Reading(1)：The UN—bringing everyone closer together优秀教学实录

M6U4 Reading: The UN-bringing everyone closer together

授课教师：江苏省江阴市澄西中学

陈建红

Teaching Planning Teaching Objectives: 1.

To enable the Ss to have a good understanding of the UN and the job of a Goodwill Ambassador 2. To help the Ss develop abilities of listening, reading and speaking and the reading strategy of understanding a speaker’s attitude

3. To develop students’ love for others Teaching Key Points:

1. To help the Ss understand the UN and the job of a Goodwill Ambassador 2. To guide the Ss to discuss the topic and express their own ideas Teaching Procedure: Step I

Lead-in You guys may have many questions about me? Let me introduce myself, I am Jason and I come from Jiangyin. Do you know something about Jiangyin? Introduce something about Jiangyin. So as a Jiangyin Goodwill Ambassador, I welcome all of you to Jiangyin. And today I bring another Goodwill Ambassador. Her name is Tang Ning, a businesswoman. She doesn’t come from Jiangyin, but from the United Nations. And today she will give us a speech. The topic is: The UN-bringing everyone closer together. Step II

Listening

Ask students to listen to Tang Ning’s speech, then answer the guided questions: Question 1: What is the UN?

Question 2: As a UN Goodwill Ambassador, which country has Tang Ning traveled to recently? Step

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Skimming Ask the Ss to read the whole speech and divide the speech into three parts Ask the Ss to match each part with its main idea Step

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Scanning (1) Ask the Ss to watch a video about the UN to find some detailed information, and then complete a Task-based reading about the UN. Ask the Ss to enjoy two pictures and then talk about where the UN soldiers come from.

(2) Ask the Ss to listen to a short tape and then fill in the table about two development goals of the UN. (3) Ask the Ss to read the paragraph 3 loudly and then talk about the job of Tang Ning as a Goodwill Ambassador with the following questions: Question 1: Does Tang Ning get paid for her work?

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Question 2: What does she do a Goodwill Ambassador? Question 3: How does she help by visiting these countries? Question 4: Why?

Ask the Ss to read the paragraph 4 silently and then talk about Tang Ning’s attitude with a reading comprehension:

According to paragraph 4, Tang Ning feels _____ about being a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN in South Africa.

(A. depressed

B. happy

C. doubtful

D. tired) (4) Ask the Ss to find some words which can indicate Tang Ning’s attitude in paragraph 4, then talk about the reading strategy in this unit: Understanding a speaker’s attitude. Step

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Extension So far we’ve got much information about Tang Ning’s speech. Do you want to know more about the UN?

You can look it up on the UN website.

From the UN website, you can get much information, such as structure and organization of the UN. Here are some organizations of the UN, would you please match them with their names? From the UN website, you can get the focuses of the UN. Look at these pictures, what are the focuses? ( Climate change、A H1N1、Lack of food、Wars and conflicts) Step

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Discussion （Competition）

Facing these international problems, the UN has done a lot, but what about us common people? From the speech, we know Tang Ning is a UN Goodwill Ambassador. Now if you were a UN Goodwill Ambassador, what would you do to help people in need? (Give students small gifts if they volunteer to voice their opinions) Step

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Ending

Help the people around the world, that is, help our world, and heal the world.

Learn a song: Heal the world

From the song, we know if we care enough for the living, our world will be full of love, so let’s create a world of love no matter who we are. Step Ⅷ Homework

According to your discussion, write a letter to the editor of 21st century and tell him what you would do to help people in need if you were a UN Goodwill Ambassador

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