Lesson One Text Christmas Day in the Morning by Pearl S.Buck General Teaching Procedure Teaching Aims: 1.To let students know about Christmas and the birth of Christ. 2.To let students reflect on their own experiences of showing love on special occasions. 3.To let students learn the important new words and master the age of useful phrases and idioms,and earn the implied meaningof some difficult sentences. 4.To let students reflect on the deeper meaning of the theme- --Love alone can waken love. 5.To let students master the reading skills:notice the foreshadowing,the time shift signaled by the changes in the tense of verbs and the use of specific words. let students be amiliar with the writing stye: narratio interspersed with flashba Emphasis in Teaching: 1.improving the students'inferring further information from the given information. 2.reflection on the theme Difficult points in Teaching:to explain some difficult sentences in english and to tructure of long sentences 1.in-class reading passage 2.exercises 3.information from the internet 4 refer nce book Teaching Time Allocation:500 mins Teaching Procedure Period 1&2:100mins I Key Words:(10ms) IL Introduction (5ms) II.Warm-up Questions(10ms) IV.Explanation of the Text:(30ms) topic understanding:Christmas.morning study of important language points and expressions paraphrasing exercise analysis ofthe me sentences V.Comprehension Questions(10ms) VI.Question raising and answering(10ms) VII.Structure Analysis and Theme
VIII.Writing Skill:narration interspersed with flashback (10ms) IX.Assig lass homework(5ms) I.Dictation Checking(40ms) Il.A brief review of the main idea of Lesson 1(10ms) IIL Topic Discussion (15ms) IV Vocabulary Exercise (35ms) Period 5&6:100mins: Exercise Par Period 7 8:100mins: Exercise Part Period 9&10:100mins Exercise Part Detailed Teaching Procedure Teaching plan Period 1&2:100mins: Key Words:(10ms) cling:vi.(hold tightly;stick firmly)- cling to - --e.g.She clung to the hope that her son was not dead.她坚信她儿子还活着。/Little children always cling to their mothers..小孩子总是紧依着母亲。 II.Introdu ction of Unit 1(5ms) We have different type of love in our lives,and we have different ways to express such deep feelings of love.We always find special occasions a good chance to show our love to whomever we love.In this text,the author tries to show his love to his beloved father,in a very special and moving way.Let's see together how he and his father strengthen their love for each other. Warm-up Questi s(10ms) Q1:Can you recall something memorable or unforgettable on some special occasions? What's it?Why does it have such a deep impression on you? Q2:Have you done anything special to show your love to your family members? What's it?How does it show that you love him/her? Q3:What does l in your mind? Explanation of the Text:(30ms) 1.Topic understanding:Christmas Dav,Morning (10ms) Students work in groups of four and exchange ideas of their own experience with each other on the topic of the following four questions.Teacher goes around the cral students to present answers of their own group Question 1:What do you usually do on Christmas? Question 2:What's the purpose of celebrating Christmas? Question 3:What do you know about the origin of Christmas?
Question 4:What do you usually do on the morning of a festival? Q1:hold parties;giving presents;playn now love to others Reference to Q3:On the birth of Jesus Christ Reference to Q4:help with the preparation for such a day,sleeping.etc. 2.Study of important language points and expressions 3.Paraphrasing exercise 4.Analysis of the structure of some sente ences V. Comprel ion Questions (10ms) Students think over for the answer to each question Q1:Did Rob and his wife decide to spend /celebrate that Christmas? O2:What did Rob recall on that early Christmas? Q3:Why did Rob trim the equickly without any hesitation? Other Questions on page 13 in the textboc VI.Question raising and answering (10ms) Ask students to raise questions they still have,and encourage the other students to solve the televant problems VII.Structure Analysis and Theme(10ms) Studer k indivi lually to divide the whole passage into several major part and summarize the main idea of each part.then compare the answer with the partner's to see whether they share the same idea or have different answers.If different,whose ides is correct? The passage should be divided into three major parts: art I P ara.17 Main idea:Habit Part II:Pare 8-39 Flashback Main idea:Routine,Christmas,Present,Happiness Part IIl:Para.40-44 Ending/Climax Main idea:Reflection and Action Theme: True love involves mutual understanding,trust,help and support.No big words and pompous promise.Love alone can waken love.If you want to get love. please give it first. VIII.Writing Skill:(10ms) 1.foreshadowing 2.narration interspersed with flashback IX.Assigning after -class homework (5ms) 1.Review what they have learned in this class. 2.Do Exercises of the first part(explanation,idioms and phrases,analysis ) 3.Be prepared for the dictation 4.Recite the paragraph required Period 3&4:100mins: I.Dictation Checking(40ms) A.Words
B.Translation of Phrases I.Aprier rmaking tite main idea of Lesson 1(10ms) a stu ent torete main idea and the theme ofthe tex III.Topic Discussion(15ms) Is love the solution to all the problems in the world today?Comment. IV.Vocabulary Exercise(35ms) Vocabulary: 1)focus:When a past participle,ending with"ed".commonly serving as adj.this"ed" is usually pronounced as /id e.g.,a bless ed morning,beloved e.aged parents.a learned man,ctc 2)focus:adi+ly adv. n+ly adi. 3)focus:prefix"over":too much;surpass a certain degree 4)focus:suffix"y":n+y:having a certain quality of the stated noun;having the same quality ofas the relevant nou n ha Period 5&6:100mins: Exercise part 10)Translation Focus part a e)毫不费劲地：have no dificully in,find no i find itasy o,dosh without any problem,etc. r)“关心”：show great concern for,.care about,.pay much attention to,ctc. Part B: n)“把意思说清楚”：get everything across,.make himself fully understood,.explain everything clearly,eto Period 7&8:100mins: Exercise Part 11)focus: pain:vt.it pain())ache: wake:vi,adj.sb awake to sth;be awake;awaken:vt.waken one's imagination 3remember:keep in the memory;memorize:to learn and remember on purpose Period 9&10:100mins: Exercise Part Gramma 5.focus:even if ef.even though:Even if he is poor,she loves him.(He may be poor. yet she loves him.)/Even though he is poor,she loves him.(He is poor,yet she loves him.) Teaching Achievements By the end of unit,the majority of my students have achieved the goals which are
set previously at the beginning of the unit: They were exposed to a new way of practicing English--explaining difficult English.They practiced ew reading kil which they f original so that they are eager to apply and master them and which are really helpfu and effective in solving one of their problems in reading a passage-to find the time shift in a narration.Meanwhile,they understand better the deep meaning of the theme----Love alone can waken love. They practiced their speaking and listening abilities through the activities of topic discussion and question-answering. Weaknesses Students have difficulty in improving their sense of comprehension.They have trouble in paraphrasing in a correct way Reflection and Future Plan I have done much in increasing the students'ability to draw useful information from the contexts.Besides.they are exposed to the technique of paraphrasing on the hasis of the whole understandin nastering the main idea of a key sentence.We ch a method in the dingisusing and nalying part of the relevant mter i make students be more active and cheerful