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高中英语全英文说课稿 篇1
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen! I’m XXX from No.2 High School. I’m very glad to present my lesson plan here. It is from Unit1 Module 2 NSEFC, Using language, reading, listening and speaking, the fourth period.
I. Analysis of the teaching material and learners
The content of the material is about how the Amber Room got lost, which is also the clue of the whole lesson. The reading passage is about the definition of fact and opinion. There is an old miner’s story about what happened to the Amber Room for students to decide whether he gives facts or opinions. In the listening part, there are two pieces of narration about how the Amber Room got lost. Students will listen and then fill in two tables with some information missing, which is difficult for them. In the speaking section, discussions will be carried out by using the expressions from the table as the output.
My students are familiar with the Amber Room now because they have learnt about it in the previous lessons. They have learnt many useful words for describing the Amber Room, which can make listening easier. Their scanning skill, even though it is not well-developed, plays efficient role in getting the required information in the limited time. However, the students’ listening skill of note-taking is poor and the listening passage is long and difficult for them, and they have no idea about how the great treasure got lost, so finishing the table will be a difficulty. In order to make it easier for them to fulfill the listening task, some key words from the listening are given to students. Before the blank-filling, some multiple choices will be given in order to help students get the general idea of the passage.
II. Learning objectives
According to the above analysis, I set the following learning objectives. Firstly, find out the differences between a fact and an opinion by scanning. Secondly, predict the content of listening by studying the key words that may appear in the listening content. Next, take notes of the key words from listening to get some information to fill in the tables and understand the main idea as well. Finally, learn the following words and expressions (trial, evidence, explode, entrance, sink, etc). by heart.
Among all the objectives, Finding out the differences between a fact and an opinion by scanning in reading process and knowing how to tell a fact from an opinion as well as give opinions are essential for the students. It is one of the focuses of this lesson. And in this lesson, the listening practice will take up most of the time because it is important for students to know how to take notes while they are listening. So this is another focus. The skill of note-taking is vitally important for the students during the whole process of English study, but it is also a difficult skill for them at present.
III. Teaching procedure
We will spend 17 minutes on reading and 28 minutes on listening and speaking.
The first two steps are for the reading part. Step 1 is pre-reading. There are two activities. Activity 1 is reviewing. I will show students a passage about the summary of the reading passage In Search of the Amber Room. Students will fill in the blanks with the relative words of attributive clause. Blank filling with the relative words aims to check whether the students can use the grammatical rules learnt last period in another context. The last three sentences mainly talk about the loss of the Amber Room, which function as the topic for the next activity. Activity 2 is discussing. I will lead the students to discuss what information is the fact and what information is the opinion about the Amber Room from the summary. As one of the language focuses, the difference between fact and opinion will be paid much attention to in this step, which can make preparations for the following steps.
Step 2 is while-reading. There are two activities. Activity 1 is scanning to find out the definitions of fact and opinion, which is the foundation of this lesson. Activity 2 is also scanning. Students will be asked to read the story told by Jan and then fill in the table. After that, they will discuss whether the event Jan saw is a fact or an opinion by using the expressions in the table (slide). This activity offers students the chance to make judgment in a real life situation according to the definitions. They will use some expressions they know to give opinions by answering “why” questions.
Next comes the listening. There are two parts, Part A and Part B. Step 3 is pre-listening for part A. I will show students some key words and expressions from the listening material. I will explain them. The students will guess what they are going to listen from the newly learnt words and phrases. Step 4 is while-listening for Part A. I will give students two chances. After the first listening, the students will finish four multiple choices. Based on the four questions, the students will know the main idea of Part A. For the second listening, the students will be asked to take notes down, and then fill in the blanks according to the notes taken. After that, they will check the answers with their partners’. Step 5 and Step 6 are designed to deal with Part B. It will be done just as part A. Firstly, the students will study the key words from the listening and predict the content as the pre-listening activity. Then, for the first listening, listen for answers to four multiple choices to get the main idea of the listening. Lastly, for the second listening, the students will take down key words to fill in the table. Predicting with the key words may lessen the students’ difficulty in getting the information. Multiple choice exercises are for the preparation to get a general idea of the listening material, which can be helpful in the blank filling activity. The listening is the foundation for the next step.
