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高中英语感谢信教案1

Good afternoon, everyone. It’s my great pleasure to be here sharing my lesson with you. The content is Senior High English Module 1 Unit 2 Modern heroes. I’ll be ready to begin this lesson from six parts, that is, analysis of the teaching material, analysis of the Students, teaching aims, teaching important and difficult points, teaching methods and teaching procedures. First of all, let me talk about the teaching material.

Part 1 Analysis of the teaching material:

Unit 2 is about different heroes, in which most students are interested. By studying this unit, we’ll enable the students to know how to be a hero and develop their interest in heroes. Lesson 1 plays an important part in the English teaching in this unit. If the students can learn it well, it will be helpful to make the students learn the rest of this unit. This lesson is about a national hero——Yang Liwei who is famous for the first astronaut of China, which, I think, the students are familiar with. There are many new words and expressions related to space flight appearing in the reading material, too.

Part 2 Analysis of the Students:

Aged 15-16 years, the students in Senior1 think actively, respond swiftly and have the courage to express their thoughts and ideas. Just entering high school and lacking in the ability of active learning, however, they haven’t formed a good habit of learning English. When it comes toreading, they haven’t master how to use extensive and intensive reading skills and the abilities of summary and induction as well. In a word, students haven’t mastered the reading strategies. On the other hand, after a certain time of training, they’ve mastered some reading skills, such as group work, using the culture and background knowledge etc.

Part 3 Teaching aims:

According to the new standard curriculum and the syllabus (新课程标准和教学大纲), after studying the teaching material and analyzing the rule of children’s growing of mind, I think the teaching aims are the followings:

Knowledge goals:

●To learn some words and expressions related to space flight appearing in the reading material.

Ability goals:

●To improve students’ basic ability of listening, speaking and reading.

●To practise extensive reading in order to understand the main idea of each paragraph and guess the meaning of new words from the context.

Emotional goals:

●To motivate students’ interest in space exploration of China.

●To help student to learn to cooperate with each other.

Now, let’s come to the Important and the Difficult points.

Part 4 Teaching Important and Difficult points:

The important and difficult points of this period lie in: To achieve the teaching aims better and make the student respond actively to complete the tasks. But how to? According to the analysis of the teaching material and the students’ learning background, I will use the following methods.

Part 5 Teaching Methods:

In my opinion, the main instructional aims of learning English in the High School is to develop the students’ abilities of listening, speaking, reading, writing and their good sense of the English language. So in this lesson I’ll mainly use the “communicative approach” to mobilize the enthusiasm of the students to actively participate in class activities and fulfill the tasks of teaching through teacher-student interaction and group discussion.

At the same time, I’ll also use “task-based approach” in my teaching, which offers the students an opportunity to complete the tasks in which students use language to achieve a specific outcome. I’ll make use of the modern electricity teaching equipment and all kinds of teaching means, which can develop the Ss creativity in learning English.

Part 6 Teaching procedures

Step 1 Lead-in.

Show the students a piece of video: the launch of Shenzhou V

Then ask the students the following questions:

Do you know who was in the spaceship?(Show the picture of Yang Liwei)

What do you know about him? (Show the profile of Yang Liwei )

How do you feel about him?

How did you feel about China’s first manned space flight?

Purpose of my design: This activity can stimulate the interest of students, which naturally leads to the topic of this period.

Step 2 Fast readingAsk the students to skim the passage to complete the task. ( Show the students the exercise on the screen)

Task 1: Divide the class into two groups: boys and girls. Ask them to read the article quickly and the boys circle all the words related to a spaceship’s movement while the girls circle all the words related to Yang Liwei’s movement in the spaceship.

Then ask the boys to judge whether the girls’ answers are right or wrong and the girls do the same.

Purpose of my design: Enable students to understand the given material better using a useful reading skills. Dividing the class into two groups--boys and girls, will create a competition between the boys and girls, which, of cause , makes the studens more actively participate in the class activities.

Step 3 Detailed reading

Task 2: The students have got some basic understanding of the passage after Task 1.This time show the boy students five questions to answer, requiring them to conduct a second reading and get a further understanding of the passage . At the same time ask the girl students to find out the headings of the paragraphs and match them together.

