Unit 3 Travel journal
Period 5 Extensive Reading
整体设计
从容说课
This is the fifth teaching period of this unit. The teacher should first check the students’ homework and offer chances for the students to go over what they learned in the last period at the beginning of the class.
In this period, the teaching emphasis will be put on developing the students’ reading ability by reading extensively and getting them learning to use some reading strategies such as skimming, scanning. As to new words and phrases, the teacher can first find those the students feel most difficult and help them to understand. Some important points should be explained and practiced.
We will deal with two reading passages. The first one is the second part of JOURNEY DOWN THE MEKONG:A NIGHT IN THE MOUNTAINS. Part of the purpose of this entry is to reach students in the affective domain. It tells us what Wang Wei and Wang Kun saw, heard and did, also how they felt in Tibet. In order to lead in the topic of this part, the teacher can first show the students a picture about the Tibetan mountains and ask some questions about Tibet. Then ask the students to fill in the chart designed according to this part by skimming and to
