M6-U4 the UN-bringing everyone closer together

Teaching Aims:

1. Enable the students to get the general idea about UN and Goodwill Ambassadors’ job.

2. To help the students develop the reading ability (including the analytic ability, summarizing ability and the ability of acquiring the information by different of ways and means.) by teaching the text.

3. To help ss know how to read a speech. and enable ss to master the reading strategy and become more competent in understanding a speaker’s attitude.

Important and difficult points:

1. How to make ss find and master the information from the speech and make a summary all by their own or through the help of their companies.

2. How to improve their reading ability with various means of teaching and understand the article better without feeling monotony and finish the connected exercises.

3. How to help the master the skill of reading a speech.

Teaching methods:

Visual-scene, Tasked-based, Communicative method, Fast-reading method, Careful -reading method, Discussion & Activity.

Teaching facilities: PPT, tape-recorder, blackboard.

Teaching procedures:

Step 1 lead-in 5min

1. Show a video report on the Haiti earthquake.(30 seconds)

2. show some pics about the life of poor child in Haiti and people in a mountain area.

Brainstorm: a. what cause these children in such a bad living condition?

(Encourage ss to express their feelings after watching the video and the pics.)

b. Q: what kind of organization can help them? (Answer: UN)

c. Ask ss to tell some information they know about UN.(show some pics to teach the common knowledge on UN )

3.Make a summary and Lead the text:

Purpose:

1. Play a video and show pics to arouse ss’ interests, and collect their attention on the class.

2. Encourage ss to express their minds using their own words.

Step-2: Fast-reading:

During this process: Ask students to skim the text and work out the structure to find out the main idea of the paragraphs and then finish the exercise A.

Ask students find out which paragraphs talk about the UN; which paragraphs talk about her work as a UN Goodwill Ambassador.

Purpose:

1. help ss get the gist of the passage quickly.

2. Through the working out the structure, help ss understand the passage better and get in my lesson easier.

Step-3 Reading strategy: reading an interview.

Have the students listen to the first paragraph and take down some notes about the following two questions. lead ss to pay more attention to catch the key sentence in the first paragraph.

1) What is Tang Ning talking about in her speech?

2) What do you think Tang Ning thinks of her job?

Then, tell ss to read the reading strategy: understanding a speaker’s attitude.(learn the way of

reading strategy in this unit)

Purpose:

1. Enable ss to get the basic characteristics of the speech.

2. help ss get the gist of author’s attitude to his work by some adjective in paragraph one.

3. lead to the reading strategy and make the complementarity of understanding a speaker’s attitude.(check if ss have missed sth.)

4. help ss get the gist of this speech by catching the key sentences.

Step-4 careful reading

1. Have students read P1, 2, 5 and list the topics of the UN mentioned in these paragraphs with partners.

請學生對有關聯合國信息的段落進行仔細閱讀，通過互助學習找出并進行歸納寫下有關聯合國的信息。如：成立時間；其四個目標等等。在此項活動中，學生在歸納聯合國的工作時有一定困難。學生只局限于文中涉及的聯合國的具體工作，但不能進行有效歸納。因此，在教學活動中，我跟著學生的思路利用他們找到的關鍵詞army, laws…進行引導，幫助學生進行歸納。最終將Time; Number; Purposes; Tasks/Jobs of the UN; Goals 這些有關聯合國信息的歸納性的關鍵詞落實到黑板上。

2. Have the students read the rest paragraphs and find out the answers to the following two questions.

Q1 What does Tang Ning mainly do as a UN Goodwill Ambassador?

Q2 What can her visits help the people in need?

Purpose:

1. Help ss understand what the kind of work the Tang Ning does

2. Help ss understand how dose he help the people who are in trouble.

Step-5: consolidation and group work 5min

Make a discussion:

1. Through reading the speech, what do you know about Goodwill Ambassador?

2. What kind of people can be appointed as Goodwill Ambassador?

Key: a. very famous. (nobody will don’t have enough appeal

(on the screen can show pics about famous people and show a video on “start power”)

b. good moral quality (not everyone can be a Goodwill Ambassador)

(show pics on Laden ,lead ss to think about if he can be a Goodwill Ambassador? why ?)

c. appetency and appeals.

(by showing the pics of some Goodwill Ambassadors ,and make a summary to find out

the common trait.)

Purpose:

1. This serves as a consolidating exercise for students to practice their spoken English.Encourage them to discuss freely and bravely in English and later ask some students to express themselves.

2. Improve their listen comprehension by using the video.

(Make a summary of the whole text.)

Step-6 Homework

1. Underline the useful words, phrase and sentence patterns and know how to use them freely.

2. write a composition: If you were Ban Ki-Moon, what measures would you take to help the people in the Middle East who suffer from the wars and conflicts?.

【設計思想】

本文是一篇演講，介紹了聯合國和聯合國親善大使的工作，內容比較繁雜。學生對本文的主題不是很了解，因此讀前活動的設計我從學生的生活出發，拉近課文與學生的距離。之后通過聽力，我請學生找出演講的內容。這不僅將演講的體裁特點進一步突出，又從課文理出兩條線幫助學生進行整體理解。讀后活動實行分層設計，即將一個大任務分為多個小任務進行，提高了有效性。教學活動的設計都要圍繞新課程標準和教材自身的特點而進行。在進行教學設計時我們應當更注重文章文體，教授閱讀策略引導學生進行有效英語閱讀，提高學生的英語閱讀能力。