Boys:

1. How did Yang Liwei feel during the flight? How did he feel afterwards?

2. What did Yang Liwei do during the Shenzhou V’s seventh circle of the earth?

3. How many circles did the spaceship complete while Yang Liwei was sleeping?

4. What were helicopters doing as Yang Liwei returned to the earth’s atmosphere?

5. What did Yang Liwei do when he came out of the spaceship?

Girls:

Para.1 Introduction

Para.2 An exciting lift-off

Para.3 During the flight

Para.4 International good wishes

Para.5 Astronaut lands safely

Para.6 Welcome home

Then ask the boys to judge whether the girls’ answers are right or wrong and the girls do the same.

Purpose of my design: The task makes students more familiar with the passage, train their reading speed and reading strategies and develop the students’ capacity of induction.

Step 4 Post reading

(Show some sentences with pictures to students, then ask them to guess the meaning of some words or phrases. )

Task 3: Ask the students to guess the meanings of some words and phrases together with some pictures. Then ask the students to complete the following exercise shown on the screen, using some words and expressions in this passage.

China’s first spaceship at 9 a.m.,October 15,2003. The first Chinese ,Yang Liwei said, “When the spaceship was , I could really feel the high . When the spaceship from the rocket, I suddenly got a feeling of the sky.” During the 21-hour space , the spaceship the earth 14 times. When the space was the earth for the seventh time, Yang Liwei showed the

of China and the UN, the wishes of Chinese to space peacefully. Yang landed . The spaceship was red when it came into the earth’s . The ship was shaking when it let out its . At the same time were ready to save Yang. Yang climbed out of the spaceship, smiled and to the crowds waiting for him.

Purpose of my design: Present some key words and phrases appearing in the passage, and fill in the blanks to increase the students’ ability of language use. Then ask the students to report the answers one by one. This task can test the students’ learning effects.

Step 5 Free discussion

Task 4: Ask the students to Work in pairs. Imagine one is Yang Liwei and the other is a reporter from CCTV. Make up an interview between them.

Example:

Reporter: When did the spaceship lift off?

Yang: It lifted off at 9 a.m. on October 15th, 2003.

R: What did you eat in space?

Y:…...

Purpose of my design: Most students can take their parts in the activities, especially for the Ss who have trouble in English study. In the group activities, they can speak a little English. Without doubt, this will encourage them to speak English. In fact, it is a kind of demand of human being. “Task-based” method is used here to develop the students’ ability of communication and also their ability of co-operation will be well trained.。

Step 6: Homework.

1.What do you think of Yang Liwei? Please write 5 or 6 sentences.

2. Read the article space heroes on page 32

Purpose of my design: I think homework is so important that the students should practise English as much as they can in class or after class. It is necessary for the students to do some exercises after class to master the knowledge they learned, which is an extension of the previous lesson.

高中英语感谢信教案2

Lesson Plan Interpretation

NSEFC Book1 Unit3 Travel Journal

Hello, everyone. It’s an honor for me to stand here and interpret my lesson. The lesson plan I am going to talk about is from NSEFC Book 1 Unit 3 Travel Journal. I’ll explain how to teach and why do so from the following 5 aspects: the theoretical basis, understanding of the teaching material, teaching methods and studying ways, teaching procedure, blackboard design.

Ⅰ. The theoretical basis

First, I’d like to show my theoretical basis--schema theory and top-down model (Goodman, 1971). Journey down the Mekong is a reading course. According to schema theory, reading comprehension is an interactive process between the reader’s background knowledge and the text (Carrel and Eisterhold, 1983), or between the new information and the old knowledge store (Anderson and Pearson, 1984). So in order to improve the students’ reading speed and reading comprehension, language teachers should try to activate the Ss’ old knowledge store and add more relevant background knowledge before they get the students to read. According to the top-down model, general idea of the text will be got first, and then come the details.

II. Understanding of the teaching material

My understanding of the teaching material includes 3 parts: the status and the function, teaching objectives, the important and difficult points.