Here comes Step 7, post-listening. There are two activities. Activity 1 is pair discussion. Based on the reading passage and the listening material, the students will be asked to decide who told the truth about the missing of the Amber Room and give the best evidence by using some functional items to ask for and give opinions in pairs. Activity 2 is a group discussion. I will create a real life situation. I will say that Shanghai Expo is a great success. The students will work in groups of four and have a discussion about whether it is the best exposition ever. During the discussion they can refer to more expressions of asking for and giving opinions in the textbook. Based on all these activities, students have got enough input. Now, it is quite natural for them to give a valid output in Step 8. After knowing what fact and opinion are and know how to give and ask for opinions, students may have less difficulty in doing this.
The class will end up with an exciting discussion. Then I will ask students to write five sentences as evidence to support their opinion that Shanghai Expo is best ever. This is the homework.
IV. Blackboard notes
These are my blackboard notes. On the left, definitions of fact, opinion and evidence are given, which can help the students understand the key point in class. In the middle are key words from the first story in listening and on the right are the key words from the second story. Those words can be helpful for the students to get the general idea and easy to write down notes while they are listening.
V. Reflection
To sum up, there is enough input from reading and listening material, which provide the students with essential knowledge about the concepts of fact, opinion and evidence necessary for students to distinguish facts from opinions for later speaking activities at output stage. This lesson can be viewed as a typical integration of reading, listening and speaking. Reading for the definitions of fact, opinion and evidence functions as the input before using the knowledge to make judgment on the facts and opinions after listening.
That’s all for my presentation. Thank you for listening.
高中英语全英文说课稿 篇2
Good afternoon, teachers, It’s my great pleasure to be here sharing my lesson with you. The content of my lesson is Senior English Book unit 1（A student of African wildlife/Why not carry on the good work）I’ll be ready to begin this lesson from five parts. Analysis of the teaching material, the teaching methods, the studying methods, the teaching procedure, and Blackboard design.
First, let me talk the teaching material. Part 1 Teaching Material:
This unit is about（Great women and their achievements , Important people, history and methods of agriculture, Different types of English humor ,Culture differences and communication Different types of theme park）
By studying of this unit, we’ll enable the students to know some great women and their achievement and what makes the great women successful The knowledge of farming and Dr Yuan Longping’ achievement And chemical farming and organic farming. Charlie Chaplin and his funny and encouraging humor People from different area have different body language and use the right body language to showing our feelings. Theme park not only provide fun but also provide various knowledge and exciting experience. this lesson not only teach the students to learn the related material about
(1) the good character to be a successful person
(2)Yuan longping’s scientific research spirit and attitudes toward life The disadvantage of using chemical fertilizers and how to increase production in organic farming.
(3)Charlie Chaplin and his humor English jokes
(4)Different body language and the similarities in body language which make the others understand our feelings.
(5)Theme park but also learning ability in English .
A： If Ss can learn it well, it will be helpful to make the Ss learn the rest of this unit well. B： It provides all-around practice about listening, speaking, reading and writing revolve around the topic, it is the expansion of this unit and give Ss a space to use the language So it plays an important part in the English teaching in this unit.
（As we know ,reading belongs to the input during the process of the language learning. The input has great effect on output , such as speaking and writing . ）According to the new standard curriculum and the syllabus (新课程标准和教学大纲), after studying the teaching material and analyzing the rule of children’s growing of mind, I think the teaching aims are the followings:
1.Knowledge objects:
(1)the students can hear, read, and use the main sentence patterns.
(2) the students can understand the content of the lesson:
(3) the students can use the patterns to express their thoughts in proper situation and learn how to describe people with adjective. Ability objects:
Ability objects of this section are
(1)To develop the Ss’ abilities of listening, speaking, reading and writing. Especially speaking and writing ability.
(2) To train the Ss’ ability of working in pairs.
(4) To improve the Ss’ reading abilities ,especially their skimming and scanning ability.
