Unit 6 When was it invented
Section A 3a-3c
ⅠClass type: reading
ⅡTeaching aims:
Knowledge aims:
After reading, students can know the history of tea.
Students can master new words and phrases in this passage.
Ability aims:
Students can get relevant information from the passage and finish tasks. Students can master some reading strategies, predicting, skimming, and scanning.
Students can write an exposition by themselves.
Moral aims:
Students can have a better understanding of Chinese tea culture and develop the spirit of innovation.
Ⅲ Teaching important and difficult points:
Teaching important points:
by accident, ruler, boil, remain, smell, saint, national, take place, doubt, without doubt
Teaching difficult points:
Students can describe the history of tea by themselves and write an exposition.
Ⅳ Teaching methods.
Task-based language teaching, communicative method
ⅤTeaching aids:
Multimedia, tea, water, paper cups
Ⅵ Teaching procedures
Step 1 Leading-in
T: It’s very hot these days. Am I right So when you feel hot and thirsty, what would you like to drink
Then ask students if they like tea. What’s the smell and taste of tea Make tea at the class and ask students to smell and taste.
Step 2 Pre-reading
Ask students to brainstorm some knowledge about tea they have known. Show new words in the passage.
Step 3 While-reading
Ask students to read the passage quickly. Then they should finish the match exercise.
Students read paragraph 1 and fill the chart.
What Tea
Where In China
Who A Chinese ruler called Shen Nong
When 5,000 years ag0
How Shen Nong was boiling drinking water over an open fire. Some leaves from a tea plant fell into the boiling water. It produced a nice smell and tasted delicious. This is how tea was invented.
Ask students to read paragraph 2 and answer the questions
1. Who is called “the saint of tea” What’s the name of the book
2. What is the book about
Students read paragraph 3 and fill the blank using the country and time
Students discuss the benefits of tea with partners.
Step 4 Post-reading
Make a summary of this passage by filling the blanks.
Tea was invented by _________. It is said that it was first _______ by Shen Nong about 5000 years ago. One day when he _____ ________ water over an open fire, some leaves from a tea plant ______ _____ the water and _______ there for some time. A nice smell was produced so he ______ the hot drink.
And so one of the most popular drinks was born. A book called Cha Jing mentioned a lot about tea a few thousand years ago.
Tea ____ ______ to Korea and Japan during 6th and 7th centuries. It also became a _______ drink in England. Tea is now ______ between many different countries. This helped to spread the _______ of tea to more places around the world. We Chinese are _______ ____ the ones who best understand the nature of tea.
Step5 Consolidation
Summarize the structure and the style of this passage.
Students write an introduction of bikes.
Ⅶ Blackboard design
Unit 6 when was it invented
Secion A 3a-3c
An Accidental Invention