Unit 9 Wheels

Unit 9 Wheels
Lesson1 On your bike
Chaohu No.1 Middle School Zhang Tingting
Teaching aims:
1 Language competence:
To understand the article about the white bikes in Amsterdam
2 Learning ability:
To use some reading strategies to find the structure of the article
3 Thinking quality:
To write an article about the shared bikes in Hefei.
Teaching important point:
To imitate the article in order to write about the shared bikes in Hefei according to a mind map.
Teaching difficult point:
To grasp the reading strategies
Teaching methods:
1 PWP approach
2 Task-based approach
3 Communicative approach
Teaching aids:
M ultimedia
Teaching procedures:
Step 1 Greetings
Greet the whole class.
Step 2 Lead- in
1) Show pictures of the shared bikes in Hefei.
2) Have a discussion: a) How to rent a shared bike?
b) Why do people choose to use shared bikes instead of cars or buses?
3) Introduce Amsterdam briefly.
Step 3 Reading for outline
Ask the students to read the first and last sentence of each paragraph to get the outline.
Match the headings with the paragraphs.
Step 4 Reading for details
1) Read paragraph 1 and answer the question:
Why is Amsterdam a good city for cycling?
2) Read paragraph 2 and answer the questions:
a) Who came up with the good idea?
b) Why?
c) What did they do?
d) Who was allowed to use the bikes?
e) Where to park the bikes?
f) Why did it fail?
3) Read paragraph3 and find out the differences between the white bikes in the
1960s and 1990s.
In the 1960s 30 years later
Color
Technology
used
Rules for
use of bikes
Where to park
Result
4) Read paragraph 4 and find out the benefits of the white bikes.
Step 5 Post reading
1) Show pictures of people’s bad behavior in the process of using the shared
bikes in Hefei
2) Students work in groups and make a report on the shared bikes in Hefei, which
should include:
color/ how to rent/ problems/ your suggestions
3) Ask some groups to present their reports.
4) Share the teacher’s suggestions
Step 6 Homework:
Finish the report on the shared bikes in Hefei
Blackboard design:
Reflections after teaching:
To arouse the students’interest in the lesson, employing different teaching methods is of great importance. It’s rather challenging to appeal to all the students, but in this period, I have tried my best to mobilize them to be involved into the process of learning. Just as the saying goes, tell me and I forget: teach me and I remember: involve me and I learn.
It is safe to say that when the students hold various opinions they are more eager to communicate with each other. That is to say, in order to arouse their urge to engage in the task or activity, the teacher should lead the students to think in other ways, or even from the opposite position. It is during the fierce arguing and debating that the students digest the knowledge best.。