3.Emotion objects:
By reading A Student of African wildlife /why not carry on the good work, students can learn from
(1)Jane Goodall in at least two aspects: one is what is the human way to study animal; the other is that it was her great personality-universal love and mercy that made her successful. Lin Qiao zhi in at least two aspects: one is what is the human way to help poor patients; the other is that it was her great personality-universal love and mercy that made her successful.
(2)Dr Yuan Long ping his scientific research spirit and attitudes toward life This passage what is chemical and organic farming and their advantage and disadvantage.
高中英语全英文说课稿 篇3
Good morning, professors, it’s my great pleasure to be here sharing my lessons with you. The content of the lesson is Senior English for China Student’s Book 2 Unit 5 Music. I’ll begin the lesson from the following five parts, the teaching material, the teaching methods, the studying methods, the teaching procedure and blackboard design. First, let me talk about the teaching material.
Firstly，let me introduce the teaching material. This unit is to introduce to us different types of band. The reading passage is the center of this unit. It is made up of 4 paragraphs, that is, many people want to be famous as singers or musicians, form a band, Monkees began as a TV show and they became even more popular than the Beatles. The text is the most important teaching material in this lesson, which extends the main topic “music” and contains most of the vocabulary and grammar points that students should learn in this unit.
Secondly, I want to tell something about the students. Although the students have the basic abilities of listening, speaking, reading, and writing, they still need many opportunities to practice what they have learned, to express their ideas, feelings, and experience and to develop their autonomous learning ability and cooperative learning ability Thirdly, I’d like to talk about teaching aims and demands
1 Knowledge aims:
（1）to help students to understand and master the words, phrases and sentence patterns.
（2）to know some basic information about music
2 Ability aims:
(1) To improve the students’ organizing and using skills of English as the second language
(2) To understand the main idea, to scan for the needed information and to grasp the details
3 Emotional aims:
(1) Help students understand different type of music and how to form a band
(2) Develop students’ sense of cooperative learning
Fourthly, teaching key points is
1. To help the students get a general idea of the whole passage, and some detailed information and language points as well.
2. To understand how Monkees formed, developed and succeed. Teaching difficult points is
1. The students use their own words to express their own ideas.
2. the prep+ whom/which attribute clause
According to the analysis above, I’ll try to use the following theories to make students the real master of the class while the teacher myself the director.
a. Communicative Language Teaching
Language is used for communication. It’s learner-centered and emphasizes communication and real-life situations.
b. Task-based Language Teaching
A task resembles activities which our students or other people carry out in everyday life, Learners should be given opportunities to reflect on what they have learned and how well they are doing.
c. Computer Assisted Language Teaching
Language learning needs a context, which can help the learners to understand the language and then can product comprehensible output, so computer has the advantages to make the materials attractive.
Part 3 Learning Methods
Task-based, self-dependent and cooperative learning
Part 4 Teaching Procedure
Step One Lead-in
“Interest is the best teacher.” Therefore, at the very beginning of the class, I should spark the students’ mind to focus on the centre topic “the band”. I’ll play some different type of music to attract their attention and then bring some questions.
Question:
What kind of music they like?
Which band they know best?
The answers must relate to band. After this, the students will be eager to know something about band and this is the very time to naturally lead the class into Step 2
Step 2 Reading for information: skimming and scanning In this step, I use Task-based Language Teaching method, which can give students a clear and specific purpose while skimming and scanning the context.
Task 1 General idea
The students will be asked to just glance at the title and the pictures of the passage, and then guess what they will read in the text. And they’ll be divided into groups of four to have a discussion.
The purpose is to inspire the students to read actively, not passively. In addition, the task is to develop the students’ reading skill by making prediction and to encourage the students to express their thoughts in English and cooperate with each other.
Task 2 Main idea of each paragraph
Cooperative learning can raise the students’ interest and create an atmosphere of achievement. Based on this theory, I divide the whole class into 4 groups to skim the whole text and get the main idea of each paragraph.
Step 3 Reading for comprehension
The purpose of reading is to get the correct and useful information. Students should not only have a high speed of reading but also have a correct understanding of details. Therefore the following practices on Page 35 can help check the situation.
