阅读课U2 Mother of Ten Thousand Babies

Teaching Design
Learning Aims
Knowledge Aim
Students can understand the content of the text.
Ability Aims
1. Students can develop the abilities of predicting, watching, guessing, skimming and scanning.
2. Students can conclude Lin Qiaozhi’s qualities by li sting some evidences.
Emotion Aim
Students learn from Lin Qiaozhi's qualities.
Lead-in
Watch a video and talk
Q, What hard choices did medical workers face?(采用英文视频，引起学生兴趣，激发学生阅读本文的动机)
Pre-reading
Watching and Predicting (pay attention to the title and pictures)（培养学生“看”以及预测的能力）
Q1, What kind of text is it?
•Expository(说明文)
•Argumentation
•News report
•Biograghy
Q2, How do you understand the title?
(Who is the “mother”? /Is she a usual mother as I?/”babies”)
Careful reading
Para1Guessing and Translating
Q, How do you understand the last sentence in para1? (translating) /Guess the meaning of “carried through”（理解文本，在语境中猜测短语意义）
“These words of Dr. Lin Qiaozhi give us a look into the heart of this amazing woman, and what carried her through a life of hard choices.”
Q, What’s the next part going to tell? (predicting)（培养预测能力）
Para2-6 （细节信息的理解能力）
Q1, What hard choices was Dr. Lin Faced with?
Q2, What were the results of her choices?
Q3, What did she give up when making her choices?
Time Her Choices Results
At age 18 chose to
1939 reject
1941 hard
1954 was more interested in
1983 hard
Concluding（总结林巧稚所牺牲的个人的东西，从而得出人生准则）
What was the main principle guiding Dr.Lin through the choices in her life?
(She always sacrificed herself and put others first.)
Rereading and thinking（加强学生对文章的进一步理解，从而表达对林巧稚的崇敬之情）
Complete the mind map
Q, What kind of person do you think Dr.Lin was? Using the facts and details to support your conclusion.
Post reading（自我提升与巩固）
Role-play
Make an interview in a group of two. Student A plays Lin Qiaozhi, student B plays a journalist of a newspaper. The journalist wants to know the hard choices during Dr.Lin’s life.
Homework
Give a speech titled A Chinese Giant---Lin Qiaozhi. Your draft should include Lin's life choices, the results, her qualities and why you admire her.。