Book 2 Unit 2 Developing ideas: Time for a change
Learning aims:
After this class, you should be able:
To predict the main ideas of a passage on the basis of title and illustration.
To get the writers’ viewpoints and understand how to present the viewpoints,especially to distinguish facts and opinions.
To make their own evaluation and judgments on different viewpoints.
To promote the understanding of cultural connotation and to find the proper way to carry forward traditional Chinese culture.
Activity 1 Do a survey
1. Where would you celebrate the spring Festival
A. Stay at home. B. Travel around.
2. How would you send New Year wishes to your relatives and friends
A. Visit them personally. B. Send wishes Via social media.
3. How would you receive your lucky money
A. In cash B. By Wechat red pocket
4. How would you make a bustling(热闹的) atmosphere
By letting off fireworks B. By bursting balloons
5. Where do you have your Spring Festival family dinner
A. At home B. At the restaurant.
Activity 2 Exploration
Explore the source
Look at the structure of the passage and predict where is it likely from
Explore the topic
What need a change
Whether should it be changed
Explore the information
Readers:
Ideas:
Activity 3 Explanation
How do the writers present their ideas
Complete the mind map of Wang peng’s letter.
Make out which statements above the mind-map are opinion, and which are facts.
An opinion can be a general or individual view, belief or impression.
A fact is something that exists or has happened, for example, an object, event or experience. Facts are statements that can be proved by evidence.
What makes the description of his childhood memory vivid
I would the house, the adults chatting about their years. I’d in the kitchen, her make dumplings. She’d put tokens in some dumplings: candies for a sweet life and peanuts for a long and healthy one. In the evening, all of us the table, the food and again. We toasted each other, we laughed, and the simple, homemade dishes tasted more delicious than anything cooked by a top chef.
Activity 4 Elaboration
Why do they hold different ideas
Activity 5 Evaluation
Title evaluation: is it the time to change the tradition of Spring Festival family dinner
Purpose evaluation: why are the different opinions showed
Performance evaluation:
What have you learned in this class
Homework:
Compulsory:
Write down your ideas about the phenomenon with the OREO writing pattern.
Optional:
Write a short passage to explain the meaning of Spring Festival and the way of celebrations.