Step 4 Solving difficult language problems through reading
It’s important for language learners to learn important rules of
grammar and use these rules to solve problems in reality. In the previous process of reading, the students must come across some difficult language obstacles, so it’s necessary for us to discuss and explain. This period of time belongs to students. They can ask any questions they come across in the process of learning. I’ll explain the questions and difficulties. The purpose of this is improving the students “questioning spirit” and dealing with the difficulties.
Step 5 Consolidation
Language is learnt by communicating. It is my job to create an atmosphere for students to use the language. Here I design 2 activities 1 Reading for comprehension
I’ll ask 4 students to read each paragraph, and then do the exercise following the text. I think it’s a good way to review what they have learned.
2 Discussion
During making discussion, the students will deepen their understanding of the main idea of the passage.
a. Why Monkees can be successful? Give reasons.
b. What’s the most important thing for a successful band? Why? Step 6 Homework
Ask the students to write down sth about their favorite singers, band or music and list the reasons. The assignment enables the students to search various information resources, which can widen their view and continue to inspire their enthusiasm of learning.
Part 5 Blackboard design
Unit 4 Music
Passage The Band That Wasn’t
Topic Sentences:
1. Many people want to be famous as singers or musician
2. Form a band
3. Began as a TV
4. They became even more famous than the Beatles
Discussion:
a. Why Monkees can be successful? Give reasons.
b. What’s the most important thing for a successful band? Why?
In my opinion, the blackboard design can reflect the teacher’s ability of mastering the text and leading the students to master the text easily. In this text, the design is not easy to write. I write the topic sentences on the blackboard, in order to tell the students that this is of the importance in this class. I want to make the design inductive, instructive and artistic.
高中英语全英文说课稿 篇4
Lesson Plan Presentation
Hello, everyone. I’m glad to be here to give my lesson plan presentation. The lesson plan I’m going to talk about is the reading part from NSECS book 1 unit 1 Friendship. Now, I’d like to explain how to teach and why to do so from the following aspects: the analysis of teaching material and learning condition, the teaching objectives, the teaching method and teaching aids, the teaching procedures, and the blackboard design.
First, I’d like to talk about the analysis of teaching material and learning condition.
The title of the text is “Anne’s Best Friend”. It mainly talks about a Jewish girl, Anne, who treated her diary as her best friend when she and her family hid in a shelter to escape from the killing of Nazis. The text has tow parts, the first part is about the background of Anne’s diary, and the second part is about the content of Anne’s diary. The key point of the text is that students can use different kind of reading skills like prediction, scanning and skimming to get good understanding of the text. The difficult point is that students can summarize the main idea of the whole text and each paragraph.
As for the students, they are in grade 9 in high school, and they have learned English for more than 7 years. They have a certain vocabulary store, while they lack the training of reading skills. They are interested in the topic of friendship because they attach much importance to friendship. And they can make some discussion in English.
According to the analysis of teaching material and learning condition, I make out the following teaching objectives.
First, language skills: students can use reading skills like prediction, skimming and scanning to read the text.
Second, language knowledge: students can learn some new words and new phrases, such as power, on purpose, in order to, etc. and students can be familiar with the topic of friendship.
Third, learning strategy: students will learn to study and solve problems by cooperation and communication.
Fourth, affective objectives: students will value friendship more and cherish what they have.
Last, cultural awareness: students will know more knowledge about the history of World War Ⅱ, especially the suffering of Jewish people during the war.
Then, I’ll talk about the teaching method and teaching aids. I adopt communicative approach. And the teaching aids are blackboard and PPT.
Now, I will focus on the teaching procedures. There are 4 steps.
Step 1 is warming up. It will cost 3 minutes. In this part, I will show students an English song “Forever friend”. Before listening, I will ask students to think about the question “What’s the song about?” so that they will listen to the song with purpose. After they finish the listening, they will know that the song is about friendship. It will naturally lead in the topic of the text. What’s more, students are interested in listening to music, the song will arouse students interest and activate the class atmosphere.
Step 2 is pre-reading, it will cost 5 minutes. First, I will ask students to read the title of the text and ask them “Do you know Anne? Who is she?” if students don’t know, I will tell them that Anne is a Jewish girl who survived in the World War Ⅱand I will talk about the suffering of Jewish people during the war with some related pictures. After students have the background knowledge of the text, I will ask them to look at the title and the picture of the text to predict the content of the text. The purpose of prediction is to make students read the text more carefully during the reading process. They will concentrate more to check their prediction so that they can get their mind closer to the theme of the text.
