Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending优秀课堂实录

Teaching Plan Name School Unit

Deng

Xianyin Shu Du Middle School

Unit 4

Level No. students Senior 3 37 Date 2018.5.21 Topic

How to improve reading with proper reading strategies. How To Become Main Lesson Focus(underline )

A Successful

Reader

Lesson Aim(s)

For students to… (review, use, develop, practise…)

By the end of the lesson, the sts. Will 1. master more words and phrases about reading strategies. 2. grasp some basic reading skills to be a successful reader. 3. can choose the right reading techniques when reading different reading materials.

4. develop a good habit of reading in the free time and a passion for reading.

Assumptions

What your students already know (about the language, an activity, the topic) that will help them in this lesson?

1. the students may have learned some words about reading techniques.

2. the students may have already read some passages about reading skills. 3. the students’ Chinese reading skills may have positive transfer on their English reading.

4.the students have done a lot of English reading before which will contribute to the understanding of this lesson.

Anticipated Problems and Solutions

Very specific problems and solutions in regards to classroom management of a particular stage and/or new language.

Problem Solution I will try to get the students relaxed at the very beginning of the class by having a friendly greeting with them. Then I will try to get the This class will be videoed, so the students may get nervous or timid students focused on the lesson by an interesting introduction. Some when they know there are cameras around them.

group work will also help.

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2 The teacher will use more clear instructions and use some CCQs to The teacher intends to give this lesson all in English, it is likely that make sure the students can follow them and meanwhile the teacher some students can not follow the teacher.

will try to use more simple English to help the students understand. The teacher also need to pay attention to the pace of language. The teacher will start a competition between different groups to get There are several group-work in this lesson, there is a slim chance that the students motivated.

some student wouldn’t try their best and some of the students may 3

The teacher will also walk around to check in case some students are just pretend to do it.

pretending. 4

In the group work, the student can work out some reading strategies according to the different reading situations but they may think there If such a problem does occur, the teacher should remind them of it. is only one right reading technique for each situation.

Procedure section

Please include all stages, and enough detail for the reader to understand exactly what the teacher and students do

Stage/ Activity

Objective Purpose(s) of stage Why will you do it? Time How many minutes? Procedure

What will the teacher do? (think about your classroom instructions, CCQs and role) What will the students do? (Think about their interaction) 1 Warm up step 1 Enjoy a song

This part aims to make the students feel relaxed in class and meanwhile arouse the students’

interest in this lesson. At the same time, the students will know that correct or good techniques are important when solve problems.

1. During this stage, the teacher will ask the During this step the students solve students to solve two problems. One is a famous two problems. One is a famous 3mins experiment down by a scientist who tested how the chimpanzee in a room will get the bananas hanging on the ceiling. The other is a math problem in which the students will add 1 to 100 together. All this two examples illustrates that if we want to do something efficiently, we need a good techniques, which is the same to reading.

2 experiment down by a scientist who tested how the chimpanzee in a room will get the bananas hanging on the ceiling. The other is a math problem in which the students will add 1 to 100 together..

2 Warm-up Step 2 This part aims to motivate the students about the topic and get ready for the lesson, and this step also prepares for the group work part in which the students will try to find correct ways for several reading situations.

4mins During this stage, the student will try The teacher will ask the students to list some to list some forms of reading in our forms of reading in their daily life. daily life.

This step aims to help the students develop their Pre-reading

3 ability to predict with the help of pictures and title.

3mins

1. The teacher will show the students 3 pictures The students need to predict what and ask the students to predict what the text is the passage is about according to the passage.

about.

While-reading 4 step 1 Skimming

This stage requires the student to use skimming skills to understand the structure of this passage.

3mins

1.

After the prediction, the students will go to the real reading part to find out what is the passage about. The teacher will ask the 1. The students will skim through the students to skim the text and try to put the text really quickly and try to find the headings and subheadings

headings and subheadings for each 2.

When the students are reading, the teacher paragraph and part.

goes around the classroom in case they need some help. 5

This step aims to help the scanning

students to understand Step 2 6mins 1. The teacher will ask the students to read the The students will first read the exercises on their textbook and then ask them to exercises in the textbook and then 3

more details of this passage and meanwhile help the students to use some of the reading skills learned in this passage to solve some problems.

scan the text to finish the exercise. Some possible CCQs that might help. (1)

Are you going to read the whole passage word by word? (2)

Are you going to find direct answers from the textbook or are you going to answer the questions in your own words. 1. The teacher will ask the students to answer five multiple questions in this step after they have skimmed the passage and master the structure of this passage.

Some possible CCQs to be used: 4mins try to finish the sentences in the exercise in their own words. 6 The objective of this step is to make the students be more familiar with the step 3 passage and some important details. This step fast reading

also helps the students to develop their ability of fast reading which is critical in reading test.

The students will first go through the

Passage quickly and then answer the 1. Are you going to read the passage first or the five questions on their sheets.

Questions first?

2. Do you need to underline some clues?

3. How many minutes do you have?

Step 4 7 Careful reading

This step aims to help the students goes to the more specific details of the passage and prepare for the post-reading task.

6mins 1.

The teacher will ask the students to read the passage more carefully and then try to The students will read the text answer the two questions in 4minutes. carefully and then answer the Some possible CCQs to be used: questions within 4 minutes and then share their answer to the class.

CCQS: 1. Are you going to read the questions first or the passage first? 4

1. Are you going to read the passage word by word?

2. How many minutes do you have? The teacher will provide the students with 3 reading situations and then ask the students to apply what they have learned to solve the The students will have a group-work problem.

and decide what they will do if they (The teacher may give the students some help in are in such a reading situation.

this stage)

Summary and Self-evaluation

In this stage, the students will be give time to summary what they have learned in this lesson and make a self-evaluation. This stage aims to help the Post-readinstudents apply what they g have learned in this lesson 8 Group work to practical use and contribute to their creativity. 8mins 9 3mins 1. The teacher will ask the students to draw a The students will draw a mind map mind map of what they have learned in this of what reading techniques they lesson. have learned in this lesson.

Materials

Write what materials you are using and where (what book, internet site, etc) the information comes from.

You must reference all handouts, and attach a copy of each with your plan.

1. pictures downloaded from the Internet.

2. some ppts. 3.two sheets.

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