At the beginning, let’s focus on the first part. Journey down the Mekong is a piece of travel journal written by Wang Kun. It’s mainly about Wang Kun and his sister’s dream of taking a great bike trip down the Mekong River, their preparation for the trip and some more details of the Mekong River. General speaking, it is not difficult for the students to understand the text, but there are some new phrases and sentences that may be a little bit difficult. So before the students’ first reading, I will explain the new words and phrases briefly and after reading the whole passage, I will embody the usage of the news words and phrases, and get the student understand the difficult sentences. As it is a piece of journal, besides learning the new words and phrases, students can get the general idea of how to write a journal.

That’s all for the first part, now let’s move to the second part. According to the teaching material and the new curriculum of English, in order to fulfill the learning task of this lesson, I establish the following objectives:

a) Knowledge objectives

By the end of the lesson, Ss will have a better understanding of the meaning and structure of the text. Then Ss will grasp some useful words and expressions such as determined, make up one’s mind, give in, be fond of …, care about…, stubborn, etc.

b) Ability objectives

Actually students should be encouraged to do speed reading in the first period of reading lesson. But the students in my class are lack of independent reading ability. In this class, I will encourage and help them to read, think and find out information by themselves most time. Since the main objective of reading course is to improve the Ss’ reading ability, I’ll train their ability of identifying the general idea in the fast reading. And in intensive reading their ability of information-gathering and summarizing is developed. And the whole class is for Ss to develop their reading skills as scanning, skimming, information-gathering, summarizing and guessing the new words from the text.

c) Moral objectives

Though Journey down the Mekong is mainly about the trip down the river, it also talks about the scenery and life along the river. So before learning the text, we will have a short discussion about the importance of the river. I want the Ss to have the awareness of protecting the river and protecting our environment.

Well, so much for the teaching objectives, let's come to deal with the third part: the important points and the difficult points. According to the national curriculum of English and language learning theory, when teaching reading, we should encourage the Ss to do speed reading for the first time, that’s to say, we should encourage our Ss to read as fast as they can when they do the first reading. So much emphasis should be put on reading skills and reading comprehension as well. So the important points are that how to make Ss grasp the new words and phrases and how to improve their reading skills as scanning, skimming, information-gathering and summarizing. As to the difficult points, they are the same as the important ones.

III. Teaching methods and studying ways

That’s all for my understanding of the teaching material. Now let’s focus on the ways of teaching and learning.

Generally speaking, I adopt task-based language teaching and communicative approach in my class. As for learning, Ss will learn through independent reading, discussing and cooperating.

I will use computer and blackboard as my teaching aids.

Ⅳ. Teaching procedureHere comes the most important part, the teaching procedure. It includes 5 steps: Step I: Lead-in and pre-reading, Step II: While-reading, Step III: Consolidation, Step IV: Post-reading, Step V: Homework.

Step I: Lead-in and pre-reading (7mins)

Now let’s come to the first step. There are three activities in this step and I will spend 7mins on them.

In activity one, I will ask Ss two questions "Do you know some great rivers in China?" and "Why they are great?” Here, as the Ss get familiar with the Chinese great rivers, I choose to ask them some great rivers in China. And the answer to the second question can lead in the next activity--brainstorming.

In activity two, I will ask the Ss to discuss in pairs and answer the question "How do people who live along a river use it?” My purpose of this activity is to remind the Ss the importance of the river, thus stimulate the Ss' awareness of protecting the rivers.

In the last activity, I will show the Ss a picture of the Mekong River and ask them to list the countries that it flows through. This activity leads in the while-reading.

Step II: While-reading (21mins)

While-reading is the main part and it will take 21mins. Here I adopt the top-down reading model. This step is divided into 2 parts: fast reading and careful reading. Before reading, I will ask the Ss to predict what will talk in the text according to the title. It can exert the Ss' imagination.

1) Fast reading

During fast reading, I will ask the Ss to reading the whole passage quickly and get the main idea of each paragraph. Usually, the main idea of each paragraph is the first sentence or the last sentence, but this text is not. So the main idea of each paragraph will be matched because the Ss are lack of the skill of summarizing the main idea by themselves.

2) Careful reading

After getting the general idea of each Para., I will deal with the details Para. by Para..