Step 3 is while reading. It will cost 25 minutes. There are there activities.
In activity 1, I will ask students to skim the text to get the main idea of the text and each paragraph. Because it’s a little difficult for students to summarize the main idea, I will give them some multiple choices to choose, it will reduce the degree of difficulty. The purpose of this activity is to train students’ reading skill of skimming, and they can get the general idea of the text.
In activity 2, I will ask students to scan the text to fill in some blanks. The purpose of this activity is to train students’ reading skill of scanning, and they can get some detailed information of the text.
Activity 3 is close reading. In this part, I will first explain some new expressions that may cause difficulty in students’ comprehension, such as go through, on purpose, in order to, etc. so that they read the text smoothly. Then I will ask students to answer the questions in exercise 2. After answering these questions, students will have a better understanding of the whole text. Next, I will ask students to work in pairs to use some adjectives to describe Anne’s feelings as she was looking out at the night sky. Then I will ask some students to come to the blackboard to write the adjectives. After this activity, students will have a better understanding of Anne’s feelings.
Step 4 is post reading. It will cost 12 minutes. In this part, I will hold a group discussion. I will set a situation to students. That is “imagine you have to go into hiding like Anne and her family, what will you miss most? Why?” I will ask students to work in 4 to have a discussion. After discussion, I will ask some students to report their groups’ opinions and then I will write them on the blackboard. The purpose of this activity is to cultivate students’ spirit of cooperation. And after the discussion, students will learn to cherish what they have.
Then, I will talk about the homework. I will ask students to write a short passage about what they will miss most and why based on the former discussion in class.
Ok, now, please look at here, this is my blackboard design.
miss reasons
This is all my lesson plan presentation, thank you very much！
高中英语全英文说课稿 篇5
Good morning,ladies and gentlemen!I am very pleased to have an opportunity to talk about some of myteaching ideas.The topic of this Unit is "What should I do?" from thetextbook—go for it book 8 unit 2 for junior middle school students.I’d like tosay it from 5 parts as follows:There are teaching materials,teaching methods,learningstrategies,teaching procedures and blackboard design.
Now,Let’s come to the first part—Teaching materials.It includestwo parts,status and functions of the material and the teaching content.The thingsin the text book are appropriate to students’ interests,experiencesand knowledge;provide the students with opportunities to use the target languageand stimulate students to seek further information.In unit 2,Studentswill learn to talk about problems and learn to give advice to others.So it ishelpful to improve their communicative competence.
Ok,second,teaching content,which includes four aspects,the key vocabulary,the targetlanguage,important and difficult points, and the teaching aims.About theteaching aims,in this unit,students will talk about problems which students come up with intheir daily lives and learn to use modal verbs "could" and "should" to makesuggestions.The second is ability aims,to improve thestudents’ abilities of listening,speaking and readingby providing various tasks.The last is the affection aims,that is,to help eachother and learn to cooperate.
Next,let’s come to the second part—teaching methods.Whiledealing with this lesson,I usually adopt "Task|based" teaching approach.It aims at providing opportunities for the learners to explore bothspoken and written language through learning activities.So,I will letthe students learn in real situations,fulfill severaltasks such as pair work or group work.And in this unit thecommunicative approach and the situational language approach will be adopted.And thefocus is on functional language usage and the ability of learners to expresstheir own ideas,feelings,attitudes,desires and needs.So combine these methods together,enable the studentsto receive,process and retain new information through "multipleintelligences".
Next I’d like to talk about part three—Learning strategies.I usuallytell the students some learning strategies.For four languageskills,I also tell the students to learn efficiently through strategies.Saylistening,in my class I train the students to get the general ideals,makeprediction,make a reference,identify key words and signal words.About theword|formation and the exploitation are also very important strategies.Each studentcan be involved in the class by using the strategies which are suitable forthem.
