人教版选修7 unit 5 Travelling abroad P1 教学设计

Unit 5 Traveling abroad
Part 1 Teaching Design
第一局部教学设计
Period 1 A sample lesson plan for reading
(KEEP IT UP, XIE LEI Chinese students fitting in well) Introduction
This period will be warming up by students talking about what studying abroad is. Then students will first be guided to pre-read the text getting to know why people study aboard. The text will be read both for its forms and its contents. Useful expressions from the text will be found and copied. Sentences will be made with the expressions. Reading the text again for the type of writing and the summary of Keep it up, Xie Lei is to be done with the period ended in students drawing a diagram
of the text and retelling it in their own words.
Objectives
To help students understand the text’s forms and contents and learn about traveling abroad
To help students communicate on the topic in focus with the words, expressions and structures learned in this unit
Focus
Aids
Multimedia facilities, tape-recorder, photos, diagrams
Procedures
1. Warming up by talking about what studying abroad is?
Good morning, class. What is this? Yes, it’s a photo. A photo of my daughter. She is studying abroad.
Studying abroad is the act of a student pursuing educational opportunities in a foreign country.
Typically classes are taken while studying abroad award credits transferable to higher education institutions in the home country. However, students may pursue these opportunities at any age and may not require college credit. Students studying abroad may live in a dormitory or apartment with other students or with a "host family", a group of people who live in that country and agree to provide student lodging.
Topics of study can vary. Some students choose to study abroad in order to learn a language from native speakers. Others may take classes in their academic major in a place that allows them to expand their hands-on experience (e.g. someone who’s studying marine bio logy studying abroad in Jamaica or a student of sustainable development living and studying in a remote village in Senegal). Still other students may study abroad in order to explore topics within the framework of a different educational system (e.g. a student of English who goes to the United States to study American literature).
2. Pre-reading by getting to know why people study aboard
Why does my daughter go studying abroad?
There are a variety of reasons students may choose to study abroad. It is as an opportunity for them to immerse themselves in a foreign culture and have experiences unattainable in their own country.
As stated above, students may study abroad in an effort to expand their opportunities beyond those their home university offers. Learning a language is one of the most common reasons for studying abroad. Another is the opportunity to travel and experience new places. Many students also choose to study abroad in hopes of enhancing their employment prospects.
Study abroad is also a form of diplomacy, whereby students from different countries are able to interact, overcome and appreciate cultural differences and build relationships with people outside their native country. This is foreign relations on a personalized level and contributes to the current trend of globalization.
3. Reading for forms
Read the text again to: cut/ the sentence into thought groups, blacken the predicates, darken the connectives and underline all the useful expressions.
4. Copying expressions
You are asked to copy all the useful expressions into your notebook after class as homework.
5. Making sentences with the expressions
You are to write your own sentences with the expressions you found from the text. Use as many non-restrictive clauses as possible.
6. Reading more about studying abroad
7. Reading the text again for the type of writing and summary of Keep it up, Xie Lei Determining the type of writing will help you determine the author’s topic (subject), purpose (why he is writing), style (how he should write) and tone (his attitude toward his subject - supportive, condeming, objective, etc.)
It is important to find main ideas when reading. Main ideas help you remember important information. The main idea of a paragraph tells the topic of the paragraph. The topic tells what all or most of the sentences are about. The other sentences in the paragraph are called details. Details describe or explain the main idea. Read the text to find the main idea.
7. Closing down by drawing a diagram of the text and retelling it in your own words
Most texts have a three-part structure—introduction, body, and conclusion. You can see this structure in texts whether they are narrating, describing, comparing, contrasting, or analyzing information. Each part of the text plays an important role in communicating writer’s meaning to the reader. Now read the text for its structure and draw a text diagram. Retell the text story with the help of the diagram if possible.。