Task(2): Helping poor children: Skills building 3教学实录与评析

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Task --- Helping poor children 教案

Teaching Aims: 1. Enable the students to read and listen for problems and causes 2. Enable the students to come up with some ways to help the poor children 3. Guide them to write a proposal to UNICEF 4. Improve the students’ reading, listening, speaking and writing ability 5. Enable the students to understand the importance of helping others Teaching important and difficult point: How to write a proposal Teaching Procedures: Step 1: Lead-in

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Talk about Christmas Day 2.

Enjoy a video to get to know the life of the poor children 3.

Talk about your feelings about the video 4.

Get to know the aim of this class---to write a proposal to UNICEF Step 2: Try to get familiar with the format of a proposal Your proposal should include:

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Title

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Group members •

Introduction

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Proposal

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Benefits •

School address

Step 3: Task 1--- Find out problems & causes by reading & listening

Here are some key expressions to help you understand the problems and causes: 1)

Problems:

As you can see, …

The result is…

A common problem is that…

Another problem is that…

2) Causes:

This is because…

Unfortunately,…

… because/as/because of/…

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Reading Read a report about the problems in northern Thailand and answer the following questions 1. What is one of the major problems children living in this remote mountainous area have?

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Why do villagers have to fetch water with containers from miles away?

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Why do many children not go to school?

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Listening listen to a news report to find more problems they have and then finish the following table. Key points

Problems School/ Education School has no roof or chairs

Poverty Causes Many children, especially Have to help with girls,do not 1. farming collect wood and fetch water ________________ Agriculture All farming is done No money for equipment 2.________ Difficult to raise animals Small amount of 3._________ and water available Food/ Diet Children 4.__________________ have Lack of meat and fresh water

Health/

Children don’t grow properly

Do not eat enough meat Health care and cannot concentrate on learning Many of the children’s No doctors or nurses and

parents have died of AIDS Family no money to pay them Grandparents have to bring parents died of AIDS up children Bringing up children is Grandparents are already

difficult 5. _________ Summary: After reading and listening, we can know the problems faced by children in northern Thailand. There are many villages in northern Thailand where the children do not have________________ __________________________________. Step 4: Have a discussion with group members（Task 2--- Speaking）

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What can you do to help them ?

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what are the benefits of your proposal?

Some sentence patterns help you make some suggestions •

I think it would be a good idea to …

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We could help by…

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I would like to suggest that we should …

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It would be a good idea if we could…

Step 5: Write a proposal to UNICEF （Task 3--- Writing）

1. Cooperate with group members. According to the group members’

ideas, two group leaders write down the proposals on the Bb.

Title: Helping the poor children in northern Thailand

Group members: (Students’ own names)

Introduction: We have been researching the problems faced by the children in northern Thailand. There are many villages in northern Thailand where the children do not have________________ ____________________________________________.

Our group would like to help them. Proposal: We would like to help the children by: 

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___________________________________ Benefits:

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_______________________________ 

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We would be pleased if you would approve our proposal. If you require any further information, please contact us. Our contact details are:

No.2 Middle School of Ping Jiang county, Hu Nan, China 2. After writing, judge whose performance is better. The group whose performance is better will be awarded Goodwill Ambassadors For UNICEF. Step 6: Summary

1. There are a lot of people around the world in need of help, so we should treasure the opportunity of learning to ____________

2. Helping others should start from you, him and me at the moment.

3. Pass on the love baton. The student who receives the love baton is to tell what he will do from now on. 4. Enjoy a song. As long as everyone shares his love with others,the world will become a more beautiful place.