Unit 6 Where would you like to visit？（Reading）

The analysis of the teaching plan for Reading: I’d love to sail across the Pacific Ocean.
Zhang Lili Anyang Foreign Language Middle School
Part 1. My understanding of this lesson
The analysis of the teaching material:
This lesson is a reading material. It is in Go for it! Book3 Unit7. It plays a very important part in the English teaching of this unit. By studying it, Students can improve their reading ability. Meanwhile, they can also learn that it’s important for people to have hopes and dreams and they should try their best to achieve their dreams. Teaching aims:
Knowledge aim: to learn the new words, phrases and language points and understand the main idea of this passage
Ability aim: to express one’s hope and dreams and improve one’s reading ability.
Emotional aim: to know it’s important for people to have hopes and dreams. We should never give up to make our dreams come true.
Teaching important points:
1. to talk about the hopes and dreams.
2. to memorize the new words and the usage of some phrases.
Teaching difficult point:
To talk about their hopes and dreams.
Part 2. My understanding of Ss
Students have studied in middle school for two years and a half. They have learned enough words to read a short text, but they are short of reading skills, so they can’t read quickly and they are still far away from our requirement.
Part 3. My teaching method
1. Task—based Language Teaching.
2. Situational Approach .
3. Communicative Approach .
According to the New English Curriculum standard, students should be the real master in language study, and will make great progress if they study and practice while doing by themselves. Situational Approach and communicative Approach can be combined together during Task—based Language Teaching
Part 4. Teaching aids
1. multimedia.
2. some pieces of chalk and a blackboard.
Part 5. Teaching procedures
Step 1. Warming –up and Lead in
Activity 1. Video-talking (individual work)
Enjoy a short video. (I believe I can fly)
There are three guiding questions:
Q1: Why did you laugh (Because it’s very funny.)
Q2: What did they want to do (They wanted to fly, but they couldn’t fly.)
Q3: Can we fly (No, it is just one of our dreams.)　　
Activity 2. Free talk (class work)　　
(1) Ask students to talk about their dreams freely.
(2) Invite some Ss to answer this question:
what is your dream / What is your hope 　
(3) Show students my hope and my dream.
My hope is to have a baby next year.
My dream is to sail across the Pacific Ocean.
(So what’s the difference between hopes and dreams )
A hope is easier to come true than a dream.
A hope is more realistic than a dream.
Goal: To lead up to the topic, get Ss to warm up and arouse their interest in the topic.　　
Step 2. Pre-reading　　
Activity1 Look and guess (class work)　　
In this activity, Ss are required to look at the title and guess what they will read.　　
Activity2 Brain-storming (class work)　　
In this activity, I will show them a picture that related to the title. Ss are encouraged to think of as many words as possible to describe the picture.　　
Goal: To develop Ss’ predicting skill and present some new words in the passage.　
Step 3. Reading　　
Activity 1 Skimming (class work)　　
Ss are required to go through the whole passage quickly to get the general idea and pay special attention to the first para and the last Para of the article (or the first sentence and the last sentence of each Para.)
The main idea of this passage is in the last paragraph: teenagers have similar hopes but dream of very different things.
Goal: To develop Ss’ skimming skill, that is, how can we get the general idea of a passage as quickly as possible.　　
Activity 2 Scanning (group work)　　
Encourage Ss to read the passage again, exchange their understanding of the passage with their group members and work together to fill in the following form:　
In the form,students should answer some questions like this :
Q1: What are hopes and dreams
Q2: What are the hopes of teenagers
Q3: What are the dreams of teenagers
…　　
Goal: To develop Ss’ scanning skill, that is, how to find out the clue of a story and motivate Ss to cooperate with each other.　　
Activity 3 Report (class work)　　
Invite some group members to report the anwer of the form to the whole class.　　
Goal: To overcome Ss’ shyness and stimulate Ss to speak in public.　
Activity 4 Further understanding and word study (pair work)
Encourage Ss to match the hard words with their meanings .　
Eg. sail v. discovery; what you find
finding n. tens of hundreds of
thousands of go on; keep doing
continue v. travel by water
…　　
Goal: To help Ss to guess the meaning of certain unknown words and understand the passage exactly.　　
Step 4. Post-reading　　
Activity1 Discussion (Group work)
There will be three topics on the screen. Students can discuss freely.
(1). Why do some students want to start work as soon as possible
Answer: Because they want to help provide better lives for their parents.
(2). What is important to students about the work they do
Answer: Although money is important, many teenagers said they want to do jobs they enjoy.
(3). What example is given of an impossible dream
Answer: Quite a few students dream of going to the moon one day.
…　　
Activity2 How can we achieve our dreams (group work)　
Write down a common dream. Then together list the small steps they could take to achieve the dream.
Eg. My dream is to have my own company
I can achieve that by working hard at school to learn as much as I can
Goal: These post-reading activities are intended to develop Ss’ creative thinking and get them to know how to achieve their hopes and dreams.　　
Step 5. Homework
Write a composition about their dreams and how they can achieve their dreams.
Goal: To improve students writing ability.
Part 6. Blackboard Design
Unit 7 Reading
I’d love to sail across the Pacific Ocean.
What is your dream What is your hope
A hope is easier to come true than a dream.
A hope is more realistic than a dream.
My dream is to have my own company
I can achieve that by working hard at school to learn as much as I can.
Unit 7 Reading（the passage）
I’d love to sail across the Pacific
We all dream about things that we’d like to do, and things we hope to achieve in the future. But are everybody’s dreams the same Here are some of the findings of a survey about hopes and dreams, in which thousands of students across China took part.
What are the hopes of teenagers
We received several different answers to the question: what would you like to do after finishing your education It seems some students would like to start work as soon as possible, so that they can help provide better lives for their parents. Other students hope to continue studying after finishing school, and to go to university. Although money is important, many teenagers said they want to do jobs they enjoy. According to the survey, the most popular choice of job is computer programming.
Teenagers have all kinds of dreams. Some are more realistic than others. For example, many students said they would like to be volunteers at the 2008 Olympics, maybe working as translators or tour guides. And quite a few dream of going to the moon one day.
According to the survey, less realistic dreams are also common, but many students reported that they were willing to work had to achieve their dreams. Quite few dream of becoming famous, perhaps famous sportspeople or singers. Some said they’d love to go on exciting trips; one student said she’d love to sail across the Pacific Ocean. And there are dreams that are impossible; three students said they’d like to be able to fly.
It was clear from the survey that teenagers have similar hopes. It seems that most students hope to have a good education and find a good job. On the other hand. Students dream of very different things: good things and crazy things. It was very important to dream, so hold on to your dreams; one day they may just come true.
Hopes or dreams are things we’d like to do or achieve _ in the future.
Here are some _ findings of a survey about hopes and dreams of the Chinese teenagers.
Some would like to _start work as soon as possible _.
Others hope to _ continue studying and go to university .
Teenagers’ hopes
Many teenagers want __to do jobs they enjoy___.
_______________________________
The most popular choice of job is Computer programming
_________________________________________.
_______________________________
Realistic: _To be volunteers at the Olympics
Less realistic: _Going to the moon, becoming famous
__to sail across the Pacific
Impossible: _To be able to fly
Teenagers’ dreams
Most teenagers hope _to have a good education / to find a good job
They dream of __good things and crazy things
Conclusion
_Hold on to_ your dreams, one day they may just __come true .
I hope to get a full mark in the English test.
I dream to win 260 million yuan in a lottery.