In paragraph one, I will ask the Ss to read quickly and do the exercises T or F. And if it is F, I will ask them to correct it. This exercise can help the Ss get the key information of the first paragraph in a short time and can deepen the Ss’ understanding of the first paragraph.

In paragraph two, I will ask Ss one question “Is it a difficult journey to cycle along the Mekong? Why?” This can help the Ss develop their ability of summarizing. If the Ss can’t answer the question briefly, I will encourage them to find the key sentences and try to join them together.

And in the last paragraph, I will ask Ss two questions “How does the water of Mekong River change?” and “What can you see when you travel along the Mekong River?” Both questions are required to answer in keys word. In order to lower the difficulty of the questions, I will show them the examples. After that, I will present some pictures to deepen the Ss’ impression on the new words. And these two questions can help the Ss gain a deeper understanding on the Mekong River.

Step III: Consolidation (6mins)

After dealing with the detailed information of each paragraph, I will ask the Ss to read the whole passage again and answer two questions to consolidate what they’ve learnt. It will take 6 minutes. The two questions are “Where is the source of the Mekong River and which sea does it enter?” and “How do Wang Kun and Wang Wei prepare for the trip?” It is easy for the Ss to find the answer to the first question in the text. As to the second question, it may be a little difficult, so I will list some tips for the Ss to find the answer more easily.

Step IV: Post-reading (10mins)

That’s all for the while-reading. Now let’s move to the fourth step. In this step, I will design two activities and I will spend 10 minutes on them.

The first activity is filling in the blanks. In this activity, Ss are required to find the different attitudes of Wang Kun and Wang Wei to the trip, and then the teacher will express her attitude to this trip. After demonstrating, Ss are encouraged to express their attitudes. It can help the Ss train their ability of information-gathering and expression.

The second activity is thinking. In this activity, I will ask the Ss to discuss in groups of four and try to use some words to describe the characteristics of Wang Kun and Wang Wei according to their attitudes. It is really difficult, but it can not only train their ability of analysis and comprehension, but also cultivate their spirit of cooperation

Step V: Homework (1min)

Finally it comes to the homework. Ss are required to review the learnt lesson and underline the useful words and phrases in the text. This one is for them to consolidate what they’ve learnt and make preparation for the next lesson—Learning about the Language..

Ⅴ. Blackboard design

On the top, there is the title of this lesson. On the left, it lists some important roles that the river plays. On the right, there are some useful words and expressions.

That’s all for my interpretation. Thank you for your att

高中英语感谢信教案3

一. 教材内容分析

本单元的中心话题是“电影”，本课是第三课时，是一篇传记体的短文，介绍当前好莱坞最有影响的导演艺术家—史蒂芬 斯皮尔伯格的创作生涯和一些作品。同一般传记一样，本文也是按照人物的生平时间展开：前两段记述了史蒂芬 斯皮尔伯格的早期创作尝试和生平，之后几大段介绍了他的事业和美满的家庭。学生从中可以进一步了解导演，也能体验一些影评的模式。

二.教学重点难点

(1).关系副词引导的定语从句和介词+关系代词引导的定语从句

(2)掌握相关的词汇和短语

(3)文章段落结构的分析并概括各段的段落大意.

(4)如何提高学生的阅读能力。

(5)对影视界名人及电影的评价(comments)如何写影评(review)。

三.教学目标

(一)知识技能

1. 掌握一些课文中涉及的词汇和短语：

如：academy, adult, industry, cruelty, marry, research, creature, owe…to…, take off, scene, blockbuster, director, script, studio, follow-ups等

