教学设计
Teaching contents Reading: Success for Spring Buds
Time 20 min
Teacher
Students Grade 2, Junior High
Analysis of the teaching material
The article Success for Spring Buds is an extension of the topic Music Born in America talked about in Unit 1, Book 8B. This material gives an introduction of Spring Buds Project, and talks about a girl’s experience as a student who has been helped by the project. This article can help students know something about the reason and purpose of the project. What’s more, students can understand how the project change girl students’ life by reading the story. Equally important, this article is well structured and well written, which can be employed to train students’ reading ability and strategies. Besides, it can act as a good example for students to follow when they write about similar topics.
Analysis of the students
The topic of charity is very popular among students, but as students in big cities, they may know little about the Spring Buds Project. This reading may give them new information on this topic. In terms of reading ability and strategies, they have received lots of related training, but there is still room for enhancement, especially in how to get the main idea and locate the key information quickly as well as properly understanding some difficult expressions according to the context.
Teaching Objectives
Knowledge objective Enable students to know something about Spring Buds Project, such as its reasons, purpose and how it changes a girl’s life. Enable students to master some useful expressions and sentence patterns. Ability objective Improve students’ reading ability and help them to foster proper reading strategies. Enable students to know talk about the main idea according to a mind map.
Teaching key points and difficult points
Key points： Students know something about Spring Buds Project. Students improve their reading ability and foster proper reading strategies Students learn to elicit some useful expressions and sentence patterns from the material. Difficult points： Students know how to talk about a project.
Teaching methods
Elicitation Task-based Teaching Cooperative learning
Teaching procedures
Teaching steps Teacher’s activities Students’ activities Aims
Step 1 Lead in & Pre-reading (3min 30sec) 1. Show three pictures of spring buds and introduce the Spring Bud Project. 1. Learn about spring buds and the Spring Bud Project. 1. To introduce and explain the meaning of spring buds and arouse students’ interest.
2. Show three pictures in the news about the Spring Bud Project. Help students to notice and understand the important features in the pictures and the news 2. Try to find out the important features about the Spring Bud Project from the news 2. To help the students learn something about the Spring Bud Project
3. Ask students to distinguish the keywords about the Spring Bud Project, and then summarize the definition of the Spring Bud Project 3. Distinguish the keywords about the Spring Bud Project and get to know what the Spring Bud Project is. 3. To elicit students’ prior knowledge related to the topic.
Step 2 While-reading --Skimming (5 min 30sec) 1. Ask students to go through the passage quickly and find out the girl’s name and the two main topics. 1. Skim the passage and underline the name and the sentence that introduces the two main topics. To enhance students’ ability to locate key information through skimming.
2. Ask students to match the paragraphs with the two main topics of the whole passage 2. Try to find out Which paragraph talks about the first topic and which paragraphs talk about the second topic
Step 3 While-reading --Scanning (7 min) 1. Ask students to read the second paragraph and retell something about the Spring Bud Project according to the mind map. 1. Read the second paragraphs and try to retell according to the mind map 1. To help the students understand the content and the structure of the second paragraph.
2. Ask students to read paragraph 3-5 and answer the questions: 1. What kind of help did Feng Guixiang get from the Spring Bud Project 2. How did the Spring Bud Project change Feng Guixiang’s life 3. What job does Feng Guixiang do now What does she wish to do 2. Read paragraph 3-5 and try to answer the questions 2. To help the students understand how the project helped the girl
3. Organize a group competition. 3. Participate in the group competition actively. 3. To enhance students’ sense of group cooperation through group competition.
Step 5 Post-reading (3 min) 1. Ask students to retell how the project help the girl according to the mind map. 1. Retell how the project helped the girl according to the mind map. 1. To help students use the information they learned in the lesson.
Step 5 Summary (1 min) Ask students to summarize what has been talked about in this lesson Recall what has been learnt and get prepared for the homework. To help students to comb through what has been learnt and get them prepared for the homework.
Homework
1. Read the text 3 times. 2. Write the story of the girl and the Spring Bud Project with the help of the mind map.
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Success for Spring Buds
沪教牛津版 8BU1-4 More Practice
buds
spring
The Spring Bud Project
Girl beneficiaries of Spring Bud Project attend class in Huzhu Tu Autonomous County, west China's Qinghai Province. [Xinhua]
Girls returning to school thanks to the Spring Bud Project learn dancing in the classroom.
[Women Voice]
A Spring Bud library opens in a rural primary school in Southwest China's Yunnan Province.
[Women Voice]
Do you know about the Spring Bud Project
Can you choose the words that may be
connected with the Spring Bud Project
girls
village
city
education
housework
boys
First Reading – Read for main ideas
Find out the girl’s name and the two main topics.
2. Which paragraph
talks about the first
topic and which
paragraphs talk
about the second
topic
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2
3
4
5
First Reading – Read for main ideas
Find out the girl’s name and the two main topics.
2. Which paragraph
talks about the first
topic and which
paragraphs talk
about the second
topic
1
2
3
4
5
First Reading – Read for main ideas
Find out the girl’s name and the two main topics.
Topic paragraph
-- at the beginning
中国少年儿童基金会
the China Children and Teenagers’ Fund
fund -- an organization that collects money to help people
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5
First Reading – Read for main ideas
2. Which paragraph talks about the first topic and which paragraphs talk about the second topic
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2
5
4
3
Second Reading – Read for details
Read Paragraph 2, try to retell something about the Spring Bud Project
launch – to start
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Second Reading – Read for details
Read Paragraph 2, try to retell something about the Spring Bud Project
launch – to start
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Second Reading – Read for details
Read Paragraph 2, try to retell something about the Spring Bud Project
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launch – to start
2
4.8 million
Second Reading – Read for details
Read Paragraph 3 to 5, try to answer the questions below.
1. What kind of help did Feng Guixiang get from the Spring Bud Project
2. How did the Spring Bud Project change Feng Guixiang’s life
3. What job does Feng Guixiang do now What does she wish to do
3
4
5
Second Reading – Read for details
Read Paragraph 3 to 5, try to answer the questions below.
1. What kind of help did Feng Guixiang get from the Spring Bud Project
2. How did the Spring Bud Project change Feng Guixiang’s life
3. What job does Feng Guixiang do now What does she wish to do
after
3
4
5
Second Reading – Read for details
Read Paragraph 3 to 5, try to answer the questions below.
1. What kind of help did Feng Guixiang get from the Spring Bud Project
2. How did the Spring Bud Project change Feng Guixiang’s life
3. What job does Feng Guixiang do now What does she wish to do
after
3
4
5
Speaking – Retell how it helped the girl
with a mind map. (third person)
You can start like this:
The Spring Bud Project helped a girl called Feng Guixiang in Guangxi. The story started in 1989…
Speaking – Retell how it helped the girl
with a mind map. (third person)
You can start like this:
The Spring Bud Project helped a girl called Feng Guixiang in Guangxi. The story started in 1989…
Summary
Homework
1. Read the text 3 times.
2. Write the story of the girl
and the Spring Bud Project
with the help of the mind
map.
THANKS
Wang Pei SFLS
