Unit4 Reading for Writing 名师教学设计
Describe a place you like
Beautiful Ireland and Its Traditions
Teaching Analysis:
The text describes the beautiful landscape of Ireland and its traditions. To show the inspiring and exciting beautiful landscape of Ireland, the writer begins the description with its natural scenery in different senses and space order. And it’s this beauty that nourishes the strong tradition of Ireland. Such connection also makes the description coherently. For ss in Grade1, they are interested in this topic but they have difficulty making a concise and coherent description. They lack in writing skills in details description and transitional devices. Thus, in this class, the teaching aims are designed as follow:
To experience the Irish beauty and tradition through analyzing and appreciating the descriptive language and details description.
To understand the connection between the beauty of Ireland and its traditions.
To apply the writing skills of adding details to make their own description detailed and vivid.
Difficulty& Key Points:
To appreciate and analyze the descriptive skills in the text.
To apply the descriptive skills to details writing.
Step1: Lead-In (3mins)
Guessing: Guess a Place I like-Irish
Teacher offers some tips about Ireland in different senses.
Irish People: famous poets, writers and actors
Irish landscape: countryside view(Pics)
Irish dancing (video)
Irish food (beer and beef)
Q: What’s your first impression on this country-Ireland
(Aims: to elicit the topic and offer certain background information to stir up their previous knowledge and prepare for reading)
Step2: Reading (15)
Read for main idea
Analyze the title and topic sentence
Beautiful Ireland and Its Traditions
Q1:What’s the connection of them
Has a great influence on its people and tradition
produce writers; inspires and excites all
Read for understanding and appreciating :
Q2: Why can the beautiful countryside inspire and excites all
Offer sth for each senses.
Q3: What can we find in Ireland for our five senses And in which place of the Ireland can experience these
Ss: Finish the information map and think about which part of the description impresses you most and Why.q4
(Aims: to understand the connection between Irish beauty and tradition and appreciate the writing skills and details description)
Step3: Summarize:
How to make our description detailed
Use sensory details and figure of speech
Using Specific words:
How to make our description coherent
Logical connection; Transitional Sentence; Space order
Step4: Writing (20mins)
What do you think of Changshan
Changshan is a beautiful, peaceful, calm and slow-pace county.
Can you add some details to enrich the this description
Five Senses:
See: bright sunshine; people;farmers; field; mountains; huyou trees; wild duck; yawning and stretching cats and dogs
Hear; buzzing;whistle;breeze微风; changshan river; the bell of bell tower;
smell: the scent of cole flowers; the scent of steamed Baozi;
Taste: local noodles;
Blackboard Design:
The following are words and phrases indicating space:
Above, across, against, along, around, at, behind, below, beneath, underneath, beside, between, facing, from, in, inside, in front of, in the middle of, next to, on , on either side of, on top of, outside, over, separated by, supported by, surrounded by, to the left of, to the right of, under…
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