Highlights and limitations of this lesson: Firstly, this lesson is a task-based process in which the teacher manages to set up scaffolding for the students by carrying out a series of closely-connected and difficulty-increased tasks. Secondly, in this lesson, the teacher tries to improve the students overall language ability, including the language skills, language knowledge, culture awareness, emotional attitude, and learning strategies. Last but not the least, the teacher tries to activate the students’ schemata by presenting the students with pictures and by brainstorming activity. However, the designing of this lesson may be not so effective in developing the student’s critical thinking competence. 学案 Worksheet Activity 1: Multiple choice questions ★ The main idea of this text is :( ). A．school life B．family C．work D．future Activity 2: T/F statements ★★ 1) Betty has known Lingling for 3 years. ( F ) 2) Sally will arrive in Beijing next month. ( T ) 3) Betty have you lived here since 2004. ( T ) 11
4) Lingling has learned Chinese for a year. ( F ) 5) A Hope School is a school for rich children. ( F ) Activity 3: Language work ★★★ 1. How long has Lingling known Sally? 2. How long has Project Hope built schools all over China？ 3. How long has Sally studied Chinese? 4. How long has Betty lived in China? Activity 4: Cues for retelling ★★★★ Cues for retelling: know/ arrive/ get on well with/live/ hear/ arrive/how long/Chinese/has studied/since/the Hope School/all over China Summary for reference: Sally and Lingling are having a talk. Sally will arrive in Beijing next month. Betty asks Lingling “How long have you known Sally?” Lingling say “For two years. Sally can speak a little Chinese.” And Betty has studied Chinese for a year. She lived here since 2004. Sally’s school orchestra has some concerts, but she has heard about the Hope School for poor children. Since 1989 Project Hope has built schools all over China. Activity 5: Follow-and-write ★★★★★ Imitate the writing of the summary on the topic My experiences of study English.
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