The analysis of the teaching plan for Reading: I’d love to sail
across the Pacific Ocean.
This lesson is a reading material. It is in Go for it! Book3 Unit6. 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:
1. Knowledge aim: to learn the new words, phrases and language points and understand the main idea of this passage
2. Ability aim: to express one’s hope and dreams and improve one’s reading ability.
3. 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.
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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.)
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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?
… 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 _. Teenagers’ hopes Others hope to _ continue studying and go to university . 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 Teenagers’ dreams __to sail across the Pacific Impossible: _To be able to fly Conclusion Most teenagers hope _to have a good education / to find a good job They dream of __good things and crazy things _Hold on to_ your dreams, one day they may just __come true . 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)
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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.
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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
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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
I hope to get a full mark in the English test. Unit 6 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 dream to win 260 million yuan in a lottery. I can achieve that by working hard at school to learn as much as I can.
附教学课件中部分文字材料
一．Learning strategy:
READING WITH FOCUS
1.Adjust the speed you read according to the amount of detail you
need to take in.
2.Underline key points as you read, to remember what you read. 3.Read faster the second time you read.
学习策略：重点阅读
1.按照你需要了解的细节数量调整你阅读的速度。
2.阅读时要在关键点下划线，以便记住你阅读的内容。 3.读第二遍时要读快一些。
二．Task 1 Review the words.
s___________________ to travel on water by ship P__________________ one of the biggest oceans f___________________ something learnt as the result ____________________ as quickly/early as one can c___________________ go on happening/ doing
p____________________ planning the system for a computer
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