Ok now,let’s come to the fourth part—Teaching procedures.I’ll finish mylesson in 7 steps,they are Warm up—Lead in—Pre-|task—Task—cycle—Post-task—Homework—Self-assessment.This step-by-step progression allows students to build accuracy andgain confidence with the new language.
Step1 Warm up
Watch a movie called Let’s Play.The moviewill offer the students a relaxing atmosphere and develop students’ interest inEnglish.
Step2 Lead in
Brainstorming,look at this,funnypicture.He looks very blue and depressed,what’ s wrongwith him?What should he do?This brainstorming stage is helpful in providing ideas for actualspeaking.By discussing with peers they can get a lot of informationconcerning the new topic they are going to learn.
Step3 Pre-task
In this step I introduce the topic and give the students clearinstructions on what they will have to do.So first I willprepare some vivid and beautiful pictures to present them the new words.The studentsassociate the meaning of the vocabulary and the form of it,and theyalso practice the speaking and the listening.I’ll get thestudents to do a problem|solving activity to help the students to recall somelanguage that may be useful for the task.I will make asummary to give a detailed explanation about the Grammar point—sentencestructure "should/could".I usually try to cultivate the learner’s unconsciouscompetence,give the students more examples.In this way,I think theywill get a further understanding of the Grammar.
Step4 Task-cycle
Task 1—Pair work.I’ll ask the students to work with their partners to learn to giveadvice to different problems using the key words and the grammatical points.Task 2—Listeningpractice I designed the （1）Pre-listening activities （2） While-listening activities （3） Post-listeningactivities.Task 3—Group work.I’ll get the students act out the conversation in small groups.
Step5 Post-task
In this step,I prepared two activities.First is—Let’s think.Michael,coming fromUSA.He wants to practice his Putonghua,But he is very shy.So can yougive some advice to him?I suggest that he should get a tutor,can you give more?Make a listof your suggestions.The second is—Discussion.Let’s take a look at the screen,from the picture wecan see the children are studying and living in the very poor condition,1.What’s the matterwith these children?2.What could they do?3.What should we do? （showing pictures） Put the knowledge into the real situations,elicit thestudents to find out the most efficient ways to the problem in our country.
Step6 Homework
1.Ask your parentsabout if they have some problems.if they have,Try to give advice.
2.Make a survey aboutwho are still in trouble and try to find some solutions.
Step7 Self-assessment
In the process of teaching and learning,teachersneed to know what has been done well and what needs to be improved further;where thestudents perform well and where they still feel confused.Thediversities of classroom activities,and a welcoming andengaging learning environment will make the study easy and happy.Thus thestudents will get more experience and exploitation by doing things.
And the last Part is Blackboard design I’ll write thenew words on the left,on the right I write the target language.If possibleI’ll draw some pictures.It is terseness and easy to understand.
Thank you for listening,goodbye!
高中英语全英文说课稿 篇6
Good morning, ladies and gentleman. Today, I feel honored to have the chance to share my ideas about how to teach reading.
In the reading process, I will focus on students’ long-term development and enable them to use proper reading skills and strategies. In other words, students are guided to read efficiently and independently.
My teaching plan will include 3 sections. They’re analysis of the reading material, identifying the teaching aims and teaching procedures.
Section 1 Analysis of the teaching material
The selected teaching material is a magazine article taken from the Project section of Module 11, Unit 2 of Advance with English. The article is about British students who take a gap year, which is intended to develop the theme of the unit, that is, Getting a job. After analyzing it carefully, I find the article has two unique characteristics. First, it’s a long passage with 688 words, much more than the usual texts. Second, it deals with a new topic, that is, a gap year. The topic is unfamiliar to most students.
Section 2 Indentifying the teaching aims
Based on the analysis of the teaching material, I have chosen the following as the teaching aims of my lesson:
The 1st aim: Students learn the skills and strategies to read a prolonged text.
The 2nd aim: Students get a better understanding of what a gap year is.
The 3rd aim: Students are encouraged to figure out the implied meaning.
The 4th aim: Students are familiar with various expression_r_r_r_r_rs or approaches to express the same thing or idea.
