Unit5 The Chinese Writing System 教学设计

Unit 5 The Chinese Writing System: Connecting the Past and the Present Reading and Thinking
Teaching Objectives: At the end of this period, you are expected to be able to:
1. To figure out the main structure of the passage through the analysis of G-P pattern.
2. share the Chinese language and culture to increase your cultural awareness.
3. judge the writing purpose/intended readers/the author's attitude/key information of the passage.
4. express your own ideas on the given topics by critical thinking
Teaching Focus:
To apply different approaches of discourse analysis to deepen the understanding of the text and language use.
To express personal ideas with the help of the target template and lexis.
Teaching Procedures:
I. Warming up
Game time: Guess and Answer
Prediction Look at the picture and the title of the passage, can you predict / guess what the passage is mainly about ?
II. Guided Discourse Analysis
Teacher: Get everyone to figure out the discourse pattern of the text assisted by G-P strategy, and share the lexis relevant to each topic.
*Students: Apply the G-P strategy, dig into the whole text and share the related details as well as language from it.
Purpose: To figure out the theme, topic, thread, and transition of the text, 4-t strategy
Interactive Task 1: Figuring out textual pattern(语篇结构、模式)
Guided Questions:
1. What’s the main idea of Paragraph 1 ?
___________________________ ____________________
2.What’s the main idea of each paragraph?
(Para2)__________________________
2(Para3) ___________________________
(Para4)____________________________
(Para5) ______________________________
(Para6) ______________________________
So the structure (结构) of this passage is ___________
III. Interactive Task 2: Theme analysis (主题分析)
*Teacher:
Let students analyze the pragmatic value of the text through different angles.
*Students: Recall the 10 angles of pragmatics analysis;
analyze the text through 4 angles and supply evidences or details.
Purpose: To integrate language with meaning as well as to foster students’ deep learning skills
Read the passage carefully to find out the topic sentence (主题句) and supporting details in each paragraph. Para1General statement:
____________________________________________________________________ Conclusion:___________________________________________________________ What’s the function (作用) of the underlined sentence?________________
Para 2The topic sentence:__________________________________
Detail1: ________________________________________________________ Detail2____________________________________________________________ Para 3The general statement:_______________________ _________
Detail1: _______________________________________________________ Detail2:_____________________________________________________________ Conclusion :________________________________________________
Para 4The topic 3 sentence:_________________ _
Conclusion: ____________________________________________
Comment: _______________________________
What’s the purpose of underlined sentence _______________
Para 5The topic sentence:___________________________
Conclusion: __________________________
What’s the purpose of underlined sentence _________________________
Para 6The topic sentence:__________________________
Conclusion: _______________________
Purpose of the Comment: _____________________
IV. Interactive Task 3:
Analyzing pragmatic value(语用分析)
1.What is the writing purpose of the passage?_________________
2.Who is the passage written for?_______________
Thread and transition:
Time events
Modern times At the beginning
By the Shang Dynasty Over the years
In the Qin Dynasty (221-207 BCE)
Even today
In the modern times
Today
V. Interactive
Task 4: Review topic related lexis/vocabulary
(用下面的提示词汇复述
4文章)Para 1:Continue...there are many reasons why...but one of the main factors Para 2:At the begining, picture based language... symbols were carved...it dates back Para 3: By,well-developed... over the years, developed into different forms ....it was a time when ... however
Para 4 : Emperor Qin, united, develop in one direction...Even today
Para 5 : become means by...in modern times ... art form
Para 6:Today...Chinese culture..an increasing number...
VI. Interactive Task5 :
Group work
Discuss: choose one factor that has helped the Chinese language and culture survive and give your reasons based on the lexis you have learned and G-P patterns Viewpoint : Introduction:
Explanation:
Conclusion:
Assignment
①Look through the topics and lexis acquired in this period as well as this module.
②Read the supplementary material
Analyze the article with the help of 4-T angles and pragmatic analysis.
③Use your own words to briefly summarize the passage_
____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________。