2. 学习掌握一些重点句子：

如：This was a film in which … real actors… P31

Instead of …

This was the moment when …took off. P31

When asked about the secret about …he owes…to…P32

After that it still took …before… P32

3. 学习、掌握关系副词when，where.，why 引导的定语从句及介词+关系代词引导的定语从句。

4. 通过本课训练使学生能够提高他们的阅读理解能力，通过一些重点词汇及短语掌握文章大意。

(二)情感态度

1. 通过学习课文，培养学生了解、尊重异国文化，体现国际合作精神。

2. 通过开展小组活动，指导学生积极与人合作，相互学习，相互帮助，培养其团队精神。

(三)文化意识

1. 通过学习，了解国际导演史蒂芬 斯皮尔伯格。

2. 通过学习，了解世界影视文化，培养世界意识。

3. 通过中外影视文化对比，加深对中国影视文化的理解。

四.教具准备：

录音机，电脑，屏幕及图片。

五. 教学方法：

1.任务型教学法

学生学习本文时，我设计了一些任务，通过感知，体验，参与合作等方式，使学生的主动地位得到充分体现。如：要求学生阅读文章，回答问题，填写表格等。2.多媒体教学法

这一单元以影视为主题,利用多媒体展示影片相关图片，帮助学生用自己的话概括主要内容,提高课堂教学效率,增强学生学习兴趣.

六、教学步骤

Step one:Revision

1. check the words and expressions.

2. ask the students to explain the following words in English.

graduate work as play a role in

Step two: Pre-reading

此部分的关键在于让学生了解如何制作电影，尤其是通过了解电影的制作而突出导演的重要作用。Task: To experience being a director (write one scene of the film and act it out).

活动形式

1.师生互动：教师提问If you want to make a film, who do you need to invite?通过此问题引出电影制作过程中所需的各种角色，如photographer, actor/actress, editor, director等等

2.小组活动：

1)教师可设置这样的讨论题：What part would you like to play in making a film?根据选择分组，让他们讨论选择各角色的理由。同时讨论各角色在电影制作中所做的不同工作。通过讨论，学生不难发现，在电影的制作过程中，导演起了非常关键的作用。

2)根据所选的各种角色交叉分组，发挥各自的作用。

a. What would the scene be like and what happens in it?

b. Who are the main actors in that scene and what do they do?

c. Write a short dialogue and act it out

Step three: while--reading

本篇阅读材料是人物传记，介绍了导演Steven Spielberg 的成长经历以及他的主要成就和作品。通过文章的学习，旨在了解西方的电影文化背景以及学习名导Steven Spielberg的那种对自己的事业坚持不懈、孜孜以求的精神。

活动形式：

1.小组活动(lead-in)

分别给出和斯皮尔伯格所执导的电影的几幅图片，引起学生的兴趣，让学生分组讨论，预测文章的主题.

T: now, please discuss the pictures in groups then guess what is the text about?

A few minutes later, the teacher ask several students to report their answers.

2.个人活动(Listening)

让学生听录音一遍，然后找出课文中所提及的五部影片的名字。

T: Who knows the names of the five films?

S:The five films are: Jaws, ET , Jurassic Park ,Schindler’s list, and Saving PrivateRyan.

T: You are correct.

3.个人活动(Skimming)

A.快速阅读课文，按时间主线制作一个Steven Spielberg 的要事记

The teacher shows the years on the screen.

1946, 1968, 1959, 1975, 1982, 1993

T : let’s check the answer. I would like this group to answer these questions.

Sa: in 1946 Steven Spielberg was born in America.

Sb: in 1968 Steven Spielberg made his first real film.

Sc: in 1959 Steven Spielberg won a prize for a short film.

Sd: in 1975 Steven Spielberg he made one of his first films Jaws

Se: in 1982 Steven Spielberg made the film ET which was about creatures that come to the earth.

Sf: in 1993 he made the film Jurassic Park

B.快速阅读课文的Para3—5 , 查找出有关这5部电影内容和主题的信息，并核对与自己猜想是否相符。

films Information of the film

Jaws(1975) About a big shark that attacks and eat swimmers

Et (1982) About a little creature comes from outer space

Jurassic (1993) About an island where a very rich man keeps dinosaurs.

Schindler’s list(1993) About The cruelty of war/a German who saves Jewish people from being killed in the war.

Saving private ryan(1998) About the cruelty of war/an American leads his team to search for a soldier named Ryan.

3.个人活动( Scanning)

阅读并查找有关Spielberg的信息：

When and where was he born?

When did he start making films?

What did he use to make films at first? and later?

What was his dream?

What did he study?

When and with what did his career take off?

What does Spielberg owe his success to?

