A teaching design for Senior SBIII Unit15 Reading Young volunteers
Shao Guan No.5 Middle School Liao Hairong
Teaching aims
1. Reading comprehension
2. To improve their reading comprehension ability.
3. To make the Ss know more about voluntary work and Enable the Ss to take part in voluntary work in their spare time.
Teaching key points a. Make the Ss grasp and understand the general idea of the passage as a whole. Talk about the main idea about each part and some details.
b. Have a discussion by using the important words and phrases we have learned in the passage.
Teaching methods fast reading and careful reading; Communicative method;
Aural-oral method with the help of the computer; Group-work
Teaching aids computer, software, powerpoint
Teaching procedures:
Step1 Lead-in
Play the vedio about the story of Xu Benyu.
Step2 Pre-reading
1. What other volunteers do you know?
2. What other voluntary work do Chinese young volunteers take part in?
Step3 Fast reading
Task1 How many parts can the passage be divided into?
Task2 Choose the best answer according to the passage.
1.Volunteers refer to ______.
A .people who are willing to help others
B. people ho devote their time to helping others
C. people who donate their time to help to others
D. all of the above
2 Volunteer do voluntary work in order to _____.
A. make a money B. make a contribution to society
C. kill time D. become healthy
3. All the following statements are true except ___ ?
A. Mr Zhao couldn’t move about in that he suffered from poor eyesight.
B. Lin Ying joined the Go West Project organized by the Communist Youth league of China as a result of finding a job.
C. Meng Yu hasn’t received her master’s degree in Canada at the time of the text being described.
D. The volunteers became confident and mature, enriching their lives by helping others.
4. “The people here are poor, but they have big hearts…” The underlined part means____.
A. their hearts are big. B. they are broad-minded.
C. their hearts are beating faster
5 From Text One we can infer that voluntary work is worth doing for ______.
A. only young people B. healthy people
C. people with knowledge D. almost all people
6. Text One mainly tells us_____.
A. voluntary work is interesting B. voluntary work is demanding
C. voluntary work can make a difference not only to the helped people but also to the volunteers themselves whatever kind it is
D. how to do voluntary work
Step4 Careful reading
Read the second part of the passage and finish the form on the screen.
Volunteers Lu Hao
Lin Ying
Meng Yu
What activity
When
Where
Whom to help
What to do
Benefits to others
Benefits to him or her
Step5 Summary
The text relates the three students’ experiences as __________. It shows that “…each contribution – no matter how ______ can make a difference.” And it also shows that voluntary work _________not only the people helped but also volunteers. It encourages the students to volunteer to ______ a contribution ______ the society.
Step6 Discussion
Would you like to be a volunteer?
Suppose that there are three types of voluntary work that our class will take part in this Saturday. Which type will you take part in and why ?
A.to visit the lonely old people in the home for the aged(敬老院）
B. to volunteer to give blood
C. to clean the streets in our city
Step7 Homework
Writing
The educational department in Guangzhou City is considering bringing voluntary work into the assessment of middle school students’ moral education. Are you for or against the suggestion? Give your reasons.