The Gifts School Shenzhen Middle School ZHOU Huixuan 深圳中学 Teacher 周慧璇 Students Students in Grade 9 Lesson Duration 20 minutes the story of The Type of the Reading Content Gifts in Oxford lesson (Online lesson) textbook 9A U8 The New Curriculum Standards (2017,2020)issued by the Ministry of Education prescribe that English education should cultivate students core competences including linguistic ability,thinking ability,cultural Guiding awareness and learning strategy.According to the guidance of the Principles standards,teachers should shift their focus from reading comprehension 指导思想 to students'overall language ability when teaching reading.The standards also emphasize the importance of activating students' reflective 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 Theories for various activities to integrate the language learning,cultural cultivation the teaching and thinking processes.The three phases of English leaning activity design begin with learning and understanding activity,then moves to applying and practising activity,and,at the highest level,improves to transferring 理论依据 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,make judgements of,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 9A Unit 8 reading section of Oxford Press Shanghai Education Press textbook. Genre and content: The genre of the text is a fiction(short story).The thematic context is Analysis of the about Man and the society.The two characters of the story led a poor teaching and hard life,but they cherished a deep love for each other and were material willing to make sacrifice for each other. 文本分析 Language: The story is presented in simple past tense,which is usual for this genre.It includes the narration which tells the development of the story and the dialogues between the two characters. Theme The major theme of the text is about love and sacrifice.It showsThe Gifts School Shenzhen Middle School 深圳中学 Teacher ZHOU Huixuan 周慧璇 Students Students in Grade 9 Lesson Duration 20 minutes Type of the lesson Reading (Online lesson) Content the story of The Gifts in Oxford textbook 9A U8 Guiding Principles 指导思想 The New Curriculum Standards (2017, 2020) issued by the Ministry of Education prescribe that English education should cultivate students’ core competences including linguistic ability, thinking ability, cultural awareness and learning strategy. According to the guidance of the standards, 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’ reflective 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, make judgements of, 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 9A Unit 8 reading section of Oxford Press & Shanghai Education Press textbook. Genre and content： The genre of the text is a fiction (short story). The thematic context is about Man and the society. The two characters of the story led a poor and hard life, but they cherished a deep love for each other and were willing to make sacrifice for each other. Language: The story is presented in simple past tense, which is usual for this genre. It includes the narration which tells the development of the story and the dialogues between the two characters. Theme The major theme of the text is about love and sacrifice. It shows