教学设计(向薇薇).doc

Teaching Plan

Kunming No.8 Middle School Xiang Weiwei
昆明八中 向薇薇

Teaching content 3a in section A of Unit 6, Book 5
Teaching time 40 minutes
Type of the lesson reading class
Teaching aims
1.Language knowledge
Lead the students to learn and understand the new words and expressions: boil, remain, national,by accident, fall into, less than, take place, without doubt.
Lead the students to use the passive voice correctly.
Lead the students to learn and use the sentence pattern: It is said/believed that...
2.Language skills
Lead the students to understand the main meaning of the whole passage by using mind map.
Lead the students to use reading skills skimming and scamming to understand the passage well and get more information about tea.
Lead the students to use the useful target language to express what they learn from the passage.
3.Affection and attitudes
Lead the students to know more about the culture of tea and make them love and be proud of our nation.
4.Learning strategy
Lead the students to learn to share information with others and to cooperate.
5.culture awareness
Know more about tea in different cultures.

Teaching focuses and difficulties
1.understanding and using the useful words and expressions
2.reading comprehension by using reading strategies
3.the students’ production of using English
4.knowing about and expressing the culture of tea
Teaching methods:
1.task-based teaching method
2.pair work and group work
Teaching aids:
Tape recorder multi-media blackboard

Teaching stages:
Step 1. Greeting
Greet the students with simple communication to warm up.
Step 2. Review
Revise the words that they have learnt in the last class. Lead them to read the new words. Then ask the students to spell the words. These words are the main words in the passage of 3a An Accidental Invention. This step may reduce the difficulty of reading.
Step 3.Pre-reading
Lead the students to list some drinks and lead them into the topic of tea. Get them to talk about tea freely. Thus they may think the topic is close to their daily life and they will feel confident and relaxed to express their ideas. It is good for cultivate the students’ emotion. Then lead the students to think over who invented tea-- our reading topic.
Step4. Reading comprehension(while-reading)
1. Skimming
First explain what is skimming. Then ask the students to read the passage An Accidental Invention by skimming. Thus the students can understand the main idea of the whole passage. The students will be leaded with the following exercises:
E1: Why is tea called an accidental invention according to the passage?
Answer: Because it is invented by accident.
Tea: the ________ drink in the world
invented: ____________
developed: ___________
spread: _____________
E2: Read the passage and find a key word to express the main idea of each paragraph.Finish the following mind map. Ask the students to work in groups and then check their answers.

Topic

Paragraph 1

Paragraph 2

Paragraph 3

2. scamming
Explain what is scamming and how to scam in the passage. The key point of scamming is to find the supporting details. To help the students to get supportive information by using the strategy, there will be two tasks for the students.
First answer the five questions. Ask the students to read the passage quietly and quickly by themselves. Then find the answers. The questions are:
1）Who invented tea？
2）When was tea drunk？
3）What is Lu Yu famous as?
4）What was the most event in the history of spreading tea?
5）In tea culture, why are the Chinese important?
Then, ask the students to work in groups to read the passage again. Fill in the
chart. Get the students to know more about the details of the history of tea. They are
going to remember more about the culture of tea. That is most of the passage.
So even they can retell the history.

paragraph
main points
1
invented
Who: by __________.
When: _________________
How: The tea was invented __________.One day, He _______drinking water. _________ fell in and remained there. It produced _________ so he ________ the water. It was _________.
2
developed
Who: ________, called________
What: He is famous for______________
The book: How to ___________
How to ___________
Where to _________
What kinds _________
3
spread
When events
the 6th and 7th century ____________________
_______________ To England
in less than 100 years ___________________
_________________ To Western countries

Step 5. Target language learning
Lead the students to learn some key points in the passage. Then read it together. Retell the story with the help of the key points and the information in the form in step 4.
Step 6. Production
Lead the students to analyze the structure of the passage. Get the student to know how to write a passage about the history of an invention. Show them an example and lead them to write about it. If there is enough time, ask them to write in groups together and then share their work together. Encourage them to have their own ideas of inventing new things.
Step 7. Summary
Lead them to remind what they have learnt in this class. And do some more exercises to check their study.Lead them to feel proud of our nation.
Step 8. Homework
1. Revise the new words and the new structure.
2. Write a short passage about the invention that they know or they imagine.

Blackboard design

Unit 6 When was it invented? Section A 3a
Tea: the ________ drink in the world
invented: ____________
________: ___________
_______: __________
An Accidental Invention
boil
remain
national
by accident
fall into
less than
take place
without doubt
It is said that...
It is believed that...

Be+ pp

Self-evaluation
This part will be completed after this teaching plan is carried out. And according to the practical results, maybe some step or task will be improved.