人教版选择性必修二Unit 2 Bridging Cultures
Reading and Thinking教学设计
Read about Xie Lei' s experience on an exchange programme
" Welcome, Xie Lei " Business student building bridges
I . Analysis of the teaching material :
Theme context : Man and Society
[ What ] The theme of this part is to read about Xie Lei' s expenence on an exchange programme. By telling the experiences of the difficulties and challenges she encountered and how she finally adapted to the new surroundings, the text reflects the real experience and life most exchange students first arrived in foreign countries, as well as their role and functions in cultural interactions.
[ Why ] Cross - cultural communication is one of the features in the global integration of the world, cultural interaction is quite importont taday, which is playing a more ond more outstanding role in the international relationship. Exchange students are the media and caltural messengers in the cultural interactions.
[ How ] This text is a news report, which is sequenced in the order of time, and organised by the changes of XieLei’s feelings and experiences. Ⅱ. Analysis of the Students
The students are from senior two, who have learned the characteristics of a piece of news . As to the topic about cross - cultural communication and being a cultural messenger, the students are interested in participating in an exchange programme.
Ⅲ . Learning Objectives :
Afer this section, students are expected to :
have a gereral idea of an exchange programme, understand the quotation on tle opening page .
predict the content , make inferences, read for the details and analyze tle structure.
learn to analyze difficult sentences, compounds.
Learn the inner - meaning of a cultural messenger for the indvidual and for a country.
IV . Teaching key Points :
Lead students to explore the reasons behind the events and sort out the emotional and logic lines.
Encourage students to analyse the structures of the passage.
Ⅴ . Teaching Difficult Points :
Enlighten students to think deeply about the role that freign students play in cultural communication and voice their opinions on the significance of acting as cultural mesengers
VI . Teaching Methoods
Activity - based approach , Skimming , Scanning, Three - stage - model in readng .
Ⅶ. Teaching Procedures :
Step l . Lead in
Actvity 1: Talk about exchange proprammes
Activity 2 : Brainstrorm the challenges and difficulties students might face when studying abroad .
Step 2. Prediction
Activity3. Make predictions about the reading passage.
Who is Xie Lei
Where did she go
What’s the meaning of " bridge " here
Where can you probably find this passage
Step 3 Skimming
Activity 4 Read for the gist
Skim through tle passage and match the main idea of each paragraph .
para 1 Xie Lei boarded a plane for London to study abroad.
para 2 . The reason why she chose the exchange programme.
para 3. The challenges she met in daily life.
para 4. The 1ife with her host family .
para 5. The challenge in writing an essay .
para 6 . The challenge in participating in generating ideas, offering examples, applying concepts and giving presentations.
para 7. Her acting as a cultural messenger building a bridge between China and the UK .
para 8 . Best wishes to XieLei .
Step 4 Scanning
Read the text and take notes, and then describe XieLei' s experience in your own words and fill in the chart below.
Aspects Challenges Solutions Feelings
Daily life Adaptaion to a whole new life Learned to use public transport Excited Nervous
Learned to ask for things she didn’t know the English name for
Asked for help
Loneliness Lived with a host family comforted
Academic requirements Writing an essay Got help from her tutor Confused
Read a lot to prepare
Participating in class activities Gave a presentation on traditional Chinese art Surprised Confident Feel at home
Step 5 Discussion
Work in groups, and discuss the followirg questions:
How hars XieLei helped to build the bridges between China and the UK
What's Xie Lei' s Character
Step 6. Summary and Assignment
Ⅷ. Teaching Reflections
This is a topic that interests students very much, and students also learned the role and signficance of studying abroad , which let them have a new understanding of studying abroad.
Ⅸ. Blackboard Design: