9B Unit 1 The Voyages of Zheng He School 罗湖区翠园东晓中学 Teacher Megan彭进 Students Students in Grade 9 Lesson Duration 20 minutes A brief introduction of The Type of the Reading lesson (Online lesson) Content Voyages of Zheng He in Oxford textbook 9B Ul According to the New Curriculum Standards,English education should cultivate students'core competences including linguistic ability,thinking Guiding ability,cultural awareness and learning strategy.Teachers should shift Principles their focus from reading comprehension to students'overall language 指导思想 ability when teaching reading.The standards also emphasize the importance of activating students'creative and critical thinking. Moreover,it is necessary to encourage students to learn English through participation in meaningful tasks. The main theoretical support for this lesson design is the theory of English Learning Activity.The theory which is structured around the four core English learning competencies stresses the importance of using various activities to integrate the language learning,cultural cultivation Theories for and thinking processes.The three phases of English leaning activity begin the teaching with learning and understanding activity,then moves to applying and design practising activity,and,at the highest level,improves to transferring and 理论依据 creating activity.In the first phase,students mainly notice,acquire,sort and summarize what they learn.In the second phase,students need to elaborate on,analyse,internalize and then apply what they learn.In the third phase,students criticize and evaluate what they learn and then make creations. The teaching material is taken from the 9B Unit 1 reading section of Oxford Press Shanghai Education Press textbook. Genre and content: The genre of the text is a narration.The content is about Zheng He and Analysis of the his great voyages. teaching Language: material The text is mainly presented in simple past tense,which is usual for this 文本分析 genre. Structure: The text is generally divided into two parts.In the first part,the writer introduces Zheng He's basic information.In the second part,the writer tells readers about the great voyages,including the preparation and the achievements. The students from junior 3 have already accumulated certain amount of Analysis of the students linguistic knowledge for understanding the English text in this lesson. 学情分析 They have known about many famous people in their reading lessons,so they know the basic elements of a narration and have acquired the reading
9B Unit 1 The Voyages of Zheng He School 罗湖区翠园东晓中学 Teacher Megan 彭进 Students Students in Grade 9 Lesson Duration 20 minutes Type of the lesson Reading (Online lesson) Content A brief introduction of The Voyages of Zheng He in Oxford textbook 9B U1 Guiding Principles 指导思想 According to the New Curriculum Standards, English education should cultivate students’ core competences including linguistic ability, thinking ability, cultural awareness and learning strategy. Teachers should shift their focus from reading comprehension to students’ overall language ability when teaching reading. The standards also emphasize the importance of activating students’ creative and critical thinking. Moreover, it is necessary to encourage students to learn English through participation in meaningful tasks. Theories for the teaching design 理论依据 The main theoretical support for this lesson design is the theory of English Learning Activity. The theory which is structured around the four core English learning competencies stresses the importance of using various activities to integrate the language learning, cultural cultivation and thinking processes. The three phases of English leaning activity begin with learning and understanding activity, then moves to applying and practising activity, and, at the highest level, improves to transferring and creating activity. In the first phase, students mainly notice, acquire, sort and summarize what they learn. In the second phase, students need to elaborate on, analyse, internalize and then apply what they learn. In the third phase, students criticize and evaluate what they learn and then make creations. Analysis of the teaching material 文本分析 The teaching material is taken from the 9B Unit 1 reading section of Oxford Press & Shanghai Education Press textbook. Genre and content： The genre of the text is a narration. The content is about Zheng He and his great voyages. Language: The text is mainly presented in simple past tense, which is usual for this genre. Structure: The text is generally divided into two parts. In the first part, the writer introduces Zheng He’s basic information. In the second part, the writer tells readers about the great voyages, including the preparation and the achievements. Analysis of the students 学情分析 The students from junior 3 have already accumulated certain amount of linguistic knowledge for understanding the English text in this lesson. They have known about many famous people in their reading lessons, so they know the basic elements of a narration and have acquired the reading