Step four: Post-reading

该部分可分成两块，其中第二块内容可以提前到阅读中去完成，也可在读后总结，当学生读完影片内容时，可以根据自己的理解写出五部影片的内容是什么(写尝试应用定语从句，体验定语从句的结构)。第一块(Questions)中第1，3，5三个问题比较难，从文中直接找不到答案，也是学生理解上需要升华的部分。可以通过分组，让学生讨论来理解这几个问题。让学生领会以下几点：1)、英语作为工具的重要性 2)、不懈努力、持之以恒 3)、成功需要家人的支持，合作、互助精神。

T: let’s turn to page 32, part 1.work in pairs and answer the five questions:

1. Why did Spielberg study English instead of the film?

2. Why were the people who saw the film Jaws were afraid to swim in the sea?

3. How important is his family to Spielberg’s career?

4. What was Spielberg’s dream?

5. What have you learn from reading about?

Step four: Homework

1.Preview the reading Not One Less on page34

2. Make sentences with the following words:

(1)career (2)role (3) owe (4) award (5)accept

七、教学评价

根据《国家英语新课程标准》对外语教学评价的原则，对学生的评价应坚持形成性评价和终结性评价并重的原则，既关注结果(教学过程中忘记考试)，更关注过程。在英语教学过程中更多地关注学生英语学习的过程、关注形成性评价，应重视形成性评价对学生英语学习的交流，对学生的书面作业、口头回答、演讲、朗诵等课外学习行为和学生的学习能力、学习态度、参与程度、合作精神等做出评价。形成性评价包括学生相互评价和学生自我评价等方式，应对学生的认知、情感、技能等方面给予综合评价，以帮助学生树立自信心、培养学生的学习能力和帮助学生确定合理的学习目标和使用恰当的学习策略。

形成性评价应采取多种评价方式，包括口头的、书面的、表格形式的，还可以建立学生个人学习档案

高中英语感谢信教案4

Good evening ,dear teacher, I'm pleased to have the chance to show you my teaching opinions. The topic I will talk about is from Book 4 unit 1 women of achievement . It consists of 6 parts.

Part I. The analysis of teaching material

First is my analysis of teaching material, this unit will talk about a few great women, and the article will focus on Jane Goodall, a great woman, as an animal lover, she tried her best to call for protection of wildlife. So we can see the article aims to enhance the students' awareness of wildlife protection.

Part II. Teaching aims:

According to the new standard curriculum and syllabus , and study the teaching material , I think the teaching aims are as follows:

1. Knowledge aims: (firstly) to master the new words, phrases ,and useful expressions

2. Ability aims: secondly to develop the ss' reading skills such as : listening , speaking , Reading and writing .

3. Moral aims: thirdly by learning the passage, let the students realize that everyone should have the responsibility to protect the wildlife.

Part III. Teaching and learning methods:

In order to achieve the teaching aims , I will use the task-based and students-centered methods , and the teacher acts as a director. I will also use encouraging words such as : have a try , a good job, excellent, and so on and make full use of modern equipments.

Part IV . Difficult and important points :

Now let's come to difficult and important points , It's about the great women, so we can learn a lot of good qualities of Jane Goodall, and the difficult point is to develop the students reading skills and communicate with each other fluently.

Part V. Teaching procedures:

Next part is the most important part, teaching procedures.

Step 1. Leading-in

At first, I will show some pictures about great women, and ask/encourage the students to guess who they are , and what makes them great. In the last picture , I will show some pictures about her work in the forest , According to the pictures, what did she do ? In this way , we will enter the passage.

Step 2.skimming.

43minutes to get the main idea of the passage, this step will train the students' fast reading ability. And grasp the key information of the passage.

Step 3 . Scanning

According to the main idea, we know Jane Goodall spent 40 years in the forest, .

1. Why did she go to Africa ?

2. What did she do there?

3. What did she achieve ?

According to these questions and a table , to complete the scanning .

Step 4 language points:

While they are reading , they may meet some new words , phrases, or even sentences, first they can underline it and then discuss it with your partner. And I will also show some useful expressions. Such as:

1. Worthwhile /worthy /worth

2.only after ...... Was she allowed ....

Step 5. Discussion .

Right now we know Jane Goodall devoted her most time to research, now what made her great ? And what did you learn from her ? 4 minutes to discuss in groups , and then some will present their opinions to us. This step will develop the students' ability of cooperation , communication and expression.

