: the introduction of the background and some typical scenes in the film. Through reading and analyzing the specific scene, students can discover the meaning of life.

The analysis of learners: Senior high students are eager to learn something knowledgeable and interesting.

They have their own opinions and attitudes.

They're not content with the limited knowledge obtained from the textbooks.

Their thinking and cognitive capability have developed a lot. So the teacher must try her best to help them keep up their passion and build up good values.

Teaching objectives: By the end of the lesson, students are expected to: 1.

have a better understanding on the film. 2.

improve the reading ability to read for certain information and details. 3.

further cultivate the habit of deep thinking. 4.

foster the awareness of enjoying and cherishing life.

Teaching focus and difficulty: To analyze and appreciate the certain scenes of the film. (focus) To discover the meaning of life and cherish life. (difficulty)

Teaching approach:

CLT, TBLT

Teaching procedures: Steps: Lead-in

Learner’s activity:

Purpose: Answer the question based on their own To lead in the topic and situation and share. introduce the film. Qianwen Zhou Life in a Day 40 min Learners:

Type of class: Level: Class1, Senior 1 Reading Intermediate

Q: 1. What do you love?

2. What do you fear?

3. What’s in your pocket?

Task 1 Reading material A To get the background 1.

Read and find out 5W: WHO, information of the film. WHEN, WHERE,WHAT,WHY.

2.

Summarize the general idea.

Reading material B To improve the reading Read and underline those characters that ability to read for certain appear and finish the chart.

information and details.

Reading material C Watch a video clip, read and answer To cultivate the habit of deep thinking. questions. Q: 1. What are the things that most people love or fear?

2. What’s in their pocket?

Post-task “In Life in a Day, that’s what most people To foster the awareness want.”

of enjoying and 1.

Work in groups and discuss: cherishing life. Q: What do you want in your life (in a day)? 2.

Paint down your group’s idea.

3.

Share and make explanation.

Conclusion

Conclude the whole lesson. To review what have (Feedback: I can feel it, I can touch it, I learnt in this lesson and

can see it.) to assign after-class tasks

Assignment: Watch movie Life in a Day: Choose a day you like most and write down the reason (within 100words).

Task 2 Task 3

Reading material:

LIFE IN A DAY What do you love? What do you fear? What’s in your pocket? These are the questions from the film Life in a Day. Director Kevin Macdonald asked people around the world to answer the questions and send in a video clip from a typical day. He was interested in creating a picture of the world, a digital time capsule for the future. On 24 July 2010, people from Africa, Europe, America, Antarctica and Asia recorded events on their mobile phones and digital cameras and uploaded the results onto the internet. In all there were 81,000 video clips. It took Macdonald and a team of researchers seven weeks to make them into a film. The film starts at midnight. The moon is high in the sky, elephants are washing themselves in a river in Africa and a baby is sleeping. At the same time, in other parts of the world, people are getting up, brushing their teeth and making breakfast. In the next minutes of the one-and-a-half-hour-long film, we watch everyday minutes from more than 140 different countries and see the connections between them. In one brief scene an American girl is playing with her hula hoop, in another a child is working at a shoeshine stand in Peru. One looks well off, the other is poor, but then the shoeshine boy shows us his favourite thing --- his laptop. He’s very proud of it because he earned the money to pay for it.

“We care about the same things,” says the director and in some ways he’s right. Family and friends are the things most people love and many of them are keen on sports, like football. But then one man says he loves his cat and another loves his fridge because it doesn’t talk back!

Monsters, dogs and death are the things most people fear. One young girl is anxious about growing up and a man in Antarctica says, “I’m afraid of losing this place.” But when asked, “What’s in your pocket?”, the answers are surprising. We don’t see an ID card, a shopping list, or a bus ticket. Instead, one person has a paper towel, and another shows us a button. A poor man says he has nothing. He’s not ashamed of his poverty—he’s simply happy to be alive.

The film ends just before midnight, with a young woman in her car. It’s raining outside and she’s fed up with her life. She was excited about Life in a Day, but her day was too boring to film. “I just want people to know that I’m here,” she says. “What she really wants is to be different, to matter,” says Macdonald. In Life in a Day, that’s what most people want.

Worksheet: Task1: Read Reading Material A and find out 5W: WHO, WHEN, WHERE, WHAT, WHY.

Task 2: Read Reading Material B and complete the form: Character: Elephants

Baby

__________ girl Shoeshine boy A young woman Action: ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________ Getting up and ________________________________

Task 3: Watch the video and answer questions: Q: 1. What are the things that people in the video love? ____________________________________________________________________ 2. What are the things that people in the video fear? ____________________________________________________________________

Post-task:

What do you want in your life (in a day)?