A Teaching Plan for Reading, Unit Three, SB1, NSEC
designed by Su Xuejing from Yinchuan No.1Middle School
Unit 3 Travel journal
Journey down the Mekong
Part1:The Dream and the Plan
Analysis of the teaching materials
Altogether there are six journal entries in JOURNEY DOWN THE MEKONG which are presented chronologically. The dream and the plan is the first part of the journal which describes what happened before the bike trip. It gives students the background information about the bike trip, This section also introduces students to many of the geographical terms.
Analysis of the students
Students are interested in traveling .However, they have little idea of how they will really do it if given the chance. By learning the unit , students will know how to prepare for a trip.
Analysis of the teaching aims
Knowledge aims: students will know many geographical terms and learn about the purpose of the journal
Ability aims:
1)Student are able to find the detailed information they need .
2)Students are able to guess new words according to the context.
3)Students are able to learn to summarize the main idea .
4)Students are able to make judgment of the character of the characters in the reading material
5)Students are able to make up a conversation based on the reading material.
Emotion aims: Cultivate students’ teamwork spirit and creative thinking
Teaching Important Points
Comprehension of the text
Teaching Difficulty Points:
Summarize the main idea
Make judgment
Creatively think about and use the reading material
Guess the word according the context
Teaching Aids:
multi-media teaching aids
Teaching methods :
1).Task-based teaching methods
2).Communicative teaching methods
3).Elicitation method Teaching Process:
Step 1:Lead-in (by showing student pictures of some famous rivers in the world.)
Step2: Reading
Task 1 Reading for general information
1)Fill in a chart with the information picked out from the text.
2)Summarize the main idea of each paragraph.
Task 2Reding for detailed information of each paragraph
Task 3 Reading for judgment
Step 3: Practice (make a conversation based on the reading material)
Step4 : Homework (Guide students to make preparations for tomorrow's lesson)
课件20张PPT。Unit 3 Travel JournalHere are some famous rivers in the China. Guess what river it is ?The Changjiang River This river is the longest one in China.The Yellow RiverThis river is called Mother river of China.This river begins in Qinghai Province and flows through several countries.The Chinese part of the river is called the Langcang River
the Mekong Riverthe South
China Seaa Tibetan mountainJourney Down the MekongPart 1 The Dream And The PlanReading for
general informationWang Kun ,Wang Wei and their cousinscollege graduatesa bike trip Reading for
detailed informationtaking a
great bike trip.cycle along the entire
Mekong River
from _______________
to_________________.
Paragraph 1where it beginswhere it endsdream
plandream and planIs it easy to make a trip along the Mekong river? the information of the source of the Mekong In Qinghai ProvinceMore than 5,000 metersHard to breatheVery coldP 2Match each word to the proper English explanation1. rapid2. waterfall3. glacier4. delta5. plain6. valleyP 3glacierdeep valleysSoutheast Asiathe South China SeaParagraph 3Chinaplainsthe Mekong Rivertheir preparations for the tripSummarybought mountain bikes found out something about the river found a large altars in the library Reading for judgmentWang Wei’s response
Thank you!Unit 3 Travel Journal学案
Reading for general information
Journey down the Mekong
Who
?
What were they ?
How
the events about the journey
Two years ago
Last year
?
Several months
before the trip
?
After
graduating from
?
Reading for detailed information
P1:
their dream
their
plan
?
P2:
Source of the river
?
altitude
?
air
?
weather
?
P3:
1. rapid
2. waterfall
3. glacier
4. delta
5. plain
6. valley
a. A high place from which a river suddenly goes down
b. A large flat place
c. A fast-moving part of a river
d. A large body of ice moving slowly down a high valley
e. An area of low land between hills or mountains ,often with a river flowing through it.
f. The low place where a river enters the sea.
the Mekong River
It begins in a _______on a Tibetan mountain, moves quickly and passes through___________. Half of it is in ________. After it leaves China, it enters ______________. Then it travels slowly through low valleys to the _______ where rice grows .At last it enters__________________.
Summary:
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?Their preparations for the trip
P1
?
P2
?
P3
?
Reading for judgment:
Wang Kun’s questions about the trip and his knowledge about the river
Wang Wei’s response
1
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2
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3
4
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5
6
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Result:
Result:
What characters does Wang Kun have ?
What characters does Wang Wei have ?