Step 6. Homework .

Finally , it is the homework , write a composition , try to introduce Jane Goodall , what did you learn from her? You can use words and phrases as many as you can you have learned in your passage.

Step 7 . The blackboard design.

A good design will have a better understanding. So here is the title , and on the left are the key words ,or phrases, on the right are some sentences.

Now a clear design will help them understand better.

So much for my teaching ideas. Thank you for your attention.

高中英语感谢信教案5

Lesson Plan Interpretation

NSEFC Book1 Unit3 Travel Journal

Hello, everyone. It’s an honor for me to stand here and interpret my lesson. The lesson plan I am going to talk about is from NSEFC Book 1 Unit 3 Travel Journal. I’ll explain how to teach and why do so from the following 5 aspects: the theoretical basis, understanding of the teaching material, teaching methods and studying ways, teaching procedure, blackboard design.

Ⅰ. The theoretical basis

First, I’d like to show my theoretical basis--schema theory and top-down model (Goodman, 1971). Journey down the Mekong is a reading course. According to schema theory, reading comprehension is an interactive process between the reader’s background knowledge and the text (Carrel and Eisterhold, 1983), or between the new information and the old knowledge store (Anderson and Pearson, 1984). So in order to improve the students’ reading speed and reading comprehension, language teachers should try to activate the Ss’ old knowledge store and add more relevant background knowledge before they get the students to read. According to the top-down model, general idea of the text will be got first, and then come the details.

II. Understanding of the teaching material

My understanding of the teaching material includes 3 parts: the status and the function, teaching objectives, the important and difficult points.

At the beginning, let’s focus on the first part. Journey down the Mekong is a piece of travel journal written by Wang Kun. It’s mainly about Wang Kun and his sister’s dream of taking a great bike trip down the Mekong River, their preparation for the trip and some more details of the Mekong River. General speaking, it is not difficult for the students to understand the text, but there are some new phrases and sentences that may be a little bit difficult. So before the students’ first reading, I will explain the new words and phrases briefly and after reading the whole passage, I will embody the usage of the news words and phrases, and get the student understand the difficult sentences. As it is a piece of journal, besides learning the new words and phrases, students can get the general idea of how to write a journal.

That’s all for the first part, now let’s move to the second part. According to the teaching material and the new curriculum of English, in order to fulfill the learning task of this lesson, I establish the following objectives:

a) Knowledge objectives

By the end of the lesson, Ss will have a better understanding of the meaning and structure of the text. Then Ss will grasp some useful words and expressions such as determined, make up one’s mind, give in, be fond of …, care about…, stubborn, etc.

b) Ability objectives

Actually students should be encouraged to do speed reading in the first period of reading lesson. But the students in my class are lack of independent reading ability. In this class, I will encourage and help them to read, think and find out information by themselves most time. Since the main objective of reading course is to improve the Ss’ reading ability, I’ll train their ability of identifying the general idea in the fast reading. And in intensive reading their ability of information-gathering and summarizing is developed. And the whole class is for Ss to develop their reading skills as scanning, skimming, information-gathering, summarizing and guessing the new words from the text.

c) Moral objectives

Though Journey down the Mekong is mainly about the trip down the river, it also talks about the scenery and life along the river. So before learning the text, we will have a short discussion about the importance of the river. I want the Ss to have the awareness of protecting the river and protecting our environment.

Well, so much for the teaching objectives, let's come to deal with the third part: the important points and the difficult points. According to the national curriculum of English and language learning theory, when teaching reading, we should encourage the Ss to do speed reading for the first time, that’s to say, we should encourage our Ss to read as fast as they can when they do the first reading. So much emphasis should be put on reading skills and reading comprehension as well. So the important points are that how to make Ss grasp the new words and phrases and how to improve their reading skills as scanning, skimming, information-gathering and summarizing. As to the difficult points, they are the same as the important ones.

III. Teaching methods and studying ways

That’s all for my understanding of the teaching material. Now let’s focus on the ways of teaching and learning.

Generally speaking, I adopt task-based language teaching and communicative approach in my class. As for learning, Ss will learn through independent reading, discussing and cooperating.