Section 3 Teaching procedures
In order to achieve the teaching aims mentioned above, I decide to choose guided reading and Task-Based Teaching as the main teaching approach. With the teaching methods, I can guide students to use effective reading strategies to comprehend the text, solve problems and complete different tasks. The teaching procedures include four parts. They’re getting ready, focusing on main facts, reading between the lines and responding the text.
Part 1. Getting ready
Reading begins before a book is opened. It’s important to activate students’ existing background knowledge and draw their attention to the topic of the text. In this part, I will use the pre-reading activities to increase students’ concentration, arouse their curiosities, fire their imagination and give them a purpose for reading. The part consists of two tasks:
Task 1: A time machine. I start my lesson by asking senior 3 students what the date is. Then, I go on to show a picture of a time machine. I tell students that the machine with a magic power will bring them to their graduation from high school, which is 1 year away. At that point, I get them to imagine where they are and what they are doing.
After it, I give a summary of their presentations as follows: After leaving high school, most of Chinese students go straight to university.Yes, at this time next year, most of you will be studying in a university.
(With the task, I inspire students’ former knowledge and imagination about graduating from high school and going to college, which can draw their attention to the theme of the reading material and get them ready for the following reading.)
Task 2: Brainstorming. After the summary, I go on to show some more pictures of British students fresh from high schools, and tell students that more and more students in the UK are doing something different instead of going straight to university. After that, I play the tape of Para.1 and get students to catch the answer to the question: They will travel or work on projects for up to a year before entering university.
(With the task, I excite students’ desire to know more about what their British equivalents will do before going to college. With the question in mind, students will definitely be eager to listen to the tape to find the answer. )
Part 2. Focusing on main facts
During the part, I will ask the students to answer the question—What does the author say? Students are supposed to get a main idea of the text and understand the basic meaning of the text. Questions of this kind are not very difficult and they can be answered directly from the text. The part includes six tasks:
Task 1: Three examples. I move on to tell students as follows: Last year, Carol Smith, Daniel and Martin Johnson, 3 students from the UK, went to some remote places and did something special. After the instructions, I play the tape of Paragraphs 4-6 and get students to complete the following table.
Who
Where
Activities
Carol
Daniel
Martin
(With the task, I get students to listen to the three paragraphs instead of reading them, thus reducing the amount of reading time and reliving their psychological burden, otherwise students would be discouraged by such a long article.)
Task 2: Matching. After listening, I get students to open books and scan the three paragraphs to check the answers to the previous table. Then they’re required to complete another table with a second reading.
Whom do the results belong to?
Carol________ Daniel________
Martin_______
A. felt being part of another culture.
B. become more independent.
C. found it challenging and rewarding.
D. felt that it was a special experience.
E. ready to face challenges in the future.
F. learnt how to deal with difficult situations.
G. felt like she really made a difference.
H. learnt a lot about getting on with local people.
(With the task, students learn to use a table to gather the main facts about the three British students. They’ll come to know that a table is of great help in their future reading.)
Task 3: Scanning for a detail. I get students to scan the rest paragraphs and find the answer to the question: What do people call the year off between finishing school and starting university? In doing so, I introduce the theme of the article and write on the blackboard the title: Mind the gap year.
(With the task, students are expected to grasp the theme of the article. The task serves as a bridge,which connects the main facts in Paragraphs 4-6 to the opinions about the gap year in the rest paragraphs.)
Task 4: Definition of the gap year. Students watch a VCR with a question in mind: What three types of activities do the UK students choose to do during a gap year? The key is: Many students use that time to travel, learn new skills or become a charity volunteer.
VCR 1：A gap is space between two things or a break in the passing of time. However, a gap year is the time for students between high school and college, or college or graduate school. Many students use that time to travel, learn new skills or become a charity volunteer. Today, taking a gap year is growing trend among international students.
(The task serves as a supplementary to the second task of Part 1. With the task, students are expected to know more about the gap year.)
Task 5: History of the gap year. I play a second VCR and get students to answer the question: When did the gap year start in the UK?
VCR 2：The gap year started in the UK in the 1960s. Large number of students used that time to travel. Over time, students did more than just travel. Some students worked part-time in their future career field so that they could get the job training. Others did volunteer work, like teaching in Africa or helping to protect the habitats in India.
(The task enables students to have a good knowledge of the history of the gap year.)