Task(1): Helping poor children: Skills building 1 and 2教学实录及点评

Module 6 Unit 4 Task

Helping poor children

By Zhai Jinping, from Jiangwang Middle School Teaching Goals: •

Listen to the problems of villagers in northern Thailand •

Discuss how to help poor children •

Write a proposal to UNICEF Teaching difficulties:

Combination of listening, reading, discussing, and writing Teaching appliances: Multi-media, blackboard Teaching procedures: Step I

Lead-in: Mike Jackson’s song: Heal the world Several pictures about the life of poor children Step II

listening:

Skills building 1:

Listening for problems and causes

If we want to know what the problem

is when we are listening to a news report, what phrases or sentences should we pay special attention to?

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ If we want to know what has caused the problem when we are listening to a news report, what should we pay special attention to?

____________________________________________________________________ Part A

Listen and check the answers: Part B

Prediction the answers of the blanks

Listen to the tape and check the answers Step III Reading : Part C Have you still found there are two blanks left?

Here, go through the text as quickly as possible and find the answers of Blank2 in Part A and Blank3 in Part B Some useful phrases in the passage the problem facing the children

___________________ afford to do

_____________________ need to be dug= need digging

___________________ break down

____________________ be of different ages

___________________ Step IV discussing: Before discussing, think about what different phrases or sentence structures we may use. Making suggestions:___________________________________________________ Asking for opinions:___________________________________________________

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Expressing agreement:_________________________________________________ Expressing disagreement:_______________________________________________ Making conclusions:___________________________________________________ Discussion:What can we do to help the poor children in northern Thailand? Problems they face: 1___________________________________________________________________2___________________________________________________________________3_________________________________________________________________ How to help the poor children: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Step V Writing a proposal 1、Ask：What are included in the proposal? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2、Discussion：Work in groups of six and write down the answers Title: ________________________________________________________

Group members: ____________________________________________________

Introduction: We have been researching the problems faced by the children in

northern Thailand. There are many villages in northern Thailand where children do not have ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Proposal:

We would like to help the children by: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Benefits:_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3、Presentations：Ask the students to report their answers 4、Show the sample Step VI Writing（yesterday’s homework）

According to the proposal you’ve written, write a letter to help Liming, who wants to apply for a poverty-relief project.

若你是明启中学李明，想申请一个扶贫项目，帮助贫困地区的儿童。根据以下启示写一封申请信

启示：国际儿童基金会将资助中学生开展扶贫项目，以帮助贫困地区的儿童。申请成功者将获得项目经费2000元。有意者请来信告知。

信中请包括：

1）． 你个人基本情况

2）． 你对申请项目具体设想

3）项目经费使用情况

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1、Show the Useful expressions for the writing: Useful expressions for you: •

1. lend a hand to 帮助…

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2. apply for 申请

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3. the poverty-relief program launched by the UNICEF 由国际儿童基金会发起的扶贫项目

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4. school-age children 学龄儿童

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5. have no access to good education接受不到良好的教育

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6. undeveloped region 欠发达地区

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7. make a difference 有影响

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8. make use of 利用

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9. a small sum of money 一小笔钱

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10. postal charge 邮费 2、Common mistakes in the students’ writing 1

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Style of the essay: It is a letter Poor area’s children

There have no doctors in the are There are many people died because of I have dreamed of people could …… due to the life is ……

Using a small sum of money to buy useful resources which will make use of improve their life environment. 3、Good Points in the students’ writing: 1

Good preparations for the task makes you have more things to write about. 2

Cleverly using phrases and grammars we have just learned. For example:

If I got the 2000 yuan you offered to me, I would allocate it rationally and solve their urgent problems.

In a word, I would really appreciate it if you would give me this opportunity. 4、Present an essays by Xie LIjuan: Dear Sir:

I am a student in Ming Qi Middle school. The purpose to write to you is that I want to apply for the poverty relief program launched by UNICEF to help the

students in poor area.

At present, some school-age children in poor areas don’t go to school because they have no money to support it. At the same time, some children in undeveloped region also don’t go to school, the reason for it is that they need to help their parents do housework such as farming the land, colleting wood, fetching the water. It’s very bad, so I think we should help them. They should have

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chances to achieve knowledge, therefore we can raise money and give it to someone in need. Of course, we can donate some books to them.

If I apply for it successfully, I will achieve 2000 yuan. We can use the small sum of money to do some activities to make more people support us. I believe we will be successful.

I hope you can agree with my application.

Yours sincerely

Li Ming

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