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Skills for Cloze TestTeaching Plan

Instructor 郑健生

Teaching Aims:

1. Enable students to know what Cloze Test is and what it mainly focuses on.

2. Enable students to master the basic skills for a Cloze Test.

3. Enable students to know how to apply these skills in a passage.

Teaching Important Points:

1. How to apply the skills in a passage based on the understanding of the passage.

2. Get a better understanding of the procedures when filling a Cloze Test and get rid of

the unscientific habits.

Teaching Important Points:

How to apply the skills in a passage based on the understanding of the passage. Teaching Aids: a computer, an electronic pen.

Teaching Procedure:

Step 1. Leading in and Greeting

Step 2. Analysing

An analysis of the characteristics of Cloze Tests in the past years. Emphasizing on one of the reform in the College Entrance Exam, which increases the Cloze Test from 10 blanks to 15 blanks.

Draw a conclusion that the Cloze Test concentrates more on one’s ability of analysing and understanding a passage.

Guide the students to pay attention to the topic sentences, for from them, we can draw a conclusion of what a passage is mainly about.

Show two samples and require the students to underline the topic sentences in each paragraph.

Around the world more and more people are taking part in dangerous sports and activities. Of course there have always been people who have looked for adventure—those who have climbed the highest mountains, explored unknown parts of the world or sailed in small boats across the greatest oceans. Now, however, there are people who look for an immediate pleasure from a risky activity which may only last a few minutes or even seconds.

Key words: pleasure, risky activity, seconds

Skill One: 根据上下文语境解题(篇章逻辑、提示词) (context)；

Skill Two: 根据常识及文化背景（common sense & background knowledge）；

Skill Three: 作者的写作意图、情感及态度（writing purpose, affection & attitude）；

Show students a few paragraphs, and guide them to point out what method has been applied.

Step 4. Present the whole class the correct procedure of doing a cloze test.

Step 5. Instruct students to do a complete passage with these methods.

Firstly, guide the students to go through the passage quickly. While reading, pay attention to the time, the place, the characters, the event (when – where – who – what).

Secondly, invite students to present the information they get from the passage, and show the structure of the passage on the background. With the structure, guide the students to fill the blanks, from the easiest to the most difficult.

Thirdly, go through the passage quickly again and check each answer.

Exercise for students