I will use computer and blackboard as my teaching aids.

Ⅳ. Teaching procedure

Here comes the most important part, the teaching procedure. It includes 5 steps: Step I: Lead-in and pre-reading, Step II: While-reading, Step III: Consolidation, Step IV: Post-reading, Step V: Homework.

Step I: Lead-in and pre-reading (7mins)

Now let’s come to the first step. There are three activities in this step and I will spend 7mins on them.

In activity one, I will ask Ss two questions "Do you know some great rivers in China?" and "Why they are great?” Here, as the Ss get familiar with the Chinese great rivers, I choose to ask them some great rivers in China. And the answer to the second question can lead in the next activity--brainstorming.

In activity two, I will ask the Ss to discuss in pairs and answer the question "How do people who live along a river use it?” My purpose of this activity is to remind the Ss the importance of the river, thus stimulate the Ss' awareness of protecting the rivers.

In the last activity, I will show the Ss a picture of the Mekong River and ask them to list the countries that it flows through. This activity leads in the while-reading.

Step II: While-reading (21mins)

While-reading is the main part and it will take 21mins. Here I adopt the top-down reading model. This step is divided into 2 parts: fast reading and careful reading. Before reading, I will ask the Ss to predict what will talk in the text according to the title. It can exert the Ss' imagination.

1) Fast reading

During fast reading, I will ask the Ss to reading the whole passage quickly and get the main idea of each paragraph. Usually, the main idea of each paragraph is the first sentence or the last sentence, but this text is not. So the main idea of each paragraph will be matched because the Ss are lack of the skill of summarizing the main idea by themselves.

2) Careful reading

After getting the general idea of each Para., I will deal with the details Para. by Para..

In paragraph one, I will ask the Ss to read quickly and do the exercises T or F. And if it is F, I will ask them to correct it. This exercise can help the Ss get the key information of the first paragraph in a short time and can deepen the Ss’ understanding of the first paragraph.

In paragraph two, I will ask Ss one question “Is it a difficult journey to cycle along the Mekong? Why?” This can help the Ss develop their ability of summarizing. If the Ss can’t answer the question briefly, I will encourage them to find the key sentences and try to join them together.

And in the last paragraph, I will ask Ss two questions “How does the water of Mekong River change?” and “What can you see when you travel along the Mekong River?” Both questions are required to answer in keys word. In order to lower the difficulty of the questions, I will show them the examples. After that, I will present some pictures to deepen the Ss’ impression on the new words. And these two questions can help the Ss gain a deeper understanding on the Mekong River.

Step III: Consolidation (6mins)

After dealing with the detailed information of each paragraph, I will ask the Ss to read the whole passage again and answer two questions to consolidate what they’ve learnt. It will take 6 minutes. The two questions are “Where is the source of the Mekong River and which sea does it enter?” and “How do Wang Kun and Wang Wei prepare for the trip?” It is easy for the Ss to find the answer to the first question in the text. As to the second question, it may be a little difficult, so I will list some tips for the Ss to find the answer more easily.

Step IV: Post-reading (10mins)

That’s all for the while-reading. Now let’s move to the fourth step. In this step, I will design two activities and I will spend 10 minutes on them.

The first activity is filling in the blanks. In this activity, Ss are required to find the different attitudes of Wang Kun and Wang Wei to the trip, and then the teacher will express her attitude to this trip. After demonstrating, Ss are encouraged to express their attitudes. It can help the Ss train their ability of information-gathering and expression.

The second activity is thinking. In this activity, I will ask the Ss to discuss in groups of four and try to use some words to describe the characteristics of Wang Kun and Wang Wei according to their attitudes. It is really difficult, but it can not only train their ability of analysis and comprehension, but also cultivate their spirit of cooperation

Step V: Homework (1min)

Finally it comes to the homework. Ss are required to review the learnt lesson and underline the useful words and phrases in the text. This one is for them to consolidate what they’ve learnt and make preparation for the next lesson—Learning about the Language..

Ⅴ. Blackboard design

On the top, there is the title of this lesson. On the left, it lists some important roles that the river plays. On the right, there are some useful words and expressions.

That’s all for my interpretation. Thank you for your att