skills such as analyzing and summarizing. However,many students may not have read stories about Zheng He in detail,so they have no idea why Zheng He was a great explorer and why his voyages made great contributions to China. Key points 1.Students know detailed information about Zheng He and his voyages. 教学重点 2.Students understand the main elements of a narration. Challenges 1.Help the students to build up cultural confidence by comparing. 教学难点 2.Help students to realize what make a great pioneer. 1.Students understand and get the key information of the text. Teaching 2.Students can develop their reading skills such as skimming,scanning and summarizing. Objectives 教学目标 3. Students can develop their analytical and critical thinking by comparing. 4.Students can realize what makes a great pioneer. Teaching 1.Task-based approach approach 教学方法 2.Cooperative learning Teaching aids multimedia 教学用具 PPT Teaching Procedures教学流程 Step 1 Warm-up and lead in Teacher's Activities Students'Activities Purposes 1).Greetings 1).Greetings. 2).Help students to 2).Try to give make definitions of the 1).Arouse students' definitions of the exploration,the great interests about the exploration,the exploration,the great topic. Pre-reading exploration,the explorer and the great 2).Help students to explorer and the great explorer by giving read and understand examples. explorer. 3).Name explorers. the new key words 3).Ask students to naturally. 4).Learn about facts name explorers. 3).Lead in the topic about these famous 4).Make students know explorers. about these explorers Step2 Read in lines Teacher's Activity Students'Activity Purposes 1).Ask students to look 1).Read the title and 1).Help students to at the title and the first the first sentence of get a general While-reading sentence of each each paragraph and understanding of the paragraph and then complete the text. complete a mind-map. mind-map. 2).Help the students 2).Ask students to 2).Follow the to know more about listen to the recording recording and match the Zheng He's and get the main idea of the main idea and voyages
skills such as analyzing and summarizing. However, many students may not have read stories about Zheng He in detail, so they have no idea why Zheng He was a great explorer and why his voyages made great contributions to China. Key points 教学重点 1. Students know detailed information about Zheng He and his voyages. 2. Students understand the main elements of a narration. Challenges 教学难点 1. Help the students to build up cultural confidence by comparing. 2. Help students to realize what make a great pioneer. Teaching Objectives 教学目标 1. Students understand and get the key information of the text. 2. Students can develop their reading skills such as skimming, scanning and summarizing. 3. Students can develop their analytical and critical thinking by comparing. 4. Students can realize what makes a great pioneer. Teaching approach 教学方法 1. Task-based approach 2. Cooperative learning Teaching aids 教学用具 multimedia PPT Teaching Procedures 教学流程 Pre- reading Step 1 Warm-up and lead in Teacher’s Activities Students’Activities Purposes 1). Greetings. 2). Help students to make definitions of the exploration, the great exploration, the explorer and the great explorer by giving examples. 3). Ask students to name explorers. 4). Make students know about these explorers. 1). Greetings. 2). Try to give definitions of the exploration, the great exploration, the explorer and the great explorer. 3). Name explorers. 4). Learn about facts about these famous explorers. 1). Arouse students’ interests about the topic. 2). Help students to read and understand the new key words naturally. 3). Lead in the topic. While- reading Step2 Read in lines Teacher’s Activity Students’Activity Purposes 1). Ask students to look at the title and the first sentence of each paragraph and then complete a mind-map. 2). Ask students to listen to the recording and get the main idea of 1). Read the title and the first sentence of each paragraph and complete the mind-map. 2). Follow the recording and match the main idea and 1). Help students to get a general understanding of the text. 2). Help the students to know more about the Zheng He’s voyages
each paragraph. each paragraph. 3).Get the students to 3).Ask students to read 3).Read the text and know how great for more detailed find more detailed Zheng He and his information. information. voyages were. 4).Ask students to 4).Retell the text 4).Develop students' retell the text. according to the ability of summarizing mind-map. and improve students' spoken English. Step3 Read between lines. Teacher's Activity Students'Activity Purposes 1).Show pictures and ask students to compare Zheng He's 1).Watch a picture and treasure ships with compare. Columbus's. 2).Think about how 1).Build up students' cultural confidence. 2).Tell students what great our country's 2).Lead students to difficulties Zheng He ship-building think about the may have during their technologies were at that time. meaning of the voyages. pioneer". 3).Ask a question: 3).Answer the Why was Zheng He question. called a pioneer in the last paragraph? Step4 Read beyond lines Teacher's Activity Students'Activity Purposes 1).Guide students to discuss in groups: 1).Improve students' 1)Brainstorm and Post-reading What makes a great reading ability- pioneer? group discussion: creative and critical 2)Share. What makes a great thinking. 3)Encourage students pioneer? 2)Share. 2).Encourage students to dream,to explore to be an explorer. and to discover
each paragraph. 3). Ask students to read for more detailed information. 4). Ask students to retell the text. each paragraph. 3). Read the text and find more detailed information. 4). Retell the text according to the mind-map. 3). Get the students to know how great Zheng He and his voyages were. 4). Develop students’ ability of summarizing and improve students’ spoken English. Step3 Read between lines. Teacher’s Activity Students’Activity Purposes 1). Show pictures and ask students to compare Zheng He’s treasure ships with Columbus’s. 2). Tell students what difficulties Zheng He may have during their voyages. 3). Ask a question: Why was Zheng He called a pioneer in the last paragraph? 1). Watch a picture and compare. 2). Think about how great our country’s ship-building technologies were at that time. 3). Answer the question. 1). Build up students’ cultural confidence. 2). Lead students to think about the meaning of the “pioneer”. Post- reading Step4 Read beyond lines. Teacher’s Activity Students’Activity Purposes 1). Guide students to discuss in groups: What makes a great pioneer? 2) Share. 3) Encourage students to dream, to explore and to discover. 1) Brainstorm and group discussion: What makes a great pioneer? 2) Share. 1). Improve students’ reading ability— creative and critical thinking. 2). Encourage students to be an explorer
