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 reading9B 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