北师大版（2019）必修第一册 Unit 1 Life Choices Lesson 3 Your Life Is What You Make It 教学设计

Unit 1 Lesson 3
Your Life is What You Make it
Teaching Contents:
The reading text in this lesson is a featured report about Zhang Tian, who realize his personal value through his own life choice after graduation. Zhang Tian’s story shows his positive attitude towards life and social responsibility.
Teaching Objectives:
At the end of this class, students will be able to...
understand the new words and phrases related to a volunteer job and different feelings;
skim for general information in the text and find detailed information about the causes, process and results of Zhang Tian’s volunteer job;
analyze the structure of narrative writings;
learn Zhang Tian’s merits from his life choice, and think about how to realize personal value through their own life choices.
Teaching Key and Difficult Points:
Skim for general information in the text and find detailed information about the causes, process and results of Zhang Tian’s volunteer job.
Analyze the structure of narrative writing and think about how to realize personal value through their own life choices.
Teaching Procedures:
Teaching Activities Learning Activities Purpose
Step 1 Lead-in Broadcast a video about left-behind children and answer the questions on the PPT. Watch the video and answer the questions. What is your feeling about the kids in the video What would it be like to be a volunteer teacher there To help students activate their interests to the topic.
Step 2 Pre-reading Ask students to read the passage quickly and complete the connecting questions on PPT. Divide the passage into several parts and summarize the main idea of each part. Read the passage quickly and silently and complete the questions. Try to divide the passage into several parts and summarize each part with one word. To help students understand the main idea of this passage and practice their reading skills about skimming.
Step 3 While-reading Ask students to finish the multiple-choice questions on their exercise book on page 30 and short answer questions on PPT. Ask students to read the passage again and complete the Activity 4 on page 16. Ask students to find some words to describe Zhang Tian’s different feelings. Read the passage quickly and carefully and answer the questions. Read the passage for second time and finish Activity 4 on page 16. Read the passage for third time and finish Activity 5 on page 16. To help students understand the detailed information about this passage. To guide students to organize the information obtained by reading, and understand the structure of narrative writings.
Step 4 Post-reading Ask students to discuss their own feelings about Zhang Tian and their choice of voluntary work. Discuss the questions on the PPT and share their ideas with their partners. To guide students to learn Zhang Tian’s merits through analyzing and evaluating his life choice, and think about how to realize personal value through their own life choices.
Step 5 Homework Ask students to read the report accurately and fluently. Ask students to retell the report according to the diagram. Read the report accurately and fluently. Try to retell the report according to the diagram. To help students have a better understanding of what they have learned.
Blackboard Design
Your Life is What You Make it
choice challenge change
narrative writing
cause events
Time order process Three lines feelings
results evidence