Period 2 Reading
The General Idea of This Period
This is the second period of this unit.This period centers on the reading passage, which is about first impressions in the future.At the beginning of the period, the teacher can design some activities to draw the students’ attention to read.In order to attract the students’ attention, the teacher had better offer the students the opportunities to have a competition about preparing knowledge of future.Then the teacher can make full use of the pictures present in the text.Ask the students to predict what the passage may be mainly about.This step is designed to make for preparing for understanding the passage.
Reading skills are very important for senior students.For the first reading, we intend to cultivate Ss’ skimming ability and scanning ability.First ask the students to scan it and find out characters mentioned.Then let the students read fast to find out main idea of each paragraph.In order to stimulate Ss to take part in the class activity more actively, the teacher can organize a group competition to see which group can finish the task fastest and best.For the second reading, the students are expected to know some details about the passage.Later on, the
