Section D特级教师教学实录

Teaching plan for Unit 7

Food Festival Section C of Topic 1：We’re preparing for a food festival.

Teaching objectives

1. Learn

and understand the following words and phrases through reading the email from Kangkang and Craig e.g., regret, gather, group, member, purpose, in order to, instead of, as a result, fight against...

2. Notice the basic form of an English

e-mail and understand what the e-mail writer wants to know and if the reply e-mail gives him the answers.

3. Learn & practice the following reading skills:

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Skim Kangkang’s e-mail for its central meaning: (what KK and his friends want to know in order to make their food-festival posters) and skim the reply

e-mail from Craig for the main idea (the start and development of Free the Children).

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Scan Craig’s reply e-mail for the detailed information about Free the Children by mind map including the group leader, Craig himself, the pioneer (a Pakistani boy who changed Craig’s life), the development of the group and its new project.

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Find the key messages in Craig’s reply e-mail and use them to make posters for the food festival.

4. Learn how to make the poster (how to decide the topic for more people to join the food festival, e.g., about Free the Children or about the new school in Kenya); how to give the answers to the wh-questions, i.e. what, when, where, why, who etc.

5. Life experience of helping poor children who need schooling.

Teaching procedure

Stage 1 Pre-reading Step 1 Look and say about the pictures 1. Look at the pictures and talk about what they are doing. 2. Present a poster, read the poster and answer 3 questions: Q1. What kind of food festival is it? Q2. What’s the purpose of it? Q3. When and where will KK and his classmates have the food festival?

Step 2 Skim Kangkang’s e-mail

1. Read Kangkang’s e-mail and choose the best answer.

Dear Craig, We are the students in Beijing Ren’ai International School. It’s a great pity that you cannot come to our food festival. However, you and your group have shown us what we can do to help the poor children back to school. We are very happy to become one of your

group members.

In order to raise money for the new school in Kenya, we will make some posters for the coming food festival. Would you please tell us more about the project? For example, why do you want to build the school in Kenya? What kind of school are you going to build? How much money do you need to make it? When you will finish the building?

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Besides, we are also interested in Free the Children and yourself, for example, how was the group developed? Why did you help poor children when you were so young? We’re looking forwards to hearing from you.

Sincerely,

Kangkang

What do KK and his friends want to know ?(the main meaning of the e-mail):

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more information about Craig, especially his family and schooling;

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more information about the new school Free the Children will build in Kenya;

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more information about Free the Children and its group leader; 

more information about building the new school, Free the Children and its leader. (√)

2. Read Kangkang’s questions together. Stage 2 While-reading Step 1 Skim Craig’s e-mail Read Craig’s e-mail and guess what Craig will write ? (prediction).

Step 2

Mind map what Craig writes

1. Read Craig’s e-mail carefully , try to find the information and fill in the table in 1b on Page 60. 2. Work in groups of four to complete the following mind map by using some key words:The pioneer: Iqbal

The leader: Craig

Free the Children The development

3. Answer the following questions: 1.

What is the main idea of Craig’s e-mail?

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How does Craig talk about Free the Children？

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Does Craig answers all KK’s questions? 4.

If not, what questions does not he answer?

Stage 3 Post-reading Step 1

Make the poster about Free the Children

2 The new project

Step 2

How to make the poster

1. Work in groups and ask questions about the topic “Free the Children”

2. Groups report the questions and the whole class give the answers in chorus. The teacher writes the key words on the designed poster as a model for Ss’ own writing.

Stage 4 Summary & Homework Sum up what Ss have learnt and assign homework (to finish the above poster or make a poster about the new school in Kenya).

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