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Unit 4 My First Ride on a Train
(Reading) Teaching objectives: Knowledge aim: Learn the character of narration.Ability aims: Get the students to learn to do predication;
Train their reading skills: scanning and skimming
Learning to expre one’s opinion Emotional aim: Love animals Teaching focus: Help the students to do scanning and skimming.Difficult points: Get the students to do the retelling.Teaching aids: the multi-media; the blackboard
Teaching procedures: Step 1.Greetings (1 min)
Step 2.Warming-up (5 mins) Task: Team report The students make reports in teams about Australia.Each of them introduces part of Australia (people, weather, products, and so on) and the students from other teams make up and also ask questions.
Step 3. Lead-in (5mins) Task A: Predication The students read the title and discu what kind of writing they think the paage can be.(And the students may find its narration.) The teacher goes on to encourage the students to predict what a narration mainly talks about.Poible answers: who / when / where / what / how Task B: Taste
Help the students read the first paragraph of the paage and find the “who, when, where, what, and how quickly.Who—Alice Thompson When—recently What—had the first ride Where—from Sydney to Alice Spring How—travel on the famous Ghan train
Step 4.Reading skill training (12 mins) Task A: Skim for topic sentences The students read the text quickly and silently to find the topic sentence of each paragraph.And the teacher guides the students on how to conclude the main idea through topic sentences.(The topic sentence tells out the meaning of the whole paragraph, all the other sentences are centered on it.It is usually in the beginning of a paragraph, eg.Para 2) Task B: Scan for details The students read the text again, based on what they have known of the whole paage, to obtain required information.They are required to read with the following questions: (present on the screen) Then the teacher will discu the questions with the students and write down the keywords in the answers on the blackboard.1.What was the scenery like during the trip? 2.What does Alice do on the train? 3.Why is the train called the Ghan? 4.What were camels used to do? Why? 5.When did people stop using camels? Why?
Step 5 Consolidation (10 mins) Task A: Retell the text The students retell the text, referring to the keywords they have got by answering the questions.The students may first practice in pairs, then report to the whole cla.One doesn’t have to finish all so that more students can have a chance to practice, and finally all the students do the presentation together.Task B: Do reading comprehension exercises to practice using flexible reading strategies.(present on the screen) 1.The writer thinks highly of all but _____ during his trip.A.the food
B the train service
C the scenery D the people
2.Which of the following is true?
A.Australians traveled to Afghanistan a lot in the 19th century.
B.The police shot the trained camels with the permiion of the government.
C.The Afghanistan government paed a law to shoot trained animals
D.The writer used to travel long distances on a train alone.
3.Australians used to travel on camels for ____.
A.busine
B tour
C farming
D animal training
4.In general, the writer _____.
A.showed no interest in his trip by train
B.thinks his ride was long and tiring
C.enjoyed his ride on the train.
D.disliked the way the camels were treated in Austria
5.The writer talked a lot about camels because _______.
A.camels are of great use in traveling and quite helpful for man.
B.he was planning to travel on a camel with his friend soon.
C.readers are often interested in stories about animals
D.the writer wanted to explain why the train was called Ghan.
Step 6.Discuion (10 mins) Task: Think critically The students work in teams and choose either of the two topics, encourage all of them to give their opinions and finally the two teams report their opinions to the whole cla.A.What they think a good piece of writing should be like? And whether they have something to improve on the paage.B.How people should treat animals if they don’t use them any longer?
Step 7.Homework (2 mins) A.Read the reading part in the workbook and do Exercise 6,7and 8 B.Go to the net or look up in books to find more information about the development of trains.C.Write a short paage, introducing your traveling experience.
Blackboard design:
Unit 4 My First Ride on a Train Narration: Who—Alice Thompson When—recently What—had the first ride Where—from Sydney to Alice Spring How—travel on the famous Ghan train Keywords for retelling: ********** ************ ******* ****** ********** ********** Questions for discuion:
What do you think a good piece of writing should be like? How people should treat animals if they don’t use them any longer?
