Unit 6 Design
Lesson 3 Chinese Paper Art
Lesson objectives:
By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to:
·Use some words about paper cutting: ·Scan the text to extract specific information. ·Introduce paper cutting to foreigners.
·Develop their love of Chinese traditional folk arts. Difficult points: Students will be able to
use the information they get from the text to talk about papercutting.
Teaching and Learning Methods:
Teaching methods: 1. PWP method
2. task-based method Learning methods : individual work; pair work Teaching Aids: multimedia / worksheet Teaching procedures: Ⅰ. Lead-in
Show students some pictures and ask some questions:
Have you ever seen any work of paper cutting like this? Where do you usually see this kind of paper cuts? Why do people do paper cutting and for what purposes? Which paper cut do you like most? Why? Purpose of the activities:
Arouse the students’ interests in the topic. Activate students prior knowledge and elicit some new vocabulary. Ⅱ. Pre-reading: Prediction
Predict what will be talked about in the text. Ⅲ. While-reading 1. Fast reading:
Ask the students to read the text fast.
Check the students’ prediction. Ask the questions about the text:
When were paper cuts of animals found in China?
How many types of paper cuts do people like to make today? 2. Careful reading
Task 1: Ask the students to read the text carefully and check the answers. 1. What are the three types of paper cuts?
2. How do we know that there is a long tradition of paper-cutting in China? 3. Which Chinese character often appears in the wedding paper cuts? 4. How is paper-cutting related to fashion?
5. Why is the writer going to see Mr. Chen again. Task 2 : Reading for details
Ask the students to get Chen’s information. Task 3 :Details about paper cutting
Ask the students to complete the chart about the paper cutting. Ⅳ. Post-reading:
Get the students to do an interview according to what they have learnt.
Ⅴ. Homework:
Get the students to write a letter to one of the students’ foreign friends introducing Chinese paper-cutting. (100 words)